CEE Teaching Assistant/Reader Information
Civil and Environmental Engineering uses google forms to support our TA/Reader application. The Application for CEE TA/Reader positions generally opens around the start of the term prior to the term you are applying for.
APPLY FOR FALL 2025 POSITIONS HERE
- Fall 2025 is open now! Due July 23, 2025
- Winter 2026: please check back around mid-September
- Spring 2026: please check back around mid-January
- Tips for completing the Application
- Try to fill out the application as much as possible! Even if you have an offer of TA/Reader support from CEE or have talked to your major professor about a position, you still need to complete the Application.
- Eligibility Section
- Confirm your eligibility
- If you are not eligible but still want to apply, please email Lauren (lkworrell@ucdavis.edu) to see if you qualify for a Petition for Exception to Policy.
- If you have questions about how you meet the Language Proficiency requirement, please review the TA/AI Language Proficiency Requirement here. - Which class(es) do you think you would be a good fit as a TA or Reader for, and why?
- As much as possible, list these courses in order that you would want to TA/Read for. Include comments to each course preference for the faculty to view. These specific comments are helpful for the faculty in making selections.
- What is a Graduate Tutor?
- Update: CEE is not planning to hire Graduate tutors for the 2025-26 academic year.
A graduate tutor works with individual students or small groups of students to assist them in their learning. Material covered may be topical in nature or related to a specific course. Tutors may keep regularly scheduled drop-in hours for student consultation and tutoring. Tutors do not grade tests, papers or other student assignments and do not work under the direct supervision of a faculty member.
- Non-CEE Students
- You are welcome to complete our application. Please understand that we do prioritize the hiring of all CEE students, and therefore rarely hire outside of our department.
Non-CEE Positions
It is highly recommended you apply for TA and Reader positions with other departments. You can look for position listings in Handshake, or check individual departments' websites for more information on how to apply for TA and Reader positions with other departments. Our students have been hired in other departments -- math, physics, statistics, chemistry, biology and design -- as well as various departments in the humanities and social sciences depending on that student's background.
TA Orientation
All students must complete the TA Orientation to be hired as a TA. Please visit the UC Davis TA Orientation (TAO) website for more information about the Orientation and Make Up Sessions.
TA Language Proficiency Requirement
Be sure to check out the International and Academic English website about how to fulfill the Language Proficiency Requirement.
TA Resources
There are amazing resources for TA's through the Center for Educational Effectiveness (the other CEE) such as the TA Handbook.
Some of our own Graduate Students also made this outstanding video: How to Master the First Day of Instruction as a Teaching Assistant.
Video by:
- Sumeet Kumar Sinha, PhD Candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Patrick C. Bassal, PhD Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Brian Morales, Masters Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Chanh Nguyen, PhD Student, Chemical Engineering