OUR PEOPLE
Academic Credentials
- Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2023
- M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2020
- B.S., Architectural Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, SLO, 2018
Licenses & Certifications
- Professional Engineer Civil, California, #98886
Professional Honors
- 2023 Civil Engineering Dissertation Fellowship, University of Colorado Boulder
- 2021-2022 EERI/FEMA NEHRP Graduate Fellows (Honorable Mention
- 2019 Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) 5-year Fellowship
Professional Affiliations
- American Society of Civil Engineers (2023), Member
- Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute: Seismic Design of Water and Wastewater Pipelines (2023), Committee Member
- Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute: Structural Testing and Evaluation of Pipeline Systems, Committee Member
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (2022), Student Member
- North American Society for Trenchless Technology (2022), Student Member
Dr. Rose is a civil engineer specializing in failure and damage investigations, analysis of pipeline systems, and risk assessment. She has particular focus in forensic evaluations of watermain line breaks influenced by geotechnical hazards, damage to utility systems, investigations of design and construction defects, and development of utility system hardening strategies for high-risk assets. Dr. Rose's project experience spans a wide range of utility infrastructure, civil, and architectural investigations.
Dr. Rose has experience in reactive failure analysis and litigation consulting, including on-site data collection and preparation of expert reports. On the proactive side, she contributes to studies modeling the soil — structure interaction of buried utilities under extreme and everyday loading conditions to help clients improve the resilience, performance, and reliability of buried utility networks.
Beyond project work, Dr. Rose has an active role in national technical organizations and conferences. She serves as a technical chair for the ASCE's Seismic Design of Water and Wastewater Pipelines Manual of Practice committee and as a technical reviewer for the ASCE's Structural Testing and Evaluation of Pipeline Systems (STEPS) Standard committee. She is also the VERT liaison for EERI's Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) Lifelines Subcommittee, supporting coordinated post-disaster reconnaissance and knowledge transfer for utility systems. She also has numerous years of experience teaching martial arts and other fitness-related individual and group classes.
