Selected Professional Activities
- UT Girls Day (February 2020)
Girl Day at UT Austin, including Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day and the Girl Day STEM Festival, was held on Saturday, February 22, 2020, on the UT Austin campus. Over 8,000 elementary and middle school students participated with over 1,500 volunteers from over 160 student organizations, research groups, community organizations and companies. Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (Girl Day) is an international event celebrated during Engineers Week each year. Students and their parents or educators were invited to UT for an afternoon of hands-on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fun.
- The University of Texas at Austin EERI Lecture Series (February 2020)
We were so excited to welcome Dr. Ramin Golesorkhi, PhD, PE, GE, F. ASCE, Principal/vice president and director of earthquake engineering services at Langan, as EERI lecturer on Thursday (Feb 20, 2020). He was giving a lecture on “Development of Site-Specific Time Series for Performance-Based Design – Art or Science? ”
- The University of Texas at Austin EERI Lecture Series (September 2019)
We were so excited to welcome Prof. Masayoshi Nakashima, professor emeritus at Kyoto University, as EERI lecturer on Monday (Sep 23, 2019). He was giving a wonderful lecture on “A Japanese Way of Research and Practice on Earthquake Engineering.”
- The University of Texas at Austin EERI Lecture Series (September 2019)
We were so excited to welcome Robert W. Graves, 2019 Joyner Lecturer, as EERI lecturer on this Friday (Sep 20, 2019). He was giving us a wonderful lecture on “Simulating Realistic Earthquake Ground Motions.”
- The University of Texas at Austin EERI Lecture Series (February 2019)
We were so excited to host Dr. Reginald DesRoches, William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Engineering at Rice University, as EERI distinguished lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin this Thursday (Feb 28, 2019). He gave us an amazing lecture on “The Promise of Smart Materials in Earthquake Resistant Design.”
- The University of Texas at Austin EERI Lecture Series (February 2019)
We were so excited to welcome Dr. Ronald Eguchi, President and CEO of ImageCat (www.imagecatinc.com), as EERI lecturer on Thursday (Feb 21, 2019). He gave us an amazing lecture on “Communicating the Power of Earth Observation (EO) Technologies: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Actions.”
- The University of Texas at Austin EERI Lecture Series (September 2018)
We were so excited to welcome Dr. Maria Koliou, assistant professor at Texas A&M University, as EERI lecturer on this Friday (Sep 28, 2018). She was giving a lecture on From Resilient Structures to Resilient Communities.
- The University of Texas at Austin EERI Lecture Series (July 2018)
Farid, as the president of the UT EERI student chapter, invited Dr. Elaina Sutley to give a presentation on Incorporating Social Science into Engineering for Community-Level Disaster Resilience at The University of Texas at Austin.
- The 15th Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition (SDC), Los Angeles, California (June 2018)
Farid was selected as one of the judges for the 15th undergraduate seismic design competition (SDC), which took place during the 11th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Los Angeles, California, June 2018.
- 5th Earthquake engineering and soil dynamics Conference at Austin, Texas (June 2018)
Reunion of the great group of current and past people from the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering department of The University of Texas at Austin at the GEESDV conference.
- Shake Table Competition for St. Stephen’s Episcopal School Students (April 2018)
Many high-school students built different types of buildings with different structural systems for a shake table competition. This program is led by Dr. Clayton, and the mentors and referees for this program were Dr. Clayton, Farid, and Sedef. They managed the whole event and evaluated the performance of the constructed buildings. The mentors also introduced the students to natural hazards engineering.
- 18 Annual Austin Earth Science Week Career Day (October 2017)
It was a great day with almost 350 middle-school students. As a part of this big event, the mentors introduced the kids to earthquake engineering with the shake table and soil liquefaction demonstrations. The kids also visited the NHERI@UTexas facility which houses large, one-of-a-kind shaker trucks. The mentors introduced them to how the VibroSeis trucks are used to study the seismic performance of soils, foundations, and structures world-wide.
- Shake Table Competition for St. Stephen’s Episcopal School Students (March 2017)
Many high-school students built different types of buildings with different structural systems for a shake table competition. This program is led by Dr. Clayton, and the mentors and referees for this program were Dr. Clayton, Farid, and Ghassan. They managed the whole event and evaluated the performance of the constructed buildings. The mentors also introduced the students to natural hazards engineering.
- Full-scale corbel test at FSEL (November 2016)
This event is a part of a project that was done under the supervision of Prof. Bayrak. In this project, three full-scale corbel specimens were designed, fabricated, and tested at the Ferguson Structural Engineering Laboratory of The University of Texas at Austin.
- The 2016 Structural Engineering Education Reunion (STEER)
