Practical training of a CAD-based community landscaping
simulation
Presentation of a studyÕs results using
models, photos and CG materials
Practical surveying training using the state-of-the-art
surveying instrument,"Total Station"
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Undergraduate
School
Previously, two departments of the University addressed separate mainstream
approaches to community building: the Civil Engineering Department
specialized in the underlying infrastructure to support urban living
such as roads, water supply and sewerage systems and telecommunication
facilities, and the Architecture Department focused on actual buildings
and structures. However, a local community consists of many individual
houses and an urban area comprises several local communities, and
it is problematic to segment human living space into such categories
as private housing, local communities and urban areas. Thus, the University
established the "Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering."
This new department handles a wide variety of fields, including problems
with private housing, local communities, urban scale and the global
environment. Its objective is to develop ambitious students who will
engage themselves in community building and urban development from
a broad perspective encompassing the spaces where people live, work
and play. The curriculum for each course of study is prepared on the
basis of natural science while adequately integrating human and social
sciences so that students can perceive the relations among architecture,
local communities and urban environments. After initial exposure to
a wide scope of general information on human living spaces, as well
as to the subjects of preparatory architectural design and compendium,
students are guided to select one of the four departmental courses
best suited to their longer-term interests.
Graduate School
Architecture
In the first-stage doctoral courses, graduate students are lectured
in a wide variety of studies and lessons on community design and
individual house design. Advanced subjects include architectural
planning based on communal features, environmental planning in high-density
urban cities, architectural and building structures using new techniques,
disaster-prevention methods in high-density urban cities and the
development of new construction materials. These are pursued to
meet the ever-changing needs of society in the disciplines of Architectural
Planning, Architecture & Environmental Engineering, Architectural
Structure Engineering, and Architectural Production and Disaster-Prevention
Engineering. These courses aim to develop aggressive human resources
to tackle leading-edge research subjects. In the second stage, the
school focuses on nurturing independent researchers capable of clarifying
timely issues voluntarily and autonomously from an engineering perspective.
Civil Engineering
The primary theme of this major is how safety, convenience and comfort
can be used to effectively create good environments for better living
and industrial development. Major subjects include education and
research on contemporary demands such as the analytical methods
for civil engineering structures with innovative functionality,
the development of new materials with high strength and durability,
new urban transportation systems and disaster prevention. The first-stage
doctoral courses are Structural Engineering, Geotechnical &
Basic Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concrete
Engineering, Traffic Engineering and Surveying. These courses aim
to develop motivated researchers with a high level of expertise
and excellent research capabilities. The six courses in the first
stage are reorganized into four disciplines in the second stage,
and the school focuses on cultivating researchers who can demonstrate
leading capabilities in their respective fields of research.
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