Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER)

Earthquake Engineering Course Attracts Undergraduates into Graduate Study

The Earthquake Engineering Scholars Course (EESC) is designed to attract and prepare undergraduate students for graduate study in earthquake engineering. About 30 select students from the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) and its education affiliates participate in the program and attend four weekend retreats at PEER campuses.

EESC scholars are graduating seniors who have demonstrated an interest in earthquake engineering or an earthquake-related field, who have achieved a high level of academic scholarship, and who will increase the diversity of PEER's student population. Each of the weekend retreats focuses on a different theme of earthquake engineering: seismology and earthquake ground motion; geotechnical engineering; structural dynamics and earthquake-resistant design; and public policy and decision-making.

The course provides a unique opportunity for students to interact intellectually and socially with faculty members, graduate students, and industry partners. Students also have the opportunity to visit earthquake engineering laboratories and experience campus life at a PEER core university. The program has been very successful at recruiting new talent to the field of earthquake engineering at PEER affiliate universities.

To learn more about this topic:
Visit the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center web site at http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/1999april/PEEReduc.html and the PEER education web site at http://peer.ucsd.edu/index.html.

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PEER students in the Earthquake Engineering
Scholars Course discuss earthquake engineering
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Last modified: February 18, 2005