Environmental Engineering Reference
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Table 15.1 Student comments
Student nationality
Comment
Japanese
I'm honored to have been a member of basic course from last July. This
experience has provided me a wonderful chance to improve my expertise
and communicative ability. During these eight months I have enriched
my professional knowledge focused on sustainable development and envi-
ronmental management. I have also participated in lively fieldwork. The
opportunities for communication provided during the fieldwork could not
be achieved in my daily courses.
Chinese
Thanks to this program, I have realized the responsibility of being an
environmental leader, and because my native China is a developing
country, such study and training have great significance to our work of
environmental protection.
Indonesian
These studies were also helpful to my research, the removal of antibiot-
ics in the wastewater, which has a close relationship with this program.
My research aims to reduce the negative effects of antibiotics to the
ecosystem and solve the related environmental issues, which is also the
purpose of this program. With the wide vision this program supplied, I
have a new way of thinking about my research field.
Student feedback on the main curriculum courses has been positive. In addition
there have been a number of individual comments on the value of the program and
its value to individuals (Table 15.1 ). Particular value has been placed by Doctorate
students on internships which provide a valuable interface between the environ-
ment-related knowledge acquired in the course and potential applications in real
organizations. While it is too early to make quantitative assessment of the influence
of the program on the career choices of students, there are several cases where indi-
viduals state that their choice of job was influenced by the ELTP.
15.4
Case Studies of Individual Graduates
Since the start of the ELTP to the time of writing (Summer 2014), 34 researchers
have graduated from the Regular Course (18 were Japanese, 11 Chinese, 2 Indone-
sian and single students from Mexico, Egypt and Brazil). If activities after gradua-
tion are examined, many of the Masters graduates entered a Doctorate course (14 of
the 25) which continues research in environmentally-relevant areas at the Graduate
School. About half of the Doctorate graduates also found employment at the uni-
versity as postdoctoral researchers or junior lecturers. The others left academia to
take on jobs elsewhere, and a majority of these proved to be in environment-related
businesses, companies with a high environmental and sustainability reputation, or
organizations involved in other aspects of sustainable development. Overall, over
80 % of graduates continued their work in areas related to the environment or other
aspects of sustainability. Some individual case studies to illustrate specific job-re-
lated experience follow:
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