Life in Engineering: EERI
College of Engineering
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06/28/2017
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Students from the Nebraska chapter of the Engineering Earthquake Research Institute (EERI) talk about Life in Engineering
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- [00:00:07.943]EERI is actually a national and international organization
- [00:00:12.040]specializing in seismic design
- [00:00:15.155]and prevention of seismic collapse.
- [00:00:18.923]We do two big activities a year.
- [00:00:21.425]The first one we put on a high school competition
- [00:00:23.799]for schools to come in and compete.
- [00:00:25.796]The second one we actually compete internationally
- [00:00:28.376]by building a tower and then competing there with it.
- [00:00:30.510]Our towers get judged architecturally.
- [00:00:32.232]Our posters get judged for quality, information.
- [00:00:35.910]We'll go through a presentation process
- [00:00:38.197]where we have to give an outline
- [00:00:40.203]of what our architectural concept was
- [00:00:43.560]and then, finally, it'll wrap up
- [00:00:45.076]with the Shake Day where we stick some extra weights
- [00:00:48.579]on the tower and then stick it on a shake table
- [00:00:51.242]and run it through three simulated earthquakes
- [00:00:53.577]and see how it performs.
- [00:00:55.422]I enjoy the creativity behind it.
- [00:00:57.227]Every year you get to try and build something new
- [00:00:59.687]if you want to.
- [00:01:00.520]It can be a selling point to say,
- [00:01:02.223]"I was on a team that got number one in the world
- [00:01:04.145]"in this seismic competition."
- [00:01:05.908]So I have learned a lot at this university.
- [00:01:07.750]I have gained a lot of experience and I've applied it
- [00:01:10.537]and done well.
- [00:01:12.177](light music)
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