Texas A&M University Civil Engineering Graduates

The Civil Engineering students listed in the specialties on the left will soon graduate from Texas A&M. After having taught most of them one or more classes and having often served as their advisor it is my personal opinion that they will make excellent employees and I highly recommend them to you. Please feel free to view their resumes if you would like additional information about their qualifications. Contact information is listed on their resumes.

If you would like to recruit our students, announce your employment opportunities, or otherwise bring your company to their attention, please click on one of the following links:

1. You can recruit them through the University Career Center
    
2. You can list a job through the University Career Center
    
3. You can recruit them through the Student Engineer's Council Career Fair
    
4. You can participate in the Civil Engineering Professional Day
    
5. You can post your jobs on the Civil Engineering Department's web site
   
   
6. The Civil Engineering Department hosts an Industry Portal for additional information.
    
7. You can view some of our student's resumes placed on the C.E. Department web site.
    
8. You can view some of our student's resumes here (click one of the Specialties shown on the left of this page.)
    
9. If you would like to announce employment opportunities and be contacted by those students who feel they are qualified, rather than having to dig through their resumes:
   • You can mail or fax me a hard copy of your job information, which I will then post on our job board. Please see my contact information below.
   • You can email the job information to me at Lowery@tamu.edu and I will distribute it through our list server. Pdf or Word attachments are acceptable. This is probably the most effective since the email goes immediately to the student, rather than waiting for them to check a job list on a web site somewhere.
   • Typical examples of what we receive can be seen here.
   • Please note that there are some limitations on this.
      
10. You can set up a meeting with one of the student chapters to talk with their members. Contact the groups listed below to see if they have openings. Please note that it isn't always easy to set up such meetings, since the groups have a limited number of available meetings, and they do not meet during the summer. A listing of all of our student chapters and contact information can be found at http://www.civil.tamu.edu/portal/index.html. Browse down the page.
    
    
11. If you have an internship opportunity that you would like to announce, please refer to:   CEInternships.tamu.edu for long-term viewing by the students, or you can email it to me at Lowery@tamu.edu and I will distribute it through our list server to all of our students. If you place your information on CEInternships it remains there for quite some time whereas the list server is a one-time announcement.
     
12. If you would like to set up a Co-op position, please refer to Co-opweb.tamu.edu, or contact Brad Collet at 979-845-7725 who works with our Co-op students.
     
13. Speaking to students during class - We are sorry but in general we have to pass up requests to speak to students during class. As you might imagine, if we did much of this we would get nothing at all taught to them. An exception to this is sometimes available in CVEN 207 - Introduction to the Civil Engineering Profession, and in the Capstone Design courses. Please go to http://www.civil.tamu.edu/portal/index.html and browse down to "Speak to Students/Visit a Class".  Dr. Paul Roschke taught CVEN 207 this semester, and responded to such a request with the following memo:
    
    "This semester I taught CVEN 207 which is mostly sophomores and some juniors.  I asked two engineering firms (Kimley Horn and another Houston structural firm) to come and tell us what they did on a typical day.  There are two sessions of that class and they usually meet on Friday morning and afternoon.  So, maybe next fall, if you’re still interested in coming to TAMU, you could offer to give a talk to CVEN 207.  There are about 100 students in the class.  One ‘catch’ is that I’m not currently scheduled to teach the course next semester. My suggestion would be that you write to me again in, say, two months and I’ll forward this e-mail on to the new faculty member."
    
    
14. Speaking to students during the evening regarding your company - Although it is against University regulations for companies to reserve rooms in engineering buildings, you can set up meetings to talk with students in the Rudder Tower, and perhaps other buildings. (I don't know what buildings are involved.) The university requires that this be done through the Career Center at 979-845-5139. Tell them you would like to reserve a room for your company. They will ask your company name and forward you to the proper representative to discuss times and dates available. (Companies are forwarded to one of three people who handle A-H, I-N, O-Z, or something like that.) I don't know what they charge for the rooms, but it is probably reasonable.
    
    
15. Speaking with students off-campus - There is nothing to prevent you from setting up your own informal get-together over lunch or just to meet somewhere off campus with interested students and discuss your company and job opportunities. We are happy to forward such proposals through the departmental list server. A typical request might read: 
    
    "Johnson Engineering, a 200 person engineering company in Snook, TX would like to have lunch and discuss employment opportunities with A&M Civil Engineering students. If you would be interested in learning more about working with us please email your name to the address below and we will contact you with more information. We are particularly interested in students graduating within the next two years in either structures or construction, and who have a desire to take on large responsibilities early in their careers.
    
    Johnson Engineering designs, builds, and inspects ...  (etc.)"
    
    One thing about such get-togethers, you should realize that students don't always take them as seriously as they should. If they say they will be there they try, but they don't think that not showing up is as serious as, say,  missing a formal scheduled interview. Thus it is probably a good idea to keep in close contact with anyone who says they are coming, with a reminder the day of the meeting, or you may find half of them forgot. The University prohibits such meetings from being held on campus or in University facilities, so you would have to contact someone in the area to reserve a meeting room if many students want to attend.
    
    If you would like to announce such an external meeting please send it to me at Lowery@tamu.edu.  
    
    
16. One of the engineering companies has gone so far as to set up a satellite office here in town, and hire our students to work there during the semester. They send Professional Engineers to work here with them and to guide them through work normally performed at their home office. They say they have had great success with this model. It gives the students much needed experience, lets the company look over the student, and familiarizes the student with their company.

Didn't get any responses to your offer? This is probably why.

Typical salary information for Civil Engineering students.

Federal Regulations and privacy laws prevent us from releasing other information regarding our students.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss any of the above procedures, please contact me. We very much appreciate your consideration of our students.

In Memory of Dr. Walter P. Moore

Dr. Walter P. Moore, a Civil Engineering professor at Texas A&M University and past president of Walter P. Moore and Associates. Walter was the designer of numerous major structures in Texas and around the nation. Texas A&M considered his hiring away from industry a major coup, enabling us to give our students a practical side to their education unavailable elsewhere. He will be sorely missed by all who knew him.

	In Memory of Dr. Dan Fambro
	Dan Fambro, an associate professor, was the Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Studies in the Civil Engineering Department at Texas A&M University, as well as an Associate Research Engineer at the Texas Transportation Institute. His teaching and research experience spanned more than 20 years, most spent in service to Texas A&M and TTI.

	In Memory of Kirk Farmer

	In Memory of Richard Gehle

In Memory of Dr. Tim Kramer

The department mourns the sudden and tragic loss of one of its faculty members, Professor Timothy A. Kramer. On Saturday evening, December 9, 2006, Dr. Kramer and his companion, Deborah Giant, were killed when their small plane crashed at an airport near Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Kramer joined the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering in 2001 as an Assistant Professor. He was an outstanding teacher, gifted mentor and advisor, and accomplished researcher. He was respected and highly regarded by his students and colleagues. He was a friend to all who knew him and gave selflessly to a number of student and professional organizations.

In Memory of Dr. Jim Noel

Dr. James Sheridan Noel June 18, 1930 - Dec. 31, 2006 Services for James Sheridan Noel, 76, of College Station are set for 10 a.m. Wednesday at Callaway-Jones Chapel in Bryan. Dr. Noel died Sunday at St. Joseph Rehabilitation Center. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and retired from the reserves as a colonel. He was a civil engineering professor at Texas A&M until his retirement in 1993. Survivors include his wife, Lee Noel of College Station; three daughters and sons-in-law, Sharon and Douglas Crow of Waco, Pattie and Ron Felderhoff of Hutto and Jennifer and Randy Stabler of Round Rock; a brother, Leon Noel of San Antonio; a sister, Mattie Belle Ray of Austin; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the Texas A&M University Flying Club, P.O. Box 5610, College Station, Texas 77844.

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