REU Site: Earthquake Engineering Internship for Resilient Communities

这一为期三年的REU站点计划将由太平洋地震工程研究(PEER)中心管理，重点是抗震性社区。每年夏天，本科生将被安置在三所合作大学：加州大学伯克利分校、加州大学戴维斯分校和华盛顿大学。这些学生将与一名教师和研究生导师配对，完成与基础设施、港口、堤坝和城市建筑的抗震能力相关的项目。这些导师在结构和岩土工程、城市规划、公共政策和经济学等多个学科领域拥有专业知识。这种多学科的整合是REU网站的一个重要方面，因为需要多学科的合作和协作来实现抗震救灾社区的广泛目标。在暑期研究期间，实习生将定期与同一研究主题领域内不同学科的其他学习人员进行交流，并每周与整个实习生队列进行交流。还将开展补充活动，以扩大实习生的经验，并激励他们继续从事地震工程和相关研究。提高全国社区的地震复原力必须是我国的一个重要目标(NEHRP 2008)。这项REU计划将为这一努力做出贡献。REU参与者将学习研究如何通过开发工具和技术来提高地震恢复力，将地震损失降至最低，并帮助社区从大地震中快速恢复。再培训努力将重点放在参加少数族裔服务学生俱乐部的学生和本科生服务机构将建立一组具有不同背景的REU实习生，因此该计划将提供一种独特的体验，吸引未被充分代表的学生进入地震减灾领域。他们的研究经验，提高的技术沟通能力，以及参加同行年会，将使他们成为研究生学习的有力候选人。通过他们作为导师的参与，研究生参与者将提高他们的教学和指导技能，为他们未来的学术教师职位做好准备。

This three-year REU site program focusing on earthquake resilient communities will be administered by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center. Each summer,undergraduate students will be placed at the three partnering universities: University of California Berkeley, University of California Davis, and the University of Washington. The students will be placed in pairs with a faculty and graduate student mentor to complete projects related to the seismic resiliency of infrastructure, ports, levees,and urban buildings. The mentors have expertise in a variety of disciplines including structural and geotechnical engineering, urban planning, public policy and economics. This multi-disciplinary integration is an important aspect of this REU site because multidisciplinary cooperation and collaboration is needed to achieve the broad goal of earthquake resilient communities. During their summer research experience, interns will regularly interface with others studying alternate disciplines within the same research topic area and weekly engage with the full intern cohort. Supplemental activities will also be conducted to broaden the intern experience and inspire them to continue in earthquake engineering and related research.Improving the earthquake resilience of communities nationwide must be a critical goal of our nation (NEHRP 2008). This REU program will contribute to that effort. The REU participants will learn how research can advance earthquake resiliency by developing tools and technologies that minimize earthquake damage and help communities to recover quickly from large earthquakes.Recruitment efforts will focus on students participating in minority serving student clubs and at undergraduate serving institutions will build a group of REU interns with diverse backgrounds, and thus the program will provide a unique experience to attract underrepresented students to the fields of earthquake hazard mitigation. Their research experience, improved technical communication skills, and participation in the PEER Annual Meeting will make them strong candidates for graduate study. Through their involvement as mentors, graduate student participants will enhance their teaching and mentorship skills to prepare them for future academic faculty appointment.