PROJECTS
Education and Workforce Development
The CRC addresses Education and Workforce Development by formulating and delivering resilience-oriented undergraduate and graduate courses, concentrations, minors, certificates, training, and summer internship programs to establish a pipeline of well-qualified students prepared to enter the homeland security and engineering workforce. There is a strong emphasis among CRC’s education partners to engage with the community through outreach, service, and awareness programs.
CREATE: The Professional Development Pathway
The CREATE-The Professional Development Pathway project is designed to increase awareness of Emergency Management-related academic disciplines and career opportunities through hands-on training and career exploration.
Education for Improving Resilience of Coastal Infrastructure
The University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez Coastal Resilience Center (UPRM-CRC), is a DHS university-led Center of Excellence Partner. It provides formal and professional education to stakeholders in the field of education for improving resilience of coastal infrastructure (RCI).
Expanding Disaster Management Education
The Disaster Management certificate and minor’s education project will include research and classroom activities to educate and train students to address natural disaster vulnerabilities.
Completed Projects
Development and Testing of a Project Management Curriculum for Emergency Managers
The goal of this educational work plan is to develop and test an educational and training curriculum that prepares professionals to manage and deliver disaster-related project.
Disaster Science and Management Program at LSU
This Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence project will solidify the institutionalization of the DSM program at Louisiana State University by making it an integral part of the Geography degree program.
Institutionalizing the Graduate Certificate in Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design
This project aims to institutionalize the Graduate Certificate Program in Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design at NC State through interdisciplinary partnerships with faculty as well as federal, state, local and international partners, members of the private sector and graduate students participating in the certificate program.
Integrating Colleges and Universities in FEMA Disaster Recovery Field Operations and Steady-State Preparedness
This research project uses Hurricane Michael, a category 5 event which severely impacted counties of the Florida Panhandle, as a case study to examine FEMA NDRS processes to engage colleges and universities in disaster recovery field operations for the period November 2018 through October 2019.
Ph.D In Engineering (Coastal Engineering and Computational Engineering) at an HBCU
This project focuses on strengthening and preserving institutionalization of the PhD in Engineering (Coastal Engineering and Computational Engineering concentrations) at Jackson State University.
Preparing Tomorrow’s Minority Task Force in Coastal Resilience Through Interdisciplinary Education
The purpose of the project is to introduce students to the software tools used to investigate and mitigate natural disasters.
Review, Enhance and Stimulate the Coastal Engineering Concentration of MS/PhD Engineering Degree Programs
Review and update the HBCU MS/PhD Engineering Programs with a Coastal Engineering concentration, focusing on natural disasters at JSU, to ensure they are formulated for success for the next decade.
Stakeholder/End User Engagement Support of Two CRC Projects
This project supported several Coastal Resilience Center (CRC) research and education projects, building on the project team’s expertise in stakeholder engagement, leveraging information already collected from initial case studies, and utilizing existing connections to stakeholders and possible end users in the Hampton Roads region.
The Creation of an Open Space Management Guide for Fema
This project will focus on the development and distribution of an Open Space Management Guide for home buyout properties and incorporate the findings into the Graduate Certificate Program in Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering, and Design.
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under Grant Award Number 2015-ST-061-ND0001-01. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S Department of Homeland Security.