A Unique Educational Experience for Community College Students in the Engineering and Construction of Woodframe Structures for Seismic Performance
During phases 4 and 6 of construction of the NEESWood project, in July and August 2006 respectively, twenty-four (24) students from the SUNY-ECC “Construction Management Engineering Technology (CMET), Civil Engineering Technology and Building Management/Building Trades Programs,” organized in three (3) groups, were responsible for the installation of the gypsum wall board on the interior walls (perimeter-phase 3; interior & ceiling phase-4) of the 2-story townhouse.
For more information please go here.

Thursday, May 18th, 2006:

Two UB Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (CSEE) undergraduate students, Dave Keller and Charles Ekiert, visited Hamburg Middle School in Hamburg, NY to discuss earthquake engineering, after a brief overview of civil engineering, to over 250 sixth graders. The visit was coordinated by 6th grade science teacher Sherry Pfohl, who approached Dave with the idea at a CSEE open house this past semester.

For more detailed information, please, click here

Shake and Quake

On Monday, February 14th, 2005 in a joint outreach initiative hosted by UB-NEES and MCEER, third graders from the Sheridan Hill Elementary School located in Clarence, New York were assigned a class project requiring them to build structures using only the following materials: 100 popsicle sticks, a container of Elmer's glue, a roll of dental floss and a masonry brick. Following a basic tutorial on earthquakes and structures, the class was divided into five "construction" teams tasked with constructing their earthquake resistant structures using only these materials.