PEER Summative Meeting - 13 June 2007
Giannini Auditorium, Bank of America Building
555 California St., San Francisco, CA 94104

Program

Time Activity
8:00–9:00 am Registration
8:30–9:00 am Light breakfast
9:00 am Welcome and Opening remarks
  • - Jack Moehle, Director, PEER
  • - Robert Price, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Berkeley
  • - NSF Investments in Engineering Research Centers (PDF file - 272 KB) - Vilas Mujumdar, Program Director, EERC, National Science Foundation
9:15 am The Story of PEER (PDF file - 7.1 MB) - Jack Moehle
10:00 am Break
10:30 am Research Program Impacts (PDF file - 5.2 MB) - Greg Deierlein, Stanford University
11:00 am Educating a New Generation of Engineers (PDF file - 2 MB) - Scott Ashford, Oregon State University
11:30 am Current and Past Student Panel Discussion
  • - Christine Goulet, UCLA
  • - Ben Langhorst, UC Irvine
  • - Wassim Ghannoum, UC Berkeley
  • - Curt Haselton, CSU at Chico
  • - Dawn Cheng, UC Davis
  • - Ken Elwood, U. British Columbia
Noon Lunch – Belvedere Room, 52nd floor
1:15 pm PEER Research Program Achievements
3:15 pm Break
3:45 pm PBEE Practice and Needs (PDF file - 912 KB) – A panel discussion with key industry partners

Panel moderator:
  • - James Malley, Degenkolb Engineers
Panelists:
  • - Earthquake Ground Motion – Paul Somerville, URS
  • - Tall Building Design – Joe Maffei, R&C
  • - PBEE Performance Modeling – Ron Hamburger, SGH
  • - Lifelines Earthquake Engineering – Lloyd Cluff, PG&E
  • - Bridge Engineering – Tom Shantz, Caltrans
4:30 pm PEER Graduation – Jack Moehle, PEER
5:00 pm Adjourn to Social Hour with posters – Wine Room, 52nd floor
6:30 pm Dinner – Bay Room, 52nd floor