The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte looks for enthusiastic undergraduate students to work on summer research projects.  Several positions will be available in all research areas within the department. Each project will be supervised by our Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty and conducted in modern laboratory facilities in the Cameron Research Center. 

The following is a list of potential research topics:

• Mechanical properties of residual soil
• Ecological conservation and sustainable environment
• Detection of bridge cracks
• Enhancing oil production performance with CO2injection
• Persistence of endocrine disrupting chemicals in the environment
• Inorganic polymer concrete
• Carbon dioxide fixation by microalgae
• Water quality restoration and modeling
• Landfill methane mitigation, biodiesel feed stocks, urban air quality etc.
• Compounds of emerging concern in wastewater and surface water
• Ground waste gypsum wallboard as a soil amendment
• Sensors for preventing in-line sanitary sewer overflows
• GPS/GIS mapping of infrastructure systems

Projects will be a 5 weeks duration (May 26 – June 27, 2008) with a weekly stipend of $400 for five weeks plus $500 as a one-time allowance for housing

Overall Process:

January:	Announcement of the SREU program.
March 31:	Deadline for application.
Late March:	Selection of promising applicants
Early April:	Notification of successful applicants.
May 26:	SREU program starts and orientation seminar will be held.
July 27:	SREU program ends and final presentation (both oral and poster) will be held.