Shiling Pei

Professor at Colorado School of Mines. Structural Engineering. Tall Wood buildings for earthquake zones.

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Tallwood Design Institute of Oregon State University is hiring a Professional Faculty for their wood lab. Submit an application if you are interested!
https://t.co/XKL7fxvBo5

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Finally visited USS Constitution myself in Boston during Structures Congress. It is the only wood battle ship still afloat and in service around the world😉

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Do you know U.S. Navy has a 200+ year old wood battleship that is still in service?
https://t.co/FnTfTra15z

At @fsWoodLab , I was able to hold a real wood sample (live oak) from the hull of USS Constitution (and copper dowel) sent to FPL for testing during the 1995 restoration!

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Free lecture by my collaborator Thomas Robinson. And it is about timber buildings 👍

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@kamrul109 @sorosh_1 Thank you🤠👍

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Our NHERI TallWood technical paper was just selected by ASCE Award committee to receive the 2026 Norman Medal!
The highest honor granted by the American Society of Civil Engineers for a technical paper that makes a definitive contribution to engineering science.

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The link was broken on the other post.
here you go🥳
https://t.co/R1hxu9C4vb

Let me know if there is any questions or comments

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A big Thank You to @strongtie for support Mines student TimberStrong competition team👍
A lot of screws were donated to Mines students and Looks like we got enough to cover us for years🤠

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Clemson is hosting the wood educator workshop again this summer. Great opportunity for U.S. faculty to learn how to teach wood. Sponsored by @ThinkWood & @LumberBoard
Please apply yourself or help spread the word to folks who might benefit.
https://t.co/WHMl7gkVMS

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@elonmusk Can't believe I still need to mow the lawn on the moon! sign...

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A few iconic places... Can u name them all?

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Back to ATLSS at Lehigh😎 Nice to see my friend Jim and his mass timber assembly still used for different damping device tests👍😉

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I am going to do a talk at Lehigh University in about a week. Dial in if you are interested (Link below):

"The Next Big Thing? Reflections from the NHERI TallWood Project"
March 24, 2026 | 3:30pm - 4:30pm ET

https://t.co/hZEYorLy8o

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Mass timber sledge... looks like fun.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Onbashira, the 1,200 year old festival that happens in the deep mountains of Japan.

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Always nice to visit Forest products lab @fsWoodLab, always something new to see🤠

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Running into Dan from @Boise_Cascade at Forest Product Lab. Thanks a lot for their donations to our Timber Strong student competition every year!

We are also testing their VLT product at The lab😉

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New Semester, new group of students eager to learn about the latest and hottest timber design technology!

A big THANK YOU to @Weyerhaeuser for sponsor NDS and SDPWS books for students. Physical code is the best:)
Thanks AWC @woodcouncil for arranging the donation and shipping!

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Want to see something stupid?
I was preparing my timber design notes and want to edit a picture using MS Paint. The automatic AI button keep popping up when I select an area, AND covered up the selected area! I cannot do a thing!🥲
How about a Paint program that actually works?

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Interested in teaching Wood Design? Free webinar about wood design class by my friend Weichiang Pang of Clemson University. on Nov 20 this Thursday:)

https://t.co/GTQrhKIabv

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@Jane_ahib These are good students projecy, but the response is not realistic due to how it is built. Real skyscrapers rarely collapse in earthquakes

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The plot thickens😱

Some of these problems give me an "Idiocracy" vibe...

We are really living in the future I guess🥹

[Chris Brunet @chrisbrunet]

UCSD’s “Math 2” course teaches grade-school math (grades 1–8) to freshmen. From page 49 of the university’s own report:

• 25% of students got 7 + 2 = ___ + 6 wrong
• 61% of students, a large majority, couldn’t round 374,518 to the nearest hundred
• 37% of students couldn't subtract fractions

UCSD is ranked as the nation's 5th best public university. Universities are cooked.

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Well, Kudos to UCSD, at least they are still offering classes to help them to catch up instead of just giving them a "B" and move on.
We have students who cannot calculate area of triangle on the spot.

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

NEW: UC San Diego has released a new report documenting a “steep decline in the academic preparedness” of its freshmen.

The number of entering students needing remedial math has exploded from 1/100 to 1/8.

They’ve had to create a second remedial class covering elementary and middle school math skills in addition to the one covering gaps from high school.

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