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Graduate Students Offer Tribute to Professor Soong at Inaugural Lecture of the "T.T. Soong Student Lecture Series"
Konstantinos Oikonomou, President of UB-EERI, (right) and Armin Masroor, President of CSEE-GSA, (left) presented Professor Soong with a commemorative plaque on behalf of the students.
Tsu Teh (Larry) Soong, Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (CSEE), University at Buffalo (UB), and one of the founders and the first Deputy Director of the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER, now MCEER), was recognized with a tribute at the opening of a new lecture series named in his honor on February 8, 2012 at UB.
Prior to the inaugural lecture of the “T.T. Soong Student Lecture Series," graduate students from UB-EERI and CSEE-GSA presented a tribute to Professor Soong with a video that included career highlights... Read More
Roles and Responsibilities of State DOTs
Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 at 5 p.m. | Baldy Hall, 2nd Floor, Room 200G
Dan D'Angelo
The Bridge Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series will host Dan D'Angelo (Deputy Chief Engineer & Director of Design, New York State Department of Transportation) in the next installment of the series. D'Angelo will explain "Roles & Responsibilities of State DOTs," using NYSDOT as an example. He will provide an overview of a typical state DOT organizational structure and the collaborative working relationship with organizations such as the Federal Highway Administration. He will discuss the NYSDOT’s strategic goals, strategies used to achieve those goals and key performance indicators. The presentation will conclude with a description of contemporary issues facing state DOTs. From 6:30 until 7:45, there will be an opportunity to ask questions and engage in dialogue with the speaker. Participants of Monday's session are eligible to receive three professional development hours.
ENR Online Cover Story Notes Contributions of UniQ-UB/MCEER Earthquake Engineering Seminars toward Haiti’s Recovery
"Seismic Training Efforts Help Haitians Help Themselves" appears in the Jan. 30, 2012 online issue of the Engineering News Record.
The cover story in the Jan. 30, 2012 online edition of the Engineering News Record reports on seismic training efforts in Haiti, with special coverage on the seminar series provided by Quisqueya University (UniQ) and the University at Buffalo's (UB) MCEER. Since the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the UniQ-UB/MCEER Earthquake Engineering Seminar Series has trained more than 500 architects and engineers, or an estimated 50% of the designer population in Port-au-Prince. Among those interviewed for the story were Andre Filiatrault, curriculum coordinator for the seminars and Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at UB; Sofia Tangalos, MCEER Senior Program Officer for Education/Outreach Activities and Information Services; and Haitian-born UB students, Pierre Fouché, seminar instructor and Ph.D. Candidate in earthquake engineering; and Gael Lamothe, a civil engineering undergraduate student whose study of Haitian construction materials contributed to the seminar content. The article also appears in the Architectural Record.
T.T. (Larry) Soong Presents Inaugural Lecture in Series Named in His Honor
Feb. 8, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. | 140 Ketter Hall | View Flyer
T. T. Soong
Tsu Teh (Larry) Soong, Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (CSEE), University at Buffalo (UB), and one of the founders – and the first Deputy Director – of the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER, now MCEER) will make the inaugural presentation in a series of distinguished lectures named in his honor. The "T. T. Soong Student Lecture Series” recognizes Prof. Soong’s outstanding research accomplishments and contributions to the field of structural and earthquake engineering over the course of his 48-year career at the University at Buffalo. The series is dedicated in his honor by UB’s EERI Student Chapter and UB’s Graduate Student Association of the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (CSEE), with support from MCEER.
Prof. Soong’s lecture, “NCEER/MCEER: A Historic Perspective and Structural Control Research,” will discuss NCEER at the time of its inception in 1986 and its development thereafter. The first part of the talk will be a brief retrospect of NCEER's people, research goals and programs. In the second part of the talk, Prof. Soong will provide an overview of the activities and achievements of NCEER/MCEER's structural control research initiative, which continues to be one of the Center's most notable national and international research strengths. A recording of the lecture will be made available for future viewing.
Abstracts Now Being Accepted for 2012 CSEE Graduate Student Poster Competition
Graduate students in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (CSEE) at the University at Buffalo (UB) are strongly encouraged to participate in the 2012 CSEE Graduate Student Poster Competition, which will take place on March 2, 2012. The posters will be judged by a panel of CSEE faculty members and a guest judge. The competition will have a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winner with $250, $150 and $50 prizes, respectively, and these posters will be displayed in the Department after the competition. The winning posters will also participate in the Graduate Student Poster Competition organized by The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Abstracts are due February 20, 2012. For more information, visit the 2012 CSEE Graduate Student Poster Competition page.
Undergraduate Students Invited to Apply for 2012 REU at Cornell and UB
Undergraduate students (sophomores, juniors and seniors for Fall 2012) are invited to apply for a unique research opportunity and lab experience this summer. The 10-week-long Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, offers two paid summer internships – one at NEES@Cornell and the other at NEES@Buffalo. Applications are due March 6, 2012. For more information, visit the 2012 REU page.
MCEER Remembers: Haiti Two Years Later
Two years after the devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, much still remains to be done. An estimated 550,000 people continue to live in temporary shelters, as efforts to construct new housing have been complicated by the vast amounts of rubble and debates over land ownership. Despite the setbacks, Haiti is slowly paving roads and drawing up plans for new construction. Read More
2012 Tech Wars Competition Features Seismic Design Competition
Involvement of CSEE Students Significantly Improve Model Construction and Evaluation Criteria
More than 900 middle and high school students from 29 school districts from Western New York gathered at Niagara County Community College (NCCC) on January 11, 2012 for Tech Wars, an annual technology-based student competition presented by the Western New York Technology Education Association (WNYTEA). Read More
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