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Engineering Researchers Working To Secure Ports And Waterways
Wilbert E. Wilhelm and Yu Ding, engineering professors in Texas A&M University’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, are using the Houston Ship Channel as a trial case in their work to improve the nation's port and waterway security.
The scientists, who also conduct research in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Division of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, received a $331,111 National Science Foundation grant for their project. Their goal is to design surveillance sensor systems to assure robust security in ports and waterways.
Wilhelm and Ding hope to make their mathematical models generic enough to apply to any U.S. port and waterway, and that the models will provide a better understanding of how a surveillance sensor network should work, and thus allow better decision making by port and waterway security personnel.
Click here for the whole story by Lesley V. Kriewald at the Texas A&M University News site.