Tag: structural engineering

• September 22, 2022

  What the Wildfire Community Can Learn from Civil Engineers on Hazard Mitigation

  The field of civil engineering has long been involved in mitigating hazards affecting communities. Fires, however, have generally fallen outside of the purview of civil engineering, possibly due to the fact that civil engineering education does not provide the necessary background in fire science. Nonetheless, “resilience” is a term that spans the civil engineering and…
• March 6, 2022

  A Crash Course in Object-Oriented Programming

  I’m a big fan of coding, but I get the sense my college education may have failed me. Don’t get me wrong–I’m proud of my degrees from Pitt and Virginia Tech, and my education was more than enough to propel me into an academic career at the University of Michigan. But the state of the…