The 21th Annual Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition (SDC) will take place alongside the EERI Annual Meeting in Seattle. The SDC is a longstanding tradition at EERI's Annual Meetings and National Conferences. The competition provides civil engineering undergraduate students with an opportunity to work on a hands-on earthquake engineering project to design and construct a cost-effective frame building to resist seismic loading.

Organized by EERI’s Student Leadership Council (SLC), the SDC draws student teams from universities around the world. Teams are judged on their oral design presentation, their summary poster, the model’s architectural design, their ability to fit within the design criteria and constraints, their analytical prediction of their model performance, and the response of their model during shaking table testing. Their balsa wood models will be put to the test on Shaking Day, Thursday, April 11, which will be open to all meeting attendees. 

The 2024 Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition (SDC) will be held throughout the 2024 Annual Meeting. All 2024AM participants are welcome to attend and observe! View the teams’ models on display in the Willow room, attend the poster presentations in Grand Ballroom AB and the Issaquah room on Wednesday, April 10, cheer on the students during shaking table testing in Grand Ballroom AB on Thursday, April 11, and celebrate the winners at the SDC Awards Ceremony in Metropolitan Ballroom on Friday, April 12.

Participating Teams:

• Altinbas University
• Brigham Young University
• Bucknell University
• California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
• California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
• California State University, Northridge
• Cornell University
• Helwan University
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
• Iowa State University
• Istanbul Technical University
• Izmir Katip Celebi
• Karadeniz Technical University
• McMaster University
• New York University
• North Carolina State University
• Oregon State University
• Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra
• Portland State University
• Purdue University
• San Francisco State University
• Seattle University
• Stanford University
• Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest
• Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
• The Ohio State University
• The University of British Columbia
• The University of Texas at Austin
• The University of Victoria
• Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE
• Universidad Iberoamericana
• Universidad Politecnica Salesiana
• Universitas Indonesia
• Universiti Teknologi Malyasia
• University at Buffalo
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Davis
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of California, San Diego
• University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
• University of Massachusetts Amherst
• University of Memphis
• University of Southern California
• University of Toronto
• University of Washington