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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Finals season is officially here, so things are a bit quieter this December, but we still wrapped up the term with some amazing holiday events.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Thank you to everyone who participated in our annual CEUS holiday activities. This year we hosted a gingerbread house–building competition,
a hot chocolate & cookie-decorating social, and a cozy movie + pajama day. All three events were a huge success, and we hope they gave you a fun break from studying!</span></p>
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detailed list below, along with the appropriate contacts if you’re interested in applying.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">A variety of Summer Student Research Positions are now available across the Civil Engineering department. If you’re interested in any of the projects below, please reach out directly to the supervising professor listed
beside the position.</span></p>
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<div role="presentation"><b>Household Choice Experiment</b> — <i>Contact: Jason Hawkins (jfhawkin@ucalgary.ca).
</i>Use LLMs to generate images for household choice experiment.</div>
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<b>Patient Choice Model</b> — <i>Contact: Jason Hawkins (jfhawkin@ucalgary.ca)</i><br>
Develop econometric model of patient choice.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<b>Social Innovation in Engineering for Climate-Neutral Cities</b> — <i>Contact: Jason Hawkins (jfhawkin@ucalgary.ca)</i><br>
Explore social forces influencing transportation and water use.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<b>Hydrometeorological Monitoring Field Assistant</b> — <i>Contact: Tricia Stadnyk (tricia.stadnyk@ucalgary.ca)</i><br>
Field visits, equipment installation, drone surveys, water sampling.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<b>Integrated Groundwater–Surface Water Interactions</b> — <i>Contact: Tricia Stadnyk (tricia.stadnyk@ucalgary.ca)</i><br>
Support hydrological and geochemical modeling.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<b>Experimental Testing of Bridge Structural Components</b> — <i>Contact: Mamdouh El-Badry (melbadry@ucalgary.ca)</i><br>
Structural testing (2 positions).</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<b>AI-Driven Smart Urban Drinking Water Demand Forecasting</b> — <i>Contact: Peyman Yousefi (yousefi.p@ucalgary.ca)</i><br>
Forecasting under climate stress.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<b>AI-Augmented Construction Project Control </b>— <i>Contact: Peyman Yousefi (yousefi.p@ucalgary.ca)</i><br>
Predicting material demand and cost risk.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<b>Open-Source Flood Mapping for Resilient Communities</b> — <i>Contact: Qi Zhou (qi.zhou1@ucalgary.ca)</i><br>
Coastal flood mapping (2 positions).</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<b>Digital Twins in Construction </b>— <i>Contact: Farmaz Sadeghpour (farmaz@ucalgary.ca)</i><br>
Digital twin modeling (3 positions).</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<b>Indigenous Perspectives in Civil Engineering</b> — <i>Contact: Farmaz Sadeghpour (farmaz@ucalgary.ca)</i><br>
Research on Indigenous perspectives.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<b>Sustainable and Circular Bioeconomy</b> — <i>Contact: Katalin Nora Szarka (katalin.szarka@ucalgary.ca)</i><br>
Summer student green-engineering project.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<b>Gamification for Hazard Identification Competency-1</b> — <i>Contact: Estacio Pereira (estacio.pereira@ucalgary.ca)</i><br>
Assess hazard identification (2 positions).</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<b>Flood Inundation Mapping and GIS Processing </b>— <i>Contact: Alain Pietroniro (alain.pietroniro@ucalgary.ca)</i><br>
Floodplain mapping (2 positions).</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<b>Treating Emerging Contaminants in Drinking Water </b>— <i>Contact: Gopal Achari (gachari@ucalgary.ca)</i></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<b>Understanding Engineering Student Preparedness for Work-Integrated Learning</b> —
<i>Contact: Bronwyn Chorlton (bronwyn.chorlton@ucalgary.ca)</i><br>
Literature review, survey/interview-based data collection.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<b>Mapping Factors Contributing to Structural Resilience to Wildfire</b> — <i>Contact: Bronwyn Chorlton (bronwyn.chorlton@ucalgary.ca)</i><br>
Literature synthesis + potential GIS analysis.</li></ul>
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