Teachers and students of the Graduate School of Disaster Management attended the “Taiwan Disaster Management Symposium 2024” and the “Disaster Prevention Science and Technology Sectoral Program Achievement Presentation Meeting of the Department of Natural Science and Sustainable Research and Development, Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan in Dec. 6, 113, and the award ceremony in the morning, the Director of the Institute, Dr. Bei-Shan Lin, was honored as the winner of ‘Best Reviewer of the Journal of the Year 113 - Journal of Disaster Prevention, Rescue and Management’. In the award presentation ceremony in the morning, director Lin Bei-shan was honored with the "113th Annual Journal Best Review Award - Journal of Disaster Prevention, Rescue and Management", and "A Study of Evacuation Simulation of Elderly People in MRT Stations - Taoyuan MRT Station A8 as an Example" co-authored by T.K. Chien, Class of 111, and Associate Prof. Shao Chun-hao, congratulations to all the faculty members and students who received the awards.
Next, a special lecture titled “Integration of Disaster Science and Sustainable Adaptation of Spatial Planning” was hosted by Prof. Rui Xian Wu of the Department of Civil Engineering, National Central University (NCU), who talked about the dynamic effects on the resilience of urban disasters after urban development has changed the topography of the landforms. The speaker also mentioned the current promotion of the national land digital life, which is a combination of AI technology that monitors and grasps the weather and hydrological parameters real-time to serve as the basis for disaster warnings.
In the afternoon, research papers were also presented, including “A Study on the Use of Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) to Evaluate the Risk Factors of Critical Infrastructural Power Facility Operations - A Case Study of the 815 Blackout Incident” by Cheng-Yu Chen, Class 112; “A Study on the Impacts of Education and Training on Evacuation and Evacuation Behavior in the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) System” by Zi-Wen Chen, Class 112; and “The Impacts of Youth-Adult Evacuation and Evacuation Behavior on the Evacuation and Evacuation Behavior of Young Adults and Young Adults in the MRT System” by You-Hao Li, Class 112. Students presented “Reducing Disaster Risks of Aboriginal Tribes through Youth-Adult Partnerships”. I believe that the presentations and Q&A sessions will inspire many ideas and enrich the master's thesis research.