Shifting Focus to Address Future Grand Societal Challenges

The department’s focus has shifted in order to prepare students to address future grand societal challenges for improved safety, security, and resiliency of an increasingly fragile and complex infrastructure under evolving natural and man-made hazards.

PhD student Alberto Torres details how his civil engineering research helped him land an internship at Langley Research Center in addition to a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship.

Organized by Adjunct Associate Scientist and Lecturer Dr. Gonzalo L. Pita, the Sheridan Libraries are pleased to host this exhibit featuring important objects and documents that represent historic milestones in the development of catastrophe modeling in the United States, from the late 1800s to today.

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Deadline for applications is December 31, 2019!

Congratulations to Department Chair Lori Graham-Brady on being named a 2019 Fellow of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics

Safety First

Of all the remarkable things engineers do for humanity, none may be more important than the ways in which they improve our resiliency, keeping us safe from the many potential harms the world has in store. Assistant Prof. Thomas Gernay weighs in on how his research in the area of structural fire engineering is helping this effort.

“Low-dimensional Manifold Learning for Uncertainty Quantification in Complex Multi-scale Stochastic Systems” leverages large-scale so-called dimension hyper-reduction methods to enable uncertainty quantification for complex multi-scale systems.