"Technology will improve ... the question is how we go to the last mile, " said Costas Synolakis, a professor of civil engineering at the University of South California.
"The number of collapsed buildings this time is less, and most are old houses that were built long before, " added Wang Ruheng, dean of the school of civil engineering and architecture at Southwest University of Science and Technology in the city of Mianyang, in Sichuan province.
Traffic forecasts are like weather forecasts, says Brian Smith, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Virginia.
"The state is making a short-term decision to get traffic moving quickly, " said Charles Roeder, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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S. in civil engineering from the University of Utah and a masters in design from Stanford, owns more than 50 patents on water control, lighting and air-compression devices, as well as laminar stream technology, which turns water jets into shapes that appear solid and motionless.
Most commuters showed a remarkable ability to accommodate the long distances to their work place, says Patricia Mokhtarian, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis.
The executive summary of the 2001 Minnesota Department of Transportation report -- undertaken by the University of Minnesota's Department of Civil Engineering -- points to fatigue problems with the bridge's approach span, the segments that connect the main span of the bridge to land.
Daniel Sperling, professor of civil engineering and environmental science at the University of California-Davis, talks with Melissa Block about what the new standards mean for consumers and automakers.
He aspired to study civil engineering and wanted to go to the University of California, Berkeley, like his dad.
After graduating from the University of New Hampshire with a civil engineering degree, and then from Harvard Business School, Blair began his real estate career in 1985 with flamboyant Dallas developer Trammell Crow.
Mr Watanabe arrived at the University of Glasgow in 1885 to study Engineering Sciences and graduated with a Civil Engineering and Bachelor of Science degree.
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"The recent earthquakes in Manchester and Italy have highlighted our need to better understand the movement of the Earth's crust in England, " said Dr Matt King of Newcastle University's School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences.
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