UGM hosts int'l postgrad program

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