Summary

In this division, our purpose is to establish a scientific foundation to construct a safe and sustainable society, which is in harmony with the environment, by the means of theoretical and methodological educational research activities that are applicable to broader area of social field without staying in the category of conventional engineering technology. As one of educational purposes, we train professionals who support the creation of infrastructures to meet the needs of new times by acquiring professional techniques in the engineering field related to the construction, design, measurement, planning, management, and conservation for an object of an environmental society creation (infrastructures and srounding environments). As the other purpose, we train professionals who possess abilities to clarify sustainable society conditions by considering principal issues related to creation of mutual society between human and nature and between human and human from various aspects, also who master the social prediction and evaluation methods applicable for problem solutions. Our purpose of program will be achieved through the following three educational researches.
Civil and Environmental Engineering: Fundamental research and development of technology related to the construction and conservation of infrastructures necessary to develop a safe and sustainable society, which is in harmony with the environment
Environment Technology and Biotechnology: Development of advanced technology related to the natural function development by combining several engineering fields
Ecosocial Evaluation: Development of outcome prediction and evaluation method of policy, measure, and plan, that contribute for an achievement of sustainable society.

Main research fields

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Determination of design value for loads based on reliability theory
• Static and dynamic analysis of soft ground
• Predicting seismic response and durability of structural concrete
• Local city planning with consideration of sightseeing and traffic
• Hydrological cycle and sediment routing in river basin
• Pollutant behavior in soil and water environment
• Water quality formation mechanism in water source area
• Environmental microbiology and its application for environmental preservation
• Bioassay of waste and recycling of biological waste

Dept. of Environment Technology and Biotechnology

• Water resource management, monitoring of the global water environment, and hydrology and water resources in tropical zones
• Functional analysis of plant ingredients and its conversion use technology
• Application of travel behavior analysis methods to transportation planning
• Search of industrial microorganisms, breeding of industrial strains, analysis
• of specific genes Chemical classification of microorganisms and system taxonomic researches
• Analysis of traffic systems by economic and psychological approaches

Dept. of Ecosocial System Evaluation

• Behavior of trace pollutants of inland water
• Physical properties and functions of surface and interface of solids, nanotechnologies
• Ecological design
• Acquisition and application of environmental information
• Total Quality Management and management strategy
• Analysis of social systems and its modeling
• Environmental political theory
• Environmental modeling, environmental sciences in polar region
• Fundamental analysis of nonequiliburium complex system
• Control theory, partial differential equations