Amount of funding awarded
4916.40
Budget Report
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How the program has supported you
This project works with the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, and their Student Leadership Council to build civil and geotechnical engineering skills as part of an annual student design competition. This year the challenge was to design a 19 story tower in Salt Lake City capable of withstanding a magnitude 7 earthquake, while staying within the unique building constraints. As part of this we traveled to Salt Lake City in late June to present on our tower, and then test it on the shake table. The funding we secured with PAF allowed us to bring more of our team to competition. This helped our team members to be inspired by the work of other universities for future years of competition, along with allowing them to meet, and network with students from universities in Canada, the United States, and beyond.
Outcomes
The 2022 EERI SDC set in Salt Lake City, Utah, challenged our 28 person design team with a 19-story tower that needed to withstand a magnitude 7 earthquake. It featured unique structural design constraints like a 7-story atrium, and a narrow section that ran from the 10th to 15th floors. During the competition our skills for structural design, geotechnical engineering, and collaboration were all tested. Working as a team we attempted to maximize the usable floor area of the tower, while also having as strong a design we could. Throughout the process we engaged with local engineering firms to get input, and ultimately find some inspiration for the damping device we integrated into our tower. Ultimately our design did survive the shake test, but we still earned second in architecture, third in communications, and an award for spirit of the competition.
