Ten Students Participate in 2007 MCEER REU Program
REU’s at UB 2007: (left to right) Back: Christa Kelleher, Armando Ciprian, Clayton Burningham, Christopher Gonyo, Matthew Alboum, Robert Wurstner, Melissa Norlund and Thomas Coyne; Front: Brianna Rooney, Atia Syed and Shannon McKenna
Thomas Coyne (center) meets with faculty advisor, Andre Filiatrault (left) and SEESL technician, Chris Budden (right)
Ten MCEER-sponsored undergraduate students from the University at Buffalo (UB), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Lafayette College, Harvey Mudd College, the City College of New York (CCNY) and Florida A&M University (FAMU) participated in the 2007 REU program. During the ten-week summer program, these students worked with faculty advisors and graduate student mentors at UB, CCNY and FAMU to participate in ongoing research projects conducted by MCEER-funded investigators.
The seven students studying at UB this summer received instructional sessions from the MCEER Information Service on databases including QUAKELINE®, ASCE and CompendexPlus. The UB students were also introduced to EndNote software (for references) and attended a half-day technical communication seminar led by William Grunert, from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ External Affairs Department.
The summer program culminated in a symposium, held in Seattle.
Students and Projects |
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| Student/ Home Institution | Host Institution | Project Title | Faculty Advisor/ Student Mentor |
| Armando Ciprian, UB | UB | Resonance of Structures Under Sinusoidal Shaking | George Lee/ Yu-Chen Ou |
| Thomas Coyne, UB | UB | NEESWood: Framing to Sheathing Connection Tests | Andre Filiatrault/ Jianis Christovasilis |
| Christopher Gonyo, RPI | UB | Experimental Study of a Small Scale Laminar Box for Soil Liquefaction Studies | S. Thevanayagam/ Raghudeep Bethapudi |
| Kristn Denaye Hinds, FAMU | FAMU | Analytical Studies of the Suspended Zipper Frame and Control Devices | M. Abdullah/ Kenneth Walsh, Marlon Hill |
| Haridayal Jaswal, CCNY | CCNY | Analysis of Micro-Vibration in Buildings | Anil Agrawal |
| Christa Kelleher, UB | UB | Nonstructural Components and the Rainflow Counting Algorithm | Gilberto Mosqueda/ Rodrigo Retamales |
| Shannon McKenna, Harvey Mudd College | UB | Preparation and Preliminary Testing of a Small Scale Laminar Box for a Study of Soil Liquefaction | S. Thevanayagam/ Nurhan Ecemis and Raghudeep Bethapudi |
| Melissa E. Norlund, UB | UB & Stanford | Sideways Collapse of Deteriorating Structural Systems under Seismic Excitations: Phase II Shake Table Collapse Test | Helmut Krawinkler, Andrew Whittaker and Andrei Reinhorn/ Dimitrios G. Lignos |
| Aaron Williams, FAMU | FAMU | Developing a Variable Stiffness System with Continuously Variable Transmission Technology | M. Abdullah/ Kenneth Walsh |
| Robert Wurstner, UB | UB | Property Test of Concrete Isolators | Michel Bruneau/ Shenlei Cui |
