The Civil Engineering global PBL in Toyosu has opened!
On the afternoon of February 26, the first day of the program, participants from various countries gathered at the Toyosu Campus, Shibaura Institute of Techonology. After an orientation session, faculty members representing each university gave welcome speeches at the opening ceremony. Starting tomorrow, the participants will engage in practical activities such as group work and field surveys!
# The global PBL in Civil Engineering is a program involving approximately 130 civil engineering students from Shibaura Institute of Technology, Kasetsart University, Asian Institute of Technology, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, and Hanoi University of Civil Engineering. The program will explore disaster prevention and mitigation technologies as a countermeasure to natural hazards (earthquakes, torrential rains, etc.) common to Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as how infrastructure technologies should be developed to achieve the Goal 11 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), “Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
