{"id":249750,"date":"2026-05-19T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/seismic-activity-this-engineering-professor-is-using-ai-to-make-the-world-a-safer-place\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:20:08","slug":"seismic-activity-this-engineering-professor-is-using-ai-to-make-the-world-a-safer-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/seismic-activity-this-engineering-professor-is-using-ai-to-make-the-world-a-safer-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Seismic Activity: This Engineering Professor is Using AI to Make the World a Safer Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usu.edu\/today\/story\/seismic-activity-this-engineering-professor-is-using-ai-to-make-the-world-a-safer-place\/\">Seismic Activity: This Engineering Professor is Using AI to Make the World a Safer Place<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usu.edu\/today\/story\/seismic-activity-this-engineering-professor-is-using-ai-to-make-the-world-a-safer-place\/\">https:\/\/www.usu.edu\/today\/story\/seismic-activity-this-engineering-professor-is-using-ai-to-make-the-world-a-safer-place\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 16:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.usu.edu\">www.usu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Disruptive technology, seismic <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">concerns <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">and a national issue of aging infrastructure. Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati isn\u2019t just addressing these challenges; he is integrating artificial intelligence to <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">prepare <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">the next generation of engineers. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">His<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> effort hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span>We used to have this more traditional way of doing things, and now we have all these new, disruptive technologies,\u201d Esteghamati said. \u201cI think it&#8217;s very important to understand how we can adopt this technology and use it for engineering.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">After taking research, teaching, graduate student mentorship and service into consideration, Esteghamati, a first-generation student and <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">assistant professor of structural engineering at Utah State,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> has won three major awards in a single academic year:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">2026 Winner of the Engineering Educator of the Year, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span>Structural Engineers Association of Utah<\/span><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">2026 Winner of the Terry Peshia Early Career Faculty Award, American Institute of Steel Construction. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">2026 Winner of the Engineering Educator of the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Y<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">ear, Utah Engineers Council.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>&#8220;Sometimes we wonder about our roles and the impact that we hav<\/span><span>e as p<\/span><span>rofessors,\u201d Esteghamati said. \u201cTo me, a good educator is somebody that serves people. One that nourishes and serves people and elevates them in life. I feel like getting these awards kind of reinforced that I had an impact. So that was meaningful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">As a first-generation student, Esteghamati wasn\u2019t sure he fit in as an academic because he didn\u2019t see many people like himself. It was a struggle, but he <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">appreciates<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-variant: normal;\"><span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> the way his education shaped him and the people that encouraged him.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span>I feel like our college is very supportive,\u201d Esteghamati said. \u201cI was lucky to have a department head, Marvin Halling, that has been a great example of what an educator should be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now Esteghamati sees an opportunity to give back. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Being an immigrant, you know, that&#8217;s always in the back of your head,\u201d Esteghamati said. \u201cYou are trained to have a bit of a global perspective&#8230;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usu.edu\/today\/story\/seismic-activity-this-engineering-professor-is-using-ai-to-make-the-world-a-safer-place\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seismic Activity: This Engineering Professor is Using AI to Make the World a Safer Place&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.usu.edu\/today\/images\/stories\/lg\/26_ENGR_AI-Seismics.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249752,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249750\/revisions\/249752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}