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
ASCE Gingerbread House Competition, December 4, 2019
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ASCE Gingerbread House Competition, December 5, 2018
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ASCE Gingerbread House Competition, December 6 2017
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Whittier School Gingerbread House Competition, December 2017
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Gingerbread House Competition, December 2012
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Miscellaneous Outreach
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
NEES-ASCE-GI-EERI Magazine, May 2012
Click here to view Prof. Yegian in the NEES-ASCE-GI-EERI Magazine
New England Post Article, September 2011
Northeastern University News, September 2011
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
Earlier Outreach Activities
2007 Exxon Mobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Program
NSF Young Scholars Program(YSP) Summer 2007
Earthquake Engineering Lab Visit
Edward Middle School Field Trip, 2007
“Kids to College Event” Earthquake Engineering Lab Visit, 2007
Society of Women Engineers, SWE F Region Conference, 2007
Women in Engineering IBM Exite Reunion 2007
Building Bridges Day for High School Sophomores
and Juniors 2006
Boston Public School Middle School Students Earthquake Engineering Lab Visit “One Day Explorations” Science Enrichment Program by Harvard Medical School, 2006
Women in Engineering Day for High School Girls
(11th or 12th grade) and their parents, 2006
Prof. Yegian with Former NU President Jack Curry during 1995 Excellence in Teaching Awards Ceremony
