A Civil Infrastructure System Perspective - Not Just the Built Environment

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Dr. Schmucker has 20 years experience in teaching and consulting. Focused on high quality teaching following the T4E, ExCEEd, and NETI teaching models, he currently is a full-time teaching professional with a focus on practice, project, and problem-based teaching methodologies. His research focuses on land management policy in two discrete areas. The first relates to civil infrastructure projects and landscape-scale impacts on habitat, community resilience, and longterm land use planning; the second involves the utilization, conservation, and management of big game wildlife resources. DrFor the past five years he has led various transdisciplinary teaching and research projects examining land and wildlife resource management conflicts vis-à-vis public policy, assessing stakeholder needs and desires, resource analysis, and collective impact engagement. Currently, he is working closely with several local and national organizations to research and rally opposition against the transfer of federal public lands to state governance.Dr. Steven J. Burian P.E., University of Utah Dr. Steven J. Burian is an associate professor in the Urban Water Group in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Utah. Dr. Burian's career spans more than a decade during which he has worked in design engineering, as a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a professor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as a director of an engineering design and sustainability consulting firm he co-founded. Dr. Burian received a Bachelor's of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a Master's in Environmental Engineering and a Doctorate in Civil Engineering from The University of Alabama. Dr. Burian has expertise related to the engineering of sustainable urban water resources systems, including water supply, storm water management, flood control, and waste water collection. He has taught courses in sustainable urban water engineering, storm water management and design, water management, professional practice and design, sustainable infrastructure, hydrology, hydraulics, sustainable design, flood modeling, and hydrologic field measurements. Specialty areas of research and consulting include integrated urban water management, low-impact development, green infrastructure design, storm water management, flood risk modeling, vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies for urban water systems, and the water-energy nexus. Steve's research projects have been funded by National Laboratories, EPA, NSF, DOD, DOE, State Departments of Transportation, and Private Industry. His work has resulted in more than 50 authored or co-authored peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Burian currently is an Associate

Leveraging the ASCE Infrastructure Report Card in the STEM Classroom

“…When students are taught this perspective of infrastructure, they are often more proficient in their efforts to incorporate all of the stakeholders in the development and implementation of the facilities and processes they are asked to study." Tools such as the Report Card and economic studies can be invaluable in demonstrating these links to students, and driving home the importance of concepts such as sustainability and resilience (Schmucker et al, 2016).…”