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This webinar was co-sponsored by ASCE's Infrastructure Resilience Division and ASCE Continuing Education

Instructor:  Bilal M. Ayyub, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE

Course Length: 1.5 Hours

Purpose and Background

Natural disasters in 2011 alone resulted in $366 billion (2011 US$) in direct damages and 29,782 fatalities worldwide. Storms and floods accounted for up to 70% of the 302 natural disasters worldwide, with earthquakes producing the greatest number of fatalities. Managing these risks and others rationally requires an appropriate definition of resilience and associated metrics. This webinar provides a resilience definition that meets a set of requirements with clear relationships to reliability and risk as key relevant metrics. Such metrics provide a sound basis for the development of effective decision- and policy-making methods for multi-hazard environments for various system types including lifeline, environmental, financial, etc. systems. The webinar also examines recovery, with its classifications based on level, spatial, and temporal considerations. Three case studies are used to gain insights to help define recovery profiles. The webinar also discusses the economics of resilience.

Primary Discussion Topics

• Background: risk landscape
• Resilience definitions and measurement science of resilience
• Practical resilience models and examples
• Recovery and its profiles
• Economics of resilience

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Define and measure resilience of infrastructure systems
• Compute resilience with practical examples
• Describe recovery and its profiles
• Manage resilience

Webinar Benefits

• Discuss the meaning of resilience
• Describe how to quantify resilience
• Find out how to manage resilience
• Develop an understanding of applications and benefits

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Students' achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed via a short post-assessment (true-false, multiple choice and fill in the blank questions).

Intended Audience

• Civil engineers of all specialties: structures, geotech, water resources, construction, etc.
• Researchers from academia, national labs, etc.
• Graduate students
• Public agency engineers
• Emergency planners

Webinar Outline

• Background: risk landscape
• Resilience definitions
• Measurement science of resilience
• Resilience models
• Mathematical framework
• Practical model
• Resilience example
• Recovery and its profiles
• Concluding remarks

How to Earn your CEUs/PDHs and Receive Your Certificate of Completion

To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short on-line post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher within 1 year of purchasing the course.

How do I convert CEUs to PDHs?

1.0 CEU = 10 PDHs [Example: 0.1 CEU = 1 PDH]