Student Chapters

The following is an alphabetical listing of all the EERI student chapters.

 


Brigham Young University

Faculty Advisor

Kyle Rollins
Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering
368 Clyde Bldg – PO Box 24081
Provo UT 84602-4081
Tel: (801) 372-2811
E-mail: civil@byu.edu

Local Contact

Russell Owens
127 S 500 East Ste 300
Salt Lake City UT 84102
Tel: (801) 521-9255
E-mail: slcrlo@am.dmvax

Officers

President: Mooud Nasr
Vice-President: Jeremy Dye

 


California Institute of Technology

Annual Report 2007-2008 (36kb)

Faculty Advisor

Jim Beck
Dept of Civil Engineering
MC 104-44
Pasadena CA 91125
Tel: (626) 395-4132
E-mail: jimbeck@cco.caltech.edu

Local Contact

Anders E Carlson
Gilsanz Murray Steficek LLP
523 W Sixth St Ste 810
Los Angeles CA 90014
Tel: (213) 943-4850
E-mail: anders.carlson@gmsllp.com

Officers

President & Secretary: Anna Olsen

 


Cal Poly Pomona

Faculty Advisor

To be Determined

Local Contact

To be Determined

Officers

To be Determined

 


Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Faculty Advisor

John Lawson
Architectural Engineering Dept
1 Grand Ave
San Luis Obispo CA 93407
Tel: (805) 756-7123
E-Mail: jwlawson@calpoly.edu

Local Contact

Abraham Lynn
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Architectural Engineering Dept
1 Grand Ave
San Luis Obispo CA 93407
Tel: (805) 756-5084
E-Mail: alynn@calpoly.edu

Officers

To be Determined

 


California State University Fullerton

Faculty Advisor

Anne Lemnitzer, PhD
800 N State College Blvd,
Dept of Civil & Env. Engineering
Fullerton, CA, 92831
Email: alemnitzer @fullerton.edu

Local Contact

Nergal Daniel
Structural Engineer,
John A. Martin & Associates, Inc.
950 South Grand Ave, 4th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
Email: ndaniel@johnmartin.com

Officers
President: Jorge Ron
Vice President: Vanessa Robles
Seismic Captain: Jorge Ron
Graduate Seismic Advisor: Steven Runyan
Officer: Chris Jobran
Officer: Chase Henri
Officer: Janet Placentia

 


Cornell University

Faculty Advisor

Thomas O’Rourke
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
273 Hollister Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: (607) 255-6470
Email: tdo1@cornell.edu

Local Contact

Sissy Nikolaou
Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
225 W 34th St 2nd Fl
14 Penn Plaza
New York NY 10122
Tel: (917) 339-9381
E-Mail: snikolaou@mrce.com

Officers

President: Brad Parker Wham
Vice-President: Alex Leoily Herzong
Secretary: Matthew Davis Dalrymple
Treasurer: Dimitra Bouziou
Public Relations Chair: Lysandra Davis Lincoln
Social Chair: Christina Argyrou

 


Georgia Institute of Technology

Annual Report 2008-2009 (764kb)
Annual Report 2007-2008 (8.2Mb)

Faculty Advisor

Reginald DesRoches
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Atlanta GA 30332-0355
Tel: (404) 385-0826
E-mail: reginald.desroches@ce.gatech.edu

Local Contact

To be determined

Officers

President: Stephanie German
Vice President: Dapeng Zhu
Secretary: Edwin Lim
Treasurer: Laura Redmond 
Webmaster: Nathan Mayercsik

 


Iowa State University

Faculty Advisors

Sri Sritharan
Dept of Civil & Construction Engineering
406 Town Engineering
Amex IA 50011-3232
Tel: (515) 294-5238
E-Mail: sri@iastate.edu

Local Contact

S.K. Ghosh
S.K. Ghosh Associates Inc
334 E colfax St #E
Palatine IL 60067
Tel: (847) 991-2700

Officers

To be Determined

 


Missouri University of Science &Technology

Faculty Advisors

Ronaldo Luna
Dept of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering
130 Butler-Carlton – 1870 Miner Circle
Rolla MO 65409-0030
Tel: (573) 341-4484
Email: rluna@mst.edu

Genda Chen
Civil Engineering Hall
328 Butler-Carlton – 1870 Miner Circle
Rolla MO 65409-0030
tel: (573) 341-4462
email: gchen@mst.edu

Local Contact

To be determined

Officers

To be determined

 


Oregon State University

Annual Report 2011-2012 (1.4Mb Word doc)
Annual Report 2008-2009 (4.9Mb Word doc)
Annual Report 2007-2008 (824kb Word doc)

Faculty Advisor

Thomas Miller
220 Owen Hall
Corvallis OR 97331-2302
Tel: (541) 737-3322
E-mail: thomas.miller@oregonstate.edu

Local Contact

John D Ferguson
T.Y Lin International
1500 Liberty St SE Ste 210
Salem OR 97302
Tel: (503) 385-4200
Email: jferguson@tylin.com

Officers

President: David Linton
Secretary: Matt Schaefer
Treasurer: Atanas (Nick) Atanasov

 


Pennsylvania State University

Faculty Advisor

Gordon Warn
Dept of Civil &amp Environmental Engineering
Sackett Bldg 213C
University Park PA 16802-1408
Tel: (814) 863-2786
E-mail: gwarn@engr.psu.edu

Local Contact

Carlos Coronado
Bechtel Power Corp
5275 W View Dr
Frederick MD 21703
Tel: (301) 228-8528

Officers

President: Michael Payne
Vice-President: Justin Kovach
Treasurer: Jessel Elliott
Secretary: Bradford Oliver
EERI-PSU Outreach: Thomas Klienosky
Design Team Leader: Brian Rose
Webmaster: Matt Snyder
CE Graduate Rep: Kyle Karschner
CE Undergraduate Rep: Jose Izquierdo
AE Rep: Nicole Trujillo
AE Undergraduate Rep: Ksenia Tretiakova

 


Politecnico di Torino

Faculty Advisor

Gian Paolo Cimellaro
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 – 10129
Torino, Italia
Tel: +39 (011) 464 4801
Email: gianpaolo.cimellaro@polito.it

Local Contact

to be announced

Officers

President: Luisa Degiovanni
Vice-President: Andrea Infuso
Treasurer: Gianluca Ruocci
Secretary: Cristian Garnero
Outreach Officer: Giovanni Punzo
WebMaster: Antonino Quattrone

 


Purdue University

Faculty Advisor

Ayhan Irfanoglu
School of Civil Engineering
Bowen Laboratory
1040 S River Rd
West Lafayette IN 47907
Tel: (765) 496-8270
E-mail: ayhan@purdue.edu

Local Contact

To be determined

Officers

President: Fabian A. Consuegra -765-490-5975
Vice-President: Oscar Ardila – 305-218-7408
Treasurer: Mustafa Mozkan – 765-430-3231
Secretary: Gustavo Cortes – 765-404-5849

 


San Diego State University

Faculty Advisor

Robert Dowell
Dept of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-1324
E-mail: rdowell@mail.sdsu.edu

Local Contact

To be determined

Officers

President: Ward Schrimsher
Vice-President: Vanessa Bernal
Secretary: Salvador Galvin
Treasurer: Leonora Pizarro

 


San Jose State University

High School Outreach Report (8.6Mb Word doc)

Faculty Advisors

Thalia Anagnos
Department of General Engineering
San Jose CA, 95192
Tel: (408) 924-3861
E-mail: thalia.anagnos@sjsu.edu

Local Contact

Daniel Shapiro
SOHA Engineers
48 Colin P. Kelly Jr. St.
San Francisco CA 94107-2008
Tel: (415) 989-9900
E-mail: danshap@soha.com

Officers

Minh Nguyen, President; Controller
Ricky Halward, Vice President; Membership Chair
Alan Au, Director of Public Relations and Marketing
Jason Hallare, Officer Board Member
Miguel Lizarraga, Officer Board Member
Tech Day at USC
The EERI-SJSU members with the geometry instructor showing off the student’s structures.
From left: Kai King, Bryce Lloyd, Dan Torrey, Robert Colato, Minh Nguyen, Anh Duong.

 


Stanford University

Faculty Advisors

Gregory Deierlein
Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Blume Earthquake Engineering Ctr M3037
Stanford CA 94305-3037
Tel: (650) 723-0453
E-mail: ggd@stanford@edu

Local Contact

John Osteraas
Exponent
149 Commonwealth Dr
Menlo Park CA 94025
Tel: (415) 688-7206
E-mail: osteraas@exponent.com

Officers

To be Determined

 


State University of New York, Buffalo

Annual Report 2009-20010 (715kb)
Annual Report 2007-2008
(36kb)

Faculty Advisor

Andrei Reinhorn
Dept of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering
135 Ketter Hall
Buffalo NY 14260
Tel (716) 645-2839
E-mail: reinhorn@buffalo.edu

Local Contact

To be determined

Officers

President: Saeed Fathali
Vice-President: Ioannis Christovasilils
Treasurer: Seda Dogruel
Webmaster: Bing Qu

 


Technical University of Chuj-Napoca

Faculty Advisor

To be Determined

Local Contact

To be determined

Officers

To be determined

 


Tufts University

Faculty Advisor

To be Determined

Local Contact

To be Determined

Officers

To be Determined

 


Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Faculty Advisor

Sergio Alcocer
Cuidad Universitaria
Torre de Rectona – Piso 7
Mexico DF 04510 – Mexico
Tel: +52 (55) 56221238
E-Mail: salcocerm@ii.unam.mx

Local Contact

Eduardo Reinoso
ERN Ingenieros Consultores SC
Vito Alesio Robles 179
Col Hacienda de Guadalupe Chimalistac
Mexico DF 01050 – Mexico
Tel: 52+ (55) 56168162
E-Mail: ere@pumas.iingen.unam.mx

Officers

To be determined

 


University of British Columbia

Annual Report 2009 (2.1Mb)

Faculty Advisor

Kenneth J. Elwood
Dept of Civil Engineering
6250 Applied Science Lane
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
Tel: (604) 822-0581
E-mail: elwood@civil.ubc.ca

Local Contact

To be determined

Officers

To be determined

 


University of California, Berkeley

Faculty Advisor

Bozidar Stojadinovic
Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering
721 Davis Hall #1710
Berkeley CA 94720-1710
Tel: (510) 643-7035
E-mail: boza@ce.berkeley.edu

Local Contact

Loring Wyllie
Degenkolb Engineers
235 Montgomery St Ste 500
San Francisco CA 94104
Tel: (415) 392-6952
E-Mail: lwyllie@degenkolb.com

Officers

To be determined

 


University of California, Davis

Faculty Advisor

Sashi K Kunnath
Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering
One Shields Ave 2001 Engr III
Davis CA 95616
Tel: (503) 754-6428
E-mail: skkunnath@ucdavis.edu

Local Contact

Roy A Imbsen
Imbsen Consulting
PO Box 2516
Fair Oaks CA 95628
Tel: (916) 965-7538
E-mail: raimbsen@imbsen.net

Officers

To be determined

 


University of California, Irvine

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Farzin Zareian
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
E4130 Engineering Gateway
Irvine CA 92697-2175
Tel: (949) 824-5333
Email: zareian@uci.edu

Local Contact

To be determined

Officers

President: Omid Esmaili
Vice-President: Peyman Kaviani
Cheif Editor: Reza Baghaei

 

Website: http://www.clubs.uci.edu/eeri

 


University of California, Los Angeles

Faculty Advisor

Jian Zhang
Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Los Angeles CA 90095
Tel: (310) 825-7986
E-mail: zhangj@ucla.edu

Local Contact

To be determined

Officers

President: Payman Khalili-Tehrani
Vice-President: Anne Lemnitzer
Treasurer & Secretary: Zhan Shu
Outreach Officers: Azadeh Azad & Colleen Charles
Webmaster: Yuchuan Tang

 


University of California, San Diego

2010-2011 ANNUAL REPORT

Faculty Advisor

P. Benson Shing, Ph.D
Vice Chair, Department of Structural Engineering
Professor of Structural Engineering
Department of Structural Engineering
Jacobs School of Engineering
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0085
La Jolla, CA 92093-0085

email: pshing@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)822-4567

Local Contact

Matt Tolbolski, Ph.D, PE
President & CEO
Tolbolski | Watkins Engineering, Inc.
3710 Ruffin Road
San Diego, CA 92123

email: mtobolski@tobolskiwatkins.com
phone: (858)381-5842

Officers

President: Tan Cao
Vice President: Richard Wood
Secretary: Amber Shoals
Treasurer: Jennifer Ciofolo
Seminar Coordinator: Steve Mintz
Student Leadership Council: Juan Murcia-Delso
Website Architect: Wayne Tsang

Website: http://eeriucsandiego.wordpress.com/

 


University of Colorado, Boulder

Faculty Advisor

Abbie Liel
Dept of Civil Engineering
1111 Engineering Dr
UCB 428 ECOT 440
Boulder CO 80309
Tel: (303) 492-1050
E-Mail: abbie.liel@colorado.edu

Local Contact

Jim Harris
JR Harris & Co
1775 Sherman St Ste 1525
Denver CO 80203
Tel: (303) 860-9021
E-mail: jim.harris@jrharrisandco.com

Officers

 


University of Delaware

Faculty Advisor

To be Determined

Local Contact

To be Determined

Officers

To be Determined

 


University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Faculty Advisor

Youssef Hashash
Rm 2230C NCEL MC-250
205 N Mathews Ave
Urbana IL 61801
Tel: (217) 333-6986
E-mail: hashash@uiuc.edu

Local Contact

W Gene Corley
CTL Group
5400 Old Orchard Rd
Skokie IL 60077-1030
Tel: (847) 965-7500
E-mail: gcorley@ctlgroup.com

Officers

TBD

 


University of Kansas

Annual Report 2008-2009 (531kb Word doc)

Faculty Advisor

JoAnn Browning
Dept of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
2134 Learned Hall
1530 W 15th St
Lawrence KS 66045
Tel: (785) 864-3723
E-mail: jpbrown@ku.edu

Local Contact

To be determined

Officers

President: Zeynep Alemdar
Vice-President: Charles Woods
Secretary/Treasurer: Diane Zech

 


University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Faculty Advisor

Azadeh Alipour
Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering
130 Natural Resources Rd
234A Marston Hall
Amherst MA 01003
Tel: (310) 315-8430
E-Mail: alipour@engin.umass.edu

Local Contact

Gary Hart
Weidlinger Associates Inc
4551 Glencoe Ave Ste 350
Marina Del Ray CA 90292
Tel: (310) 315-8430
E-Mail: hart@wai.com

Officers

To be determined

 


University of Memphis

Faculty Advisor

Shahram Pezeshk
Dept of Civil Engineering
3815 Central Ave Rm 104B
Memphis TN 38152
Tel: (901) 678-4727
E-mail: spezeshk@memphis.edu

Local Contact

To be Determined

Officers

President/Secretary: Arash Zandieh

 


University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Annual Report 2007-2008 (8.5MB Word doc)

Faculty Advisor

Gustavo Parra-Montesinos
Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering
2380 GG Brown Bldg
2350 Hayward St
Ann Arbor MI 48109-2125
Tel: (734) 764-6576
E-mail: gjpm@umich.edu

Local Contact

Howard J Hill
Wiss Janney Elstner Associates Inc
330 Pfingsten Rd
Northbrook IL 60062-2095
Tel: (847) 272-7400
E-mail: hhill@wje.com

Officers

President: Xiaohu Fan
Vice-President: Clinton Carlson
Treasurer: Julie Fogarty
Secretary: Alex DaCosta

 


University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Annual Report 2007-2008 (748kB)

Faculty Advisor

To be Determined

Local Contact

To be determined

Officers

President: Charles DeVore
Vice-President: Keith Palmer
Treasurer: Beth Brueggen
Secretary: Roberto Piccinin

 

Website: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~eeriumn/
Email: eeriumn@umn.edu

 


University of Missouri, Columbia

Faculty Advisor

Brent Rosenblad
Dept of Civil Engineering
E2509 Lafferre Hall
Columbia MO 65211-2200
Tel: (573) 884-3736
E-Mail: rosenbladb@missouri.edu

Local Contact

To be determined

Officers

To be determined

 


University of Nebraska

Faculty Advisor

Terri Norton
Durham School of Architectural Eng & Construction
Peter Kiewit Institute 104E
Omaha NE 68182-0816
Tel: (402) 554-3212
E-Mail: tnorton3@unl.edu

Local Contact

Gary L Krause
University of Nebraska
Peter Kiewit Institute 204B
Omaha NE 68182-0178
Tel: (402) 554-3212
E-Mail: gkrause.unomaha.edu

Officers

To be determined

 


University of Nevada, Reno

Faculty Advisor

Ahmad Itani
Dept of Civil Engineering/MS-258
Center for Civil Engineering Earthquake Research
Reno NV 89557-0152
Tel: (775) 784-4379
E-mail: itani@unr.edu

Local Contact

Tung Ng
Dynamic Isolation Solutions
Tel: (755) 359-3333
E-mail: tng@dis-inc.com

Officers

President: Hartanto Wibowo
Secretary: Chunli Wei
Treasurer: Seyed Ardakani
Historian: Camila Coria

 


University of Notre Dame

Annual Report 2007-2008 (312kB)

Faculty Advisor

Alexandros Taflandis
Dept of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences
158 Fitzpatrick Hall
Notre Dame IN 46556-5637
Tel: (574) 631-5696
E-Mail: a.taflandis@nd.edu

Local Contact

Satyendra K Ghosh
SK Ghosh Associates Inc
334 E Colfax St #E
Palatine IL 60067
Tel: (847) 991-2700
E-mail: skghosh@aol.com

Officers

President: Kyle Butler
Vice-President: Kevin Walsh & Brian Smith
Treasurer: Rachael Bashor
Secretary: Audrey Bentz
Webmaster: Kyle Butler

 


University of Puerto Rico

Faculty Advisors

Luis E Suarez
Dept of Civil Engineering
PO Box 9000
Mayaguez PR 00681-9000
Tel: (787) 832-4040 ext 3669
E-mail: lsuarez@uprm.edu

Jose A Martinez-Cruzado
Dept of Civil Engineering
PO Box 9000
Mayaguez PR 00681-9000
Tel: (787) 832-4040 ext 3401

Local Contact

Alvin M Rodriguez-Bonilla
CMA Architects & Engineers
1509 FDR Ave
San Juan PR 00920
E-mail: amrodriguez@cma-sjpr.com

Officers

President: Yvonne Gonzalez
Vice-President: Angel Alicea
Treasurer: Diego Aguirre
Secretary: Jairo Agudelo
Secretary: Carlos M. Adorno
Webmaster: Jose R. Ramirez
Vowels: Ulises Barajas, Rosana Martinez, Mereangeli Morales, Esteban Perez, and Carlos Gaviria

Seismic Design Team

Angel Perez
Jorge Rodriguez
Denisee Echevarria
Esteban Osorio
Carlos Llaurador
Jose Rivera

Website: http://academic.uprm.edu/~eeri/index.html

 


University of Southern California

Faculty Advisors

Navid Nastar
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Kaprielian Hall, Room 230A
Los Angeles, CA 90089
E-mail: nastar@usc.edu

Thomas Hillman Jordan
Dept of Earth Sciences
Zumberge Hall , Room 267
Los Angeles CA 90089
E-mail: tjordan@usc.edu
Tel: (213) 821-1237

Jean-Pierre Bardet
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Kaprielian Hall, Room 210A
3620 S. Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2531
E-mail: bardet@usc.edu
Tel: (213) 740-0609 • Fax: (213) 744-1426

Local Contact

Farzad Naeim
John A. Martin & Associates, Inc.
950 S. Grand Avenue, 4th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90015
E-mail: farzad@johnmartin.com
Tel: (213) 483-6490

Officers

President: Fabian Rojas
Vice-President: Charles Devore
Treasurer: Mahmoud Kamalzare
Secretary: Seyed Ali Bolourchi Yazdi
Tech Day at USC
Members of the USC Chapter prepare for a demo on Tech Day May 2, 2009 (photo: M. Lew)

 


University of Texas at Arlington

Faculty Advisor

Andreas Stavridis
Box 19308 248E Nedderman Hall
Arlington TX 76019-0308
Tel: (817) 272-9356
E-Mail: stavridis@uta.edu

Local Contact

Ben Harris
Huckabee Inc
4521 S Hulen St Ste 220
Fort Worth TX 76109
Tel: (817) 377-2969

Officers

To be determined

 


University of Texas, Austin

Annual Report 2008-2009 (3.3MB)
Annual Report 2007-2008 (1MB)

Faculty Advisor

Ellen Rathje
1 University Station C1792
ECJ 9.227B
Austin TX 78712
Tel: (512) 232-3683
E-mail: e.rathje@mail.utexas.edu

Local Contact

David Teasdale
HAAG Engineering Co
2455 McIver
Carrollton TX 75006
Tel: (972) 247-6444

Officers

President: Albert Kottke – 512-281-2259
Vice-President: Sezgin Kucukcoban – 512-363-3129
Treasurer: Ali Abu-Yousef – 512-669-0142
Secretary: Gokhan Saygili – 512-773-9585

 


University of Wyoming

Faculty Advisor

To be Determined

Local Contact

To be Determined

Officers

To be Determined

 


Washington University St. Louis

Faculty Advisor

Phillip Gould
Campus Box 1130
One Brookings Dr
St Louis MO 63130-4899
Tel: (314) 935-6383
E-mail: pgoul@seas.wustl.edu

Local Contact

To be determined

Officers

To be determined

 

St. Louis Safety Day demo by Washington University chapter
Members of the Washington U Chapter simulate an earthquake on Child Safety Day.