SGER: Connections, The EERI Oral History Series

地震工程学始于20世纪初的几十年。今天，它正在迅速失去那些在抗震设计和地震减灾方面的发展和演变方面的先驱。为了捕捉影响当今工程理论和实践背后的思想的事件，地震工程研究所成立了Connections，EERI口述历史系列。从1994年开始，由于资源有限，EERI无法发布许多只存在于粗略录音带中的采访，也无法在仅存的几位创始人还活着的时候捕捉到越来越容易腐烂的信息。总而言之，他们的历史记录了科学和工程知识随着时间的推移而发展并影响了规范、实践和社会的为数不多的记录之一。最重要的是，一旦出版，他们的故事传递了激励他们的激情和承诺，并有助于吸引地震减灾领域的新一代潜在领导者。

Earthquake engineering began in the early decades of the 20th century. Today, it is rapidly losing those who pioneered in the development and evolution of seismic design and earthquake hazard reduction.In order to capture the events that influenced the thinking behind today's engineering theories and practices, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute inaugurated Connections, The EERI Oral History Series. Begun in 1994, limited resources have prevented EERI from publishing many of the interviews that exist only as rough audio tapes or from capturing the increasingly perishable information that resides with the few remaining founders, while they are still alive. Collectively, their histories provide one of the few records of the way in which scientific and engineering knowledge has developed over time and has influenced codes, practices, and society. Most importantly, once published, their stories transmit the passion and commitment that motivated them and help to attract a new generation of prospective leaders in earthquake hazard reduction fields.