Civil Engineering with Disaster Studies

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Civil Engineering with Disaster Studies John
Davies and Andrew Fox
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Structure of presentation

• General points about hybrid courses
• International Disaster Engineering and Management
  (IDEM)
• Civil Engineering with Disaster Studies

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Motivation for development of hybrid courses

• Student numbers (sexy titles )
• Idealism about interdisciplinary education

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3 examples

• University of Westminster
• MSc Transport Studies
• BSc Architectural Engineering
• Coventry University
• BSc International Disaster Engineering and
  Management

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Common characteristics (of these 3 examples)

• Successful
• Problems with professional accreditation
• Migrate towards one of the disciplines
• . Not towards engineering

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BSc International Disaster Engineering and
Management

• Student motivation for enrolling on the IDEM
  programme
• The draw away from the Engineering base
• Sacrificing depth in favour of breadth in the
  curriculum

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BEng Civil Engineering with Disaster Studies

• Maybe not a true hybrid
• 75 civil eng, 25 disaster man.
• Early days
• Accredited as a CEng BEng by ICE
• Definitely a course in Civil Eng WITH ..