Students will gain a solid base on Earthquake Engineering and Seismic analysis fundametals, we will start from the basic concepts, you will gain the knowledge of how an earthquake is generated and acts on different structures, it will be illustrated with a very practical method and examples then we will illustrate the philosophy that the American codes ASCE7 & IBC follow and go though the main used factors in code such as Time period (T), Design accelation S1, Ss and give a brief on both equivalent lateral load and response spectrum methods.