IRES: Researchand Education Experiences for Students to Examine Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Utilizing the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

该奖项支持科罗拉多矿业学院的Richardson christensen教授、日本东京大学的Toru Watanabe教授和泰国曼谷朱拉隆功大学的Anat Ruangrassamee教授之间为期三年的合作研究项目。他们将组织一个关于减轻地震灾害的国际学生研究经验（IRES）项目。每年有三个夏天，一名美国研究生和两名美国本科生将前往日本和泰国，与日本和泰国的学生和教师一起工作。该计划的主要目标是通过为学生提供独特的，国际化的实践经验，吸引和激励有动力的学生从事研究事业。这将通过提供能够在国际研究环境和全球市场中运作的受过良好教育的科学劳动力，帮助确保美国保持在世界科学和工程技术的前沿。该项目将为学生提供在日本和泰国的国际经验，这两个国家在抗震和结构技术方面拥有世界一流的研究人员和设施。他们将可以访问乔治·e·布朗地震工程模拟网络（NEES）和NEESgrid （NEES网络）的合作实验室网络基础设施，这有助于通过连接地理分布的站点来促进大型、更复杂的研究项目的规划和执行。NEES的设计包括国际研究人员和设施。亚洲在全面实施结构控制方面处于世界领先地位，因此本研究项目与亚洲的外国同行一起进行是合适的。这种经历将允许学生参与复杂的研究项目，同时培养对地震工程的欣赏，这些工程是在另一种文化中教授、说、做和呈现的。它还将有助于在美国和东南亚处于职业生涯早期阶段的年轻科学家之间建立关系。通过这一高水平的课程，学生将从普通课程转向独立研究，体验发现的兴奋，发展智力成熟，拓宽他们的生物学视野。

0526590ChristensonThis award supports a three-year collaborative research project between Professor Richardson Christenson of the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Professor Toru Watanabe of Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan and Professor Anat Ruangrassamee at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. They will organize an International Research Experience for Students (IRES) program in earthquake hazard mitigation. Each year for three summers One US graduate student and two US undergraduate students will travel to Japan and Thailand to work with Japanese and Thai students and faculty. The main goal of the program is to attract and stimulate motivated students to pursue careers in research by providing them with a unique, international, hands-on experience. This will aid in ensuring that the US remains at the forefront of world science and engineering technology by providing an educated science workforce capable of operating in the international research environment and in a global market.This IRES will provide the students with an international experience in Japan and Thailand, countries with world-class research personnel and facilities in earthquake mitigation and structural technology. They will have access to the collaboratory cyberinfrastructure of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) and the NEESgrid (NEES network) which helps facilitate the planning and performing of large, more complex, research projects by interfacing geographically distributed sites. NEES is designed to include international researchers and facilities. Asia is leading the world in the full-scale implementation of structural control and so it is appropriate that this research project be conducted with the foreign counterparts in Asia. This experience will allow the students to engage in sophisticated research projects while developing an appreciation for earthquake engineering is taught, spoken, done and presented in another culture. It will also help forge relationships between young researchers from both the US and Southeast Asia in the early stages of their careers. Through this high-level program, students will go from general course work to independent research, experiencing the excitement of discovery, developing intellectual maturity, and broadening their vision of biology.