REU Program
The NEESreu program (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) is a dynamic 10-week summer research program sponsored by the National Science Foundation for upper division undergraduate students interested in Civil, Electrical or Computer Engineering, and other fields related to seismic risk mitigation.
The application process for the Summer 2012 REU Program has completed!
Thanks for your interest in the Summer 2012 NEESreu program. The application process is now closed. Watch this space in 2013 for more information on next year's summer REU session. You may download a printable flyer with more information on the 2012 program.
What Are REU Students Doing Now?
Ray Hooft, a student at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a 2010 participant in the NEES Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of California, Berkeley, won the undergraduate competition with his paper, “Preliminary Study of the Strongback System: Preventing the Soft Story Mechanism.” Hooft received a grant to attend the Annual Meeting. His study consists of a series of preliminary analyses on the innovative strongback dual structural system. He performed elastic analysis to investigate the behavior of the proposed system on a regular two-story model building. Different steel core areas of buckling restrained braces (BRB) and conventional wide flange braces were selected to examine the effects on system lateral stiffness. Preliminary results show that the proposed dual system deformed uniformly along the height of the building if designed properly. Hooft expects further analysis will show that the inelastic behavior of the strongback system has higher potential than systems in use today to prevent the soft-story mechanism under extreme loading events.
Other Earthquake Engineering REU programs
The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) is now accepting applications to its 2012 Summer Internship Program - visit this link to learn more. You may also click here to view REU flyer.
The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) is also accepting applications for its two Summer 2012 Undergraduate Internship Programs: UseIT (Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology) and SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research Experience). Click here to apply. For more information, download and open this REU flyer.
A separate 10-week-long REU program at Cornell University and the University at Buffalo offers two undergraduate students a unique research opportunity and lab experience. You may download this flyer for more information or click here to complete an application.
Archive of Student Research from NEES REU Programs
Students' papers and posters detailing the results of their research projects for each summer of the program are available in the archive.
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