CasieÌýVenable

  • PhD Graduate
  • CIVIL SYSTEMS
  • ENGINEERING FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES

Casie's doctoral research focused on post-disaster housing safety, examining 10 post-disater housing programs in the Philippines following 2013's Typhoon Haiyan. She assessed both household perceptions of housing safety and the wind performance of post-disaster housing, eventually comparing the two to identify where household perceptions and engineering assessments aligned and misaligned. Her work was supported through the National Science Foundation project and the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ Seed Grant forÌýPost-Disaster Housing Reconstruction: Participation, Performance, and Community Resilience. She was awarded a United States Agency for International Development Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) Humanitarian Shelter and Settlements Graduate Fellowship. She was collaboratively advised by Dr. Amy Javernick-Will and Dr. Abbie Liel.

Education

  • PhD in Civil Engineering, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ, 2020

  • Certificate in Engineering for Developing Communities, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ,Ìý2018

  • MS in Civil Engineering, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ, 2018Ìý

  • BS in Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2016

  • BS in Construction Engineering and Management, Virginia Tech, 2016

Awards

  • USAID/OFDA Humanitarian Shelter & Settlements Fellow, 2019Ìý

  • ASCE New Face of Civil Engineering, 2018Ìý

  • Department of Education Graduate Assistantship in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellow, 2016