This seminar discusses how information technologies can be applied to improve the performance of an Earthquake Engineering Laboratory. This seminar will focus on the following two areas, the Information and Resource Management System for an Earthquake Engineering Laboratory and the Internet-based Platform for Collaborative Networked Hybrid Tests. In addition, the research activities currently being carried out at Taiwan’s National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE) on these two areas and their progresses are reported and used as demonstration examples.

Speaker

From 1993 to 1995, Dr. Shang-Hsien Hsieh worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University, U.S.A. He returned to Taiwan and joined NTU in 1995. He is currently a professor in the Computer-Aided Engineering Group, Department of Civil Engineering at NTU. He also serves as a Division Head in the Division of Information Technology & Management at National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan. Dr. Hsieh has a wide range of research interests, which include parallel and distributed engineering computing, earthquake engineering and structural dynamics, object-oriented software development, engineering information & knowledge management systems, and computer-aided engineering education.