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Author Archives: arnold.yuan
Group Update as of October 1, 2014
Well, it has been quite a while since last blogging. After a cool summer and a hectic September, it is the right time to briefly summarize what the RILCIE research group was doing. First thing first, Dr. Arnold Yuan was … Continue reading
How should you prepare for exams?
About six years ago, when I just first came to Ryerson, I observed one thing: too many Ryerson students were interested in only marks, not in knowledge and problem-solving skills. Unfortunately, I didn’t see this has been changed much. This … Continue reading
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(Risk, Reliability) vs. (Resilience, Sustainability)
A recent in-print in the Journal of Infrastructure Systems, ASCE, is entitled “Resilience and sustainability of the civil infrastructure: towards a unified approach” by two Lehigh professors (P. Bocchini and D. M. Frangopol) and two German researchers (T. Ummenhofer and … Continue reading
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Group Updates as of June 25, 2013
(1) Dr Arnold Yuan was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in May 2013. (2) Mr. Afzal Waseem successfully defended in early May 2013 his MASc thesis titled by Methodology Development and Local Calibration of MEPDG Permanent Deformation Models for … Continue reading
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Infrastructure Weekly Digest, 20130422
This weekly digest focuses on budget allocation for natural disaster risk management. Budget allocation for natural disaster risk management mainly deals with allocation of disaster mitigation funds (which are usually public funds) to different disaster-prone regions for different mitigation strategies. … Continue reading
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The Risk of Performing Risk Assessment
Risk analysis aims to provide clients, sometimes the public, with an objective view of the risks involved in a human endeavor or induced by some natural disaster. In my Risk & Reliability for Engineers class, I already heard one student … Continue reading
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Research Assistant Positions
For Prospective Students: I am currently looking for hiring an international PhD student to do research in risk-informed life-cycle infrastructure management. Students who have strong background in civil engineering, industrial engineering, nuclear engineering, applied mathematics, or engineering management are welcome … Continue reading
Statistics 101: Reject or Accept the Hypotheses
Hypothesis testing relies on using information in a random sample from a population of interest to make inference about a certain characteristic of the population. It involves formulating hypotheses (both null and alternative hypotheses), taking a random sample, computing a … Continue reading
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Book Review: The Failure of Risk Management
Douglas W. Hubbard, The failure of risk management: why it’s broken and how to fix it. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2009. Ryerson Library Call Number: HD61 .H76 2009, 7th Floor. In June 2012 I attended for the first time the annual … Continue reading
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Research Activities in Summer 2012
Alas, time flies by and now it’s almost the end of the summer. I heard many people complaining the long-lasting heat; the summer is definitely too short to me. The main theme of the summer research was highway pavement design. … Continue reading
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