Perspective Students
The Beck Research Group is actively looking for new PhD students!
The BRG’s work surrounds advancing community impact-based performance-based engineering and decision support in civil infrastructure for improved community resilience to hazards. We integrate fundamentals of structural reliability, risk assessment, systems modeling, hazard modeling, and probabilistic methods with social science approaches to research these topics. We are structural engineers keenly aware of the community wide implications of our design.
The current research need primarily will focus on the development community impact-based reliability approaches. This research will require someone who is interested in both their development as a structural engineer proficient in structural reliability and as an interdisciplinary researcher.
Qualifications: Ideal applicants should possess expertise in structural reliability/engineering,
probabilistic methods, and natural hazards engineering, excellent written and oral communication
skills, proficiency in one programming language (e.g., Python, MATLAB, R), proficiency in GIS or
other geospatial software, preferably field work experience for data collection (survey and damage
assessment), and an interest for interdisciplinary work and collaboration.
For Ph.D. students: B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Industrial
Engineering, or other related fields. Students with M.S. strongly preferred, but students for direct admission to Ph.D. will be considered.
Interested candidates should contact Dr. Abigail Beck via email at albeck2@uh.edu with the applicable subject “Prospective PhD Student – your name” and include the following: 1) CV/Resume, 2) brief letter of interest describing your research interests and previous experience, 3) transcripts 4) representative publication, if applicable.