Students gather to hear alumni discuss their professional lives.
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Department alumni will be on hand Thursday night to discuss their careers and what it's like to be a practicing civil or environmental engineer when the department presents "CEE Life in the Real World," Oct. 29, 5-7 p.m. in Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory. Students are invited to gather at the north end of the crane bay for pizza and then attend one of three sessions:
Geotech and Transportation, Table 1 in the crane bay
Environmental and Hydro, Room 1225
Structures, Construction Management, Construction Materials, Table 2 in the crane bay
The sessions will begin with alumni briefly discussing their careers, and the remaining time will be devoted to students' questions. Students will have the opportunity to attend up to two sessions, with the schedule as follows:
5:00-5:15 p.m. Pizza
5:10-6:00 p.m. First roundtable discussion
6:00-6:10 p.m. Break
6:10-7:00 p.m. Second roundtable discussion
Please RSVP to Carla Blue, blue1@illinois.edu, so she can order enough pizza.