Oscar Hurtado and Luis Marquez win top honours at a smart structures school in Turin
The Waterloo graduate students joined 58 peers at the APESS summer school; one team took first place and another won Best Presentation.
Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate students Oscar Hurtado and Luis Marquez came back from Italy with international recognition after taking part in the 15th APESS summer school on smart structures technology (the Asia-Pacific-Euro school) and the 17th ANCRiSST Workshop at Politecnico di Torino. They joined 58 graduate students from around the world.
Participants attended lectures on structural health monitoring, control systems and topology optimization, visited sites including the Regina Margherita Bridge and EUCENTRE’s shake-table laboratories, and spent intensive days in the FabLab with teams from more than a dozen countries.
Hurtado’s team won first place in the structural health monitoring competition with a topologically optimized design that minimized earthquake response, then monitored and updated its model to improve performance. Marquez’s team received the award for Best Presentation. Both say the greatest value is the new questions they bring back to their research at Waterloo.
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