DRRID2020 Graduate Forum held online

  

The Graduate Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction and Infrastructure Development (DRRID 2020) was conducted online via AnomoSpace (Canvas) Conference on 25 April 2020. The forum was facilitated by the course professor, Dr. Andres Oreta. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jojo Mutuc of the IE Department delivered an online keynote presentation on " Disaster Data Visualization and Analytics in a Pandemic using the System Dynamics Approach." The keynote presentation " illustrates the SD  approach in analyzing the well-known pandemic curve and the campaign for levelling the curve. It uses a generic contagious disease model that spreads in a community and presents its analysis thru parameter variations and graphical outputs. It also presents some simulations resulting from the implementation of government efforts to control the pandemic and compares their impact on the number of infected people and deaths. Finally, it presents some scenarios on the lifting of government interventions to control the pandemic."

The Graduate Forum on DRRID is the culminating activity of the course where each student presents his/her own seminar paper. The seminar paper on a selected topic  addresses issues of development and disasters in relation to the role of civil engineers in DRR and resilience building. The papers aim to assess the student’s ability to conduct library and internet research, to develop a concept paper for a future research or to apply tools and concepts discussed in class and learned from lectures and readings. The students are expected show an ability to communicate orally and in written form using DRRID as the theme. The DRRID2020 Proceedings and Book of Abstracts can be viewed and downloaded here: https://issuu.com/andyoreta/docs/drrid2020-proceedings

The online forum was attended by 18 graduate student paper presentors and 11 invited guests - the DRRID  resource lecturers and members of the CESDR DR unit.

The Graduate Seminar on Disaster Risk Reduction and Infrastructure Development (DRRID) is one of the integration courses in the graduate program in civil engineering. In this course, graduate students in civil engineering from various specializations and other allied programs apply their knowledge and skills to address the impact of natural hazards on the built environment, to explore ways of reducing the adverse effects of the natural hazards and to improve and build infrastructure and community resilience. Enrolled students in the course consist of five PhD students and MSCE and MEP students.

Dr. Oreta, at home, facilitating the online DRRID2020 Graduate Forum

CE DLSU Alumni and students attend the ICBR09

Last January 13-15, 2020, alumni and students from Civil Engineering of De La Salle University attended the 9th International Conference on Building Resilience held at the Westin Resort, Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.

CE DLSU Alumni and student representatives at ICBR09

(from left to right: Abraham Matthew Carandang, Engr. Samantha Louise N. Jarder, Carlo Cacanando, Shannon Yap, Tyra Ang, Ronald Ty and Adriam Limqueco)

The 9th International Conference on Building Resilience (ICBR) is a three-day research conference which was held in Nusa Dua Bali, Indonesia last January 13 – 15, 2020. The 9th International Conference on Building Resilience had a theme “Investing in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Building Resilient Cities”. The conference aims to discuss global goals from the 2030 development agenda and solve issues incorporated in the Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation by gathering various policy makers, practitioners and researchers from different countries.

CE DLSU Alumni and student representatives at ICBR09 Gala Dinner

The Building Resilience Conference is an annual international conference exploring resilience as a useful framework of analysis for how society and cities can cope with the threat of natural and human induced hazards. The conference was is co-organized by the Research Centre for Disaster Mitigation (RCDM), the School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development (SAPPK) – ITB (Indonesia) and the Global Resilience Centre at the University of Huddersfield (UK) in association with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).

Engr. Jarder and Mr. Carandang presented their papers

The following papers were presented:
• Assessment of Early Warning System Protocols in Schools Using the S.O.S. Toolkits by: Engr. Samantha Louise N. Jarder, MSCE. Co-authors: Engr. Raniel Cris Macabare, Engr. Salvador Oleivar, Abraham Matthew Carandang, Patrick Shaun Ngo, Engr. Richard de Jesus, Dr. Lessandro Estelito O. Garciano, Dr. Andres Winston C. Oreta
• Methodology for Estimating the Probable Maximum Loss (PML) of a Water Distribution Network (WDN) due to Seismic Induced Liquefaction: a Case in Iloilo City by: Engr. Samantha Louise N. Jarder, MSCE. Co Authors: Dr. Lessandro Estelito O. Garciano, Dr. Osamu Maruyama
• A Resilience Index of a Water Lifeline System using an Optimal Restoration Strategy by: Abraham Matthew Carandang. Co-author: Dr. Lessandro Estelito O. Garciano and Dr. Osamu Maruyama

CE DLSU undergraduate students with their poster

CE DLSU undergrad students (Tyra Ang, Carlo Cacanando, Adrian Limqueco, Ronald Ty and Shannon Yap) presented their poster presentation entitled “A Case Study on the Safety School Program of a Philippine High School’s Building”. The advisers for their poster presentation were Engr. Maria Emilia Sevilla and Dr. Jason Maximino Ongpeng.

DLSU CE participants with Dr. Dilanthi Amaratunga of University of Huddersfield