From left to right, Pol Spanos, Sang-ri Yi, James Doss-Gollin, Jamie Padgett, Rice University President Reginald DesRoches, Kai Gong, Satish Nagarajaiah, Xinwu Qian, Philip Bedient, Leonardo ...

Dr. Andres Kwasinski, professor in the department of computer engineering and director of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. program, is the co-author of a new book titled “Resilience ...

It took engineers nearly half a century to determine why the SS Schenectady, while docked quietly in a harbor off Portland, Ore. one day, suddenly snapped in half. For local residents, the event was ...

Post-disaster reconstruction is rapidly increasing global demand for construction materials, which drives unsustainable resource extraction, poor debris management, and heightened environmental and ...

This infographic visually summarizes the research background and the proposed framework, which can help improve the resilience of coastal communities to seismic events. Tsunamis and earthquakes pose ...

More than 35 years later, the post-mortem on one of the country's worst engineering disasters appears to be simple. A contractor asked for a change in an original design. The change was approved by ...

Reliability engineering is a critical discipline that integrates engineering principles with advanced statistical techniques to ensure that products perform consistently over their intended lifespan.

Far from simply a source of unstructured online content, disaster management in the digital age can be supported by careful analysis of online social-media data, suggests a paper published in Natural ...