CE 5940Y: Special Topics in Construction Engineering and Management: Engineering for Disaster and Climate Resilience
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable.
Prereq: Senior or Graduate classification or Permission of Instructor
Inter-disciplinary approaches to principles of engineering and planning for hazard risk reduction and climate change adaptation nationally and globally. Traditional phases of disaster management, resilience theories and practices, vulnerability and risk assessments for disasters and climate change, system-of-systems design problems for civil infrastructure systems, project management tools, and exploration of current policy trends in areas of disaster and climate change resilience. Application of engineering in communities exposed or prone to disasters and climate change, humanitarian response, and development. Methods (systems dynamics, social network analysis, agent-based simulation GIS) to engage with marginalized communities on addressing complex and uncertain problems using systems thinking, inter-disciplinary approaches, partnerships and policy.