Education Projects and Goals

E-1A Research Assistant Symposium:

• The goals of this project are:
  •  Bring together Center graduate students to meet and discuss current research and cross-disciplinary activities.
  •  Provide a forum for student research progress and results.
    
• Objectives include: 
  • Highlight student involvement in Center programs.
  •  Interface with stakeholders.
  •  Provide an opportunity for networking and social interaction.
  •  Increase understanding of the CBE approach.

E-1B Student Field Missions:

• The goals of this project are:
  •  Provide an opportunity for Center graduate students to participate in a earthquake field assessment exercise.
  •  Experience practical training methods in earthquake damage evaluation.
    
• Objectives include:
  •  Broaden student global perspective.
  •  Establish connections with future international colleagues.
  •  Expose students to earthquake engineering applications.
  •  Enhance team leadership and communication skills.

E-1C Student Leadership Council:

• The goal of this project is:
  • Link student researchers from all Center institutions through cross and multi-disciplinary activities.
• Objectives include:
  •  Facilitate communication among students.
  •  Support collaboration among projects.
  •  Promote professional development.
  •  Provide opportunities for outreach and community service. 
  •  Act as a liaison between students and Center administration.

E-1D Undergraduate Research Assistants:

• The goals of the project are:
  •  Provide research opportunities in earthquake engineering and related fields for undergraduates, at their home institutions, during the academic year.
  •  Expose students to various aspects of earthquake engineering including a systems level perspective of earthquake hazard mitigation.
  •  Promote an understanding of the research process and create an awareness of contemporary issues and new methodologies in earthquake engineering and related fields.
• Objectives include: 
  •  Encourage student consideration of earthquake engineering as a field of graduate study.
  •  Enhance communication skills and furnish a supportive team environment.

E-4A Pre-college Outreach:

• The goal of the project is:
  •  Introduce K-12 students and teachers safe measures for mitigating effects of earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S.
• Objectives include: 
  •  To educate and inform about earthquake risk in the central & eastern U.S.
  •  Encourage earthquake ready schools and safe building practices.
  •  Increase awareness of hazards that exist during an earthquake.
  •  Enhance understanding of what to expect during an earthquake and what to do if an earthquake occurs.
  •  Recruit underrepresented minority students for careers in engineering.

E-5A Continuing Education Seminars:

• The goals of this project are:
  •  Offer educational programs with a mid-American regional concentration to the earthquake hazard mitigation community.
  •  Emphasize products of the research of the Center.
• Objectives include: 
  •  Provide reasonably priced seminars that meet the needs and interest of the practicing engineer.
  •  Build an audience of professionals in mid-America interested in earthquake engineering issues in general and Center activities in particular.

E-5C News Media Education Workshops:

• Provide current scientific information on earthquake hazard, risk, and earthquake engineering for print and television media representatives, State Public Information Officers (PIO), policy makers, and emergency managers.
• Provide information to the media related  Memphis Test Bed Project.
• Develop scientific/media partnerships to ensure accurate earthquake information transfer.
• Establish a MAE Center Contact base for coverage of earthquake events in the central US.
• Establish MAE Center presence in post earthquake clearinghouse activities with the media and PIO’s.

REU, Research Experience for Undergraduates:

• The goals of this project are:
  •  Involve summer undergraduate interns in ongoing Center research.
  •  Expose students to various aspects of earthquake engineering including a systems level perspective of earthquake hazard mitigation.
  •  Promote an understanding of the research process.
  •  Create an awareness of contemporary issues and new methodologies in earthquake engineering and related fields
• Objectives include: 
  •  Enhance undergraduate students communication skills.
  •  Provide instruction in engineering ethics.
  •  Furnish a supportive team environment.