Faculty members of the Civil Engineering Department and also
members of the CESDR Sub-center for DRR-CCA delivered lectures to the
graduate students taking the Master of Crisis and Disaster Risk
Management (MCDRM)
of the Philippine Public Safety College during their three day sessions
at De
La Salle University, Conference Room, Faculty Center on Nov. 14-16,
2016. There
are ten sessions of seminars on various topics on DRRM, Public Safety
&Resilience and lectures in a subject under the MCDRM.
On Nov. 14, Day 1 of the sessions, Dr. Lessandro Garciano,
CE Dept. Chair delivered a lecture on “Basic Extreme Wind Speeds and Earthquake
Hazards Analyses” while Dr. Renan Tanhueco shared his presentation on “Mainstreaming
DRRM in the Philippine subnational physical framework & local land use
plans and decision making processes.” On the 2nd day, Dr. Andres
Oreta shared his lectures in his DLSU graduate course seminar, Disaster
Risk Reduction and Infrastructure Development (DRRID) on the general topic, “Understanding
Hazards and Disasters.” The CE faculty members delivered the lectures as a
community-service to the PPSC and DILG.
The Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC) of the
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) offers a Master in Crisis and Disaster
Risk Management (MCDRM) this June 2016. The MCDRM is a one year
scholarship program for highly qualified uniformed personnel in the interior
government, and employees in government and private sectors preferably
practitioners in crisis and disaster risk management of the local government
units. Details of the curriculum can be viewed at http://ppsc.gov.ph/contact-us/masters-degree/master-in-crisis-and-disaster-risk-management
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