CAREER: Humanizing Engineering and Resilience: An Integrated Research and Education Approach to Understand and Enhance Infrastructure Resilience

职业：人性化工程和复原力：理解和增强基础设施复原力的综合研究和教育方法

基本信息

批准号：
1944664
负责人：
Christine Kirchhoff
金额：
$ 50.01万
依托单位：
University of Connecticut
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-06-01 至 2025-05-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1944664&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CAREER Humanizing Engineering Resilience Integrated

项目摘要

Societies depend on resilient infrastructure and the uninterrupted provision of drinking water, electricity, and wastewater treatment; when infrastructure is not resilient, hazards and disasters can disrupt these services causing enormous economic losses and human and environmental impacts. Improving the resilience of the nation’s infrastructure to current and future hazards is vital for society and a grand engineering challenge. While much is known about the physical and technical dimensions of resilience, there are fundamental gaps in our understanding of the human dimensions of resilience. In particular, we cannot explain why infrastructure managers overwhelmingly focus on building resilience to the past, bouncing back from disruption, rather than bouncing forward or building resilience to future hazards and surprise. This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant supports fundamental research that will address this gap in knowledge to: advance resilience theory to include human dimensions, identify the different human dimensions factors necessary to bounce back as well as bounce forward, produce actionable knowledge that will enhance resilience of U.S. infrastructure systems, and develop curricula to educate students and professionals about human dimensions of engineering. The novel integrated research and education approach offers unique opportunities for students to engage in research, prepares them to help solve societal problems, and helps diminish the gender gap in engineering. In addition to training a postdoctoral researcher and graduate and undergraduate students, this project will engage a broad audience including 150 students and 200-250 infrastructure managers and public officials.This research advances fundamental understanding of resilience and resilience theory to enable researchers to assess human dimensions factors of resilience across a range of critical infrastructure not previously possible. It also advances novel methods and applies experimental techniques to demonstrate the effectiveness of tools for improving resilience and of a new educational model for enhancing student understanding and commitment to engineering. Results from this research will provide scholars with a new theory and methods for assessing human dimensions of resilience and will give practitioners concrete guidance on how to measure and improve infrastructure resilience to present and future hazards. Unique quantitative and qualitative datasets, interactive graphic displays, and professional and undergraduate engineering curricula will be produced and made widely available. Broad dissemination will occur through publications and conferences as well as webinars, trainings, and presentations to partners, infrastructure managers, and their communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

社会依赖于有弹性的基础设施以及不间断的饮用水、电力和废水处理；当基础设施没有弹性时，灾害和灾害可能会破坏这些服务，造成巨大的经济损失以及人类和环境影响。当前和未来的灾害对社会至关重要，也是一项重大的工程挑战。尽管人们对复原力的物理和技术层面了解甚多，但我们对复原力的人类层面的理解存在根本差距，特别是，我们无法解释为什么基础设施管理者如此。压倒性地集中于建立对过去的复原力，从破坏中恢复过来，而不是向前反弹或建立对未来危险和意外的复原力。该学院早期职业发展（CAREER）拨款支持基础研究，以解决这一知识差距：推进复原力理论，包括：人类维度，确定反弹和前进所需的不同人类维度因素，产生可增强美国基础设施系统弹性的可操作知识，并开发课程来教育学生和专业人员了解工程的人类维度。教育方法提供为学生提供参与研究的独特机会，为他们帮助解决社会问题做好准备，并帮助缩小工程领域的性别差距。除了培训博士后研究员以及研究生和本科生外，该项目还将吸引包括 150 名学生在内的广泛受众。 200-250 名基础设施管理者和公职人员。这项研究增进了对复原力和复原力理论的基本理解，使研究人员能够评估一系列关键基础设施中复原力的人类维度因素，它还提出了新颖的方法并应用实验技术来证明。提高复原力的工具的有效性和这项研究的结果将为学者们提供评估人类复原力维度的新理论和方法，并将为如何衡量和提高基础设施复原力提供实际的具体指导。将制作独特的定量和定性数据集、交互式图形显示以及专业和本科工程课程，并通过出版物和会议以及网络研讨会、培训和向合作伙伴、基础设施管理者的演示进行广泛传播。和他们的社区。这个奖项通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。