This program is appropriate for civil infrastructure (such as transportation, water and waste water, and utilities) owners and operators, designers, planners, maintenance staff, and other technical workers in the public and private sectors who are responsible for improving facility and equipment performance, reliability, security, efficiency, and management practices. New approaches to civil infrastructure problems are emerging that use traditional civil engineering domain knowledge in the context of IT with a systems approach to analyze the complexity of and interaction among various infrastructure components and their performance. Currently, the most important challenge to infrastructure engineering is to improve the quality of stewardship, which falls far short of public expectations, and improve immediately the security of critical civil infrastructure. The certificate is intended to respond uniquely to the need for broad training in the holistic and systems approach to the long term management of infrastructure, with specific attention to risk and vulnerability assessments, and creative solutions to providing improved system security. The certificate program is flexible and can be tailored to the needs of students within the infrastructure engineering community, but it is also intended to be responsive to the needs of infrastructure owners, operators, and other technical staff.

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