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Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Infrastructure Asset Management
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a postdoctoral fellow (PDF) position within the Risk-Informed Lifecycle Infrastructure Engineering (RILCIE) research group led by Prof. Arnold Yuan at the Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University. We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly … Continue reading
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Readings on Risk and Decision
Probability, risk, uncertainty and decisions all are abstract concepts. In CV8311 (Risk and Reliability for Engineers), our study will have to emphasize on engineering applications. However, if you are interested in risk and decision in general, I give below a … Continue reading
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Opportunities in Research Position
The RILCIE group keep recruiting self-motivated post-doctoral researchers and PhD students from time to time. The recruitment focus for year 2020 is on infrastructure asset management, progressive collapse, and probabilistic structural integrity. If you have a strong background in one … Continue reading
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Book Review on “Engineering Systems: meeting human needs in a complex technological world” by de Weck, Roos & Magee (2011), MIT Press
This book was published in 2011, and I purchased in 2013 for the preparation of CVL609, Civil Engineering Systems. I just read it second time, and I believe it deserves more reading. https://www.amazon.ca/Engineering-Systems-Meeting-Complex-Technological/dp/0262529947 This books is revolutionary. Most of our … Continue reading
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A Recipe for MEng Students Hoping to Specialize in Infrastructure Management
Before you read on, please note that the blog articles published in rilcie.blog.ryerson.ca represent only Dr. Arnold Yuan’s personal view, and do represent neither the position of Ryerson University nor that of the Department of Civil Engineering. Dr. Yuan does … Continue reading
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Why do you study PhD?
Frequently, if not everyday, I receive emails inquiring position vacancy about MASc or PhD. Some have very specific research targets, but a majority of them are mainly fishing emails, to which I rarely reply. Research position is always there, if … Continue reading
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Why are structural grads uninterested in Risk and Reliability?
Some of the materials were first drafted in my LinedIn early on. But the character limit of LinkedIn makes it only a place to show opinion and not a full argument. Here is my relatively complete argument: CV8311 Risk and … Continue reading
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Infrastructure Observation 21Oct2015
Now that the Liberal wins a majority government, it is interesting to see how the other people see the opportunities and concerns. I’ll try to jot down some notes for my readings, mainly of newspaper articles. Why virtually every Canadian … Continue reading
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Research Positions in RILCIE Group
The RILCIE group keeps looking for high quality graduate students and researchers. For the academic year of 2015-2016, the group has admitted three Phd students and one MASc student, and therefore, no more graduate students can be taken for the … Continue reading
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CV8107 Infrastructure Asset Management
Dr. Arnold Yuan is going to offer a new graduate course titled ‘Infrastructure Asset Management’ in Fall 2015. The course materials will be delivered on the new learning and teaching system D2L, instead of Blackboard, which is being phased out … Continue reading