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Burning for Success: Industrial Engineering Professor’s Model Reduces Loss, Cuts Wildfire Costs
The deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California’s history set an industrial engineering professor from Cal Poly on a course of research that could motivate states to minimize the risk of wildfires