The 2026 Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition (SDC) will be held at the 13NCEE in Portland, Oregon.
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.
While the 2026 SDC rules and regulations are still being finalized by the SLC’s SDC chairs, the SLC wants to know in advance how many undergraduate teams are interested in competing next year! Potential SDC teams should complete the interest form here by October 17th, 2025.
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