Welcome!!
Structural and Earthquake Engineering Group
Department of Civil Engineering
University of British Columbia
UBC - Vancouver, BC
Whistler!!!
Structures Lab and Earthquake
Engineering Research Facility
Graduate Students
Roughly 90+ students in Structural and
Earthquake Engineering Program from
all around the world.
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Roughly equally divided between three
degree types.
New students:
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13 MEng
9 MASc
4 PhD (+2 MASc  PhD)
Student Groups /
Professional Organizations
CEGSS
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Student Chapter
Structural Engineers Association of BC
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Free membership!
Institution of Structural Engineers
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Free membership!
American Concrete Institute
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Free membership!
Course planning
Discuss courses with your supervisor
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For M.Eng. and new MASc students without a supervisor see
Group Leader
Most should now be registered in at least three of:
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CIVL
CIVL
CIVL
CIVL
507
511
518
537
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Dynamics
Steel
Reliability
Computational Mechanics
Other popular options:
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CIVL 580 – Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
CIVL 529 – Condition assessment and rehabilitation
MECH 561 – Linear elasticity
Directed studies or project courses
Selecting a supervisor
(MASc/Phd)
No rush!
Talk to the faculty members to learn
about projects they are working on.
Try to find a good “dance partner”.
Frequently MASc and PhD students find
a supervisor by early in Term 2.
Structural and Earthquake
Engineering Group
Ken Elwood (Group Leader)
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Seismic design, existing
reinforced concrete and
masonry structures, seismic
retrofit, nonlinear structural
analysis.
CIVL 505 – Seismic Response of
Structures
Structural and Earthquake
Engineering Group
Reza Vaziri (Department Head)
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Mechanics of composite
materials, impact dynamics,
nonlinear finite element
analysis, damage mechanics.
CIVL 537 – Computational
Mechanics I
Structural and Earthquake
Engineering Group
Perry Adebar
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Concrete structures: seismic
design, high-rise buildings,
and shear design.
CIVL 513 – Concrete
Structures
Structural and Earthquake
Engineering Group
Terje Haukaas
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Structural safety, probabilistic
methods in civil engineering,
timber design, software
development, performancebased earthquake engineering.
CIVL 518 – Reliability and
Structural Safety
CIVL 539 – Advanced Theory of
Structures
Structural and Earthquake
Engineering Group
Sigi Stiemer
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Steel design, adaptive
structures, knowledge
management, composite
designs.
CIVL 510 - Behaviour of Steel
Structures (not offered 2011/12)
Structural and Earthquake
Engineering Group
Thomas Tannert
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Probabilistic Design of Timber
Joints; Mechanical
Characterization of Timber;
Assessment and Monitoring of
Timber Structures
CIVL 516 – Behaviour of Timber
Structures
Structural and Earthquake
Engineering Group
Carlos Ventura
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Earthquake engineering,
structural dynamics,
instrumentation and testing of
structures, experimental
mechanics.
CIVL 507 – Dynamics of
Structures I
CIVL 507 – Dynamics of
Structures II
Structural and Earthquake
Engineering Group
Tony Yang
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Performance-based earthquake
engineering, hybrid testing,
seismic response of steel
structures, innovative protective
systems.
CIVL 511 – Steel Structures
(Seismic)
Emeritus Faculty
Don Anderson
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Seismic design and nonlinear analysis
Ricardo Foschi
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Reliability and structural safety
Liam Finn
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Seismicity and geotechnical earthquake
engineering (CIVL 504)
Structures Seminars
Required attendance
Every week same place and time unless otherwise
noted.
Who?
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MASc students must present once during program
PhD students must present twice during program
Occasional special seminar by visitors
Organized by graduate student committee with the
assistance of Dr. Stiemer.
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More on this next Thursday!
http://www.sigi.ca/seminar/seminar_schedule.htm
Coffee and cookies – volunteer needed.