Two CEE Seniors Among SEAONC Scholarship Recipients

Graduating CEE seniors Mara Minner and Erick Paepke received 2014 SEAONC Scholarships. The highly competitive $5000 scholarship is awarded to outstanding students who plan to pursue a career in structural engineering.

Minner worked with CEE Professor Steven Mahin on experimental research on the performance of steel brace frames designed prior to 1988, eventually extending this topic into her senior honors thesis.  Minner was also active on the Berkeley Seismic Design Team which competed in the EERI Seismic Design competition.

Paepke was honored for his exceptional GPA as well as for holding officer positions in both ASCE and Chi Epsilon. In his service as officer and construction manager for the Berkeley Concrete Canoe Team, he modeled the canoe using advanced computer modelling techniques.

Both Minner and Paepke will pursue graduate studies at Berkeley.

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