<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px">The FIU NHERI Wall of Wind (WOW) Experimental Facility (EF) and the Lehigh Real-Time Multi-Directional Testing EF will be hosting a one-and-a-half day user workshop at Florida International University (FIU), <b>Miami, FL, on Dec 6 & 7</b>.</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The focus of the workshop is to:<u></u><u></u></span></p><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Provide researchers with information on the capabilities of the NHERI WOW EF and Lehigh EF for advanced natural hazard engineering research. A WOW EF tour and demo will be included.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Explore opportunities to use the NHERI EFs for unsolicited, CAREER, SBIR, and other types of NSF proposals -- one session will be dedicated to “Preparing Competitive NSF Proposals (including CAREER Proposals).”<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Describe cross-disciplinary opportunities to leverage the use of hybrid simulation technologies in wind testing and to perform large- and full-scale experiments using the NHERI WOW and Lehigh EFs and available tools in both EFs.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Provide one-on-one sessions between EFs’ team members and workshop participants to discuss research ideas and experimentation plans for NSF proposals.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Discuss the Science Plan focusing on key research areas emerging in natural hazard engineering.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Provide a platform for collaboration to facilitate multi-disciplinary, multi-hazards research.<br><br><u></u><u></u></span></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Limited travel support is available. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/workshops/2018-joint-wow-and-atlss/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)">Find details and register at the DesignSafe website</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></p><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_jo5zz78x0" alt="Lehigh-small.jpg" width="261" height="65" style="margin-right:0px"><br></div><div><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_jo5zzx8d1" alt="fiu-small.png" width="169" height="84" style="margin-right:0px"><br></div></div></div>
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