Upcoming Seminars
Sustainability and the Structural Engineer
May 07, 2025 - 12:00 pm
Speaker: Sara Means
Structural materials such as steel and concrete account for more than 10% of the global carbon emissions, and structural engineers have a responsibility to reduce these carbon emissions in the built environment. This presentation will give an introduction to embodied carbon. What is embodied carbon, how do you calculate it, and how do you reduce it? We will discuss which materials are most sustainable and how to reduce embodied carbon in your projects. We will also give an overview of a simple Life Cycle Assessment.
Past Seminars
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Overview of UCSD EERI Student Chapter and Other Graduate Student Clubs
Speaker: UCSD EERI Student Chapter
Graduate Students will provide an overview of the EERI UCSD Student Chapter and student organizations. The EERI UCSD Graduate Student Chapter aims to work side by side with the regional professional chapter to promote earthquake safety awareness among students. We can plan to host quarterly seminars by inviting outside professionals from industry and academia or take part in seminars organized by the local engineering community.
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Seismic Ground Motions for Seismically Isolated Structures and Structures with Damping Systems
Speaker: Dr. Jorge Meneses
One of the seismic analysis and design procedures of seismically isolated structures and structures with damping includes the performance of dynamic time-history analysis of the structure. This procedure requires the development of different input motions or seismic ground motions that will be applied to the structure. The current ASCE 7-16 seismic provisions provide the guidance for developing these seismic ground motions.
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Response of Seismically Isolated Structures Subjected to Beyond Design Basis Shaking
Speaker: Professor Gilberto Mosqueda
Seismic isolation has been proven as an effective strategy to protect critical facilities from the damaging effects of horizontal earthquake ground shaking. The increased flexibility and resulting elongation of the natural vibration period of the structure leads to significant reductions in acceleration and forces transmitted to the structure above the isolation level at the expense of large lateral displacements in the isolation system. These large lateral displacements need to be accommodated by the isolation bearings while sustaining the weight of the structure above.
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Additively Manufactured Composites: Mechanics, Materials, and Manufacturing
Speaker: Professor Mehran Tehrani, University of Texas - Austin
Polymer additive manufacturing (AM) is mostly relegated to the space of rapid prototyping. New approaches for transitioning polymer AM to the production of end-use parts will be discussed and their processing-structure-failure relationships will be elucidated. Carbon fiber has been identified as a potential solution to overcome polymer AM shortcomings, where it improves polymer properties, reduces the time required to manufacture functional parts, and lower warping to lead to a larger build envelope.
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Curved-Based Rocking Walls for Seismic Isolation
Speaker: Professor Richard Wiebe, University of Washington
Many novel lateral force resisting systems have been developed to improve the seismic performance and resilience of structures. One promising approach is the use post-tensioned rocking walls as lateral load resisting systems. Despite the many benefits of rocking systems (e.g. small residual drift and simplified repairs after extreme events), several additional opportunities for improved performance remain.
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Engineering Ethics: Room for Improvement?
Speaker: Dr. Michael Kalichman, UC San Diego
It may seem obvious that success in engineering relies in part on ethics and that those who enter engineering value ethics. And yet, stories of missteps in academia and industry are well known. The goal of this talk will be to address factors that contribute to misconduct and, more importantly, strategies we can adopt to minimize that risk. The hope is that this session will be a catalyst for opportunities to promote a culture of ethics in Structural Engineering.
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Structural Electronics: The Coming Convergence of Electronics and Structures
Speaker: Jeff Bergman, NextFlex
The field of electronics manufacturing is undergoing a significant shift that promises to change not only how we make electronics but also how we interact with the world around it. Rapid advances in microelectronics, material science, and manufacturing techniques have enabled a new world of advanced additively manufactured electronics that are lightweight, flexible, and low cost. By enabling novel electronics forms, and implementations flexible and additive electronics will change how we interact with the world around us by allowing for the easy and unobtrusive deployment of sensors to ke
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Next Generation Structural Monitoring and Smart Cities
Speaker: Dr. Erol Kalkan, Quakelogic
Structural monitoring has gained importance for safety requirements of critical structures including hospitals, high-rise buildings, bridges, dams, tunnels, wind turbines etc. Although these structures are designed and built to operate safely under anticipated static and dynamic loading conditions, deterioration and damage can occur over their lifetime. Extreme events such as earthquakes are the most prevailing source of failure. If damage conditions are not identified rapidly, they may leave the dam vulnerable to further damage.
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Structural Engineering in Golf Club Design
Speaker: Brandon Woolley, TaylorMade Golf
Structural engineering can be found all around us. In this presentation, I’ll talk about how we use engineering to create the best performance golf products in the world. I’ll cover some of the engineering challenges unique to golf equipment design and a little about how TaylorMade Golf overcomes them.
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Naval Health Research Center: Engineering Human Performance in a Warfighter Population
Speaker: Dr. Pinata Sessoms and Dr. Amy Silder, Naval Health Research Center
Located aboard Naval Base Point Loma, Naval Health Research Center is the Department of Defense’s designated Deployment Health Research Center and the only military medical research center on the West Coast. Drs. Sessoms and Silder will discuss some of the research being done by the Physical and Cognitive Operational Research Environment (PhyCORE) Lab at NHRC. The lab’s mission is to enhance Warfighter readiness by improving rehabilitation of wounded warriors and resilience of healthy Warfighters through operationally relevant training and testing.