Outreach Activities
How can the general public get in and actually see, touch and feel what NEES is doing? This section has all that information.
NEES holds regularly scheduled site tours, school visits and partners with nationwide programs to deliver fun experiences that will introduce you to earthquake engineering. You will find lists of those programs, archived, current and upcoming below.
NEES hosts outreach events in your local area and lessons you can explore here in the NEESacademy. Below are links to NEES test facilities that hold public events in your area as well as several museums with exhibits on earthquake engineering
Contact us to explore events that can be held in your local area so the community can learn more about earthquake science, earthquake engineering and NEES.
Events are listed below and are categorized into current, past and future events. Click an event for more information.
Museum Exhibits
| Site | Topic |
|---|---|
| Museum of Science and Industry - Chicago | Tsunamis and Waves |
Links to Past Learning and Outreach Resources and Events
Festivals
| Location | Event |
|---|---|
| Washington, DC | Washington DC Engineering Family Day: The annual Washington DC Engineering Family Day is enjoyed by over six thousand visitors to the National Building Museum every February. The festival features dozens of hands-on activities provided by local engineering chapters and national organizations. Every year at the start of Engineer's Week, the impressive main hall of the National Building Museum is taken over by thousands of children of all ages experiencing the excitement of engineering. NSF and NEEScomm collaborated to present the “Tsunami Lego Challenge”. Click here for data on the effectiveness of this activity. |
Links to Ongoing Learning and Outreach Resources and Events at Sites
Workshops
| Site | Resource and Events |
|---|---|
| Cornell University | Student Tutorials on Lifelines |
| Sciencenter in Ithaca: Find out about earthquakes and how they affect structures! From here you can remotely test a multi-story building in four different earthquakes, watch short videos about earthquakes and engineering | |
| Lehigh University | Workshops at Lehigh |
| Webinars | |
| Student Training Videos | |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Higher Education: CE Instrumentation and Sensors course using laboratory facilities |
| Centrifuge Workshops: The overall goal of these workshops are to provide both basic background and real experience in centrifuge testing that will help participants in writing NEESR proposals effectively. | |
| Facility Tours for undergraduates, K-12 classrooms | |
| University at Buffalo | Education: Seminars, Courses in the lab |
| Outreach for High Student Outreach | |
| Training: This page contains information on self-training for use of facilities, equipment, in a safe and efficient manner. | |
| University of California, Berkeley | Workshops, tours and open house events, publications, presentations, posters, higher education, K-12, UC Berkeley courses |
| University of California, Davis | Training and Certifications |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Education: Learning Modules – Cone Penetration Testing Structural Dynamics Education Module |
| Outreach events for professionals and at local schools | |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | Outreach and Education at UCSB |
| Podcast with Sandy Seale about seismic research | |
| Training to do research at UCSB | |
| Introductory Video of Garner Valley Field Site | |
| University of California, San Diego | Overview of EOT activity description |
| University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Workshop Presentations |
| University of Minnesota | Documents in PDF format |
| University of Nevada, Reno | Outreach, Lectures, Tours, Videos, News Stories, Webcasts |
| Oregon State University | Public and local outreach project descriptions |
| University of Texas at Austin | Videos, Simulations, Posters, Handouts, Slides |
