If you missed the Distinguished Lecture, “Functional Recovery: What it Means to Design for Community Resilience,” featuring David Bonowitz (M.EERI,1994) you can catch it online here!

David’s lecture focuses on the emerging concept of functional recovery as a basis for earthquake-resistant design. You’ll gain insights on how design for functional recovery is a necessary tool for assessing and improving community resilience. The lecture will examine four dimensions of functional recovery: definitional, technical, policy, and implementation. As this concept becomes more influential in our field, the lecture will also explore the roles you can play in shaping this thinking into design practice.

USGS Web Tools for Site-Specific Ground Motion Hazard Analysis
Wednesday, April 8 2020 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET
FREE for EERI members | $50 for non-members (PDH hours included upon request)

You will leave the webinar with a greater understanding of how USGS web tools can be used to perform site-specific ground motion hazard analysis. The new 2019 California Building Code adopts the ASCE/SEI 7-16 Standard ("Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures") which requires site-specific ground motion analysis for many more structures than prior editions. For example, now site-specific analysis shall be performed for structures on Site Class D and E sites with S1 greater than or equal to 0.2g, with some exceptions. The webinar will also provide an opportunity for feedback on the USGS web tools from earthquake engineering users.

The webinar will include an introduction from Jorge Meneses (M.EERI,2006), RMA Group, Inc., Nicolas Luco, USGS, will demonstrate the USGS web tools. Following the demonstration, Nicolas Luco and Peter Powers (M.EERI,2018), also of USGS, will be available to answer questions from participants.

Join us for a special webinar presented to you by the Younger Members Committee!

Explore Engaging Teaching Methods for the Science and Engineering Fields
Thursday, February 13 at 12 pm PT / 3 pm ET
FREE for EERI members | $25 for non-members (PDH hours included upon request)

Learn how you can incorporate experiments and demonstrations to enhance your teaching methods and improve your students’ learning outcomes. This webinar is designed for graduate students, academics, and other practitioners in the science and engineering fields with any and all levels of teaching experience. You’ll hear two dynamic presentations touching on different aspects of this topic.

Incorporating Demonstrations into Engineering Classrooms and Outreach
Diane Moug, Ph.D. (M.EERI,2014)
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Portland State University

You will gain new strategies on using demonstrations in different settings, including in classroom teaching and engineering outreach events. In the classroom setting, demonstrations have several benefits including, breaking up the pace of lecture, communicating technical concepts, offering different teaching styles, and reinforcing learning outcomes. For engineering outreach events, demonstrations should be able to communicate engineering concepts to the public and provide opportunities to spark excitement in outreach attendees. The presentation will provide examples, including “the iron glove” and “water flows uphill” demonstrations.

Learn by Doing: Engaging Students in Experimentation
Anahid Behrouzi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Architectural Engineering
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Hands-on experimentation helps students develop a clearer understanding of complex course concepts, exhibit greater satisfaction with the overall learning experience, and have more confidence in future research opportunities. You will explore how to incorporate such experiments into structural engineering courses on dynamics, earthquake engineering, and seismic design in steel. The presentation will highlight examples such as small-scale dynamic tests, forced-vibration testing, and large-scale laboratory tests for steel frame and bracing systems. The presentation will also cover data collection and analysis techniques including smartphone accelerometer applications and data analysis through EMAPS and MATLAB.  

Mark your calendar for a special webinar, “Engineering for Earthquake Resilience,” featuring David Bonowitz, S.E. (M.EERI,1994), presented to you by the Younger Members Committee!

Thursday, September 12 2019 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET

What is earthquake resilience, and how is this idea influencing earthquake engineering? In brief, resilience-based design shifts the emphasis from the safety of buildings and infrastructure to the recovery of communities. This webinar will consider the implications of this shift and cover differences between resilience and performance-based design, retrofit programs, and other worthwhile efforts.

SPEAKER BIO: David Bonowitz (M.EERI,1994) is a structural engineer practicing in San Francisco. He is a Fellow Member of SEAONC and SEAOC, and past chair of the NCSEA Existing Buildings and Resilience committees. David is an appointed member of the new FEMA-NIST working group on Functional Recovery of the Built Environment and Critical Infrastructure. He is a co-author of “Functional Recovery: A Conceptual Framework,” an EERI white paper, and lead author of “Resilience-based Design and the NEHRP Provisions,” now in review by the NEHRP Provisions Update Committee.

EERI hosted the Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence Reconnaissance Briefing Webinar as a part of the Learning from Earthquakes (LFE) program on August 14. You can now view a recording of the webinar on the Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence Clearinghouse website and on the EERI YouTube channel.

In this webinar, members of reconnaissance teams presented their observations:

• Welcome: Cindy Pridmore (M.EERI,2000), California Geological Survey/California Earthquake Clearinghouse
• Earthquake Overview: Ken Hudnut (M.EERI,2000), US Geological Survey
• Geological Observations: Janis Hernandez, California Geological Survey
• Geotechnical Engineering Impacts: Jon Stewart (M.EERI,1994), UCLA/GEER
• Structural Engineering Impacts: Wayne Chang, Structural Focus

For more information, visit the Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence Clearinghouse website.

On February 14, 2019, EERI hosted the Anchorage, Alaska Earthquake Reconnaissance Briefing Webinar as a part of the Learning from Earthquakes (LFE) program. A recording of the webinar is now available on the Anchorage, Alaska Earthquake Virtual Clearinghouse website and on the EERI YouTube channel.
During this webinar, members of reconnaissance teams that studied the impacts of November 30, 2018 earthquake presented their observations. The briefing included the following presentations:

• EERI Response and Coordination: Heidi Tremayne (M.EERI,2004), EERI
• Earthquake Overview: Mike West, Alaska Earthquake Center
• Emergency Management & Response: Amanda Siok, FEMA Region X
• Geotechnical Impacts: John Thornley (M.EERI,2008), Golder
• Structural Engineering Impacts: Wael Hassan (M.EERI,2008), University of Alaska, Anchorage

For more information on the Alaska Earthquake, visit the Anchorage, Alaska Earthquake Clearinghouse website.

On January 30, 2019, the EERI Younger Members Committee hosted a webinar titled, “Case Studies of Financial Decision-Making using Near-Real-Time Post-Earthquake Information.” The webinar was presented by USGS seismologist David Wald (M.EERI,1988) and focused on how USGS earthquake information products like ShakeMap and PAGER are used to inform financial decisions in the insurance industry following earthquakes. A recording of the webinar presentation is now available at EERI’s YouTube channel.

On September 17, 2018, the EERI Younger Members Committee (YMC) hosted a webinar by Abbie Liel (M.EERI,2009), Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, entitled, “How Induced Earthquakes Are Making Us Rethink the Challenges of Earthquake Engineering.” The presentation focused in the ongoing human-caused seismicity in Oklahoma, Kansas and other parts of the central U.S. from an earthquake engineering perspective. A recording of the webinar presentation is now available on EERI’s YouTube channel: Watch it online.

      
          Speaker: John Lawson, SE (M.EERI,1985)

On April 05, 2018, EERI hosted a technical case studies webinar for the September 19, 2017 Mexico Earthquake as a part of the Learning from Earthquakes (LFE) program. A recording of this webinar is now available on the Puebla, Mexico Earthquake Virtual Clearinghouse website.

View the webinar

This webinar included the following presentations:

• Introduction by EERI Reconnaissance Co-Lead Gilberto Mosqueda (M.EERI,2001), University of California San Diego 
• Foundation Failure of Structure on Piles by Marty Hudson (M.EERI,1994), SEAOSC/Wood PLC
• Two 8-story building in Mexico City near collapse by Ezra Jampole (M.EERI,2012), Exponent
• Earthquake Early Warning by Prateek Shah, Purdue University
• Analysis of damaged building in Mexico by Jennifer Lan (M.EERI,2017), Gilsanz Murray Steficek
• Performance of eight bridges in Mexico City and Morelos by Mark Yashinsky, Caltrans
• Performance of water and power systems in Mexico City by John Eidinger (M.EERI,1987), G&E