Education Program
2006 PEER Undergraduate Seismic Competition
California Students Tested Their Structural Design Skills
The largest student run engineering outreach project in the country concluded with the final awards ceremony for the participating students held during the week of June 11th, at UCSD. Winning teams in four categories at each of the 11 participating schools were announced, and over $1000 in prizes was awarded. Without the generous support of all of the volunteers, sponsors, professors, professional societies, and elementary school teachers, this project would not have been possible on such a large scale with such short notice.
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Oregon State University Wins 2007 Seismic Design Competition
Of the 14 competing student teams, Oregon State University took first place in the 4th Annual Seismic Design Competition for Undergraduates, jointly sponsored by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), Mid-America Earthquake (MAE) Center and MCEER. The event, held during the EERI Annual Meeting, February 7-10, in Los Angeles, was an opportunity to demonstrate performance-based, cost-effective seismic design. Read more.
- 1st Place: Oregon State University
- Jeremy Mikkelsen, Joseph Henry, Sarah Martin, Beth McNair and Robert "Josh" Lehn
The Education Program is designed to introduce, stimulate, cultivate and educate undergraduate and graduate students with the knowledge that will enable them to contribute to the earthquake-engineering profession from a variety of disciplines and perspectives. The Program attracts students dedicated to earthquake engineering early in their academic career and, ideally, retains them through their course of graduate study. While the principal audience and focus of the Education Program is undergraduate and graduate students, K-12 students benefit indirectly from some of the Education Program's activity. PEER's Education Committee, comprising representatives from PEER's core and affiliated universities, is charged with the planning and implementation of the Education Program.
PEER Student Leadership Council (SLC) and PEER Student Association (PSA) web site.
