Professor Ajit Shenoi attended a Lloyds Register Foundation (LRF) workshop on Resilience Engineering held at the Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA between 15 and 17 April. The proceedings of the workshop  will inform the policy document for LRF to shape funding calls for their strategic priority on resilience.
LRF is a registered charity in the UK whose mission is “to secure for the benefit of the community high technical standards of design, manufacture, construction, maintenance, operation and performance for the purpose of enhancing the safety of life and property at sea and on land and in the air”.
About 60 people from universities, research institutes, industrial entities, charities and government departments attended this event.

 
The discipline specialisations of the attendees spanned policy/economics, politics, various engineering specialisations (transport, civil infrastructure, offshore, etc.), medicine, environmental and other sciences, etc. The Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI), in partnership with National University of Singapore and University of Western Australia, promoted the case for understanding resilience of the maritime infrastructural system (comprising the physical assets and the people/organisations who work in those environments) and the significant human population that depends crucially on the oceans for food, energy and other essential resources.