UCSD's Structural Engineering Department offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees. Our programs and curricula provide education and training through a holistic approach to structural engineering, by emphasizing and building on the commonality in materials, mechanics, and analysis considerations across the disciplines of civil, aerospace, and marine engineering. The program features strong components in laboratory experimentation, basic theory, information technology, and engineering design.
SE Professor and Graduate Student Receive Award for Outreach Event
Professor P. Benson Shing and graduate student Andreas Stavridis were recently awarded the "Most Effective Outreach and Training Activity of 2008" at the Network of Earthquake Engineering Simulations (NEES) Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. They were selected for integrating NEES into the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) program. A video, made by Stavridis, which compares their National Science Foundation (NSF) research with the work done by COSMOS students, can be viewed by clicking here. Congratulations, Professor Shing and Andreas!
SE Graduates 18 M.S./Ph.D. Students at Sunday’s Commencement
The families and friends of SE’s Class of 2008 graduate students braved the heat and sun to attend the June 22 commencement exercises held on RIMAC Field. This commencement was one of nine separate graduation ceremonies held between June 21 and 23 on the UC San Diego campus. Over 6,000 students and 40,000 parents and extended family and friends took part in all of the various events. To read about other 2008 Graduation events, click here. To view photos from the Office of Graduates Studies 2008 Commencement, click here.
Click here to see the list of graduates.
The Class of 2008 included: M.S. Degrees
Chad Closs
Eric Kjolsing
Tomohiro Kobayashi
Bryan Lin
Jeffrey Macmaster
Ian Prowell
Kaushik Punyamurtula
Christopher Sebilia
Ph.D. Degrees
Ivan Bartoli
Azadeh Bozorgzadeh
Stefano Coccia
Quan Gu
Xianfei He
Babak Moaveni
James Newell
Prishati Raychowdhury
Janet Wolfson
How to Shake 1 Million Pounds of Concrete (new videos added)
The current project at the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center is seismic response testing of precast concrete floor systems, commonly used in parking garages, college dormitories, hotels, stadiums, prisons, and increasingly, office buildings. The 1 million-pound precast concrete test structure has the largest footprint of any structure ever tested on a shake table in the United States; the shaking of the structure will continue through May with the most violent shakes coming in June. To read more about the month-long testing, click here. To view photos of the event, click here.
Click here to see the videos of a test representative of a Design Basis Earthquake scenario in Seattle WA.
Time lapsed construction video
North spandrel view
Sixth Graders Rock Buildings during 2nd Annual Seismic Outreach
The 2nd Annual Seismic Outreach, hosted by SE’s Society of Civil and Structural Engineers (SCSE) Chapter, took place May 5-13, 2008 on the UC San Diego campus. This year's event involved more than 500 sixth grade students from the Del Mar School District, over 75,000 K'Nex™ pieces, and countless hours of planning and preparation. To read the full story, click here.
Hemp Walls and Renewable Plastics
Hemp window frames and plastics made by microbes? Not so far-fetched. Two of UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering grad students are working on these projects with the aim of transforming parts of our fossil-fuel-based, throw-it-away society. To read more about SE graduate student, A. Gillian Cutter's work (as featured in the May, 2008 issue of @UCSD, an Alumni Publication), click here.
US News and World Report™ Ups Jacobs School of Engineering in National Rankings
UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering was ranked 11th among the nation’s 191 engineering schools, up from 13th place last year. The Department of Structural Engineering, ranked 16th in the specialty of civil engineering. To read the full story, click here.
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