Graduate Certificate in Engineering Risk and Emergency Management

Western New England University

This certificate is intended to enable the engineer and civic planner to take the lead in management through hazard identification, qualification, quantification and scenario development. Risk analysis and management are essential evaluation and planning tools for any organization with exposure to organizational, employee safety, and technical and natural hazards. Analyzing existing data, and developing anticipator assessments enables the private and public entity to save time, money, and the health and safety of employees and population by identifying hazard exposures such that each can be managed relative to the degree of risk that it represents. This graduate certificate enables the engineer, business leader, and civic planner to take the lead in managing and mitigating these types of risk exposures through hazard identification, qualification & quantification, scenario development, and preparations, as well as understanding the fundamentals of Emergency Response Planning at the city, state, and federal levels. For this, the four courses required for to earn the graduate certificate range from qualitative assessment of system exposure to hazards, to the quantitative analytic methods, and into the policy level decisions required to mitigate environmental hazards and emergency response planning.

College of Engineering