PEER Student Leadership Council Summer Retreat Meeting

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PEER Student Leadership Council Summer Retreat
Meeting

• August 10-12, 2006
• Sunriver, Oregon

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Summary

• Role of the SLC
• Membership
• Review of 2004-2005 Academic year
• Budget/Expenses
• Discussion of Bylaws
• Seismic Design Competition Discussion
• Review of Officer Positions
• Goals/Ideas for upcoming year
• Other SLC business
• Officer elections for 2005-2006 Academic Year

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Role of the SLC

• Voice of students to PEER Center
• Annual SWOT survey analysis
• Assist with planning execution of PEER
  meetings
• Annual Meeting
• NSF Site Visit
• Representation of PEER at professional meetings
• EERI (8NCEE), NSF (ERC), ANCER
• Outreach activities
• Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition
• Caltechs Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day
• Stanfords Middle School Shake Table
  Competition

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Who can join the SLC?

• Any PEER funded student can join the group
• Graduate Students
• Undergraduate Students
• Graduate Students from any PEER institution who
  are interested in earthquake engineering and want
  to participate.

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PEER Center
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Forms of Communication

• Email
• Teleconference Meetings (autumn, spring summer)
• In-Person Meetings
• (winter summer)
• SLC Website

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In-Person Meetings

• In-person meetings at
• PEER Annual Meeting
• NSF Site Visit (reverse site visit this year)
• Annual Summer Retreat
• Social Activities
• Its very important for SLC Members to meet each
  other and to interact.
• Establish relationships with colleagues.
• Get to know each other, and have fun!

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Teleconference Meetings

• Held once a quarter (this year in November, March
  and June).
• Minutes from teleconferences are included in your
  conference packets.
• Additional teleconferences held as needed for
  Seismic Design Competition.

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SLC 2005-2006 Membership (24)

• Caltech Judy, Case, Xin
• Stanford Won, Curt, Griffin
• UCB Wassim, Eric, Howard, Amado
• UC Davis Melissa, Jose, Dongdong, Shin-tai
• UC Irvine Ben, Stacia
• UCSD Vivian, Alejandro
• UCLA Annie, Christine
• USC Dongyu
• UW Sarah, Tyler, Hyung-Suk

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SLC 2005-2006 Membership

• Caltech Judy, Case, Xin
• Stanford Won (?), Curt, Griffin
• UCB Wassim, Eric (?), Howard, Amado
• UC Davis Melissa, Jose, Dongdong, Shin-tai
• UC Irvine Ben, Stacia
• UCSD Vivian, Alejandro
• UCLA Annie, Christine
• USC Dongyu
• UW Sarah, Tyler, Hyung-Suk

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SLC 2005-2006 Membership (12-17)

• Caltech Xin
• Stanford Won (?), Vivian (?)
• UCB Wassim, Eric (?), Amado (?)
• UC Davis Melissa, Jose, Dongdong, Shin-tai
• UC Irvine Ben
• UCSD one of Scotts students
• UCLA Annie, Christine
• USC Dongyu
• UW Tyler, Hyung-Suk

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Year in Review

• Summer Retreat in Seattle, WA.
• NSF ERC Retreat in Washington, D.C.
• Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
• Outreach Programs.
• BIP Seminars.
• SWOT Analysis.
• Seismic Competition at 8NCEE.

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2005 Summer Retreat Seattle, WA
Lab tours at UW.
Student poster session at UW.
Faculty research presentations at UW.
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2005 Summer Retreat Seattle, WA
Tour of new Seattle Library.
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2005 Summer Retreat Seattle, WA
We also had FUN, FUN, FUN
at lunch
at dinner
and for drinks
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NSF ERC Retreat in Bethesda, MD

• Judy and Stacia represented PEER at the
  conference.
• Student roundtable discussion topics (1)
  providing a comfortable working and social
  environment for all students from diverse
  backgrounds, and (2) improving communications
  among students, staff, and faculty.
• Plenary session, The World is Flat by Thomas
  Friedman.
• Breakout session topics for the EQ engineering
  centers (1) Globalization, (2) Graduation of the
  ERCs.

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NSF ERC Retreat in Bethesda, MD
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PEER Annual Meeting in SF, CA

• General session with all of PEER.
• Student poster session.
• SWOT surveys and iPod raffle.
• Banquet and SLC awards.
• SLC administrative meeting.
• PEER student social activity lunch together and
  field trip to science museum.

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PEER Annual Meeting in SF, CA
Student Poster Session
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PEER Annual Meeting in SF, CA
Awards on behalf of the SLC were presented to
Scott Ashford and Linda Nelson at the
PEER Banquet!!!
SLC Meeting
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PEER Annual Meeting in SF, CA
Excursion to the Exploratorium in San Francisco!
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Outreach Programs

• Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day at Caltech
  on February 23rd 75 middle school girls visited
  the dynamics laboratory and helped run
  shake-table experiments.
• Middle school shake-table experiments at Stanford
  on April 26th more than 30 students participated.

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Outreach Programs
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day at Caltech.
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Outreach Programs
Middle school shake-table experiments at Stanford.
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BIP Seminars

• February 26th (Caltech) Farzad Naeim from John
  A. Martin Associates.
• March 8th (Stanford) Ron Mayes from Simpson,
  Gumpertz and Heger.
• March 14th (UCLA) Farzad Naeim from John A.
  Martin Associates.
• June 6th (UCLA) Dr. Kenneth Campbell from
  EQECat.

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BIP Seminars
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SWOT Analysis

• Strengths
• Students feel that participating in PEER has been
  a positive experience.
• Most students are happy with their faculty
  mentoringparticularly regarding academic
  experiences.
• More than 75 of students agree that
  participation in PEER will provide for
  competitive advantage for future employment.
• Students are happy with PEER online resources.
• Weaknesses
• The percentage of students happy with their
  industry interactions has increased since 2003,
  but students are still not satisfied with the
  amount of their industry interaction.
• Only 15 of students have been offered help with
  writing grants.
• Collaborative opportunities within PEER are up
  from last year (42 in 2005, 60 in 2006), but
  are still not available to the extent desired.

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SWOT Analysis

• Opportunities
• A majority of students felt that they would like
  to pursue collaborations with students at other
  PEER institutions.
• Students use the PEER website regularly, so this
  is likely to be an effective place for
  disseminating research results.
• A majority of the students know their SLC
  representative (74) and are aware of SLC
  activities (64), but 17 of students were not
  satisfied with the amount of information they
  received from their SLC rep.
• Threats
• Lack of industry collaboration may hurt students
  who wish to work in industry after finishing
  their education.

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SWOT Analysis
Demographics of those surveyed.
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SWOT Analysis
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SWOT Analysis
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SWOT Analysis
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SWOT Analysis
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8NCEE Seismic Design Competition

• Held during the 8th National Conference on
  Earthquake Engineering in San Francisco.
• Competition volunteers attended conference
  plenary and break-out sessions.
• Eight teams competed in competition UW, UCB,
  Buffalo, UCD, GaTech, Hawaii, OSU, and UCSD.
• Winners UW (1st place), UCB (2nd place), and
  Buffalo (3rd place).

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8NCEE Seismic Design Competition
Awards on behalf of the SLC were presented at the
conference to the Seismic Competition Co-Chairs,
Melissa Pi and Jose Ugalde as well as to the rest
of the competition volunteers Wassim, Dongdong,
Dongyu, Shin-Tai, Ben, Tyler, Annie and Won!!!
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8NCEE Seismic Design Competition

• Discussion

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• Thank you all for a wonderful year!