Reliability and Risk Engineering and Management
A Multidisciplinary Doctoral Program

Funded by
The National Science Foundation
Integrative Graduate Education, Research, and Training (IGERT) Program

The Multidisciplinary Reliability and Risk Engineering and Management doctoral program is the first in the world to study and develop integrated multidisciplinary computational and experimental approaches to assessing and managing risk and reliability. The program's pioneering approach is unique, and the techniques are broadly applicable across engineering and management disciplines.



  • Professor Mahadevan elected AIAA Associate Fellow.
  • Professor Mahadevan named John R. Murray Sr. Chair in Engineering.
  • Bruce Hallbert, Candice Griffith, and Venkata Sura defend their Ph.D. dissertations.
  • Number of program graduates rises to 41 (31 Ph.D. and 10 M.S.).
  • You Ling secures third place in the student paper competition, Aircraft Airworthiness & Sustainment Conference, 2011.
  • Shankar Sankararaman selected as a finalist in the Student Paper Competition in the 52nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, April 2011.
  • Profs. Kosson and Mahadevan organize a multi-agency workshop on Risk, Safety and Decision-Making under Uncertainty,at Bethesda, MD during September 21-22, 2010.
  • Shankar Sankararaman wins the Student Best Paper Award for Probabilistic Mechanics Papers during the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (Los Angeles, August 2010).
  • Venkata Sura has been awarded ASME student conference scholarship to attend the 2010 ASME RTD Fall Technical conference (Ronake, VA, October 2010).
  • Laura Poff wins FHWA’s Eisenhower Travel Scholarship
  • Quentin Noreiga wins FAA’s Airport Cooperative Research ProgramFellowship