Feb 2011
Kids Tech University
Our research group had an exhibit at the Kids Tech University on Saturday 2/26/11 to teach middle school about earthquake engineering concepts in a fun interactive way. Students discovered concepts related to how buildings respond during earthquakes in this hands on activity. Students were encouraged to build a multistory scale building using K’nex ‘The world’s most creative construction and building toys’. The structures were then placed on a shake table that was able to reproduce the ground motion that occurred during the magnitude 6.7 earthquake at Northridge California in 1994. Through this hands-on demonstration, students learned how the stiffness and mass of a structure affect its earthquake response, investigated natural frequency of a structure, and learned concepts related to designing structures to survive earthquakes.
More News:
- Eatherton receives ASCE Moisseiff Award
- Research Group Dinner
- Research Group Lunch to Celebrate End of the Semester
- Ecuador Earthquake Reconnaissance
- Eatherton Receives AISC Early Faculty Award
- Eatherton Receives the NSF CAREER Award
- Group Celebrates the Start of the Semester
- Toru Takeuchi and Ryota Matsui Visit from Tokyo Tech
- Robo Geckos Lego League Team Visits
- NSF Project Funded to Study Self-Centering Moment Frames
- Group Celebrates the Start of a New Academic Year
- Eatherton Receives AISC Milek Faculty Fellowship
- Magnitude 5.8 Earthquake Strikes Virginia
- Scott Darling Wins the AISC Education Foundation Fellowship
- C-Tech^2 Summer Camp
