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AIT-KU GCOE Joint Research Center
On Human Security Engineering

Prof.Hiroyasu Ohtsu
Project Team Leader
Center Co-Director

Educational and Research Activities at AIT-KU GCOE Center
Dr. Noppadol Phienwej
Center Co-Director

As a joint initiative of the Global COE (GCOE), a five-day intensive course was heldat the Asian Institute of Technology, an overseas partner base of the GCOE. The
focus of the course was "Geotechnical Infrastructure Asset Management," which isa part of the area of "Infrastructure Asset Management," a key discipline in the research field of Urban Infrastructure Management. In addition to masters and doctoral program students from AIT’s School of Engineering and Technology (SET), theDr.Pennung Warnitchaicourse participants included visiting academics from India, as well as doctoral stuFaculty in StructuralEngineeringdents and researchers from other Thai universities.
On research parts, besides the sudden disasters such as earthquake, tsunami,landslide etc, the slow and persistent one like land subsidence, flooding, seawater
intrusion have also affected significantly the economic and social development ofurban countries located on the large deltaic plain in the SE Asian region. Study onDr. Pham Huy Giao
slow
disasters and their mitigation are an integral part of the activities to be conFaculty in Geotechnical andGeoenvironmental Engineering duced by the GCOE at AIT.

EIT-JSCE joint symposium on Geotechnical Infrastructure Asset management
The EIT-JSCE Joint International Symposium
on Geotechnical Infrastructure Asset Management was organized in September 2 0 0 9 in
Bangkok as a part of a continuing series of
the collaborative activities between the Kansai
Geotechnical Group of Japan and the Geotechnical Sub-committee of Engineering Institute of Thailand. Kyoto University and Asian
Institute of Technology through Engineering
Institute of Thailand have been cooperating inorganizing this series of symposia. The symposium of 2009 was incorporated as a part ofactivities “Global center for Education and Research on Human Security Engineering of
Asian Mega Cities”. Altogether the two days
programs featured 1 6 papers presented byleading professors and professions from bothcountries and 30 papers by young engineersand graduate students on a variety of topics
related to geotechnics and geophysics.

AIT-KU Joint Symposium on Human Security Engineering
The AIT–KU Joint International Symposium on Human Security Engineering
was organized in November 2009 in Bangkok as an annual symposium of
GCOE project at KU-AIT GCOE Center. The symposium received a great
encouragement and support of Global COE program “Global center for Education and Research on Human Security Engineering” Kyoto University, Japan. The symposium featured keynote lectures by Prof.Kennichi Soka ofUniversity of Cambridge and Mr.Oravit Hemachadha, Director, Traffic Engineering Office, Metropolitan Administration (BMA). The two days programs
featured 26 papers presented by leading professors around Asian region ona variety of topics related to Human Security Engineering.

Intensive course on Geotechnical Infrastructure Asset Management
Disaster Mitigation for Subway System

The course was held at AIT in March 16 to 20, 2009 and attended by 43 participants. A group photo of theparticipants taken at the conclusion of the course clearly shows remarkable diversity of student nationality,and highlights AITs international character. This course was the first initiative of the Global COE affiliation
with AIT, one of the overseas partner bases. It will be repeated next year. The course was also conductedin Hochimin City, Vietnam under AITCV activities.

Safety is a key consideration in the construction of thesubway. Highest international standards have been used
for the design of accident prevention and evacuation systems. Analyzing underground structures can be complex
because structural design is developed from social concerns, scientific theories and architectural trends. It is imperative that considerations of underground space andperformance reflect not only stationary human activities
but also emergency situation during disaster events.
Emergency evacuation simulation is made of selectedsubway stations of Bangkok MRTA system. Other possible natural and man-made disasters such as flood andterrorism, that might occur in subway system, are discussed.