Outline

Many countries in Asia and Africa suffer from natural disasters including earthquake and meteorological disasters. Engineers working in the fields of disaster prevention and mitigation not only need the knowledge of civil engineering but also of a wide range of social sciences. The Special Graduate Program on Disaster Mitigation Study for Asian Students aims at preparing highly trained researchers and engineers with advanced research capabilities in the field of disaster prevention and mitigation measures and the features of natural disasters in Asian and African Regions. To make societies in the regions safer and more resilient against natural disasters, the program has been designed to train Asian and African students in the fields of earthquake and meteorological hazards, their mechanisms of occurrence, damage mitigation, hazard prevention, disaster management, disaster informatics, and other related topics.