Practice teaching of disaster prevention and reduction for engineering major from 3·11 earthquake

Abstract

Severely destructive earthquakes happened in succession in Wen Chuan. Haiti and Japan since 2008, and the situation of global earthquake resistance and disaster mitigation is grim. The importance is highlighted once again by the 3·11 earthquake in Japan to strengthen the disaster-reduction education and improve the whole social consciousness on disaster prevention and mitigation, to which the postgraduate practice teaching education is tightly linked. This article discusses the measures and conceives to reinforce and complete the relevant majors' practice teaching from case teaching, disaster drills, establishing popular science and exercise base and volunteer team construction. It is inevitable requirement for protecting people's lives and property and has important significance for the construction of the national peninsula and the science and technology industry parks to strengthen the practice education on disaster prevention and mitigation major and increase the whole social consciousness on it. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.