- 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 will take 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 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 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 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 Ghassam. 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 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)
