(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)
Fujiwara: Mechanical systems (three classes)
Nomura: Electronic and information systems (three classes)
Watanabe: 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.
Fujiwara 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.
Watanabe 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 evaluation.
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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 |
Thermal Fluid Problems in Engineering
Problems related to thermal fluid are faced everywhere in engineering, such as cooling of housing and electronic equipment. This lecture will discuss the basic laws of such thermal problems. (Fujiwara) |
Can understand the basic laws of heat conduction and heat transfer, and be able to perform basic thermal calculations.
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| 3rd |
Practical Thermal Problem Analysis
When performing a hand-calculation level analysis of a thermal problem, it is necessary to model and simplify the actual thermal problem. Modeling of each element for practical thermal problems will be discussed. （Fujiwara) |
Can model each element and perform thermal calculations for practical thermal problems.
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| 4th |
Challenges in Analyzing Thermo-Fluid Problems
To perform analysis of thermal problems at the hand-calculation level, thermophysical properties, heat transfer coefficients, and other values are required. We will understand the process of constructing such a database and discuss guidelines for more complex thermal problems. (Fujiwara) |
Can discuss the procedures for obtaining non-databased physical properties and heat transfer coefficients.
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| 5th |
Automation 1 (Nomura)
Learn about the concept of work automation, using existing cases as materials. |
Can explain events that can be automated.
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| 6th |
Automation 2 (Nomura)
Learn about platforms used for programmatic automation. |
Can explain a platform used for programmatic automation.
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| 7th |
Automation 3 (Nomura)
Learn how to clarify the procedure to automate a task, consider the form of the output, and realize it through programming. |
Can explain procedures for automating repetitive tasks in research activities and daily routines through programs.
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| 8th |
Development and Environment(Watanabe) |
Can explain the impact of development activities on the environment, and the disaster prevention function of the nature.
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| 4th Quarter |
| 9th |
Environmental load and Environmental impact assessment method(Watanabe) |
Can explain indicators, life cycle assessment(LCA), and environmental impact assessment methods related to the impact of human activities on the environment.
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| 10th |
Environmental Risk and Ethics(Watanabe) |
Can explain the three environmental ethics of natural subsistence, inter-generational ethics, and resource finiteness, as well as the trilemma of environmental risks and environmental problems.
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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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