Consequence of a Dam Failure Workshop
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Note: All students must fill out a FEMA form 119-25-1 to receive credit for this course. This form as well as directions for filling it out are attached.
Consequence of Dam Failure Workshop (L261)
The Consequence of Dam Failure Workshop is designed to provide dam owners, emergency managers, and other relevant stakeholders with information needed to define and estimate consequences for dam failure scenarios. The course will provide participants with an overview and description of current consequence estimation methodologies, including information on the technical capability and resource requirements for each.
The course will highlight the importance of defining dam failure scenarios and assessing consequences through the presentation of case studies. The full range of social, institutional, and environmental consequences are addressed during the course, including focus on direct and indirect economic consequences and loss of life estimation. Specific instructions and detailed examples for computing economic and loss of life consequences are provided for some of the more commonly used procedures and methodologies. Participants are provided with the concepts of how consequence assessment is an important aspect of risk management strategies, how to establish initial priorities using consequence data, and how consequence estimation plays an important role in emergency preparedness efforts.
Course Objectives
- Describe the benefits of assessing potential consequences.
- Describe the relationship between consequence assessment and other planning mechanisms.
- Explain the methods used to estimate the potential for loss of life resulting from dam failure.
- Describe the potential economic consequences of dam failure.
- Assess other consequences of dam failure.
- Analyze a senario to dtermine potential consequences of dam failure.
Target Audience
The audience for this course is limited to dam owners, professional staff of dam safety programs, dam security programs, emergency managers at the Federal, Local, State, Tribal, and Territorial levels and dam safety, dam security, and incident management personnel from the private sector, with information needed to define and estimate consequences for dam failure scenarios.
Course Design/Methodology
This course is designed for delivery in a classroom. Lectures, discussions and multiple hands-on activities have been designed to enable participants to learn, practice, and demonstrate their knowledge.
Activities will include a method to grade participants, when appropriate, using a checklist administered by the instructors.
Scope
The Consequence of Dam Failure Workshop:
- Provides dam owners, professional staff of dam safety programs and emergency managers and other relevant stakeholders with the informaiton and guidance needed to define and estimate consequences of dam failure scenarios.
- Combines lecture, discussions, and exercises.
- Provides adequate support for implementation of practices learned in the seminar outside the classroom.
- Provides a comprehensive training course for estimation of economic consequences and loss of life estimations for dam failure scenarios.
The course will highlight the importance of defining dam failure scenarios and assessing consequences through the presentation of case studies. The full range of social, institutional, and environmental consequences will be addressed during the course, including focus on direct and indirect economic consequences and loss of life estimation. Participants will be provided with the concepts of how consequence assessment is an important part of risk management strategies, how to establish initial priorities using consequence data, and how consequence estimation plays an important role in emergency preparedness efforts.
Course Schedule
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Day 2 |
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Unit 0: Course Welcome Unit 1: Introduction to Dam Failure Scenarios and Consequence Assessment Unit 2: Consequence Assessment as part of Risk Management and Emergency Preparedness Unit 3: Assessing Potential Economic Consequences |
Unit 4: Assessing Potential for Loss of Unit 5: Assessing Social, Institutional and Environmental Consequences Unit 6: Course Summary |
Speaker and Presenter Information
Dr. James H. Graham
Dr. James H. Graham is the Henry Vogt Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Louisville, and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He earned the Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1972, and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1978 and 1980, respectively. He has worked as a product design engineer for General Motors Corporation, and as a faculty member at Purdue University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, before joining the faculty of the University of Louisville in 1985. He has served as a consultant to a number of companies, including the General Electric Company, GTE Laboratories (now part of Verizon), Science and Engineering Services, Inc., and several high-technology startup companies.
Dr. Graham is the editor of two books, and the author or coauthor of over 250 technical publications. He has supervised twenty-four Ph.D. students and over 70 master’s theses students. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and a senior member of the International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA). His current research is focused on cyber-security of industrial control systems, with applications in the chemical industry, the water resource sector and the electrical power industry. He also has expertise in computer simulation, intelligent systems and computational intelligence and is the Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory at the University of Louisville.
Mr. Jason Weiss
Mr. Weiss has 19 years of professional experience as a researcher and consultant in the fields of economics, planning, engineering, and community development. Mr. Weiss specializes in applied economic and socioeconomic analyses, including benefit-cost analysis, economic impact assessment, incremental cost analysis, commodities forecasting, regional input-output modeling, forecasting, recreational assessments, environmental restoration analysis, and socioeconomic impact analysis. He has worked for 14 years conducting plan formulation and economic evaluations for flood damage reduction studies for FEMA, USACE, NRCS, and local municipalities. Many of these studies involved analyzing the impacts of rehabilitating or constructing dams and levees, including developing guidance for local communities on estimating the consequences of a dam failure.
Expected Number of Attendees
35Relevant Government Agencies
Air Force, Army, Navy & Marine Corps, DOD & Military, Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Energy, Dept of Homeland Security, Dept of the Interior, Dept of Transportation, EPA, SSA, State Government, County Government, City Government, Municipal Government, FEMA, Coast Guard
This event has no exhibitor/sponsor opportunities
When
Tue-Wed, Apr 15-16, 2014, 8:00am - 5:00pm
Cost
Complimentary: $ 0.00
Where
FEMA Region VI
800 North Loop
Building 288
Denton, TX 76209
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Organizer
Department of Homeland Security - 1