All research projects possess, produce or provide an educational content.
The upward distillation of knowledge leads to wisdom; the filtering
down of knowledge leads to know-how. The vital function of a University
is indeed the development and discovery of knowledge through research,
but it can be stated without much argument that the most important
duty of a University is to make the spin-off from this knowledge immediately
and freely available to the community. The imparting or transfer of
technical knowledge, initially as research-oriented information or,
after proper processing, as know-how, calls for expertise at different
levels. The Middle East Technical University Project Team is specially
equipped for this task of continuing education in both English and
Turkish. The members of the Project Team have impeccable research
credentials and extensive experience over the years in teaching students,
practising engineers, technical managers and building contractors
possessing differing backgrounds of competence and technical responsibility.
It is suggested that the dissemination of research results from the
present project be conducted in the following formats:
- Individual lectures, seminars, short refresher courses and training
workshops on the latest methodologies and techniques for the seismic
assessment and rehabilitation of buildings.
- The preparation of desktop-published course material explaining
and illustrating salient items of the Turkish and other contemporary
earthquake codes; structural behavior during earthquakes; damage
assessment for urban and rural structures; rehabilitation techniques
as developed from experimentation and research, etc.
- Broadcasting of systematized knowledge relating to the seismic
amelioration of structures and buildings of different types by means
of compact discs, video films, the Internet and television channels
[ if possible ]
It is expected that after some trial runs, the continuing education
activities could develop into formal programs leading to evaluation
of student performance and possible award of certificates of proficiency.
