Where Does the Money Go?

Money that comes in through the Industrial Partnership Program is dispersed as follows:

• 33% to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering to cover overhead, laboratory upgrades, and department improvement projects.  

• 67% to a fund managed by an elected student oversight committee.  
  This group of CE/ENVE student leaders, elected by CE/ENVE students, solicit student/faculty proposals for funding.  Funding is determined by an adopted rubric that considers the number of benefited students, the longevity of the benefit, growth in student club/activity, and the quality of the application/presentation.  Funded projects have included: student travel for competitions/conferences, graduate student research projects, students in need, undergraduate research, student field trips, and student conference registration fees. In addition, the fund supports club activities through a solicitation process.

The CE/ENVE student clubs and project teams are listed below: 

• Society of Civil Engineers (SCE)
• Society of Environmental Engineers (SENVE)
• Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
• Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society (XE)
• Engineers Without Borders (EWB)
• Concrete Canoe Competition Team
• Steel Bridge Competition Team
• CalGeo Design Team
• RainWorks