Resilient Cities
Creating more resilient cities by enhancing earthquake resistance of structures, using systems-based solutions to address food insecurity, and developing new materials and structures for improved fire safety.
Space Exploration and Habitation
Develop technology that will support long-term exploration and inhabitation of space, including optimized ultra-lightweight materials, cutting-edge computational mechanics, and systems-based approaches to community design.
Decision-making and Health
Leverage systems modeling, modern analysis, and advanced optimization to help transform data into decisions that will ensure healthy and more equitable communities.
Human Safety and Security
Improve technologies, policies, and infrastructure that are robust to evolving threats - from changing climate, to acts of war, to global pandemics.
Future Energy Infrastructure
Find mechanics-based solutions, create structural engineering advances, and use systems-based planning to address the changing energy supply, aging distribution networks, dynamic markets, and increasing hazards.
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As news broke on June 24 regarding a deadly collapse of a 12-story oceanfront condominium in Surfside, Fla., Benjamin Schafer, Williard and Lillian Hackerman Chair, spoke with Scientific American regarding structural engineering and the long-term significance of the event for building designers. Below is an excerpt from the article, which can be viewed in its…
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Ralph S. O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) founded under the leadership of Ben Schafer
CategoriesThe institute will serve as the university's interdisciplinary home for ongoing research and education aimed at creating clean, renewable, and sustainable energy technologies.