EERI (Earthquake Engineering Research Institute)

Goals :

• Promote the study of earthquake engineering among undergraduate students
• Provide civil engineering undergraduate students with an opportunity to work on a hands-on project designing and constructing a cost-effective frame building to resist seismic loading
• Promote EERI activities among civil engineering students as well as the general public, and to encourage international participation in these activities
• Survive all given ground motions in competition

The team will research/address the following tasks:

• Solve a problem statement of building a tall building to withstand seismic loads
• Design and construct a complex tall building model from balsa wood to be tested on a shaking table
• Create an architectural rendering of the building
• Follow specific design criteria and constraints
• Designing the protocol for the hybrid learning mode that the in-person and virtual students can join and interact during the live lecture
• Providing the tool that the instructor can use to design the AR models for the lectures.

Primary Instructors

• Patricia Rodriguez (NYU Tandon)
  • Email: patricia.rodriguez@nyu.edu