This course provides students and practitioners with an overview of resilient systems planning and design with a focus on floodproofing. This course reviews conventional responses to disasters and floods, the limitations of traditional resilience approaches, and recent developments in floodproofing solutions according to the requirements and recommendations provided by the FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers). The course further discusses the impacts of disasters on infrastructures, communities, and economies as well as presents contemporary considerations in resilience risk management, planning, and design.  The course also examines how to assess, measure, model, and quantify resilience. Case studies of critical infrastructure resilience, floodproofing, and other natural disaster-related events, impacts, and strategies are discussed in this course. Upon successful completion of this course, students or practitioners will receive a completion certificate.

Schedule:

January 19 - April 27
On-Campus Location: Faculty Memorial Hall (FMH 407)
Every Thursday: 6:00 p.m. - 8:50 p.m.
Earn 3 CPC’s each class

Covered (weekly) topics include:

- Identifying Hazards and Threats
- Flood Regulatory Requirements
- Flood Retrofitting and Floodproofing
- Flood Economics
- Flood Design Considerations and Hazards
- Critical Infrastructure Resilience
- Quantifying and Modeling Resilience
- Probabilistic Risk Assessment
- Decision-Making Tools
- Flood Risk Management
- FEMA and ASCE Requirements
and more!

Registration information

All graduate students and industry practitioners can register for this course. Course attendees could be non-matriculated; matriculated in any graduate program (MS CE, MS EE, MS CIS, MS CM, MS SDC, Ph.D. CE, Ph.D. EE, Ph.D. T, etc.); and matriculated in a graduate certificate program.

Contact info for more info

For more information, please contact Dr. Rayan H. Assaad at rayan.hassane.assaad@njit.edu; 973-596-2470; 207 Colton Hall.