Lepech and Allende awarded best paper in ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering
April 1, 2021
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Sabine Loos Receives EERI 2020 Graduate Student Paper Award
March 1, 2021
EERI is pleased to announce the winners of the EERI 2020 Student Paper Awards! The winners will be honored at the EERI award ceremony at the 2021 Annual Meeting.
EERI 2019 Outstanding Paper Award given to Professors Deierlein and Miranda
March 1, 2021
EERI is pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Outstanding Paper Award from Earthquake Spectra, “Development and Testing of a Friction/Sliding Connection to Improve the Seismic Performance of Gypsum Partition Walls,” Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 653-677, authored by Stanford Alumnus Gerardo Araya-Letelier, Professor Eduardo Miranda, and Professor Gregory Deierlein.
SimCenter Releases Updated "State of the Art..." Report Co-edited by Deierlein and Zsarnoczay
February 24, 2021
Lepech Advises SSI Team Selected by NASA to send experiment to International Space Station
February 18, 2021
Kiremidjian Elected to National Academy of Engineers
February 9, 2021
Professor Anne Kiremidjian has been elected to the 2021 Class of New Members and International Member of the National Academy of Engineers.
Billington Spotlighted in SEAONC Newsletter
February 3, 2021
Professor Sarah Billington was featured in the SEAONC Member Spotlight in the latest edition of their newsletter: https://www.seaonc.org/news/549348/SEAONC-Post-Newsletter---SEAONC-Membe...
Best Paper Awarded to Fagert and Mirshekari at IMAC-XXXIX
January 28, 2021
Professor Hae Young Noh's students, Jonathon Fagert (CMU) and Mostafa Mirshekari (Stanford postdoc), won the Best Student Paper Award at IMAC-XXXIX conference. This is a Society of Experimental Mechanics (SEM) conference focusing on structural dynamics, and the award is given by the Dynamics of Civil Structures Technical Division.
Jingxiao Liu wins Best Presentation Runner-Up Award
December 7, 2020
Ph.D. Candidate Jingxiao Liu won the ACM BuildSys/SenSys Joint PhD Forum Best Presentation Runner-Up Award. The award is based on his PhD project on indirect bridge health monitoring using drive-by vehicles, supported by Leavell fellowship.
A new technique predicts how quakes would affect a city’s hospitals
October 19, 2020
Anne Kiremidjian Appointed to the C.L Peck Professorship
October 6, 2020
Congratulations to Anne Kiremidjian, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who has been appointed as the next C.L. Peck, Class of 1906 Professor in the School of Engineering.
Blume Center hosts Seminario Latinoamericano de Ingenieria Sismica Basada en Desempeno
August 4, 2020
The Blume Center hosted a Latin-America Seminar on Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering on August 3, 2020 organized by former and current Latin American PhD students. The speakers: Jorge Ruiz-Garcia (PhD '04), Cristian Cruz (PhD '17) , Héctor Dávalos (PhD '18) and Luis Ceferino (PhD '19), and current PhD candidates, Andrés Acosta-Vera, Armando Messina and Francisco Galvis, presented their
Douglas named to Tau Beta Pi Teaching Honor Roll
June 16, 2020
Research Engineer and Blume Center Lab Manager Kyle Douglas was among twelve school-wide winners of the 2019-20 Tau Beta Pi Teaching Honor Roll.
How do we measure the economic fallout from earthquakes?
June 16, 2020
2020 EMI Best Student Paper awarded to Noh, Fagert, Mirshekari and Zhang
June 16, 2020
Congratulations to Professor Hae Young Noh and her students, J. Fagert, M. Mirshekari, and P.
Vonner Receives Kay Bradley Award
June 13, 2020
Congratulations to Kim Vonner who received the 2020 School of Engineering Kay Bradley Award. The Kay Bradley Award recognizes a staff member in the School of Engineering who serve students with professionalism, friendliness, integrity, and devotion. Selection is based on letters of support submitted by students.
Profs. Deierlein and Baker sign on to NAAHDRI Statement on Systemic Racism and Disasters
June 8, 2020
Over 70 leaders of academic hazards and disaster research centers across North America, including Professors Greg Deierlein (Director of JA Blume Center) and Jack Baker (Director of SURI), have signed on to this Statement on Systemic Racism and Disasters. We realize that stating these principles in writing matters, but it is living them out in life that matters most.
Mirshekari and Noh Receive Best Paper by ASME
May 26, 2020
PostDoc Mostafa Mirshekari and Associate Professor Hae Young Noh received the 2019 Best Journal Paper Award given by the ASME SHM/NDE Technical Committee.
Professor Haeyoung Noh featured in Scientific American for study on identifying people by gait
May 1, 2020
SEG Masters students, Yiwen Dong and Yitao Gao, win 2nd place in AutoCheckout Competition
May 1, 2020
Masters students, Yiwen Dong and Yitao Gao, placed 2nd in the AutoCheckout Competition during the CPS-IOT Week 2020.
Professor Haeyoung Noh awarded Best Paper at IoTDI 2020
May 1, 2020
On April 23, 2020, Professor Haeyoung Noh and her co-authors: Carlos Ruiz (Carnegie Mellon University), Shijia Pan (University of California Merced), Adeola Bannis (Carnegie Mellon University), Ming-Po Chang (Carnegie Mellon University), and Pei Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University) were awarded Best Paper for the paper "IDIoT: Towards Ubiquitous Identification of IoT Devices through Visual and In
Stanford study points toward a more holistic way to measure the economic fallout from earthquakes
April 22, 2020
Officials know how to account for deaths, injuries and property damages after the shaking stops, but a new study, based on a hypothetical 7.2 magnitude quake near San Francisco, describes the first way to estimate the far greater financial fallout that such a disaster would have, especially on the poor.
BY TOM ABATE
Shah Lecture Video Now Available
March 5, 2020
The video for the 2020 Shah Family Fund Distinguished Lecture, "Reducing Losses from Catastrophic Risks: The Role of a Behavioral Risk Audit" by Howard Kunreuther, University of Pennsylvania, is now available for viewing. https://blume.stanford.edu/event/seminar/reducing-losses-cata
Professor Kiremidjian Selected as Honorary EERI Member
February 4, 2020
Anne S. Kiremidjian, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, has been selected by EERI as an Honorary Member. This award is bestowed upon members who have made sustained and outstanding contributions to the field of earthquake engineering and to EERI.
Deierlein and Welch to speak at SEAONC South Bay Dinner on Feb. 26
January 28, 2020
Professor Gregory Deierlein and Post-Doc Dave Welch will be speaking at the SEAONC South Bay Dinner Meeting on Feb. 26, 2020. The talk on "Development of Guidelines and Economic Incentives for the Seismic Retrofitting of Residential Houses" will be an overview of two companion projects.
Alumnus Wil Srubar (PhD 2013) Featured in NYT Article
January 17, 2020
Wil Srubar is heading a research project at the University of Colorado, Boulder to create concrete that is alive and can reproduce! The New York Times has a feature article about this ground-breaking research: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/science/construction-con
Baker and Haselton Receive SEAoNC Krawinkler Award
June 25, 2019
Curt Haselton (PhD 2006) and Professor Jack Baker received the 2019 Helmut Krawinkler Award from the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) in recognition of their contribution to advance performance-based earthquake engineering through their development of the SP3 software platform.
Ph.D Candidate Yi Shao wins the First Place Paper Award at the 2nd international UHPC symposium
June 6, 2019
Prof. Eric Steinberg presented Ph.D. candidate Yi Shao with the First Place Paper Award on Tuesday, June 4 at the Awards Gala of Second International Interactive Symposium on UHPC at Albany, NY for his paper, ‘Utilizing Full UHPC Compressive Strength in Steel Reinforced UHPC Beams’.
StEER Report on the May 26, 2019 Peru Earthquake Released
June 3, 2019
The NSF-funded Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network has issued the Virtual Assessment Structural Team (VAST) Report for the May 26, 2019, M8.0 Lagunas Peru Earthquake.
Stanford Undergraduates Win EERI Seismic Design Competition in Vancouver
April 2, 2019
During the first week of March, a team of undergraduate students from the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department competed against thirty-seven other universities around the world at the 2019 Seismic Design Competition. Held every year at the EERI Annual Meeting, this was the Stanford team's eighth time competing and was the first time our team has come in first place (they have also
Ph.D Candidate Maryia Markhvida wins the EERI 2018 Graduate Student Paper Award
March 18, 2019
The EERI Board of Directors presented Ph.D. Candidate Maryia Markhvida with the 2018 Graduate Student Paper Award on Thursday, March 7, 2019 at the EERI Honors Ceremony and Annual Business Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia for her paper, "Unification of seismic performance estimation and real estate investment analysis to model post-earthquake building repair decisions".
Ph.D. Candidate Anne Hulsey named EERI/FEMA NEHRP Graduate Fellow
March 18, 2019
The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute has selected Anne Hulsey as an 2018-2019 EERI/FEMA NEHRP Graduate Fellow, along with Trevor Carey of the University of California, Davis.
SEG Students win PHI Challenge
January 24, 2019
The 2019 PEER Annual Meeting "Seismic Resilience 25 Years after Northridge: Accomplishments and Challenges" was held last week to an audience that filled the venue capacity at the UCLA campus.
One of the highlights of the Meeting was the announcement of the winners of two major competitions hosted by PEER: the 2018 PEER Blind Prediction contest and the PHI Challenge.
Anne Kiremidjian: Cities built to endure disaster
November 27, 2018
New space data offer instant clues to cause of deadly Laos dam disaster
October 26, 2018
On July 23, 2018, a notable disaster occurred In SE Asia, leading to the confirmed death of at least 40 persons, with many more missing and 6,600 homeless. This tragedy was not a natural event but rather a failure of a just-filled hydroelectric dam on a mist-shrouded plateau of Southern Laos.
Eduardo Miranda wins Tall Buildings Structural Design Council Award
June 8, 2018
Eduardo Miranda has been honored with the 2018 President's Award from the Tall Buildings Structural Design Council. He is being recognized "for commitment to excellence and long lasting significant contributions to the advancement of performance based earthquake engineering of building structures."
EERI Stanford Students Visit Sequoia High School to Teach about Earthquake Safety and Engineering Research
May 30, 2018
In May of 2018, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Stanford Chapter had its second School Earthquake Safety Initiative (SESI) program at the local Sequoia High School.
Greg Deierlein honored with 2018 Hardesty Award
May 19, 2018
Professor Greg Deierlein has been honored with the 2018 Hardesty Award by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The ASCE Shortridge Hardesty Award recognizes an individual "who has contributed substantially in applying fundamental results of research to the solution of practical engineering problems in the field of structural stability”.
SURI Hires Executive Director
April 10, 2018
The Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce that they have hired Chittayong (Jao) Surakitbanham as Executive Director.
Anne Kiremidjian Receives the John Fritz Medal
March 19, 2018
Anne Kiremidjian, professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been selected to receive the 2018 John Fritz Medal. The award, presented by the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES), recognizes one individual each year for their scientific or industrial achievements in the pure or applied sciences.
Professor Kiremidjian awarded SHM Lifetime Achievement Award
September 14, 2017
Professor Anne Kiremidjian in the department of Civil & Enviornmental Engineering has been awarded the Structural Health Monitoring Lifetime Achievement Award at the 11th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring on September 13, 2017.
Professor Kincho Law named ASME Fellow
August 14, 2017
Dr. Kincho H. Law in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering has been elected as an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Fellow. This prestigious title has been awarded to approximately 3% of the members of ASME.
Stanford Students place in EMI 2017 Competition
June 12, 2017
The EMI (Engineering Mechanics Institute) 2017 Conference was held in San Diego June 4-7, 2017. PhD Candidate Emma Lejeune won the Computational Mechanics Student Poster Competition, and Andreas Krischok was a runner up in the Modeling Inelasticity & Multiscale Behavior (MIMB) Committee Student Paper Competition.
A new technique could help turn Mars or moon rocks into concrete
May 2, 2017
An ordinary construction brick, left, and an experimental brick made of a protein/lunar regolith mixture. | Photo by Mia Allende
By Edmund L. Andrews
Making Stanford’s Roble Hall sustainable for its second century
April 17, 2017
The historic Roble Hall houses a multifaceted program that focuses on hard questions, like how to get 300 students engaged daily and deeply with sustainability.
Making Stanford’s Roble Hall sustainable for its second century
Making Stanford’s Roble Hall sustainable for its second century
A risk assessment of San Francisco’s fire-fighting water system
April 11, 2017
By Edmund L. Andrews
After the 1906 quake the city built a water network dedicated to fire-fighting. A computer model suggests the best strategy to strengthen this system for another century.
Seismic Design Team Wins 2nd at EERI Annual Meeting
April 3, 2017
The 14th annual EERI Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition took place March 7-10, 2017 in Portland, Oregon, held in conjunction with the EERI Annual Meeting. Thirty-four teams, both national and international, were invited to participate.
The 2017 SOE Staff Efficiency Award has been awarded to Racquel Hagen
March 3, 2017
The Stanford University School of Engineering Efficiency Award recognizes cost saving, efficiency or sustainability contributions. Like university-wide awards, our school staff awards are especially meaningful because the nominations come from our colleagues on the faculty and staff.
Oroville Dam - An Interview with Martin McCann
February 27, 2017
WBUR Interview
How do you quantify urban quality of life?
February 6, 2017
Quality of life is something that we feel very intuitively, but how do we quantify it?
Max Ferguson Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE
January 9, 2017
Grad Student, Max Ferguson, was recognized for the Achievement of Best Paper at the 2016 IEEE Big Data Conference in Washington, D.C. on December 7, 2016. His paper was entitled, Evaluation of a PMML-Based GPR Scoring Engine on a Cloud Platform and Microcomputer Board for Smart Manufacturing. Ferguson is advised by Professor Kincho Law.
Anne Kiremidjian: A resilient city is a sustainable city
December 17, 2016
By Ian Chipman
Linder Receives NSF CAREER Award
November 14, 2016
Professor Christian Linder received the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award for his research on Stretchability by Design - Understanding Mechanical Phenomena in Microarchitectured Soft Material Systems.
Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative featured in 125 Stanford Stories
September 4, 2016
The Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative was featured as one of the 125 Stanford Stories as part of Stanford University's 125th Anniversary. The full story can be found at http://125.stanford.edu/building-cities-resilience/.
McCann Appointed as Chairperson for COGGE
September 1, 2016
Martin W. McCann, director of the National Performance of Dams Program, was just appointed the Chairperson for the National Research Council of the National Academies Committee on Geological and Geotechnical Engineering (COGGE).
Borja awarded 2016 Biot Medal
July 29, 2016
Professor Ronaldo Borja received the 2016 Maurice A. Biot Medal awarded by the ASCE to an individual who has made outstanding research contributions to the mechanics of porous materials.
Professor Lepech Recieves NSF Career Award
July 29, 2016
Professor Michael Lepech has been awarded an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program grant for work on "Multi-Physics Modeling for Probabilistic Design and Engineering of Sustainable Infrastructure".
Nepal: One year later, looking back at lessons learned on rapid assessment of earthquake damage of April 25, 2015
April 26, 2016
A little over a year ago one of the most destructive earthquakes in recent history killed 9,000 people in Nepal. It leveled entire towns, reduced ancient temples to rubble and set off an avalanche that buried 21 climbers on Mount Everest, making April 25, 2015, the deadliest day ever on the mountain.
Deierlein Elected to EERI Board of Directors
December 2, 2015
Professor Gregory G. Deierlein was elected to the 2016 EERI Board of Directors along with David Freidmen, Forell/Elsesser Engineers, and Ross Boulanger, University of California, Davis. They will each serve a four-year term. The new directors will assume their posts at the first 2016 Board of Directors meeting in April.
Miranda named as one of ENR's Top 25 Newsmakers
November 3, 2015
The Engineering News-Record has named Professor Eduardo Miranda as one of the Top 25 Newsmakers for 2014. Professor Miranda was honored for his work on developing an economical, quake-resilient wood-framed house.
Haresh C. Shah Honored in Singapore
September 1, 2015
On July 27, 2015, Haresh C. Shah (M. EERI, 1972) received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), awarded personally from the President of the Republic of Singapore, Tony Tan Keng Yam.
Kiremidjian Named as Distinguished Member of ASCE
October 18, 2014
Professor Anne S. Kiremidjian was named as an ASCE Distinguished Member Class of 2014. Begun in 1853, Distinguished Membership is ASCE's highest recognition and among the Society's oldest honors. It is reserved for ASCE Members or Fellows who demonstrate eminence in some branch of engineering or in its related arts and sciences.
Stanford Engineers Developing ‘Quake-Proof’ Home Construction Techniques
October 17, 2014
STANFORD (KPIX 5) — Stanford engineers have developed an e
Stanford Represented at EERI Awards Plenary at the 10NCEE
August 1, 2014
Congratulations to the following Stanford alum and faculty who were presented with awards at the EERI Awards Plenary at the 10NCEE in Anchorage, Alaska in July 2014.
Liel and Deierlein Awarded Spectra Outstanding Paper
July 15, 2014
Stanford Alumni Abbie Liel and Professor Gregory Deierlein were awarded the Earthquake Spectra Outstanding Paper for 2014. Outstanding Paper Awards for Earthquake Spectra are awarded to authors of papers judged to be outstanding contributions to earthquake hazard mitigation.
Professor Baker receives Eugene L. Grant and IASSAR Awards
July 1, 2013
Professor Jack Baker is the recipient of the 2013 Eugene L. Grant Award in recognition of dedication and excellence in teaching as voted by the students of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.
Yao Xiao Awarded 2013 SOM Structural Engineering Travel Fellowship
June 1, 2013
The Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) Foundation announced that the $10,000 SOM 2013 Structural Engineering Travel Fellowship has been awarded toYao Xiao, who in April received her Master of Science Degree in Structural Engineering from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at
Report on Levees and Flood Risk Released
April 1, 2013
The study report, entitled "Levees and the National Flood Insurance Program: Improving Policies and Practices" was released to the public Wednesday morning, March 20, 2013. Consulting Professor Martin McCann was part of the committee that briefed the study sponsor, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Congressional committees, and the U.S.
2013 EERI Housner Medal Awarded to Haresh Shah
January 1, 2013
The 2013 George W. Housner Medal, EERI's highest honor, will be awarded to Haresh C. Shah, professor emeritus at Stanford University at the EERI Annual Meeting Awards Luncheon on February 14, 2013.
Gregory Deierlein Elected to National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
January 1, 2013
Professor Gregory G. Deierlein was elected to the NAE Class of 2013 for his "development of advanced structural analysis and design techniques and their implementation in design codes". He is one of 69 members elected this year, eight of which are from Stanford University.
John A. Blume named as one of Stanford School of Engineering Heroes
July 29, 2012
The founders of Yahoo!, a pioneer of earthquake engineering and a former U.S. secretary of defense are among the seven people selected as the 2012 Stanford Engineering Heroes, an honor recognizing those who have advanced the course of human, social and economic progress through engineering.
NEHRP Graduate Fellowship Awarded to Scott Swenson
June 1, 2012
Scott Swenson, a Ph.D. candidate in structural engineering & geomechanics at Stanford University, has been selected as the 2012-2013 NEHRP Graduate Fellow in Earthquake Hazard Reduction. The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute awards fellowship each year in a cooperative program with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program.
In Memoriam - Professor Helmut Krawinkler
April 18, 2012
It is with great sadness we convey that Helmut Krawinkler, the John A. Blume Professor Emeritus of Engineering, passed away on April 16, 2012. Krawinkler underwent surgery for a brain tumor this past February and was undergoing follow up treatment when he died suddenly at his home in Los Altos, CA.
2012 EERI Housner Medal Awarded to Helmut Krawinkler
March 1, 2012
EERI is pleased to announce the recipients of the Institute’s highest awards, to be presented at the 2012 EERI Annual Meeting and National Earthquake Conference (NEC) in Memphis, Tennessee, April 11-13.
Helmut Krawinkler Elected to National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
February 1, 2012
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 66 new members and 10 foreign associates, announced NAE President Charles M. Vest today. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,254 and the number of foreign associates to 206.
