#44 Publication Spotlight Anup Shrestha SEFI 2025 Best Student Paper: Engineering Student Preparedness in Disaster-Prone Nepal
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Anup Shrestha discusses the preparedness of civil engineering students in disaster-prone Nepal based on his award-winning research paper.
Despite the increasing magnitude and frequency of disasters, it remains unclear whether civil engineers possess the ability to understand disaster risk and design resilient infrastructures. This episode features Anup Shrestha from Water and Development Research Group, School of Engineering, Aalto University (Finland). We talk about the winner of the ‘Best Student Paper’ at the SEFI 2025 Conference entitled “A re Disaster-Prone Countries’ Undergraduate Students Prepared? Insights from a Civil Engineering Program in Nepal ” which Anup co-authored with Julia Sundman, Josias Láng-Ritter, Maija Taka, Olli Varis (Aalto University) and Sudeep Lamsal (Sagarmatha Engineering College). The paper considers the degree to which undergraduate civil engineering students in disaster-prone countries are adequately prepared. The research involves the use of a questionnaire to evaluate Nepalese students’ knowledge of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), resilience concepts, and related competencies. Students were found to exhibit DRR knowledge, but had limited opportunities to participate in DRR courses, workshops, or training. Whilst they possessed…
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