The Way the Gingerbread Crumbles

The Way the Gingerbread Crumbles

ASCE students watched as CEE Professor Mishac Yegian put their gingerbread houses on the earthquake simulator during the annual Struc­turally Stable Gin­ger­bread House Com­pe­ti­tion.

And the Gingerbread Houses Came Crumbling Down

And the Gingerbread Houses Came Crumbling Down

The stage was set on Wednesday for the Northeastern student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ annual gingerbread house competition. And then that stage shook, and shook, and shook until none of the gingerbread houses were standing. This friendly...
Research Team Receives ASCE Award

Research Team Receives ASCE Award

A group consisting of Ece Eseller-Bayat, Ph.D., M.ASCE; Mishac K. Yegian, P.E., F.ASCE; Akram Alshawabkeh, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE; and Seda Gokyer, S.M.ASCE have received the 2014 ASCE Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award for their research on liquefaction mitigation by Induced...
Gingerbread Houses Get a Fair Shake

Gingerbread Houses Get a Fair Shake

Civil engineering seniors Sarah Casey (third from left) and Kathleen Keen (second from right) watch along with other students as gingerbread houses are tested on an earthquake-simulating shake table as part of a student competition on Wednesday. The lab run by Mishac...