Earthquake Engineering Research Institute

The team from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, (above) took first place at this year's competition, which attracted students from 18 universities all across the country. Each team had to design, analyze and fabricate a scale model of a high-rise office building, which was optionally subjected to a simulated...

The team from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, (above) took first place at this year's competition, which attracted students from 18 universities all across the country. Each team had to design, analyze and fabricate a scale model of a high-rise office building, which was optionally subjected to a simulated...

Register now for a day-long seminar to be given in four cities by I. M. Idriss and R. W. Boulanger, authors of the recently published EERI monograph sent to all members in 2008, Soil Liquefaction During Earthquakes. Participants earn 0.7 Continuing Education Units.

Check back soon for exact dates. The seminar, to be given in 4 cities, will be of interest to both structural and geotechnical engineers who want to understand how the recently developed NGA models can be put into practice. 0.7 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) will be awarded to participants upon...

Check back soon for exact dates. The seminar, to be given in 4 cities, will be of interest to both structural and geotechnical engineers who want to understand how the recently developed NGA models can be put into practice. 0.7 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) will be awarded to participants upon...

EERI Press Release:On Wednesday evening, February 11th, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the Western States Seismic Policy Council (WSSPC) will open a joint Annual Meeting at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center Hotel. The conference will feature three days of technical sessions in which the nation’s foremost earthquake...

William A. Anderson (content/view/502/278/) , recently retired Associate Executive Director of the Division on Earth and Life Studies at the National Research Council, Washington, D.C., and Reginald DesRoches (content/view/501/279/) , Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta,...

The Strong Motion Instrumentation Program of the California Geological Survey in the Department of Conservation plans to fund two data interpretation projects for the analysis and interpretation of the strong-motion data sets recorded from recent earthquakes. These projects are intended 1) to increase the understanding of strong ground shaking and...

Starting at the end of 2009, Susan Tubbesing will step down as Executive Director of EERI. Help us find a candidate!

EERI sponsors the Friedman Family Visiting Professional Program to match visiting professionals with host universities for one or two days to exchange information on current topics related to earthquake engineering and risk reduction. These occasions bring together the academic and professional sides of earthquake engineering, providing students with unique glimpses...

Applications are being accepted for the Advanced Masters in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions, sponsored by the European Commission within the framework of the Erasmus Mundus Programme (http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/mundus/programme/back_en.html) .

EERI member Shamsher Prakash. Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, Rolla (now the Missouri University of Science and Technology) (http://www.mst.edu/) , received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, in December 2008. He was cited for his internationally recognized work in the area of soil...

EERI is pleased to announce that three organizations recently became Bronze Subscribing Members.

EERI Subscribing Member Kinemetrics Inc., along with Quanterra, Inc., has introduced a new product, the Q330S™, a portable, ultra-low power, broad-band data acquisition system. The new product applies Quanterra's analog design leadership to Kinemetrics’ experience with the 4,000 Q330™ units produced during the last five years. The Q330™ has become...

A $3.4 million grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop monitoring and inspection systems for the nation's aging highway bridges has been awarded to an engineering team from EERI Subscribing Member Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, The University of Texas at Austin, and National Instruments. The...

Long-time EERI member Hojjat Adeli has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his distinguished contributions to computational infrastructure engineering and for worldwide leadership in computational science and engineering, as a prolific author, speaker, and journal editor.

Three of the authors of Guidelines for Earthquake-Resistant Non-Engineered Construction, published in 1986 by the International Association for Earthquake Engineering (http://www.iaee.or.jp/) , are bringing together a group in IAEE, including the original authors who are willing to participate and new contributors who are willing to join the effort, to revise...

The Shamsher Prakash Foundation is soliciting nominations for the 2009 SP Research Award, which is given to a young (less than 40 years old) engineer, scientist, or researcher from anywhere in the world. Candidates should be specialists in geotechnical engineering or geotechnical earthquake engineering, have had significant independent contributions to...

EERI sponsors the Friedman Family Visiting Professional Program to match visiting professionals with host universities for one or two days to exchange information on current topics related to earthquake engineering and risk reduction. These occasions bring together the academic and professional sides of earthquake engineering, providing students with unique glimpses...

Applications are being accepted for the Advanced Masters in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions, sponsored by the European Commission within the framework of the Erasmus Mundus Programme (http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/mundus/programme/back_en.html) .