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PEER Student Leadership Council Summer Retreat Meeting

PEER Student Leadership Council Summer Retreat Meeting. August 10-12, 2006 Sunriver, Oregon. 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

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PEER Student Leadership Council Summer Retreat Meeting

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  1. PEER Student Leadership Council Summer Retreat Meeting August 10-12, 2006 Sunriver, Oregon

  2. 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

  3. 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 • Caltech’s “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day” • Stanford’s “Middle School Shake Table Competition”

  4. 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.

  5. PEER Center

  6. Forms of Communication • Email • Teleconference Meetings (autumn, spring & summer) • In-Person Meetings (winter & summer) • SLC Website

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

  8. 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.

  9. 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

  10. Leaving/Graduating this calendar year 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

  11. 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 Scott’s students • UCLA: Annie, Christine • USC: Dongyu • UW : Tyler, Hyung-Suk

  12. 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.

  13. 2005 Summer Retreat – Seattle, WA Lab tours at UW. Student poster session at UW. Faculty research presentations at UW.

  14. 2005 Summer Retreat – Seattle, WA Tour of new Seattle Library.

  15. 2005 Summer Retreat – Seattle, WA We also had FUN, FUN, FUN… at lunch… at dinner… and for drinks…

  16. 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 ERC’s.

  17. NSF ERC Retreat in Bethesda, MD

  18. 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.

  19. PEER Annual Meeting in SF, CA Student Poster Session

  20. 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

  21. PEER Annual Meeting in SF, CA Excursion to the Exploratorium in San Francisco!

  22. 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.

  23. Outreach Programs “Introduce a Girl to Engineering” Day at Caltech.

  24. Outreach Programs Middle school shake-table experiments at Stanford.

  25. 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.

  26. Caltech UCLA Stanford UCLA BIP Seminars

  27. SWOT Analysis • Strengths • Students feel that participating in PEER has been a positive experience. • Most students are happy with their faculty mentoring—particularly 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.

  28. 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.

  29. 11% Hispanic 8% Other 6% Other 15% Hispanic 27% Female 73% Male 46% White 37% Asian 38% White 38% Asian SWOT Analysis Demographics of those surveyed.

  30. SWOT Analysis

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  33. SWOT Analysis

  34. 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).

  35. 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!!!

  36. 8NCEE: Seismic Design Competition Discussion…

  37. Thank you all for a wonderful year!

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