Mark your calendars! Dr. Roberto T. Leon will be at Purdue on Friday, February 28, 2025. 

Reception in Wood Commons 3:00pm-5:00pm 

Lecture 5:00pm-6:00pm in HAMP 1144

Dr. Leon's lecture  will center around: 

Complexity Lessons from Recent Structural Failures. 

"The goal is to develop strategies to communicate to the public at large the complexities and cultural issues behind such disasters, in order to influence infrastructure policies and community resilience. The need to understand the complex relationships between political priorities and infrastructure resilience as an integral component in all engineering courses will be emphasized."