Eng. Systems and Management
Are you interested in answers to questions like:
- Where should the U.S. invest to have the biggest impact on improving security in container ports?
- How can resources best be allocated to reduce the time to restore electric power after an earthquake?
- How can water be managed effectively in South Florida to maintain the Everglades as a vital ecosystem amidst the rapid growth of urban areas?
- Are hybrid diesel-electric transit buses an effective technology to reduce particulate matter emissions in urban areas?
- How can we best use monitoring wells to identify the sources and extent of groundwater contamination in an aquifer?
These are a few of the questions currently being studied within the Engineering Systems and Management (ESM) area of the School. The focus of the ESM faculty and students is to use mathematical modeling and scientific principles to help design better system-level solutions to civil and environmental engineering problems. The primary application areas are in water resource systems and transportation systems. Some of our faculty are also focused on large-scale civil infrastructure systems. Effective system-level solutions require attention to both physical design and operating policies, they often must concern themselves with ongoing data acquisition and processing, and they must be integrated with economic and political structures. This implies a need for a focus on the interactions among components of a system and on management as a means of implementing solutions.
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