The 2017 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program featured seventeen students assigned to sixteen projects throughout the network of NHERI facilities.
At the conclusion of the ten-week summer program, students produced a research poster and paper for their project and gave a presentation on their experience. The posters and papers can be found below, and a copy of the presentation slides as well as a video recording of the presentations can be found at the "REU 2017" project within the DesignSafe Data Depot.
Home university: University of Texas, San Antonio
NHERI EF Site: University of Texas – Texas Advanced Computing Center
Faculty mentors: Charlie Dey and Maria Esteva
Graduate student mentors: Yuxiang Lin and Carl Bernier
Research project title: Creation of a tool for raw data comprehension
Research Paper: Paper-Musa & Ogunmola.docx
Home university: Humboldt State University
NHERI EF Site: University of Texas at Austin
Faculty mentors: Dr. Patricia Clayton & Dr. Farnyuh Menq
Graduate student mentor: Benchen Zhang
Research project title: Estimation of liquefaction at a regional level using geologic maps
Research paper: Paper-Jared Walbert.docx
Home university: University of Florida
NHERI EF site: UF POWELL Structures and Materials Laboratory
Faculty mentor: Dr. Kurtis R. Gurley
Graduate student mentor(s): N/A
Research project title: Florida Coastal Monitoring Program (FCMP): Curation of hurricane wind data for DesignSafe-CI
Research paper: Paper-Duy Nguyen.pdf
Home university: University of Florida
NHERI EF site: UF Powell Family Structures and Materials Laboratory
Faculty mentors: Dr. Kurt Gurley and Dr. David Prevatt
Graduate student mentor(s): N/A
Research project title: Tornado damage assessment data curation and dissemination
Research paper: Paper-Mark Mimms.docx
Home university: California State University, Fullerton
NHERI EF site: Lehigh University, ATLSS Engineering Laboratory
Faculty mentor: Dr. Spencer Quiel
Graduate student mentor: Safwan Al-Subaihawi
Research project title: Resiliency of cladding systems for multi-hazards
Research paper: Paper-Melody Trejo.docx
Home university: Humboldt State University
NHERI EF site: Florida International University - Wall of Wind
Faculty mentor: Dr. Ioannis Zisis
Graduate student mentor: Farzaneh Raji
Research project title: Wind-driven-rain field study on a full-scale model house
Research paper: Paper-Caleb Wegener.docx
Home university: University of Kentucky
NHERI EF site: Florida International University – Wall of Wind
Faculty mentor: Dr. Arindam Chowdhury
Graduate student mentor: Mohammadtaghi Moravej, Ziad Azz
Research project title: Progressive failure studies of residential houses towards performance based hurricane engineering
Home university: University of Reno, Nevada
NHERI EF site: ATLSS at Lehigh University
Faculty mentors: Dr. Richard Sause and Dr. James Ricles
Graduate student mentor: Alia Amer
Research project title: Stress-strain properties of cross laminated timber in compression
Research paper: Paper-Zachary Duskin.pdf
Home university: University of Washington
NHERI EF site: Oregon State University OH Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory
Faculty mentor: Dr. Daniel Cox
Graduate student mentor: Mohammad Shafiqual Alam
Research project title: Experimental observations of debris impact and damming loads for elevated structures subjected to transient waves
Research paper: Paper-Anna Tsai.docx
Home university: University of California, Davis
NHERI EF Site: University of California, Berkeley - SimCenter
Faculty mentor: Dr. Matt Schoettler
Graduate student mentor(s): N/A
Research project title: Evaluating policies by simulating large scale regional seismic response
Research paper: Paper-Danielle Charleston.pdf
Home university: University of California, San Diego
NHERI EF site: UC Berkeley SimCenter
Faculty mentor: Dr. Matthew Schoettler
Graduate student mentor(s): N/A
Research project title: Adaptation of the PBEE Framework: A building block for community resilience models
Research paper: Paper-Tiffany La.pdf
Home University: University of California, San Diego
NHERI EF site: UC San Diego High Performance Outdoors Shake Table
Faculty mentor: Dr. Shiling Pei
Graduate student mentor: N/A
Research project title: Studying the seismic behavior of cross laminated timber
Research paper: Paper-Joycelyn Ng.pdf
Home university: University of California, Berkeley
NHERI EF site: University of California, San Diego- Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table
Faculty mentor: Dr. Shiling Pei
Graduate student mentor: Sarah Wichman
Research project title: Lateral load path analysis of cross-laminated timber structure
Research paper: Paper-Monica Liu.docx
Home university: Morgan State University
NHERI EF site: UC Davis Center for Geotechnical Modeling
Faculty mentor: Dr. Jason DeJong
Graduate student mentor: Kathleen Darby
Research project title: Centrifuge model testing of liquefaction mitigation via microbially-induced calcite precipitation
Research paper: Paper-Dexter Harris.docx
Home university: University of Texas, Austin
NHERI EF site: University of California, San Diego: Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table
Faculty mentor: Dr. Shiling Pei
Graduate student mentor(s): -
Research project title: Development and validation of a resilience-based seismic design methodology for tall wood buildings
Research paper: Paper-Ali Hasan.docx
Home university: Lehigh University
NHERI EF site: University of California, Davis - Center for Geotechnical Modeling
Faculty mentor: Dr. Jason DeJong
Graduate student mentors: Alexander Sturm (Ph.D.) and Gregory Shepard (M.S.)
Research project title: A feasibility study on gravelly soil characterization via centrifuge testing
Research paper: Paper-Diana Melendez.pdf
