Description: This NSF-funded Grand Challenge project aims to study the collapse potential of older nonductile concrete buildings, which are pervasive and high risk, to improve and disseminate effective engineering assessment and retrofit tools, and to define appropriate incentive or policy measures to mitigate the risk..
Description: Begin establishing a Network linking the science museum/science center community and the civil engineering community to enhance the way the public learns about civil engineering. The project will conduct a survey of current practice among science museums/science centers to compile a preliminary catalog. The Project will then hold a workshop to present plans and obtain critical input from the science center community to finalize the Network design and recruit charter members.
Description: The award provides funding to the NEES Consortium, Inc., to develop a strategic plan for education, outreach, training, and assessment activities for the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). NEES is an NSF-funded Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) project under construction during FY 2000 - FY 2004.
Description: Collaborative Research: A Demonstration of the NEES System for Studying Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction. This collaborative project involves eighteen researchers from ten universities. As such, it provides an ideal opportunity for demonstrating and challenging the new NEES model for conducting research and also addresses one of the most critical needs in earthquake engineering today: improved knowledge of soil-foundation-structure interaction (SFSI).
Description: The Partnership consisting of nine Silicon Valley school districts and SJSU's Colleges of Engineering and Education is taking a regional approach to improving science education by building institutional capacity, instructional quality, and student achievement in a major urban region. Sustainable institutional changes are created to support high quality science education. Science teaching and learning, grades K-8, is improved through a continuum of university preservice preparation, new teacher induction, on-going inservice and leadership development for over 1300 preservice students and inservice teachers. Establishing a career spanning professional development model, which includes rich content and methodology workshops, provided by regional leaders for professional development, retains a pool of well-prepared K-8 science teachers. Elementary and middle school students experience exemplary inquiry and laboratory-based lessons linked appropriately to math, literacy, and technology resulting in higher achievement. Engineering faculty devote time as consultants in middle schools. While they contribute scholarship and content background they also learn by viewing the variety of teaching strategies that serve diverse student needs. Undergraduate engineering education is improved through close collaboration between engineers and teachers. Preservice instruction at SJSU is improved with the development of a new MA degree in Elementary Education with a focus on science, which should be readily transportable.
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