WHAT IS HURRICANE ENGINEERING? Hurricane Engineering is a new branch of civil engineering that aims to minimize the threats from hurricanes to human safety, the natural and built environments, and to business and industrial processes.  Hurricane Engineering integrates the practices of structural engineering, wind engineering, coastal engineering, and other related fields to comprehensively deal with hurricane hazards.

A Hurricane Engineering curriculum has been in development at LSU over the past several years through a grant from the National Science Foundation. The National Science Board recently recommended that the U.S. Congress make a major investment in the further development of Hurricane Science and Engineering.  The concept is similar to Earthquake Engineering, another civil engineering discipline which gathers disparate engineering and science specialties to solve a larger problem.