Enhancing University Earthquake-Engineering Education: the Gateway to Earthquake Risk Reduction in Developing Countries

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In spite of all recent advances to mitigate earthquake risk, losses from earthquakes that occurred in the last decades indicate that there is something missing in the prevailing approach. This paper presents an experience that has been achieved recently in Egypt . Few years ago the Ministry of Higher Education in Egypt has created the "Higher Education Enhancement Project Fund ( HEEPF ) " funded by the International Bank to help in enhancing the Higher Education System in Egypt. The Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University in collaboration with the Egyptian Society for Earthquake Engineering has succeeded to win a funded project within the framework of (HEEPF). The project was entitled "Enhancing Earthquake Engineering Education" and lasted for two years starting mid-July 2005. The aim of this project was to enhance earthquake-engineering education on both the undergraduate and graduate levels at the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University This has been achieved through four basic objectives. The first was developing a number of earthquake engineering courses for both undergraduate and graduate levels. The second was activating a Higher Diploma in Earthquake Engineering. The third was enhancing earthquake engineering education resources. The fourth objective was to enhance earthquake engineering experimental facilities at the Faculty of Engineering. The objective of this paper is to present the activities of this project and show that there is an urgent need to establish a new bachelor degree in earthquake engineering at the faculties of Engineering.

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