Laura N. Lowes
Associate Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
233C More Hall
Phone: 206.685.2563
Fax: 206.543.1543
E-Mail: lowes@
u.washington.edu

office hours:
MW 9:30 - 11, More 233C

Teaching Schedule Spring 2008
CEE 599C (CEE 506) Tu/Th 1:30 - 3:20 More Hall Rm. 225

Classes Taught
CEE 457: Advance Structures I (last taught Fall 2007)
CEE 504: Finite Element Methods in Structural Mechanics (
last taught Winter 2007)

CEE 515 Earthquake Engineering I (last taught Spring 2007)
CEE 498G: Graphics Communication for CEE (last taught Fall 2003)
CEE 498H: Numerical Methods for CEE (
last taught Fall 2002)
CEE 599E (to be CEE 507): Advanced Computational Mechanics (
last taught Spring 2002)
CEE 599H (to be CEE 506): Nonlinear Analysis (
last taught Spring 2006)
CEE 600: Independent Study (last taught Fall 2006)

Research
Research Interests and Publications
NEESR-SG: Seismic Behavior, Analysis, and Design of Complex Wall Systems

Student Theses

ACI/ASCE Committee 447: FEARCS

ACI/ASCE Committee 445: Strut-and-Tie Modeling

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