Background on NEES EOT Activities

Purpose for Education, Outreach, and Training
NEES gives the earthquake engineering community unprecedented access to state-of-the-art laboratories, simulation programs, and data repositories. Through its innovative tools that permit the modeling and simulation of large-scale systems, NEES projects will result in a better understanding of seismic vulnerability and how it can be reduced. However, equally important outcomes of the NEES initiative are the translation of research results into practice, the education of the next generation of earthquake engineers, and the communication of the advances in earthquake engineering to stakeholders and the public at large.

Vision for NEES Education, Outreach, and Training
NEESoregonstate Grand OpeningAchieving significant progress toward the goal of reducing seismic vulnerability requires continual dialog with stakeholders to ensure communication of the important problems, rapid translation of research into practice, and education of a new generation of earthquake engineers who are prepared to attack these problems with new tools and innovative approaches. Thus, the vision for NEES EOT is a program that promotes broad participation in NEES from its diverse constituents and wide-spread dissemination and application of NEES research results through a comprehensive program that offers services, activities and products. It is a program that exploits NEES information technology to engage a diverse audience with exciting, innovative, and interactive materials. The NEES EOT program and its activities will enable investigators, practitioners and educators to synergize and integrate their efforts to:
  • Speed the application of new knowledge into practice
  • Fuse educational programs at all levels with research
  • Adapt new approaches for delivering knowledge and inquiry-based learning experiences to a broad and diverse set of constituents
  • Attract and help retain the best and the brightest from a diversity of disciplines and backgrounds to the field of earthquake engineering and other engineering disciplines
  • Engage the earthquake risk mitigation community in identifying critical gaps in knowledge and significant opportunities for innovation and discovery
  • Inform the public and policy makers
Education Outreach & Training (EOT) Partners
Please fill out the EOT Partners Form if you or your organization related to Education, Outreach & Training would like to partner with NEESinc or on NEESR research projects. You may email the form to: . Once approved, we will post the name of your organization and contact information on this page.

NEES EOT Documents Example NEES EOT Events: The ultimate success of NEES will be demonstrated by its ability to impact society and reduce earthquake risk. The results of NEES research must be transferred to individuals and institutions that can take advantage of them and implement the knowledge gained.