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

2006 SLC Annual Retreat Summary Role of the SLC Membership Review of 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 Academic Year

2006 SLC Annual Retreat 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”

2006 SLC Annual Retreat 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.

2006 SLC Annual Retreat PEER Center

2006 SLC Annual Retreat Forms of Communication Teleconference Meetings (autumn, spring & summer) In-Person Meetings (winter & summer) SLC Website

2006 SLC Annual Retreat 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!

2006 SLC Annual Retreat 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.

2006 SLC Annual Retreat SLC 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

2006 SLC Annual Retreat SLC Membership Leaving/Graduating this calendar year 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

2006 SLC Annual Retreat SLC 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

2006 SLC Annual Retreat 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.

2006 SLC Annual Retreat 2005 Summer Retreat – Seattle, WA Lab tours at UW. Student poster session at UW. Faculty research presentations at UW.

2006 SLC Annual Retreat 2005 Summer Retreat – Seattle, WA Tour of new Seattle Library.

2006 SLC Annual Retreat 2005 Summer Retreat – Seattle, WA at lunch… at dinner… and for drinks… We also had FUN, FUN, FUN…

2006 SLC Annual Retreat 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.

2006 SLC Annual Retreat NSF ERC Retreat in Bethesda, MD

2006 SLC Annual Retreat 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.

2006 SLC Annual Retreat PEER Annual Meeting in SF, CA Student Poster Session

2006 SLC Annual Retreat PEER Annual Meeting in SF, CA SLC Meeting Awards on behalf of the SLC were presented to Scott Ashford and Linda Nelson at the PEER Banquet!!!

2006 SLC Annual Retreat PEER Annual Meeting in SF, CA Excursion to the Exploratorium in San Francisco!

2006 SLC Annual Retreat Outreach Programs “Introduce a Girl to Engineering” Day at Caltech on February 23 rd ; 75 middle school girls visited the dynamics laboratory and helped run shake-table experiments. Middle school shake-table experiments at Stanford on April 26 th ; more than 30 students participated.

2006 SLC Annual Retreat Outreach Programs “Introduce a Girl to Engineering” Day at Caltech.

2006 SLC Annual Retreat Outreach Programs Middle school shake- table experiments at Stanford.

2006 SLC Annual Retreat BIP Seminars February 26 th (Caltech): Farzad Naeim from John A. Martin & Associates. March 8 th (Stanford): Ron Mayes from Simpson, Gumpertz and Heger. March 14 th (UCLA): Farzad Naeim from John A. Martin & Associates. June 6 th (UCLA): Dr. Kenneth Campbell from EQECat.

2006 SLC Annual Retreat BIP Seminars Caltech Stanford UCLA

2006 SLC Annual Retreat 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.

2006 SLC Annual Retreat 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.

2006 SLC Annual Retreat SWOT Analysis 38% White 38% Asian 15% Hispanic 8% Other 46% White 37% Asian 11% Hispanic 6% Other 73% Male 27% Female Demographics of those surveyed.

2006 SLC Annual Retreat SWOT Analysis

2006 SLC Annual Retreat SWOT Analysis

2006 SLC Annual Retreat SWOT Analysis

2006 SLC Annual Retreat SWOT Analysis

2006 SLC Annual Retreat 8NCEE: Seismic Design Competition Held during the 8 th 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 (1 st place), UCB (2 nd place), and Buffalo (3 rd place).

2006 SLC Annual Retreat 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!!!

2006 SLC Annual Retreat 8NCEE: Seismic Design Competition Discussion…

2006 SLC Annual Retreat Thank you all for a wonderful year!