Tiziana Rossetto spoke with the New Scientist about the kinds of careers aspiring earthquake engineers can pursue. The MSc in Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management was also mentioned as course for would-be engineers hoping to work in the field.
See the full article here:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527501.700-how-to-build-a-way-out-of-disaster.html?full=true

Prof Ian Dowman (UCL, Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering) will be giving a seminar on:
Thursday 25th March at 1pm, Chadwick Lecture Theatre (Chadwick Building)
Title: The Application of Geomatics to Disaster Management
Abstract:
This presentation will outline the technologies which are available for disaster management, which include imagery, lidar, SAR Interferometry, GNSS and GIS, and will show how [...]

We have issued a CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for the SECED Young Engineers Conference 2010 – deadline for abstract submission is Friday 14th May 2010.
Conference Date/Time: Thursday 4 November 2010, 9am
Venue: Old Refectory, UCL, London
(see map: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-maps/map2_low_res)
The 2010 SECED Young Engineers Conference aims to bring together young engineers from both industry and universities to meet and [...]

Dr Tapan K. Sen (KBR - an engineering and construction company) will be giving a seminar at UCL on:
Tuesday 23rd March at 5.30pm
Venue: Chadwick Building, room 218 (2nd floor) - see map: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-maps/map2_low_res
A biography for Tapan can be found here: About the speaker
Title: “A Design Approach for an Offshore pipeline on an Escarpment In a [...]