Architectural Engineering Department faculty research programs vary greatly, focusing on the history of traditional structures, development of unique mathematical models to support emerging structural engineering requirements, theoretical and applied understanding of seismic design, and instruction related to total project design.
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Submissions from 2025
Incorporating AI into a structural engineering computer lab, Allen Estes and Peter T. Laursen
Submissions from 2024
For Students, By Students: A Python Programming Manual for Structural Engineering Courses, Anahid Behrouzi, Kennedy Gomez, Aaron Dewey, and Meileen Yee
Development of an Undergraduate Course on Women in the Design of The Built Environment, Anahid Behrouzi, Kira Hope Tolman, and Paige Van Rossum
2023 Kahramanmaras Sequence: Geospatial Visualization and Analysis of Multiple Building Damage Datasets, Alejandra Bravo, Jerry Hue Truong Luong, and Anahid Behrouzi
Increasing Drift Capacity of Non-Ductile Concrete Shear Walls Through Confinement with Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Application, Andrew Duong, Sophia Maglabe, Sheyna Rongong, Peter Laursen, Andrew Kline, and Anahid Behrouzi
Mechanism of Seismic Liquefaction for Heterogeneous Soil, Radu Popescu and Pradipta Chakrabortty
Submissions from 2023
Active and Visual Methods for Teaching Nonrectangular Reinforced Concrete Beams, J.Chris Carroll, Anahid Behrouzi, and Karl F. Meyer
Teaching the Equivalent Rectangular Stress Block, J. Chris Carroll, Ben Dymond, and Anahid Behrouzi
A methodology for converting an engineering program from quarters to semesters, Allen Estes, Brent Nuttall, Craig Baltimore, Peter T. Laursen, Michael James Deigert, and Cole C. McDaniel
Wood Diaphragm Deflections. Part II: Implementing a Unified Approach for Current CLT and WSP Practice, John Lawson
Wood Diaphragm Deflections. Part I: Generalizing Standard Equations Using MechanicsBased Derivations for Panel Construction, John W. Lawson, Scott Breneman, and Marco Lo Ricco
Physical and Digital Models for Timber Design and Analysis Courses, Paulina Robles, Gabrielle Rose Favro, Anahid Behrouzi, and Abby Lentz
Submissions from 2022
Leveraging Lessons Learned from a Virtual Hands-on Outreach Program to Cultivate Diversity in the Next Generation of Structural Engineers, Anahid Behrouzi, Nicole Buck, and Sarah Navias
A parametric study of the new wood diaphragm design force methods, John Lawson and Emily Taylor
Hands-on Earthquake Engineering Curriculum for the Virtual Classroom, S. Navias, N. Buck, and Anahid A. Behrouzi
ASCE's response to the pandemic: execution of a remote ExCEEd teaching workshop, Kelly Salyards, Allen Estes, Camilla M. Saviz, Patricia Clayton, Julian Ly Davis, Corinna Marie Fleischmann, Tonya Lynn Nilsson, Pinar Omur-ozbek, Fethiye Ozis, Monica Palomo, Carolyn M. Rodak, Cassandra Rutherford, Cristina Torres-Machi, Dion Karean Coward, and Leslie Nolen
Submissions from 2021
Large-scale Timber Shear Wall Experimentation in an Undergraduate Design Course, Taylor Christian Cardinale, Michael James Deigert, Anahid Behrouzi, and John W. Lawson
An evolving face-to-face Freshman experience course during a pandemic, Allen Estes and John Lawson
Student-Led Summer Diversity Workshops for Built-Environment Majors, Dolores Herrera, Claire Marie Leader, Soham Patel, and Anahid Behrouzi
Considerations of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Advanced Structural Engineering Courses, Claire Leader, Faith Sharp, and Anahid Behrouzi
Submissions from 2020
Observations About the Seismic Response of RC Buildings in Mexico City, Sergio Alcocer, Anahid A. Behrouzi, Sergio Brena, Kenneth J. Elwood, Ayhan Irfanoglu, Michael Kreger, Rémy Lequesne, Gilberto Mosqueda, Santiago Pujol, Aishwarya Puranam, Mario Rodriguez, Prateek Shah, Andreas Stavridis, and Richard Wood
Impact of Bi-directional Loading on the Seismic Performance of C-shaped Piers of Core Walls, Anahid A. Behrouzi, Andrew W. Mock, Dawn E. Lehman, Laura N. Lowes, and Daniel A. Kuchma
Implementing Bluebeam Software in Architectural Engineering Design Courses, Michael James Deigert, Anahid A. Behrouzi, and Pamalee A. Brady
Criteria 3 and 5 implementation: how are people actually doing it?, Allen Estes
The Institute’s Team for Damage Investigations, Lucas A. Laughery, Aishwarya Y. Puranam, Christopher L. Segura Jr., and Anahid A. Behrouzi