Speaking of Engineering Public Lectures
Natural disasters in 2011 alone resulted in hundreds ofbillions of dollars in direct damages and about 30,000fatalities worldwide. Storms and floods accounted for up to70 per cent of about 300 natural disasters worldwide, withearthquakes producing the greatest number of fatalities.Managing these risks rationally requires an appropriatedefinition of resilience and associated metrics.
In this presentation, Dr. Bilal Ayyub, director of the Centerfor Technology and Systems Management, University of Maryland, provides a resilience definition that meets a setof requirements with clear relationships to reliability andrisk as key relevant metrics. Such metrics provide a soundbasis for the development of effective decision-makingtools for multi-hazard environments. The presentation also examines recovery, with its classifications based on level, spatial, and temporalconsiderations.Three developed case studies will be used to gain insightsto help define recovery profiles.
Dr. Ayyub teaches civil and environmental engineering, riskanalysis in engineering and economics, and engineeringand applied mathematics and scientific computation at theUniversity of Maryland, College Park. His main researchinterests are risk, uncertainty, decisions, resilience,sustainability and systems applied to civil, mechanical,infrastructure, energy, defense and maritime fields.
Speaker: Dr. Bilal Ayyub
Topic: How risks are managed for natural disasters
Date, time and location: Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in EN2006
All interested are welcome.