A placement program has been developed through close relationships with the construction industry. Each year more than 100 companies contact the program and inquire about graduate students, and about 50 companies visit campus to conduct interviews. Seminar series integrated into student placement strategy. Students are urged to become registered professional engineers. Contact with graduates is continued via various activities, such as annual department alumni reunion, barbecues, newsletters, surveys, etc.
Faculty maintain contact with agencies and companies to help in placement of students.
Seminars are provided to students to assist in placement or further academic pursuit. The services of the center became available with the beginning of the semester, however, with the completion of our training program, we are now fully on line with 14 trained mediators. The purpose of mediation is to provide our students with an alternative to traditional adversarial forms of resolution. In facilitating resolution, it is our hope that we are also modeling and educating students on appropriate ways in which to resolve conflict. I ask that you utilize the Dispute Resolution Center as a resource as you work with students.