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NSF ERC Pre-proposal
Engineering Research Center on Hurricane-resilient Communities:
Technology, Education, Innovation
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Area of Focus
Hurricane-Resilient Community Sustainability Infrastructure Interdependence
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Vision
• The Center will foster resilience and sustainability in communities, via coupled socio-economic and engineering systems at various temporal and spatial scales.
• We will develop generalizable dynamic models of infrastructure systems, including their inherent vulnerabilities and operational inter-dependencies, using hurricane hazards as proxy transient stressors.
• To accomplish this, we will conduct extensive multi-scale theoretical and experimental studies leveraging intermural infrastructure.
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System of Systems Approach
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Goals Provide engineering leadership in fostering resilient communities through
interdisciplinary hurricane mitigation research and education Develop innovative hurricane-resilient building technologies and systems to
minimize damage and loss Develop a robust and dynamic decision support platform and tools to be
used by community planners and stakeholders for performance- and consequence-based decision-making
Strategic Plan
The knowledge generated by the Center will transform community development to reduce hazard impacts through improved understanding of the interdependencies of the various systems and through employing newly developed information, tools, and technology toward creating safe, resilient, and sustainable communities.
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Research Thrusts:Characterization of Community Systems Characterization of Hurricane StressorsDeveloping Innovative Resilient Building TechnologiesDeveloping Engineering Systems for Hurricane ResilienceSpatial Decision Support System for Community ResilienceMechanisms to Incentivize Implementation
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Workforce Development (Education)
Training students to become engineers knowledgeable in building sustainable communities
High return educational curriculum to be proposed to the State
High School teacher training at the Center; engaging the School Board to certify teachers (Miami-Dade/FIU and Broward/UM coverage)
Incorporating socio-economic aspects within local education efforts
Innovation EcosystemIndustrial Collaboration and Innovation through Membership StructureStreamlined Research-to-Practice Process through
Expeditious Technology TransferInter-University Agreements to Facilitate Innovation and CommercializationIndustry Summit – Yearly Hurricane Technology FairIndustrial Advisory BoardExtension of: PFI-AIR: CREST-I/UCRC-Industry Ecosystem to Pipeline Research
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Resources – Stressor Analysis
Wind Engineering – Wall of Wind (WoW) at FIU SUrge-STructure-Atmosphere Interaction (SUSTAIN)
Lab at UM International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC) at FIU NASA WaterSCAPES: Science of Coupled Aquatic
Processes in Ecosystems from Space, a partnership with UM
Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS) at UM
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Resources – Engineering Materials and Structures
Materials and Structures Laboratory at USC
NanoCenter at USC Electron Microscopy Center at USC McNAIR Center for Aerospace Research &
Innovationation USC University Transportation Center (UTC) OHL School of Construction at FIU Center for Integration of Composites Into
Infrastructure at UM (NSF-I/UCRC) IAS Accredited Structural Engineering
Testing Laboratory for ANS/ISO/IEC Standard 17025 at UM
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Resources – Decision Making
FIU Geo-database TerraFly – Big Data Center for Innovative Information Systems Engineering
(CREST) at FIU Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for
Advanced Knowledge Enablement (I/UCRC-CAKE) at FIU, FAU, and Dubna (Russia) and sibling Center at UMBC/UCSD
Business Connectivity Information Network (BCIN) at FIU Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes
Center at U.Penn Hazards & Vulnerability Research Institute (HVRI) at
USC Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at
CU/UM
