Next Generation Infrastructure
Contact:
Michael Accorsi, Civil & Environmental Engineering, (860) 486-4198; accorsi@engr.uconn.edu
Opportunity:
Fellowships are available for doctoral students. Student stipends are up to $32,000 per year(depending on students financial need) and include a full tuition waiver and health benefits. Fellows must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Description:
The focus of this GAANN program is on the critical national need to revitalize our country’s aging infrastructure including bridges, buildings and other major structures. According to the 2013 ASCE Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, a staggering $3.6 trillion is needed by 2020 to restore the nation’s infrastructure to adequate conditions. The program will explore the utilization of four enabling technologies to engineer the next generation of U.S. infrastructure — Advanced Infrastructure Materials; Integrated Sensing and Monitoring; Multi-Scale Modeling and Simulation; and Multi-Scale Testing and Validation. This is an interdisciplinary program with faculty and students from three engineering programs — Civil & Environmental Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
Core Faculty: Civil Engineering
Michael Accorsi
Richard Christenson
Shinae Jang
Jeong-Ho Kim
Kay Wille
Arash Zaghi
Wei Zhang
Core Faculty: Materials Science & Engineering
Harold Brody
Rainer Hebert
Core Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
Jiong Tang
University of Connecticut website: www.uconn.edu
Civil & Environment Engineering website: www.engr.uconn.edu/cee/
Materials Science & Engineering website: www.mse.engr.uconn.edu/
Mechanical Engineering: www.engr.uconn.edu/me/cms/