Mid-America Earthquake Center

Earthquake Engineering Leaders Create Distance Learning Course

Developing educational materials that expand the knowledge base and capabilities of scientists and engineers is a fundamental role of Engineering Research Centers such as the Mid-America Earthquake Center (MAE). Based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the MAE Center created an online distance learning course on consequence-based risk management that integrates components of seismic risk assessment.

The syllabus and pre-recorded lectures by MAE Center investigators reflect the center's core thrust areas and the cross-disciplinary nature of earthquake engineering practice and research. The course provides an overview of a diverse set of topics, including earthquake hazards, site response, ground failure, dynamic response analysis, fragility, rehabilitation, inventories, social impact, economics, network vulnerability, and loss assessment methods.

The course provides research assistants and graduate students at all MAE Center member institutions with an opportunity to improve their understanding of how project requirements drive the treatment of individual components of risk. The course has been offered for the first time at UIUC in Spring 2006, and Georgia Tech will offer the course in Fall 2006. Future offerings include short course formats suitable for continuing education of earthquake engineering professionals.

To learn more about this topic:
Visit the Mid-America Earthquzke Center Web site at http://mae.ce.uiuc.edu/graduate/index.html

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Last modified: April 9, 2007