Engineering Seminar to Discuss the Nation's Infrastructure Systems
On Wednesday, November 2, at 2:00 p.m. Garrick Louis, associate professor of Systems, and Information Engineering and of Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia, will discuss the dire state of the nation's infrastructure systems such as water, sanitation, communications, and transportation.
Louis will present a framework for analyzing infrastructure as a system of interdependent components with the goal of assuring system integrity for the planned life of the system. The dire statistics about the state of infrastructure in the U.S. are compounded by the threat of terrorism and risks from natural disasters.
Louis received his doctoral degree in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University; masters in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and bachelors in chemical engineering from Howard University. Louis directs the sustainable infrastructure systems program at the University of Virginia and manages the environmental systems engineering application area in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering.
The one-hour seminar will be held in Dunstan 202.
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