Tri-Center Field Missions

Since 2002,the annual NSF-sponsored Tri-Center Field Mission has sent upper-level graduate students from the three earthquake engineering research centers, MCEER, MAE and PEER, to an area impacted by a recent earthquake (Greece, Japan, Italy and Taiwan have been visited to date) in the company of a faculty advisor. The trip allows participants to:

learn more about international centers of excellence in earthquake studies;
study emerging areas of research and application;
view areas impacted by recent earthquakes;
discern useful lessons learned in recovery and rebuilding;
experience the international culture of earthquake research;
foster cooperation between the three Earthquake Engineering Research centers and encourage networking among the students.