Education, Outreach, and Training Committee (EOTC)

Education, Outreach, and Training Committee (EOTC)

The EOT Committee is charged with the following:

  1. Advise the Board on education, outreach, and training programs and policies of the Consortium

  2. Work with Consortium staff to achieve Consortium education, outreach, and training goals, including wide usage at different educational and age levels of NEES research and effective implementation of NEES research by practicing engineers and others in the design and construction industries to achieve NEES Consortium goals

  3. Advise and coordinate with the Site Operations Committee, the Information Technology Committee, and the Data Sharing and Archiving Committee on educational opportunities and training requirements for serving the Consortium's membership

  4. Advise the Consortium staff on outreach to and coordination with the broad earthquake engineering and seismology community

  5. Review the annual education, outreach, and training budget in conjunction with Consortium staff and make recommendations to the Finance Committee regarding this budget

  6. Assist the Consortium staff by providing expertise in education, outreach, and training

  7. Interface with other Standing Committees as required or needed

    Shirley Dyke
    Washington University

    EOTC Chair
    Prior SOC Member
    Reggie DesRoches
    Georgia Institute of Technology

    EOTC Chair-Elect
    Facility User Representative
    Jill Andrews
    University of Michigan

    Board Liaison
    John Van de Lindt
    Colorado State University

    Facility User Representative
    Scott Ashford
    UC San Diego

    Equipment Site Representative
    Prior EOTC Member
    Andre Filiatrault
    University of Buffalo-SUNY

    Equipment Site Representative
    Prior SOC Member
    Thalia Anagnos
    San Jose State University

    Earthquake Researcher Representative
    Prior EOTC Chair
    Mark Benthien
    SCEC

    EQ-Risk Stakeholder Representative
    Prior EOTC Member
    Helen Boussalis
    California State University, Los Angeles

    EQ-Risk Stakeholder Representative
    Leigh Abts
    The Johns Hopkins University

    Extended Community Representatives
    Stephanie Couch
    The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California

    Extended Community Representative
    Jim Dorward
    The Consortium for Building Evaluation Capacity, Utah State University
    Judy Liu
    Purdue University
    Parshaw Vaziri
    NEESinc Headquarters

    HQ Staff Liaison