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Emergency Preparedness
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Engineering Gateway
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Extreme Flooding from Florence Likely, Due to Convergence of Threats
“We have ignored it in the past, we cannot ignore it in the future,” says Amir AghaKouchak, a civil engineer at the University of California, Irvine …. AghaKouchak is studying how sea level rise might affect such flooding; a 2017 study he co-authored found that when compound flooding and sea level rise were factored in, the chances of floods that exceed what local infrastructure was built to accommodate went up considerably.
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Electrifying future homes
A neighborhood in Southern California could set the standard for energy-efficient homes throughout the country. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) gave KB Home $6.65 million to develop an experiment in energy-resilient housing.
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Environmental Engineering
Environmental Engineering involves designing environmental protection or remediation strategies for multiple resources-water, air, and soil, often with combinations of physical chemical, and biological treatment methods in the context of a complex regulatory framework.
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