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The Influence Of Engineers On Public Policy, Sarah Bouazzaoui
The Influence Of Engineers On Public Policy, Sarah Bouazzaoui
Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Engineers play a vital role in society and contribute positively to economic growth in various areas, including energy, transportation, telecommunications, and others. In the United States of America, these areas are monitored by public policies that are set by policy actors—mainly lawyers, public administrators and social scientists—at legislative and regulatory levels. In these domains, engineers have a reduced voice with key decision makers on critical engineering issues, and their input is very limited. Their lack of involvement results in costly unintended consequences, affecting both the interest of the profession and the interest of the nation.
Research has shown that increased …
Towards Managing And Understanding The Risk Of Underwater Terrorism, Richard J. Gay
Towards Managing And Understanding The Risk Of Underwater Terrorism, Richard J. Gay
Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Theses & Dissertations
This dissertation proposes a methodology to manage and understand the risk of underwater terrorism to critical infrastructures utilizing the parameters of the risk equation. Current methods frequently rely on statistical methods, which suffer from a lack of appropriate historical data to produce distributions and do not integrate epistemic uncertainty. Other methods rely on locating subject matter experts who can provide judgment and then undertaking an associated validation of these judgments.
Using experimentation, data from unclassified successful, or near successful, underwater attacks are analyzed and instantiated as a network graph with the key characteristics of the risk of terrorism represented as …