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President: Prof. Gerard PardoenVice-President: Prof. Andre FiliatraultSecretary: Prof.Armen Der Kiureghian

Treasurer: K. Lee Benuska

Executive Director: Robert Reitherman

Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering1301 S. 46th Street, Richmond, CA 94804-4698 tel: 510-231-9557 fax: 510-231-5664

CUREE News

CUREE is a nonprofit corporation devoted tothe advancement of earthquake engineering

research, education, and implementationwhose university members are listed below.

web: http://www.curee.org e-mail: curee@curee.org

CUREE

Fall, 2000

y a near-unanimous vote of the membership of California Universi-ties for Research in Earthquake Engineering, a fundamental change inthe Bylaws has been made to allow universities from outside Californiato apply for membership. The name of the re-organized CUREE is Con-sortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering. This isthe first change in CUREE’s Bylaws since it was founded as a non-profitcorporation in 1988. The new national CUREE will still be focused onthe subject of earthquakes and on the needs and capabilities of faculty atthe engineering schools of research universities.

CUREE Changes More Than Its Name

California Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineeringbecomes

Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering

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UC Los Angeles

USCUC San Diego

UC Davis

UC Irvine

Caltech Stanford UC Berkeley

Change in CUREE Bylaws toCreate National Membership

CUREE Bylaws Changed to

Create National Membership

Contents

p. 1: CUREE Changes MoreThan Its Name

p. 2: President’s Comments on“CUREE Going National”

p. 3: Membership ApplicationsAvailable for Universitiesand Individual Faculty

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President’s Comments on “CUREE Going National”Professor Gerard Pardoen, University of California at Irvine

President of CUREE

To the Present CUREE MembershipThe adoption of the new Bylaws culminates a long process inwhich a number of individuals’ contributions should be rec-ognized. While I hesitate to acknowledge some at the risk ofoffending one or more others by omission, it is clear that atleast a half dozen key people stand out in my mind.

We must sincerely thank the Past Presidents Committee com-posed of Bill Iwan, Helmut Krawinkler, Stephen Mahin, andHaresh Shah for their bold planning work that had the visionof CUREE “going national.” Karl Romstad as President theneloquently presented the issues to the CUREE membershipin a series of objective but convincing memos. Bill Iwan andGregory Fenves made effective presentations at the annualmeeting of CUREE in November, 1999, and Greg made asimilar presentation at the meeting called by CUREE at the12WCEE in New Zealand on February 2nd earlier this year.

The Board of Directors voted on five occasions, all unani-mously, to resolve specific aspects of the new Bylaws theywere developing for recommendation to the members. OurExecutive Director, Bob Reitherman, kept the effort on trackthe past few years in coordinating the wishes of the Boardwith the legal points made by CUREE’s legal counsel. Go-ing back further, Jack Moehle chaired the “Ad Hoc Commit-tee to Restructure CUREe” in 1993 that recommended to theBoard that the membership be opened up beyond Californiaand that the name be changed to “Consortium of Universitiesfor Research in Earthquake Engineering.”

To Our Future CUREE Members If asked what the new national CUREE will be like, my firstanswer is that it depends on what the newly constituted mem-bership wants it to be in the coming years. There is a genuineopenness on the part of the organization to be flexible to newideas and new members.

We can also predict CUREE’s future by looking at its past.Since its founding in 1988 it has developed an organizationalculture with some recognizable traits. Since its early years,we have benefited from the CUREe-Kajima Joint ResearchProgram, in which collaborative studies among researchershere in the US were conducted with counterparts in Japan.The topics researched have spanned many areas, includingnew structural materials, loss estimation, ground motion stud-

ies, testing of control systems, studies on ductility and otherdesign-related factors. The topics varied, but the theme ofinter-university collaboration, and in this case internationalcollaboration, remained the same. We are now in our sec-ond decade of Kajima-funded projects, a program that hasbrought millions of dollars to researchers here.

The Northridge Earthquake Research Conference and Work-shop, a project funded by all four NEHRP agencies, gaveCUREE the chance to coordinate in a neutral way the defin-itive multi-disciplinary publication on that earthquake andbring together people from the Social Sciences and Emer-gency Management, Engineering, and Earth Sciences areasof the earthquake field to discuss needed improvements inpost-earthquake research and implementation issues.

Our involvement in the SAC Steel Project, with our SACJoint Venture partners ATC and SEAOC, over the past fiveyears gave us a chance to again work collaboratively as wellas to develop the “infrastructure” to handle dozens of sub-contracts and carry out other management tasks. The twophases of that project have been funded to the scale of over$10 million by FEMA, representing a major infusion of newfunding into earthquake engineering research. The current$7 million CUREE-Caltech Woodframe Project, also fund-ed by FEMA, has been successful, like the SAC project, indemonstrating that a consortium of universities can workwith, rather than independently of, engineering practitionersin conducting a problem-focused research and implementa-tion project. On the latter two projects, CUREE has issued49 subcontracts outside California with universities, or pro-fessors as consultants, and consulting firms. We have a trackrecord of being able to manage national projects in a fairand efficient way: We have built up “organizational capi-tal” as well as capital in the literal sense of net assets. Weare undertaking the national transition on a firm base.

CUREE will remain focused on three things: universities,engineering, and earthquakes. We will give our communitya strong national voice that will help the various university-based engineering programs, centers, and research effortsin the earthquake field in different parts of the country. Wewill also strive to help coordinate with the non-engineeringsegments of the earthquake field as we have in the past.

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CUREE News Fall 2000 Page 3CUREE CUREE

Membership Applications AvailableFor Universities and Individual Faculty

with outside organizations.

Voice on the Board: The next eight universities that joinCUREE will each take designated seats on the Board. Alongwith the current eight member universities and four praction-er Directors appointed by the Board, this attains the maxi-mum Board size of 20. As the number of member universi-ties exceeds 16, these 16 places on the Board, each with two-year terms, will be filled by a vote of the individual members,selecting only from the pool of representatives of universitymembers. The representative of a university member is namedby that university’s dean of engineering as has been done overthe past decade within CUREE, which helps maintain a strongconnection to the organization’s university base.

Student Stipends and Other Membership Benefits: In thepast, CUREE has sent one student from each member univer-sity to a major research conference, such as the 12WCEE inNew Zealand in January-February, 2000.

Individual Faculty at Member UniversitiesBecause of the lack of consistency in the definition of “facul-ty” at different universities, the definition in CUREE’s By-laws is tied to the ability of an individual to submit a proposalas a principal investigator through that university’s grants andcontracts office. Because their university is a dues-payingmember, these individual members pay no dues. They applyindividually to the Board and are expected to have demon-strated “strong interest, capability, and participation” in theearthquake engineering field, which as a practical mattermeans they have experience teaching, researching, and pub-lishing in the engineering field in the earthquake subject area.

Faculty at Non-Member Universities:The new Bylaws created this category of membership specif-ically to try to open up the organization to individual facultywho are interested and qualified, but whose university doesnot have a major earthquake engineering program. A singlequalified faculty member at a school could make a contribu-tion to CUREE and benefit from membership, and so thisnew category accommodates that need. Criteria for admis-sion are identical to those for faculty at an admitted universi-ty, as are voting rights (e.g. to vote for members of the Board).The Board has set the dues for faculty at non-member univer-sities at $150.

Membership applications will be sent automatically to allthose on the mailing list for the CUREE News, and applica-tions may also be obtained by contacting the CUREE office.Current CUREE members remain members without anychange. The complete text of the new CUREE Bylaws andtheir definitions of membership categories can be obtainedfrom the CUREE website: http://www.curee.org.

Other than a category of membership reserved for practitio-ners who are serving or have served on the Board of Direc-tors, there are the following three categories of membership.

Member UniversitiesCurrently there are eight member universities. The Directorsdecided at their November 3, 2000 Board meeting to contin-ue the past policy of $1,000 per year dues for each memberuniversity. There will also be a $1,500 one-time admissionfee, justified as a recognition of the investment in the organi-zation over past years by the current university members.

Criteria for AdmissionThe Bylaws define the general criteria the Board will use inevaluating applications for university membership. This cat-egory is intended for “research universities in the United Statesof America which have demonstrated interest and a strongresearch and education program in Earthquake Engineering.”(Interest has been expressed by several universities in othercountries; the intent is not to be exclusionary but simply toavoid undertaking too much change at once). Generally, auniversity would have approximately half a dozen or morefaculty who would qualify as Individual Faculty at a Mem-ber University (see below) for the Member University cate-gory to be appropriate, because a new category has been es-tablished specifically for the case where as few as one facul-ty member at a school may be interested and qualified. Ben-efits of university membership include the following:

No Individual Faculty Dues: Faculty members at a univer-sity that is a member of CUREE will pay no dues, accordingto the policy set by the Board at its November 3rd meeting.

Core Involvement in Research Projects: The member uni-versities, as the core of support for the organization, will tendto have larger roles in research projects, though this may varyaccording to the project and the desirability of collaborating

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CUREE Board of DirectorsMembers Representing InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology

Professor Wilfred D. IwanStanford University

Professor Helmut KrawinklerUniversity of California at Berkeley

Professor Armen Der KiureghianUniversity of California at Davis

Professor Bruce L. KutterUniversity of California at Irvine

Professor Gerard C. PardoenUniversity of California at Los Angeles

Professor J. W. JuUniversity of California at San Diego

Professor André FiliatraultUniversity of Southern California

Professor Yan XiaoMembers Elected At-LargeProfessor J.-P. Bardet

University of Southern CaliforniaProfessor Joel P. Conte

University of California, Los AngelesDr. Stephanie A. King

Stanford UniversityProfessor Anne Kiremidjian

Stanford UniversityMembers from Professional PracticeK. Lee Benuska, Consulting EngineerWilliam Holmes, Rutherford & ChekeneDonald Libby, Libby EngineersJohn Shipp, EQE International

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