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Earthquake is a phenomenon of vibration on the earth's surface due to the release of energy caused by shifting plates in the earth's crust or due to tectonic symptoms or volcanic activity that causes seismic waves. The seismic waves may cause building structures to experience collapsing or destruction because they capacity is lower than the seismic loads that occur at the moment. ideally, the physical infrastructure facilities of a region/city such as buildings, bridges, roads, and so on should be designed to endure seismic loads so that they can still carry out their service functions even though experiencing a decrease of their strength. The resilience of a city, as the ability of it to face the stresses of a disaster, survive and then return to its normal conditions, must be measured as a basis or tool for government to take a decision while the city is under seismic disaster. This paper focuses on classification of housing buildings in Surakarta City as a representation of cities in Indonesia for region resilience purposes. The classification process begins with building a database model for storing, manipulating and analyzing the housing data in MariaDB database management system platform installed at web server. The And roid application is developed for user interaction with system as a tool for data collection and connected with PHP scripting language as middleware to communicate with the web server. The application uses OpenStreetMap as Geographical Information Systems (GIS) API library to load map into application. The result is an And roid application called UrbanRes V.1 for housing data collection. The UrbanRes V.1 is designated for crowdsourcing data collection in the future. It is found that the majority buildings at Surakarta City are low-rise building which vary from one story to two story buildings and have 96.51% in proportion. The most used structures of building at Surakarta City are reinforced concrete with average around 75% for both column and beam. The data are then to be analyzed in term of the potential damage and loss estimation when a seismic disaster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Professional engineers in the Industrial Revolution 4.0 era are required not only to master the hard skills which involve technical knowledge but also the soft ones such as critical thinking, creativity, and teamwork. Therefore, engineering education is expected to have a curriculum designed to ensure graduates have acceptable quality in the fast-growing industrial world. Moreover, classroom learning is also expected to ensure every student develops these skills, and one of the methods to achieve this is Problem-Based Learning (PBL). This study was conducted to show the experience of the PBL implemented for the Steel Structure Design course at the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia. The students taking the course are allowed to gain professional experience by working on a two-story steel building design project which was designed with real-life conditions. This involved having a team of 4 students acting as a consulting firm while a Term of Reference (TOR) is provided by the lecturer acting as the Project Owner. This consulting firm works on the project to produce technical calculation reports, structural drawings, and budget plans as well as weekly progress reports to the Project Owner. Furthermore, the perceptions of the students concerning the PBL implementation were further investigated through a questionnaire and the results showed they are satisfied with the PBL. This is indicated by the course performance and project/design assignments found to be at a very good level as well as the good performance recorded by the lecturers and students. It was, therefore, recommended that PBL should be applied to other relevant courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]