Vol-1 No-3 11th July 2017

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Project for Enhancement of Engineering Higher Education in Myanmar

EEHE PHOTOLETTER
Staff Training in YTUDemonstration of Experiment
at Electronic Engineering Department

Research presentation and discussion
at Electrical Power Engineering Department

EEHE Project conducted the Staff training in Yangon Technological University (YTU) for one week from 15th May.
Seventeen (17) experts from Japanese Supporting Universities namely Chiba, Niigata, Kanazawa, Okayama,Nagasaki and Kumamoto universities were dispatched under the Departments of Mechanical, Electrical power,Electronic, Computer Engineering and Information Technology and Mechatronics Engineering.
The objectives of this trainings were 1) Improvement of practical activities and 6th year course in COE program*, and2) Enhancement of research activity for academic staff. In details, laboratory manual/repot for some subjects wasdiscussed and some experiment were demonstrated. Promotion of research group activities and improvement ofresearch supervision system were also discussed.
The next Staff training will be held at Mandalay Technological University (MTU) in November 2017.
*Centre of Excellence Programme is the special 6 years’ Bachelor of Engineering programme in YTU and MTU established under Ministry ofEducation since 2012.

Field Investigation on Bridge
Dr. Sugiura, Professor, Dr. Kim, Professor and Dr. Suzuki, AssistantProfessor of Kyoto University organized the team to conduct the field
investigation of Bridge from 19th June for one week.
The team visited the Yadanarpon Bridge in Mandalay to collect the dataof Traffic-induced vibration, Floor beam response and Bolt axial tension
with MTU academic staff and students. In addition, they visited theChaung Sone Bridge and Technological University in Mawlamyine tocollect the data of Steel corrosion and Paint durability. In those field
investigation, staff from Ministry of Construction also joined.
It was good opportunity to promote the collaboration between Universityand Ministry. Kyoto University team is continuously planning to support
that staff of YTU and MTU will be able to do above experimental activity
by themselves.

Field investigation ofYadanarpon bridgein Mandalay

Training on Hydraulic Experiments

Waterway
facilities

Dr. Sanjo

Dr. Sanjo, Associate Professor of Kyoto University, which is one of the JapaneseSupporting Universities for EEHE Project, visited YTU and conducted a training foracademic staff and Ph.D. candidates in Civil Engineering Department on both 15th and16th June. The training aimed to enhance research capacity and consisted of basic
hydraulic experiments including data analysis by students, lectures on how to write
research thesis, and discussion on related journals. He said “YTU currently has decent
waterway facilities donated by Grant Aids, and experiments can be done to get
sufficient data for international journals. I hope academic staff and students use thefacilities more for their experiment and create unique research and thesis in the future.”

EEHE Project Office: Yangon Technological University, Insein Township, Yangon, Myanmar
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