Resilience Engineering

Major accidents and failures with high consequence are often hard to recover from, and the recovery is usually an afterthought, reactive in nature, and unanticipated by system designers. Over the past few years, the idea of making engineered systems resilient to failures, with built-in ability to recover, has gained some momentum. While the extent to which “resilience engineering” can be realized is not known, the appeal of the idea, enormous implications, and the vast research horizon are not difficult to imagine. The Garrick Institute seeks research opportunities to introduce resilience through new design paradigms and full integration of advances in relevant disciplines such as materials science, robotics, electrical engineering and computer science, and human factors.