2022-06-15: Critical Infrastructure Resilience - Concepts, Frameworks, & Strategies (Dr. Thomas)
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Speaker: Dr. John E. Thomas is a Scholar in Residence with the Engineering Management Program in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
Dr. John E. Thomas, a Scholar in Residence with University of Colorado, explains how critical infrastructures are essential to public health, safety, and well-being but they are inherently vulnerable to unanticipated disruptions that can impact businesses, technical operations, supply chains, and daily life across local, regional, and global scales. The cascading effect of complex system breakdowns reflects the interdependence among systems and adds to the complexity of effective resilient response, which often requires interaction across multiple operating domains in public, private, and commercial sectors. Dr. Thomas introduces resilience engineering concepts and frameworks relevant to unanticipated social, ecological, and technological system disruptions or surprises.
The book drawing
Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Systems: Emerging Developments and Future Challenges
by Wu, Lu, and Noori
Was won by Dave Fadley. We look forward to his book report.