Casie Venable
- 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 Building Capacity for Safer Shelter: Leveraging Local Understanding and Advanced Engineering Assessments project and the University of Colorado Boulder Seed Grant for Post-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, University of Colorado Boulder, 2020
Certificate in Engineering for Developing Communities, University of Colorado Boulder, 2018
MS in Civil Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, 2018
BS in Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2016
BS in Construction Engineering and Management, Virginia Tech, 2016
Awards
USAID/OFDA Humanitarian Shelter & Settlements Fellow, 2019
ASCE New Face of Civil Engineering, 2018
Department of Education Graduate Assistantship in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellow, 2016