"Coastal Bluff Erosion Monitoring and Modeling," By Dr. Michael Olsen, Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University (23KB)

Earthquake Safety and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Seible will share insights on how UC San Diego structural engineers led the large-scale testing for the seismic safety innovations incorporated into the new Bay Bridge, the most ambitious bridge project in U.S. history. For more information, click here.

“Video-Enhanced Sensor Networks and Machine Learning Algorithms For Health Monitoring Applications,” By Dr. Ahmed Elgamal, Professor of Structural Engineering, UC San Diego
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“Wind Energy is Going Offshore: Research Issues on Loads, Support Structures and Foundations,” By Dr. Werner Zielke Leibniz University (15KB)

“Integrated Design,” By Glenn R. Bell, Chief Executive Officer, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (16KB)

Join engineers from the Department of Structural Engineering and learn about basic concepts of structural design! Students will design a simple truss bridge, solve for the forces in the bridge mathematically, build a model of their structure and then test their bridge in a competition to see how closely they can predict when the bridge will fail. The seminar objectives are to encourage students to continue their education in science and engineering through understanding the importance and challenges of engineering, and how basic science and mathematics can be used to solve real-life problems. Presented by Dr. Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego. Complete workshop information, registration fee and application forms can be found at http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech (scroll down to the red star on the main TeacherTECH page). For questions or additional information, please contact Ange Mason at 858 534-5064 or amason@ucsd.edu.

Atkinson Hall Auditorium (Visit http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_events/event.sfe?id=828 for more information)

Reunions, lectures, tours, receptions, exhibitions, performances and an awards gala (Various locations; visit http://www.alumni.ucsd.edu/alumniweekend/for more information)

“Meshfree Modeling of Dynamic Fracture,” By Dr. Timon Rabczuk, Bauhaus University Weimar, Weimar, Germany (16KB)

“Performance-based Engineering of Nuclear Energy Infrastructure,” By Dr. Andrew Whittaker, Professor of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo. President, Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering. (19KB)

“The State of the Practice of Seismic Hazard Analysis: From the Good to the Bad,” By Dr. Norman Abrahamson, Pacific Gas & Electric Company (17KB)

“Characterization of Structures and Materials using Percussion Diagnostics,” By Dr. James C. Earthman, Departments of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine (20KB)

“Analysis of Highly Flexible Flying Wings,” By Dr. Mayuresh Patil, Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (18KB)

“A Seismic Design of Rigid Retaining Walls,” By Dr. Shamsher Prakash, Professor Emeritus, Missouri University of Science and Technology (22KB)

“Mechanics of Skeleton-Reinforced Biomembranes,” By Professor Qiang Zhu, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego (18KB)

“Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction: From Cerebral Aneurysms to Wind Turbines,” By Professor Yuri Bazilevs, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego (17KB)

“Prospects for Nanocrystalline Metals and Alloys,” By Professor Robert J. Asaro, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego (16KB)

“Resistance Welding of Thermoplastic Composites Skin/Stringer Joints,” By Dr. Martine Dubé, Postdoctoral Researcher, Solid Mechanics Laboratory, French National Center for Scientific Research, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France (21KB)

“Co-cured Composite Joint Strength Investigation Based on Behavior Characterization of the [0/ ±q/90]s Family,” By By Dr. Xinyuan “Yuan” Tan, Composites Laboratory Coordinator, School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (69KB)

“Prediction of Collapse for Frame and Wall Structures within the Context of PBEE,” By Professor Helmut Krawinkler, Structural Design and Earthquake Engineering, Stanford University (16KB)

“Blast Loading Response of Sandwich Composite Structures,” By Dr. Renfu Li, Research Fellow and Project Leader, Georgia Institute of Technology (18KB)

“Temperature Effects on Soil-Geosynthetic Interface Friction,” By Ömer Bilgin, Ph.D., P.E.,Assistant Professor, University of Houston, Texas (15KB)

“China’s Road and Bridge Transport Towards the 21st Century,” By Professor Junqing Lei, Department of Bridge Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China (79KB)

“Experimental Insight into Liquefaction-Induced Building Settlement,” By Shideh Dashti, Ph.D. Candidate in GeoEngineering, University of California, Berkeley (15KB)

“Full Scale Testing of Bridge Foundation Systems,” By Anne Lemnitzer, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (16KB)

Research Expo 2009

“FEM-aided Design and Smiling Structures,” By Professor Johan Blaauwendraad, Structural/Applied Mechanics, Delft University of Technology (15KB)

“Earthquake Engineering as a Component of Sustainable Development,” By Dr. Stephen Mahin, Byron and Elvira Nishkian Professor of Structural Engineering, Director, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley (19KB)

“Particle Breakage: Experimental Studies,” By Dr. Julio Valdes, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, San Diego State University. (17KB)

“Rebuilding Sichuan Schools Sustainably,” By Dr. Kent Yu, Associate Principal and Manager, Degenkolb Engineers (19KB)

“Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of the Orion Spacecraft Parachutes,” By Dr. Tayfun E. Tezduyar, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University (17KB)

“Computational Modeling of an Integral Bridge subjected to Thermal Loading,” By Dr. Dunja Peric, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Kansas State University (37KB)