EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
TECHNOLOGY
Jackson State University
Department of Technology
Jackson, Mississippi
NEW
CONCENTRATION
Start Spring 2011
Emergency Management
The Emergency Management major focuses on
disaster prevention, planning, preparedness,
response,mitigation, and recovery.
The curriculum designed to provide students with a global outlook,
interpersonal skills, and emergency management knowledge .
Emergency management is the discipline of dealing with and avoiding risks.,
It is a discipline that involves preparing for disaster before it occurs,
Advance your career in the rapidly-growing field .
JOBs
Examples:
Emergency Planner, Emergency Management
System Director (EMS Director), Emergency
Preparedness Program Specialist, Emergency
Management Coordinator, Emergency
Preparedness Coordinator, Emergency Services
Director, Emergency Management Program
Specialist, Emergency Response Team Leader,
Emergency Services Program Coordinator,
Hazard Mitigation Officer
Departmental Mission Statement:
The mission of the Department of Technology is to provide a
nationally accredited program, which serves the technical,
managerial, and communication needs of persons desiring
to enter or advance professionally in an industrial technology
related career. The JSU Technology Program will:
Prepare our graduates to meet employer expectations for competent
professional, and ethical practice.
Prepare our graduates to pursue advanced studies in the areas of
technology or other fields.
Prepare our graduates to adopt and continuously practice life-long
learning and continuing education
Emergency Management
is an
On-Going Process
• Life Cycle
Assessment
Emergency Management
(Disaster Management)
• The disaster life cycle describes the
process through which emergency
managers prepare for emergencies and
disasters, respond to them when they
occur, help people and institutions
recover from them, mitigate their
effects, reduce the risk of loss, and
prevent disasters such as fires from
occurring.
Life Cycle of Disaster
• Mitigation: includes any activities
that prevents an emergency, reduces
the chance of an emergency
happening or lessens the damaging
effects of unavoidable emergences.
(MINIMIZING THE EFFECTS OF
DISASTER)
Life Cycle of Disaster
• Preparedness: A variety of measures
aimed at insuring the community is
prepared to reacts to any hazard
that threatens the country.
(PLANNING HOW TO RESPOND)
Life Cycle of Disaster
• Response: It is action taken
immediately before, during and just
after a disaster or major emergency.
The goal of the responder is to save
lives, minimize property damage and
enhance the beginning of recovery
from the incident. (EFFORTS TO
MINIMIZES THE HAZARDS
CREATED BY A DISASTER)
Life Cycle of Disaster
• Recovery: It is the activity that
returns infrastructural systems to
minimum operating standards and
guides long term efforts designed to
return life to normal or improved
levels after a disaster. This is a very
daunting phases of Emergency
Management because it requires
personal and community motivation.
(RETURN THE COMMUNITY TO
NORMAL)
Terrorism
Terrorism
Earthquake/ Landslide
Hurricane/Flood
Debris Field: Coastal Mississippi
For any queries feel free to contact
Dr. Pao-Chiang Yuan
Dr. Jessica .L Buck
Program Coordinator
Program Recruiter
[email protected] [email protected]
Phone- 601-979-2489
Phone– 601-979-1145
Emergency Management Technology
Department of Technology
College of Science ,Engineering & Technology
Jackson State University
1400 J. R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS 39217
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