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Professional Development for Community College Students through Design and Seismic Evaluation of Three-Story Moment Resisting Frame

Earthquake has posed a great danger for the human society especially in the San Francisco Bay Area. Future earthquake disaster prevention and preparation require that young professional civil engineers are trained and recruited into the next generation workforce for the purpose of public safety. For the 2011 NASA CIPAIR (Curriculum Improvements and Partnership Award for the Integration of Research) internship program, four community college students from Canada College participated in a ten-week study of earthquake engineering design and analysis. Students conducted research on seismic systems, structural design, and time history analysis. Specifically, a three-story steel special moment resisting frame was designed and evaluated under selected ground motions. During the structural design, the students not only utilized building codes to determine appropriate sizes for beam and column members of the building but also conducted research on dynamic time history analysis. Four sets of recorded earthquake ground motion – Landers, Loma Prieta, Kobe, and Northridge Earthquakes – were used to assess the performance of the design steel structure. Structural analysis program SAP2000 was incorporated into the design process for students to examine story drift, and the bending of the structure’s members. In addition to learning about the fundamentals of earthquake engineering analysis and design, the interns also delivered an interactive presentation to local high school students to encourage them to pursue careers in math, science and engineering. Lastly, the interns created tutorials and videos to help improve community college and university curriculum. Internship programs such as the NASA CIPAIR help prepare community college students not only for their chosen university, but also for their professional career.