(1) Understand the latest technological issues in one's own area of specialty, their solutions and the status of their efforts.
(2) Learn about the latest issues in areas different from one's own area of specialty.
(3) Learn and understand topics about technologies and research that are co-existence friendly in each area of specialty.
Outline:
In order to broaden students' backgrounds as an engineers, it is important for them to actively learn not only their own areas of specialty but learn other areas, too. In this course, faculty members from different areas of expertise will give knowledge of the trends in technological development in an interdisciplinary manner both inside and out of this course. Classes will cover various topics and take place in a relay form:
Nakanishi: Guidance and interdisciplinary area (three classes)
Onishi: Mechanical systems (three classes)
Nomura: Electronic and information systems (three classes)
Kanda: Urban systems (three classes)
Hiraishi: Building system (three classes) By learning about various development and research processes, students will develop universal thinking and flexible development capabilities beyond their respective technical fields.
Style:
Of the 15 week-period, Nakanishi will teach the guidance in week 1 in a lecture-style format.
Onishi will teach classes from weeks 2 to 4 in a lecture-style format.
Nomura will teach classes from weeks 5 to 7 in a lecture-style format.
Kanda will teach classes from weeks 8 to 10 in a lecture-style format.
Hiraishi will teach classes from weeks 11 to 13 in a lecture-style format.
In weeks 14 and 15, Nakanishi will teach classes in the form of off-campus exercises.
Notice:
This course's content will amount to 90 hours of study in total. These hours include the learning time guaranteed in classes and the standard self-study time required for pre-study / review, and completing assignment reports. Although there will be many topics outside of students' own specialties, they will be explained in a way that is easy to understand, so students should be able to properly learn them.
Students who miss 1/5 or more of classes will not be eligible for a passing grade.
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| 2nd Semester |
| 3rd Quarter |
| 1st |
Course aims (Nakanishi)
Explain the purpose of Engineering Topics for Advanced Course Students. Inform the evaluation methods and other details. Explain the importance of actively learning a wide range of knowledge through self-experience, recent science and technology topics, etc. |
Understand an overview of this class and create a pre-learning plan.
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| 2nd |
Lecture on the basics of mechanical materials, and on the method of tensile testing to obtain a material's representative properties and the meaning of the material properties obtained from that. (Onishi) |
Can explain the basics of materials science, such as crystal structure and dislocation.
Can also explain tensile testing and properties.
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| 3rd |
Lecture on fracture toughness and fatigue properties of metal materials. Requirements for machinery and equipment are becoming sophisticated in recent years, and as a result, their fracture behaviors that have to do with fracture toughness and fatigue are increasing. Lecture on the basic knowledge of the metals used in machinery and equipment. (Onishi) |
Can explain the use and meaning of fracture toughness and fatigue properties.
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| 4th |
Lecture on the concept of material selection for machinery and equipment. Metals (ferrous and non-ferrous) and plastic are used in machinery and structures, and one must have various viewpoints when selecting materials that fit the purpose. Lecture on the vital points on those viewpoints. (Onishi) |
Can explain the necessary viewpoints for material selection for the design of machinery and equipment (including functional materials) and structures.
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| 5th |
Information visualization 1 (Nomura)
Learn about systems and concepts for data analysis and applications, with the subject of a database of gathered information on the relationship between engineering elements and products. |
Can explain structuring for visualization.
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| 6th |
Information visualization 2 (Nomura)
Learn about mechanical information extraction and organization based on text mining and formatting. |
Can implement methods for extracting and formatting the desired information from a large amount of data.
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| 7th |
Information visualization 3 (Nomura)
Select a field from the database of engineering elements and do visualizing exercises. |
Can extract and visualize information from the database according to one's own objectives.
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Global environmental problems 1 (Kanda)
Environmental deterioration can affect the health and comfort of people in the future and in other regions. Through group discussions, discuss regional and intergenerational disparities in environmental deterioration. |
Can fully understand and explain the regional and intergenerational disparities of environmental deterioration to others through group discussions.
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| 4th Quarter |
| 9th |
Global environmental problems 2 (Kanda)
Outline the mechanism of global warming and its impact on the ecosystem, and examine the current status of greenhouse gas concentrations and their sources, distribution, and migration forms. |
Fully understand and can explain to others the mechanism of global warming, its impact on the ecosystem, and the current status of greenhouse gas concentrations and their sources, distribution, and migration forms.
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| 10th |
Global environmental problems 3 (Kanda)
Outline the mechanism of ozone layer depletion and its impact on the ecosystem, and think about the locations and distribution of ozone holes and predictions and countermeasures for their future growth. |
Fully understand and can explain to others the mechanism of ozone layer depletion and its impact on the ecosystem, the locations and distribution of ozone holes, and predictions and countermeasures for their future growth.
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| 11th |
Assistance for developing countries and disaster areas (Hiraishi)
Give an introduction on assistance for developing countries and disaster areas that have been provided so far, and consider the way in which technologies can be applied to local characteristics in the global community. |
Can recognize the importance of local characteristics also in a globalized society.
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| 12th |
Appropriate technology (Hiraishi)
Give an introduction on the need for appropriate technology, examples of its application in developing countries and those in environmental measures in Japan to think about the way technology should work. |
Can explain the definition of appropriate technology and give examples of it.
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| 13th |
Recycling and benefits of biological organics (Hiraishi)
Explain how to treat biological organic materials such as fallen leaves, weeds, woods, food waste, and human waste, and how the system for a recycling-based society should work. |
Can explain examples of material recycling in a recycling-based society.
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| 14th |
Interdisciplinary area 1 (Nakanishi)
As a summary of this course, learn about a wide range of the latest science and technology, including shipbuilding, navigating, communicating, port and city planning, through an exercise on board the Graduate School of Maritime Sciences Kobe University's training ship, KAIJINMARU. |
Can organize and explain the knowledge gained through the on-board exercise.
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| 15th |
Interdisciplinary area 2 (Nakanishi)
As a summary of this course, learn about a wide range of the latest science and technology, including shipbuilding, navigating, communicating, port and city planning, through an exercise on board the Graduate School of Maritime Sciences Kobe University's training ship, KAIJINMARU. The will be an intensive course combined with week 14. |
Can organize and explain the knowledge gained through the on-board exercise.
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| 16th |
No final exam
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