[06/25] Integrating Disaster Preparedness into the Transportation Engineering Curriculum for Indian Himalayas (British Council’s £30,000 Industry Academia Collaborative Grant, Sept 2024-2025)
Integrating Disaster Preparedness into the Transportation Engineering Curriculum for Indian Himalayas (British Council’s £30,000 Industry Academia Collaborative Grant, Sept 2024-2025)
This project aims to bridge the gap between industry and academia by bringing together leading academicians from India and the and industry stakeholders from India (to develop a new M.Tech course curriculum that integrates disaster preparedness and transportation engineering (focussing on road infrastructure) for India’s hilly terrain. This module will first be introduced within the civil engineering M.Tech course taught at IIT Mandi and will then be offered as a stand-alone online module hosted by the Coalition of Disaster Resilient Infrastructure.
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Partners:
To develop the outline of the course curriculum, Dr Ashutosh Kumar and Dr Ellen Robson co-organised a two-day workshop at IIT Mandi from 1-2 April 2025. Participants included academics from the Department of Engineering and IHRR at Durham University, the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at IIT Mandi, the Civil Department at IIT Bombay, and the Institute of Engineering at Pulchowk Campus, Tribhuvan University, industry partners including CDRI, Maccaferri, AFRY India Pvt. Ltd, NSET, and Winter Associates, and policymakers (including from the State Disaster Management Authority). https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/hazard-risk-resilience/about-us/news/ihrr-iit-mandi-workshop-on-integrating-disaster-preparedness-into-the-transportation-engineering-curriculum-for-the-indian-himalayas/
Final_Report-IIT-Mandi-DU.pdf
Participant of workshop at IIT Mandi (102 April 2025). Credit: IIT Mandi.
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