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Student Profile on Jamie Padgett
Jamie Padgett entered the PhD program in the Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials Group in 2003, and works under the advisement of Prof. DesRoches. The central focus of her dissertation research is on “Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Retrofitted Bridges” to support risk mitigation efforts for transportation networks.
The research is focused on developing tools to assist bridge engineers and emergency management agencies in determining appropriate retrofit measures to reduce the vulnerability of bridges to damage from earthquakes. The research establishes a methodology for the development of retrofitted bridge fragility curves using probabilistic methods, as well as a framework for the use of these fragility curves for decision making and performance-based retrofit of bridges.
Jamie is the past president of the Georgia Tech student chapter of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, and a member of several organizations, including ASCE, ACI, Tau Beta Pi, TCLEE, and the Mid-America Earthquake Center. Jamie recently was a member of the ASCE/MAE Center reconnaissance team that surveyed the damage to bridges following hurricane Katrina.
She is the recipient of several awards, including the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Jamie was selected as the 2006-2007 EERI/FEMA NEHRP Graduate Fellow in Earthquake Hazard Reduction. The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute awards this fellowship annually to a top student in the field of earthquake hazard mitigation in a cooperative program with FEMA’s National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program. Jamie was chosen from a group of extremely well-qualified doctoral candidates from throughout the US.