1. The Academic Impact of NEES Ian Buckle University of Nevada Reno

2. In the beginning… NEES was born out of a critical need to have advanced, large-scale, experimental capabilities in the U.S. to: – accelerate earthquake risk reduction – validate numerical simulation tools that were far more sophisticated than experimental tools at that time – catch up with the rest of the world, principally Japan, Taiwan, and Europe

3. In the beginning… NEES was a culture shift from Day One: – Distributed facilities at a scale not seen before… anywhere (shake tables, centrifuges, hybrid labs, field testing, wave basin…) with annual operating grants – Facilities operated under ‘shared-use’ agreement with NSF through NEESinc and later NEEScomm – Facilities had telepresence capabilities to enable remote usage /shared use

4. In the beginning … NEES was a culture shift from Day One: – Data and metadata required to be uploaded to a repository for public release… – Multi-disciplinary/multi-institutional research teams funded – Numerical simulation /high performance computing tools supported – Educational/outreach mandate, both national and international The NEES Collaboratory was born

5. 10 years later… What has been the academic impact? From two points of view – Research and researchers – Facilities and capabilities

6. 10 years later… researchers Priceless opportunity to work in state-of-the- art facilities to: – push the boundaries of knowledge – work in multidisciplinary teams / expand research horizons through synergistic efforts – attract the best and brightest students to advance earthquake engineering and accelerate earthquake risk reduction (more than 200 PhD students supported)

7. Research projects completed Site NEESR, Pre-NEESR and Payload Non- NEESR Shared UseIndustryTotal Buffalo22389114 Cornell4105 Illinois141015 Lehigh119323 Minnesota1400 UNR1843456 Oregon State1332642 RPI94922 UC Berkeley141217 UC Davis148628 UCLA1210123 UCSD114217 UCSB3104 Texas15131442 Total (2002-2013)17462186422 - Julio Ramirez

8. Publications referencing NEES research - Julio Ramirez

9. Data within Project Warehouse - Julio Ramirez

10. Curation of Experiments on NEEShub - Julio Ramirez

11. Red dots represent researchers and students browsing NEEShub, watching videos, and taking courses while performing 840,656 web and 38,854 tool sessions between August 2010 and April 2013. Yellow dots represent users who are running simulations. Dot size corresponds to the number of users at a location. Global Impact of NEEShub Cyberinfrastructure - Julio Ramirez

12. Workforce development – NEESR students - Julio Ramirez

13. Signature Research Projects

14. 10-years later… facilities Pushing the boundaries of experimentation

15. 10-years later… facilities Advanced data acquisition/visualization tools Calibrated instrumentation and equipment Accreditation (in some cases) Maintained equipment Enhanced safety culture Stable funding for laboratory personnel Site Administrators (scheduling, facilitating access by off-site researchers…) Four new laboratories – bricks and mortar

16. In the beginning… NEES was born out of a critical need to have advanced, large-scale, experimental capabilities in the U.S. to: – accelerate earthquake risk reduction – validate numerical simulation tools that were far more sophisticated than experimental tools at that time – catch up with the rest of the world, principally Japan, Taiwan, and Europe Summary

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