UGM hosts int'l postgrad program

YOGYAKARTA: As of this academic year, Gadjah Mada University's School of Geological Engineering will provide lecture programs for postgraduate (S2 and S3) students following its appointment as a internationally acclaimed host institution in geological engineering studies.

The school's head, Dwikorita Karnawati, said the appointment was made by the Southeast Asia Engineering Education Development Network (SEED-Net). With the appointment, she said, her department had been considered as meeting the international standard of quality to provide lectures to post graduates students from Asian countries.

"This academic year we have three students from the Philippines, Vietnam and Myanmar who have started conducting research on hydro geology, technical geology, and geo dynamics to be applied in the mitigation of landslides and other natural disaster," she said.

Lecturers for the S2 and S3 international programs will be supervised by a number of professors from Kyushu University and Kyoto University in Japan and from universities in Singapore.

"Particularly for the S3 program -- it will be conducted through a "sandwich scheme", in which during the three years of study at the university, each of the students will be given the chance to study for a year at either Kyushu University or Kyoto University," she said.

To support and maintain the good quality of the international S2 and S3 programs in geological engineering, a number of supporting programs have also been prepared by the university.

They include programs such as collaborative research, short- term visits, short-term study, professor dispatch programs, promotion trips, and laboratory development -- including increasing research facilities. -- JP