Outreach Activities

Professor Mishac Yegian is involved extensively in outreach activities conducted by the College of Engineering at Northeastern University. He is also involved in educational and outreach activities through local media including newspapers and TV programs. The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department’s shaking table is a prime attraction for all of these programs. There are various modules of presentations for high school students and their parents which include:  introduction to earthquakes and earthquake-induced damages, fundamentals of earthquake response of buildings (Newton’s Second Law and concept of resonance), shaking table excitations using real recorded earthquake motions, building structural models and breaking them on the shaking table, research demonstrations including soil liquefaction, and finally inviting the visitors to experience real earthquake motion via the shaking table. The various outreach programs are:

Women in Engineering Program

A program, primarily funded by NSF, with the goal of attracting  and supporting girls and women within the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers. Read more: http://www.coe.neu.edu/wie

The Connections Program

A program dedicated to strengthening the pathways for Boston area girls interested in pursuing college majors and careers related to engineering and science. http://connections.coe.neu.edu/index.html

Building Bridges Program

A program that strives to educate and actively involve high school students in engineering by providing hands on experience thereby introducing them to the field. http://www.coe.neu.edu/nuprime

Engineering Wednesdays Program

An effort to attract high school students to the field of engineering by introducing participants to earthquake hazard and mitigation through demonstrations with the shaking table.

Minority Outreach Program

A program that runs once a month for minority high school students.

NSF Scholars Program

A program that runs every semester and summer for minority high school students.

Gingerbread House Competition

Miscellaneous Outreach

NSF Funded PRISM Program Session, August 2012

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Northeastern University News, July 2012

Click here to view “Better Partnership for Better Society” article

Prof. Yegian Demonstrating IPS System to Project Team

and NSF/NEESR, July 2012


Virginia Earthquake Triggers Northeastern Team into Action

August 2011

Outreach Shaking Table Activities

NSF Young Scholar Program Summer 2012

Building Bridges, June, 2011

Inquiring Mind at Northeastern University, March, 2011

Women in Engineering, February, 2011

Northestern University News, December, 2011

Click here to see “Shaking in a Wonderland” article

Earlier Outreach Activities

2007 Exxon Mobil Bernard Harris Summer Science ProgramExxon

 

NSF Young Scholars Program(YSP) Summer 2007

Earthquake Engineering Lab VisitYSP

Edward Middle School Field Trip, 2007

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“Kids to College Event” Earthquake Engineering Lab Visit, 2007

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Society of Women Engineers, SWE F Region Conference, 2007

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Women in Engineering IBM Exite Reunion 2007

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Building Bridges Day for High School Sophomores

and Juniors 2006

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Boston Public School Middle School Students Earthquake Engineering Lab Visit “One Day Explorations” Science Enrichment Program by Harvard Medical School, 2006

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Women in Engineering Day for High School Girls

(11th or 12th grade) and their parents, 2006

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Prof. Yegian with Former NU President Jack Curry during 1995 Excellence in Teaching Awards Ceremony

 

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