Wind Hazard and Earthquake Engineering Lab

Since 2002,the annual NSF-sponsored Tri-Center Field Mission has sent upper-level graduate students from the three earthquake engineering research centers, MCEER, MAE and PEER, to an area impacted by a recent earthquake (Japan, Italy and Taiwan have been visited to date) in the company of a faculty advisor. Wind Hazard and Earthquake Engineering Lab - Presentations

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MCEER/PEER Seismic Design Competition
The objectives of this first Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) are:

To provide civil engineering undergraduate students an opportunity to do a hands on project and gain practical experience by designing and fabricating a cost effective frame structure, which will withstand severe earthquake simulation.
To build the awareness of the versatile activities at MCEER among the civil engineering students and faculty at the core universities as well as the general public in order to encourage national-wide participation.
To increase the attentiveness of the value and benefit of the Student Leadership Council (SLC) representatives and officers among the core universities for the recruitment and development of SLC, which is a key liaison between MCEER students and the MCEER center.