Created by the NSF in 1986 as the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, MCEER is supported by UB, several federal agenices and private industry to advance earthquake engineering.
The MCEER researchers and investigators are recognized worldwide for changing standards and improving the earthquake resiliency of buildings and other structures.
Assistant professors Negar Elhami Khorasani and Anthony Tessari will discuss Enhancing the Resilience of Tunnels Subject to Fire Events at Rutgers University's Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT).
Claudia Marin (MS ’03, PhD ’07), a civil and environmental engineering professor at Howard University will lead a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project to develop an intelligent surveillance platform for Damage Detection and Localization of Civil Infrastructure.
Satish Nagarajaiah, PhD (’90) and Kalil Erazo, another engineer at Rice University, earned the Takuji Kobori Prize from the International Association of Structural Control and Monitoring.