Budget Proposal for Funds for
Oregon State University’s
Undergraduate Seismic Design Team
Item
Airfare for Joe
Conference Hotel for Joe
Conference Fees for Joe
Partial Meal / Shuttle Stipend
Rate
$250
204.60 / night for 3 nights
$25 + $50 Late Reg.
$52.40 x 5 ppl
Grand Total
Total Cost
$250.00
$613.80
$75.00
$262.00
$1200.00
The OSU Undergraduate Seismic Design Team will be competing in the Fourth Annual
Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition which is sponsored by PEER, MCEER and
MAE. The competition is to be held on February 8th and 9th, 2007 at the Universal City
Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
The objectives of this competition are to provide civil engineering students an
opportunity to design and build a structure that will not only perform well under
earthquake simulation, but will also take into account feasibility and revenue
potential of their structure. The objective of the Oregon State University team, in
addition to the above mentioned objective, is to represent Oregon State well and
perform to the best of our ability during this competition.
The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) is able to sponsor four
team members. This includes the team member’s airfare, entrance into the EERI
conference and hotel costs. Our current team is composed of five people. Therefore
the cost that is left is airfare, conference fees and hotel stay for one person.
Estimates for airfare are roughly $250 dollars, hotel stay at the Universal City Hilton is
around $650 dollars and conference fees for an undergraduate student to the EERI
conference is $25 dollars. This comes to a total of $925 dollars to send the fifth team
member to the competition. In addition to sending our 5th team member with also
are responsible for food costs and taxi service to and from the hotel for all five
people. Averaging meals, each person should be in the area for nine meals and will
need shuttle service from the airport to the hotel, and vice versa. We estimate that
the shuttle costs will be $100 and that meals would be roughly $10 per person per
meal.
Our proposal is to receive funding to send our fifth team member and cover food and
taxi for all attending team members. The priority which we would like to request
these funds is first food and taxi service for the four team members and if funding is
available to send the fifth member to the competition with food and taxi also paid
for. The totals would be $460 to cover the rest of the costs for the 4 person team or
$1500 to send everyone and to cover our expenses.
The members of our team are as follows:
Jeremy Mikkelsen
Beth Mcnair
Sarah Martin
Josh Lehr
Joe Henry
Attached is a copy of the details regarding costs provided by EERI/PEER and our
construction plans for this competition.
Email regarding expenses that PEER is covering:
Dear Team Captains for the Seismic Design Competition,
I just received the list of teams and team members, and was pleased to see that so
many students are interested in participating this year. To start, I thought I would
share with you what expenses that PEER will cover:
We will pay for the following:
-Airfare for up to 4 team members. We will book and pre-pay these tickets.
-Double-occupancy lodging (room & tax) at event hotel for 4 team members. We will
book and pre-pay these reservations.
-Supplies for team, up to $300 in expense reimbursement.
-Shipping expense reimbursement, up to $300.
-Registration fees for 4 team members (@$25/pp)
Your team will be responsible for your own meals and misc. transportation expenses
(hotel parking, shuttles, etc.). In addition, you'll have to cover airfare, lodging and
registration fees for the extra people over 4. The conference rate at the hotel is
$179 per room per night, plus 14% tax = $204.60. EERI is using the Universal City
Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California.
Meeting site (registration, lodging, etc.):
http://www.eeri.org/news/meetings/07AM/
As team captains, I ask that you provide me with the email addresses for everyone on
your team, along with the gender of each person.
Also, you will need to decide which four people you want us to book/prepay plane
tickets and lodging for. I'll be in touch with those four people about booking flights
in early January.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Linda Nelson
Linda Nelson
PEER Education Program Manager
University of California, San Diego
Department of Structural Engineering
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0085
La Jolla, CA 92093-0085
(858) 822-1344 Phone
(858) 822-2260 FAX
lnelson@ucsd.edu