T.A. Wilson Distinguished Lecture

Date/Time:	Monday, 10 Nov 2014 from 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Location:	Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
Cost:	Free
Phone:	515-294-8312
Channel:	College of Engineering
Categories:	Lectures
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Vilas Mujumdar, a consulting engineer and retired program director for the National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Centers and Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Programs, will present a total complex community system approach to developing resilience in infrastructure systems to natural hazards.

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By the very definition, community resiliency is multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder dependent, thus making it a challenging concept. Although it is possible to quantify resiliency of technical systems, quantifying overall community resiliency is difficult. To minimize the impact of a damaging natural hazard on a community, actions by several levels of decision-makers are necessary. Some actions are immediate as a response to the hazard, and other actions are taken for long-term solutions. On a long-term basis, a community is interested in minimizing the loss of daily functionality due to a damaging natural hazard, thus an integrated approach by all stakeholders is important. Dr. Mujumdar will provide some details on the framework and pose some basic challenges to be addressed.

Dr. Mujumdar is a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

This talk is a T. A. Wilson Distinguished Lecture within the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering.