IRES Track II/Collaborative Research: PREEMPTIVE Multidisciplinary Natural Hazards Engineering Institute Series for Advanced Graduate Students

通过美国正在进行的研究，在自然灾害期间改善基础设施安全的新技术正在进步。以及在国外。最近受到地震、海啸和飓风影响的地区为来自美国的多学科研究生小组提供了绝佳的机会，他们可以学习基础设施保护系统在最近的灾难中如何发挥作用的教训，以便这些学生能够将他们当前和未来的研究引向最当代和最有成效的方向，以更好地为美国未来的自然灾害做好准备。该奖项的目的是让来自不同学科的美国高级研究生通过研究环太平洋地区及其他地区自然灾害工程防护系统的前沿，从事嵌入式学习，并在他们与海外同行之间建立一个持续的研究社区。该奖项将使位于不同地点的六个高级研究院(ASIS)能够让美国学生向当地和美国的教师专家学习，启动自然灾害工程学中的防护系统研究，并亲身体验自然灾害对建筑环境的影响。通过这些活动，该奖项提高了美国在自然灾害工程多学科组成部分方面的科学能力，并培训了一批即将到来的多样化的科学工作者，以便先发制人地推进新技术，为国内未来的灾难做好准备；与同行、高级教师和职业早期教师合作；并建立一种新的多学科方法来应对工程灾害。该项目将涉及全球不同地点的六个ASIS总共81名美国研究生。Preemptive(环太平洋地震工程减灾保护技术国际虚拟环境)ASIS从高度多学科的角度探索灾害科学和弹性基础设施的主题，以在保护系统和减灾的广泛领域培训不同的研究生群体。一系列为期六周的先发制人的ASIS计划在三年内进行，每一项计划都将使一批来自美国的高级研究生、高级和职业早期教师以及来自世界各地的同行教职员工和学生了解全球在自然灾害防护系统方面所做的努力，建立多学科研究的新前沿，并形成长期的全球专业关系。ASIS将探讨哥斯达黎加、泰国、新西兰、智利、波多黎各和日本的老龄化基础设施、海啸灾害和基础设施复原力、结构控制和岩土挑战、极端地震和海啸灾害、飓风和多种灾害以及跨学科灾害科学。每个ASI将包括2-3天的研讨会，1-2天的文化和技术之旅，以提供有关保护系统在最近的自然灾害中的表现的背景，以及2-3天的协作小组项目，提供基础设施保护系统的指导性经验学习经验。通过该奖项，美国研究生研究人员在以下方面学会了先发制人：满足当前和未来先进减灾方面的研究需求；与海外同行合作；建立一种新的多学科方法来应对工程灾害。美国研究生的参与者是通过严格的申请程序挑选出来的。学生的学习成果将通过各种方式进行评估，并通过网站以及会议和期刊出版物进行分析和传播。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

New technologies for improving the safety of infrastructure during natural hazards are advancing through ongoing research in the United States (U.S.) and abroad. Locations that have been recently impacted by earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes form prime opportunities for multidisciplinary groups of graduate students from the U.S. to learn the lessons of how infrastructure protective systems performed during recent disasters so that these students can direct their current and future research in the most contemporary and productive directions to better prepare the U.S. for future natural hazards. The objective of this award is to engage U.S. advanced graduate students from various disciplines in embedded learning through research at the forefront of protective systems for natural hazards engineering on the Pacific rim and beyond, and to build a sustained research community between them and their overseas counterparts. The award will enable six Advanced Studies Institutes (ASIs), each in a different location, in which the U.S. students learn from local and U.S. faculty experts, initiate protective systems research in natural hazards engineering, and experience first-hand the effects of natural hazards on built environments. Through these activities, this award advances U.S. scientific capabilities in multidisciplinary components of natural hazards engineering, and trains a diverse upcoming cohort of the scientific workforce to preemptively advance new technologies to prepare for future disasters at home; collaborate with counterparts, senior and early career faculty; and establish a new multidisciplinary approach to engineering hazard resilience. The project will involve a total of 81 U.S. graduate students via the six ASIs in different sites around the world. The PREEMPTIVE (Pacific Rim Earthquake Engineering Mitigation Protective Technologies International Virtual Environment) ASIs explore topics in disaster science and resilient infrastructure from a highly multidisciplinary perspective to train a diverse group of graduate students in the broad areas of protective systems and disaster mitigation. A series of six week-long PREEMPTIVE ASIs are planned over three years, each enabling a cohort of advanced graduate students and senior and early-career faculty from the U.S. with counterpart faculty and students from around the world to learn about global efforts in protective systems for natural hazards, establish new frontiers of multidisciplinary research, and form long-term global professional relationships. The ASIs will explore the Resilience of Aging Infrastructure, Tsunami Hazards and Infrastructure Resilience, Structural Control & Geotechnical Challenges, Extreme Earthquake & Tsunami Hazards, Hurricane and Multi-Hazards, and Interdisciplinary Disaster Science in Costa Rica, Thailand, New Zealand, Chile, Puerto Rico, and Japan. Each ASI will consist of 2-3 day workshops, 1-2 day cultural and technical tours to provide context to the performance of protective systems in recent natural hazards, and 2-3 day collaborative group projects providing guided experiential learning experiences in infrastructure protective systems. Through this award, U.S. graduate student researchers learn to be preemptive in: addressing current and future research needs in advanced hazards mitigation; collaborating with overseas counterparts; and establishing a new multidisciplinary approach to engineering hazard resilience. The U.S. graduate student participants are selected via rigorous application processes. Student learning outcomes will be assessed through a variety of modalities, analyzed and disseminated through a website and in conference and journal publications.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.