DesignSafe Radio

In this special DSR episode, earthquake engineer Keri Ryan takes us on a 20-minute walking tour of the NHERI Tallwood structure. See the 10-story mass-timber building under construction — from the outside in! This milestone experiment is taking place at UC San Diego on the world’s largest outdoor shake table. For the first time, researchers are developing and validating a resilient seismic design methodology for tall wood buildings. The work is funded by the National Science Foundation, with support from many industry partners.

Curious? Get the backstory on NHERI Tallwood: http://nheritallwood.mines.edu/ 

Follow the NHERI Tallwood project with the live video stream at UCSD: http://nheri.ucsd.edu/video/

Find Professor Keri Ryan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keri-ryan-29332399/

#NHERITallwood #CLT #Crosslaminatedtimber #massTimber #rockingwalls #naturalhazards #resilience #NSFfunded #earthquakeEngineering #womeninengineering #NSFStories

Twitter: @NHERI_UCSD @Unevadareno @UCSanDiego @UCSDJacobs @unrengineering, @NSF @slpei @commresilience @swinerton @MinesCEE @coschoolofmines @Boise_Cascade

Today we chat with Keri Ryan, a co-principal investigator on the NHERI Tallwood project. We catch up with her onsite at the enormous UC San Diego shake table, a NHERI experimental facility. Ryan, an earthquake engineer at University of Nevada Reno, provides a succinct primer on the Tallwood research project, a 10-story wood building designed to resist earthquake loads.

Curious? More background on NHERI Tallwood: http://nheritallwood.mines.edu/ 

Follow the NHERI Tallwood project with the live video at UCSD: http://nheri.ucsd.edu/video/

Find Professor Keri Ryan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keri-ryan-29332399/

#NHERITallwood #CLT #Crosslaminatedtimber #massTimber #rockingwalls #naturalhazards #resilience #NSFfunded #earthquakeEngineering #womeninengineering #NSFStories

Machine-learning expert Krishna Kumar joins host Dan Zehner to discuss the annual NHERI Hackathon. Kumar details this exciting event, which takes place every year at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Leveraging DesignSafe data and computational resources, participants have three days to code solutions to natural hazards problems using machine learning. Kumar is an assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering at University of Texas professor.

#naturalhazards #hackathon #machinelearning #AI #engineeringeducation #simulation #modeling #NHERIHackathon

Read more about the annual NHERI Hackathon and DesignSafe Academy: https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/designsafe-academy/

Want to learn more about natural hazards simulation and modeling? Visit the NHERI SimCenter, headquartered at UC Berkeley: https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/

Follow NHERI DesignSafe!

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nheri-designsafe/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nheriDesignSafe

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NaturalHazardsEngineeringResearchInfrastructure

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nheridesignsafe/

Twitter: @TACC @NheriGsc @NSF @NheriEco @ERathje @NHE_SimCenter

#NSFStories, #naturalhazards, #NHERIhackathon

The full interview episode with Stanford-based structural engineer Barbara Simpson — in person at the Oregon State University Wave Laboratory, a NHERI experimental facility.

What’s it like to be a young woman in engineering? Barbara Simpson shares some undergraduate and PhD experiences and talks about the importance of having positive, confidence-building mentors. Now a research engineer at Stanford University, she says, “This is where I was meant to be.” Ultimately, she says, diversity in engineering makes for more ideas, perspective and fun.

Follow Simpson’s blog: https://simpsoba.wordpress.com

And follow her on Instagram: @simpsoba

Twitter: @StanfordEng @HinsdaleOSU, #NSFStories, @NSF, @NheriEco

Onsite at the NHERI OSU wave laboratory, Dan Zehner and Barb Simpson talk about “real time hybrid simulation.” This technique joins numeric models with physical experimentation enables engineers to deal with those pesky problems of scale. In a current project, Simpson is studying wind, wave, and soil behavior at play in offshore wind turbines — which in 2016 had average hub-heights of over 330 feet.

#RTHS #hybridsimulation #windturbine #SSI #SFI #womeninengineering #windengineering

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-simpson-9255445b/

Twitter: @StanfordEng @HinsdaleOSU, #NSFStories, @NSF, @NheriEco 

Today we have an exciting meet-up with Stanford-based structural engineer Barbara Simpson — in person at the Oregon State University Wave Laboratory, a NHERI experimental facility. Simpson’s passionate about building computer programming skills in undergraduate engineers, particularly those in underrepresented groups who may lack such experience. She applies parallel processing in her own investigations in soil-to-fluid interactions in floating offshore wind turbines.

Read more about Simpson’s work training undergraduate engineers in programming:

https://stem.oregonstate.edu/people/barbara-simpson

On her blog, Simpson discusses using computational and experimental methods to solve problems in natural hazards engineering:

https://simpsoba.wordpress.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-simpson-9255445b/

Twitter: @StanfordEng @HinsdaleOSU, #NSFStories, @NSF, @NheriEco

Today we delve into engineering education with Jeremy Waisome, instructional assistant professor at the University of Florida. As well as being an engineer and researcher, Waisome is an eloquent science communicator. She’s dedicated to educating the next generation of engineers — and the public — about vital engineering concepts. Among her many roles, she leads education and outreach efforts at the NHERI University of Florida facility.

Waisome describes a variety of pathways to engineering and why having a diverse workforce is so important. “There’s so much that we underestimate what we do as engineers — and the impact it has on other people’s lives.” she says. At the University of Florida, Waisome trains high school teachers at Title 1 schools to incorporate engineering projects into their classrooms.

We learn the importance of exposing high school and college students to engineering education as a college major. Waisome explains enriching opportunities such as the NHERI Research Experiences for Undergraduates program and the importance of having role models and mentors who come from one’s own community. She also talks about her own podcast: Modern Figures, which features Black women in computing.

In our final episode featuring Jeremy Waisome from

the NHERI University of Florida facility, we learn the importance of exposing high school and

college students to engineering education as a college major. Waisome explains enriching

opportunities such as the NHERI Research Experiences for Undergraduates program and the

importance of having role models and mentors who come from one’s own community. She also

talks about her own podcast: Modern Figures, which features Black women in computing.

Catch up with Jeremy Waisome:

Modern Figures podcast

https://modernfigurespodcast.com/

@jeremywaisome on Twitter

LinkedIn: @jwaisome

Outreach at the NHERI at University of Florida experimental facility: https://ufl.designsafe-ci.org/outreach/

Misconceptions about engineering. Engineering educator Jeremy Waisome describes a variety of pathways to engineering and why having a diverse workforce is so important. “There’s so much that we underestimate what we do as engineers — and the impact it has on other people’s lives.” she says. At the University of Florida, Waisome trains high school teachers at Title 1 schools to incorporate engineering projects into their classrooms.  

#engineeringeducation #diversity #DEI #engineeringworkforce #globalimpact #pathwaystoengineering #title1

Jeremy Waisome at the University of Florida

https://www.essie.ufl.edu/programs/engineering-education/name/jeremy-waisome/