2009 PEER Intern Testimonials
Based on the post-internship evaluation survey completed by the students, all four are planning to apply to graduate programs showing that this internship program is also achieving PEER’s EOT Mission of encouraging the education of future earthquake engineers and growing student interest in research related to this field. View the 2009 intern's research papers and posters.
"I really liked my project. I enjoyed coming into work everyday with an ultimate goal in mind. Previous internships that I had involved completing tiny, dead-end jobs. In this internship, Nico briefed me on some of the goals for the risk map web tool in the first couple weeks and the rest of the summer was spent working toward that goal. Once I reached those goals, I added additional options to the web tool that were outside the immediate USGS goals."
Matt Zahr
2009 PEER Summer Intern
UC Berkeley undergraduate student
"This by far has been the most rewarding work experience I have had so far. I had never participated in research-based studies so everything was new to me. At Cal Poly, most of the emphasis is on undergraduate studies and not research. This summer really opened my eyes to the research side of academia and allowed me to be involved in a way I had never been and furthered my interest in earthquake engineering."
Emmett Seymour
2009 Summer Intern
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo undergraduate student
"The fact that my project was a complete project that involved everything from ordering the material to the construction and testing of the specimen, gave me a great opportunity to experience a bit of how real research works."
Victor Sanchez
2009 Summer Intern
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo undergraduate student
Bryce Lloyd worked under the supervision of Jack Moehle, former PEER director and “NEES Grand Challenge Project: Mitigation of Nonductile Concrete Risk” PII, and UC Berkeley graduate student Wael Hassan.
Bryce Lloyd
2009 Summer Intern
San Jose State University undergraduate student