IISEE will set up a booth of information desk at the venue of 15WCEE, World Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Lisbon, Portuguese on September 24 to 28. We will introduce IISEE activities, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake 2011 and so on. The booth number is 19, close to the entrance of exhibition room. We'll announce the detail of alumni meeting of IISEE that will be held on September 26 in the night a.s.a.p.

Toshihide KASHIMA
Senior Research Engineer, IISEE

In total 23 IISEE participants from 14 countries have visited the Minister of MLIT as courtesy call on Sept. 11, finished the closing ceremony at IISEE / BRI on Sept. 13, received the Master degree from GRIPS on Sept. 14, and returned to their home on Sept. 15 with fruitful memories.

Hajime KUROSAWA
Head of Administration Division, IISEE

Opening ceremony for the next IISEE training course will start on October 4, 2012 (at GRIPS on Oct. 3) as 53th one. The countries of 23 participants are as follows; Indonesia, Philippines, China, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Iran, Uganda, Armenia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Dominican Republic, Turkey, Turkmenistan (16 countries)

Hajime KUROSAWA
Head of Administration Division, IISEE

We have a request from one of IISEE ex-participants (Mr. Muhammad
Hafeez BUTT, Pakistan, 1977-78 S-course) who wish to know about
IISEE staff members in Newsletter. So, this time we would like to introduce
Dr. Koichi MORITA who is in charge of course leader of Earthquake
Engineering Course.

I joined IISEE in 2011 and I am a course leader of engineering course since then.
Before coming IISEE, I was in charge of several lectures and supervised three
individual studies, so I understood part of IISEE activities. Last year, I had an
opportunity to read all lecture notes of E course to check the overlapping and
reconsider the curriculum. I re-realized such an excellent and dense training
course is in BRI. I would like to do my best to make more attractive course.

Koichi MORITA
Chief Research Engineer, IISEE