Affiliate Programs

Orange County 2005 Report Card Information
The unveiling ... October 21, 2005

The purpose of the UCI Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Affiliates is to provide an effective means to offer support and guidance to the Department, its programs and students, and to act as an interface between the professional civil and environmental engineering community in Southern California, particularly in Orange County, and the University.  The CEE Affiliates include senior executives representing leading civil and environmental engineering firms (both large and small) and public agencies, as well as individual members.

Benefits of Membership

How to Join

Benefits include the creation of numerous opportunities for members in the following areas:

  • Recognition of strong corporate or agency commitment to engineering education
    • affiliation with Orange County's only major research university
    • maintenance of strong industry/university relations
    • distinction of "making a difference" in the development of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UCI

     

  • Networking
    • Affiliate quarterly seminars, Steering committee meetings, and social functions
    • technical interaction and collaboration

     

  • Student recruitment
    • early contact with top students
    • student internship program
    • inform breakfast or lunch meetings with undergraduate and graduate students
    • resume books of graduation seniors and graduate students, prospective undergraduate interns, and part-time and summer student employees

     

  • Staff education
    • Department research seminars
    • Department of MS theses and PhD dissertations
    • Department research reports

     

  • Professional development
    • Affiliate quarterly seminars
    • Steering Committee Subcommittees:  Programs, Curriculum & Laboratory, Membership, Finance, Student Affairs, Department Development.

     

  • Student support and education
    • guidance to student projects
    • guest speaking in classes and at students society meetings
    • student scholarships
    • gift for acquiring and modernizing equipment and laboratory faculties
    • equipment donation and in-kind support
    • unrestricted gifts for CEE program enhancements

Member Dues

Members pay annual dues.  Members dues are used to support laboratory and equipment needs, other program enhancements in the Department (e.g., support of ASCE, ITE, and Chi Epsilon student chapters), student scholarships, and CEE Affiliate meetings and functions.

Undergraduate Scholarships

More Information

For more informantion, contact Jayne Hess in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at (949) 824-0584, fax (949) 824-2117, or rpaley@uci.edu.

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