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 ...

We call them engineering disasters. But is that a misnomer? Certainly tons of the “engineering disasters” of the 20 th Century had nothing to do with the engineer. Many of those calamities came from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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