George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Opening Remarks Prof. Julio Ramirez NEEScomm Center Director and NEES Chief Officer NSF Site Visit Review Purdue University November 7, 2013

University of California Santa Barbara University of Texas Austin University of California Los Angeles University of California Davis Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Oregon State University NEES University of Buffalo University of California Berkeley University of Illinois- Urbana University of Minnesota Lehigh University 2 Cornell University University of Nevada, RenoUniversity of California, San Diego

NEEShub Usage: 8/2010 – 4/ Red dots: researchers and students browsing NEEShub, watching videos, and taking courses while performing 840,656 web and 38,854 tool sessions. Yellow dots: users running simulations. Dot size corresponds to the number of users at a location.

Intellectual Merit  A network with 14 state-of-the-art shared-use access laboratories and cyberinfrastructure linking the laboratories amongst themselves and with a continuously growing community of users  An innovative and transformative outside-the-university collaboration model powered by improved data sharing capabilities and tool co-location on the NEEShub

Broad Educational Impacts  Receiving materials from NEESR researchers  Coordinating extensive development of MYOE  Extending functionality of NEESacademy  Add international component to REU program  Howard University and George Washington University Ambassadors

NEES Research Experiences for Undergrads (REU) Program changes lives Sandra Gutierrez Civil Engineering Undergraduate University of Texas, El Paso REU Summer: UC San Diego

ASCE NEES Special Issues 28 NEES Research Papers Published, July & August 2013

High Impact Research, High Impact News Coverage WSJ placement in print & online

One story, many media hits

Purdue-NEES Synergy: “Researchers Validated Alternative Seismic Simulation Method” Interview with NEES researcher Shirley Dyke and Harbin Institute of Technology Professor Bin Wu Page 38 News release to national media placement, October 2013

NEES Award Winners in the News

NEES Research Vital to L.A. Safety “ Backed by a $3.6M grant from the National Science Foundation, a team led by UC Berkeley engineering professor Jack Moehle set out to produce a list of older concrete buildings that might collapse during a major earthquake. …” October 13, 2013

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