SEF Fall Lecture 2024 - Designing for Our Changing World

The toll of disasters on society is rising globally, begging the question of how structural engineers working across research, policy and practice can work together to develop the interventions and strategies necessary to keep communities safe. Taken from the perspective of an engineer who leads global disaster responses, this seminar will explain the drivers of escalating disaster risk and illustrate the importance of effectively learning from each disaster. The speaker will then take the audience through the disaster learning loop, linking post-disaster field observations to rigorous research using federal shared research infrastructure to not only accelerate breakthrough discoveries, but also fast-track their translation into policy and practice. Vignettes will highlight the importance of collaborations with academia and practice to help communities not only build back better, but build better before the next disaster. 1 CE credit Speaker: Tracy Kijewski-Correa Recorded: November 12, 2024