As of January 1st, I will join the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. I am looking forward to being a part of a vibrant earthquake engineering community in the Bay Area as well as joining the excellent SEMM group in the CEE. I will contin...

Bryanna successfully defended her MASc thesis in August and had her graduation ceremony today. Her thesis looking at lifetime demands on bridge bearings. Her work is now being extended by PhD student Minesh to include bridge deterioration. Bryanna is now working on mor...

Visiting PhD student Yanqing Xu is joining us for a year from Southeast University in Nanjing China. He will be continuing his research on optimization of triple friction pendulum bearings.

Ahmed Abdelmasouk started his PhD in September after finishing his masters degre...

Ricky Darlington has been awarded an NSERC fellowship for his 2nd year of his masters study!!!

Bryanna is featured for her Ashbaugh scholarship: https://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/article/three-decades-of-support-for-worthy-and-needy-scholars/

way to go guys!

Yu Bao successfully defended his doctoral research on Dec 2nd in a record 3 years, 3 months, he's a rock star! Yu's research on extreme behavior in friction pendulum bearings and isolated systems was sponsored by Takenaka Corporation. 

2nd year MASc student Bryanna is featured with a School of Graduate Studies profile on her and her research.

http://macenggradstudies.ca/research-profiles/bryanna-noade/

Bryanna is also President of McMaster's student EERI chapter this year. Check out their website with...

MASC student's Bryanna Noade's research has been featured by McMaster Engineering's Inside the Lab series. Check it out here http://www.eng.mcmaster.ca/news/2017/inside_the_lab_bridges.html

Congratulations to current masters student Bryanna Noade, Ricky Darlington, and Josh Hoekstra!

Bryanna, starting her 2nd year, received an NSERC Graduate Scholarship for the 2017-2018 school year. Bryanna also received and American Concrete Institute Scholarship for her...

PhD student Yu Bao gave a talk at the EMI conference in San Diego in early June discussing modeling the failure of isolated structures in beyond maximum considered earthquakes. Great job Yu!

Dr. Becker visited several universities in China including Dalian University of Technology, Tongji University, Tianjin University, and the Institute of Engineering Mechanics to talk about her research and discuss future collaborations.