Press Clips Archive
Mexico City's structural Engineering faces earthquake
The San Diego Union Tribune | September 28, 2017
Video: Benson Shing, chair of structural engineering at UC San Diego, talks about the engineering struggles Mexico City faces in wake of Tuesday's 7.1 magnitude earthquake. Full Story
Bracing for Mother Nature's Wrath
Discover | September 26, 2017
The power of hurricanes Irma and Harvey as well as the 8.1 magnitude earthquake in Mexico demonstrate the critical need for well-planned readiness, response and recovery efforts. To mark National Preparedness Month, the National Science Foundation (NSF) gathered the following images, which are just a few of the many research efforts underway to learn more about natural hazards. These projects generate new tools to help lessen the effects of these unpredictable events. Full Story
Father of UC San Diego engineer survives Mexican earthquake
The San Diego Union Tribune | September 19, 2017
Francisco Contijoch, a newly-hired engineering professor at UC San Diego, learned Tuesday that his father was at work in Mexico when the country was shaken by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. The quake has killed at least 139 people. But Contijoch's dad is safe. He explained what happened during a video interview with the Union-Tribune Full Story
Daily Business Report-July 24, 2017
SD Metro | July 24, 2017
The historic Balboa Park carousel is being sold to the Friends of Balboa Park by long-time owner Balboa Park Carousel Inc. headed by La Mesa civil engineer Bill Steen. Located on the southwest corner of Zoo Place and Park Boulevard, the antique wood menagerie carousel, built in 1910 by the Herschell-Spillman Company of Tonawanda, N.Y., has stood in various locations within Balboa Park since 1922. Full Story
UCSD holds quake test at local facility
Scripps Ranch News | July 20, 2017
No one felt any shaking, but a small earthquake was orchestrated in Scripps Ranch Friday morning as an experiment by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Jacobs School of Engineering. The event was carried out in a nearly hidden location at 10201 Pomerado Road near Camp Elliott, off the eastern end of Pomerado Road. The off-campus facility is the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center and the equipment used to simulate an earthquake is called a shake table. A two-story wooden structure was built and went through a series of earthquake simulations this week. Full Story