Disaster Risk Analysis of Infrastructure Systems

3 credits · Graduate

Coverage of urban risks to natural hazards such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods; fundamental concepts in hazards, infrastructure vulnerability, and risk; disaster risk modeling with rigorous statistical methods and large datasets; and network modeling to assess the cascading effects of infrastructure failures. Designed for graduate students interested in risk and resilience for practice and research. Course includes software development and utilization of research software for regional risk modeling of the impacts of natural hazards.