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