Nepal Engineers’ Association Japan Chapter (NEA-JC) First Seminar on Current and Future Technology 2007
October 7, 2007
A briefly report of the recently concluded NEA-JC seminar
The seminar was held at Daito Lifelong Learning Center, Daito City, Osaka.
We received 10 papers in total. Among them, 8 were presented by their respective authors. The authors of two remaining papers informed us that they couldn’t attend the seminar due to some special reasons. We are thankful to all the presenters for their content rich and insightful papers and their nice styles of presentations. The discussions following each presentation were equally interesting and fruitful. Most of the presentations were centered on different problems in Nepal and ways to mitigate them. Presentations covered pollution problem of Kathmandu valley, flood and landslide problems in Nepal , road disasters in Nepal , status of living space for elderly in Nepal, communications networks research in Nepalese context, alternative research in solar cell technology and optical fiber technology.
It was really a great opportunity to learn from experts of such diverse fields. The last session was a round table discussion on ” NEA-JC: Past, Present and Future”. Many suggestions were obtained from the participants for strengthening NEA-JC and making its events even more successful in future. We are thankful to all of them.
The presented papers can be downloaded (pdf files) from the links provided below.
Controlling Air pollution: Energy and Greenhouse Gas Linkages in Kathmandu Valley’s transportation system – Shobhakar Dhakal
Numerical Approach to Flood/Debris Flow Hydrograph due to Landslide Dam Failure – Ripendra Awal, Hajime Nakagawa, Kenji Kawaike and Yasuyuki Baba
Study On Debris Flow Deposition and Erosion Process Uptream of Check Dams – Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Hajime Nakagawa, Kenji Kawaike and Yasuyuki Baba
Study of Living Space for Elderly in Urban Area of Nepal (Comparative Analysis of Spatial Structure between Traditional and New Residential Area) – Lata Shakya, Ueno Katsuyo and Fujimoto Naohisa
Seismic Hazard Estimate of Kathmandu – Hari Parajuli
Benchmarking Results of electricity Generating Plants in Nepal Using Modified DEA models – Deependra Kumar Jha, Naoto Yorino and Yoshifumi Zoka
Communication Networks Research in Nepalese Context – Ved Kafle
Carbon-based Solar Cell: a Possible Solution for Energy and Environmental Problems – Sudip Adhikari
Past and Present Status of Optical Communication – Madhusudan Kayastha
State of Road Disasters and Experiences from the Current Road Building Practices in Nepal – Netra P. Bhandari
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