Engineers Fail in their Duty To Keep Public Informed
Engineers are failing the public by not effectively communicating risk, the cost of protection and alternatives for mitigating natural disasters, says Robert Gilbert.
"The civil part of civil engineering is working with owners, operators and the public to figure out how we mitigate these natural hazards," says Gilbert, a University of Texas professor who gave the closing plenary lecture March 12 at the Annual Congress of the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers in New Orleans.