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| IMPORTANT DATES: March 27, 2006 Abstracts Due May 26, 2006 Hotel Room Block Cut-off June 20, 2006 Committee Meetings June 21-23, 2006 NEES Annual Meeting IMPORTANT LINKS: Hotel Registration Printable Announcement Full Size (PDF) Printable Announcement Reduced Size Poster Guidelines Sample Abstract (PDF) Abstract Template (MS WORD) Young Researcher Travel Support (PDF) |
2006 NEES AWARDSAwards will be given to NEES members in recognition of outstanding effort in one of three categories for the 2005-06 year: Most Effective Education, Outreach & Training (EOT) Activity, Best NEES Exhibit at 8NCEE, and 15 Seconds of Fame. To qualify, all entries must be submitted to the NEESinc Headquarters at 400 F Street, Davis, California 95616, attention Melanie Brown, Education & Diversity Coordinator. Submittals must be received no later than April 14, 2006. Awards will be presented at the Annual Meeting Banquet, which will include viewing of the top three video clips chosen as finalists for 15 Seconds of Fame.Most Effective EOT Activity is an award for a particular educational, outreach or training event that touches a group in a unique and effective way. The activity or project should emphasize use of NEES components. The activity can focus on training or be related to a project at an Experimental Site; it can involve the use of the Cyberinfrastructure or be a community event providing outreach. This broad-based category allows for many types of entries. The award winner will be chosen by the Awards Working Group. Best NEES Exhibit at 8NCEE is an award for an exhibit, poster, or oral presentation at the Eighth National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (8NCEE) that depicts NEES achievements or its potential in an exceptional way. Criteria for submission will require well-documented examples of the exhibit, a copy of the poster, or text and details of the oral presentation. The Awards Working Group will designate the winner. The "15 Seconds of Fame" competition is a non-verbal communication challenge to our earthquake engineering research community. NEESinc members are encouraged to submit a creative and innovative 15-second video clip that conveys either the unique capabilities (e.g. power, control, precise measurement) of a NEES facility, or unique findings of a research experiment but without the use of written or spoken words, graphs, or charts. Audio such as a musical score is permitted. Non-technical audiences including K-12 students will choose the three finalists. The three submittals will be shown at the NEES Annual Meeting Banquet and the winner will be selected live using interactive polling. All video clips submitted will be made available for reuse by the community. For more information, please contact Melanie Brown at (530) 757-6337 Extension 126. Seven-Story Building-Slice Earthquake Blind Prediction Contest This contest is sponsored by the School of Engineering at UC San Diego, the Portland Cement Association (PCA) of Skokie, IL., and NEESinc. It is open to teams from the practicing structural engineering community, the academic and research community (including graduate students) and the undergraduate Engineering student community (with graduate student or faculty advisors). Between October 2005 and January 2006 a full scale vertical slice of a seven-story reinforced concrete wall building was subjected to increasing intensity of uniaxial earthquake ground motions on the new NEES Large High-Performance Outdoor Shake Table located at UC San Diego. Responses were measured and archived. The blind prediction will compare analytical responses with real measurements. All predictions are due May 15, 2006. All entries will also be compared at the NEES Annual Meeting and free registration fees will be awarded to representatives from up to eight teams who submit a complete prediction by the deadline. For more information click here. |