Experiencing Failure - Recreating the Hyatt Regency Collapse to Teach Statics, Ethics, and Lifelong Learning

Abstract

where she teaches undergraduate courses in civil engineers. Before coming to SCU, Laura was a post doctoral scholar for the John Muir Institute of the Environment at University of California, Davis where she used multi-dimensional models to examine water quality of the San Francisco Bay Delta system. She earned her masters and doctoral degrees at UC Davis and her undergraduate degree (all in civil engineering) is from Loyola Marymount University.