Civic Design

Urban planning for disaster resilient cities

If Nankai Trough megathrust earthquake occurs, heavy casualties are estimated. However, urban planning for disaster resilient cities will greatly reduce the damage. The urban planning begins with imagining what kind of disasters will occur in the regional areas and how to deal with them to save irreplaceable lives by collaborating with the local government, residents, and researchers. City Planning Laboratory promotes the urban planning for resilient cities in cooperation with residents and the local government by deploying various simulation tools to estimate and visualize the effects of disasters, such as the fire caused by the earthquake.

Creating better future society

For safe and comfortable life, it is essential to develop infrastructure such as convenient transportation network and embankments to protect lives from tsunamis and floods. There is also a need for "city planning" that minimizes damages caused by disasters by creating an urban environment for well-being and disaster prevention activities. In order to meet these demands of society, it is necessary to listen to the opinions of various people and consider plans that will make society for well-being. For the purpose, not only scientific knowledge and skills, but also literary ideas such as sociology and economics are useful.

In the field of civil and environmental engineering and civic design course, liberal arts students in addition to science students are also actively accepted, and engineers are trained with a broad perspective who can realize a better future society. In order to develop engineers who can create society in an integrated design in response to various demands such as disaster and environmental measures, we provide education with the integration of arts and sciences.

 

 2nd year

Infrastructure Development and Management, Infrastructure Planning and Exercise, Design Exercise on Regional Social Issues, Structural Mechanics I and Exercise, Hydraulics I Exercise, Soil MechanicsⅠand Exercise, Landscape Design and Planning, Public Governance, Construction Materials, Earth Science and Ecology, Practical English II, Structural Mechanics II and Exercise, Hydraulics II and Exercise, Soil Mechanics II and Exercise, Social Psychology, Surveying, Surveying Practice, Applied Mathematics I, Applied Mathematics II

 

 3rd year

Public Participation and Consensus Building, Exercise of a Project on Civil and Environmental Engineering, Grand Design of National Spatial Development

Bridge Design Competition, Maintenance Informatics for Civil Engineering Structures, National Land Development and Related Law, Information Engineering for Construction Management, Regional Design, Experiment on Civil Engineering, Infrastructure Materials Engineering, Construction Engineering and Management, Watershed Environmental Engineering, Ecological Engineering, Shikoku Study, Technical English I, Technical English II, Transportation Planning, Disaster Prevention Engineering, Field Exercise for Technical Intern

 

 4th year

Graduation Research

 

Civic design course was established in 2011 and have sent over 100 graduates to the society. The undergraduate graduates are involved in the field of infrastructure development such as urban planning in local government, construction industry, and construction consulting firms. There are also graduates who find employment in the infrastructure-related manufacturing, transportation, and telecommunications industries. We provide kind career support through individual employment guidance so that the graduates can be successful in society by the individual abilities acquired through undergraduate education. More than one-third of undergraduate graduates go to graduate school. The graduates contribute to society as a highly educated engineer by publishing research results as academic papers and conference presentations, and making use of their experience of interacting with various working people including OBs / OGs through research.

Career status in past 5 years

 

 

The Conservation Ecology Laboratory conducts research on river building for children to be intimate with. We collaborate with elementary and junior-high school students to collect data and discover river creatures that children like and their conservation measures. This activity also helps to raise awareness of the river environment and disaster prevention.

We also support students to study abroad. They study abroad at affiliated universities in Taiwan, South Korea, and Indonesia to improve English and communication skills. They can also develop an international sense through extensive English education and study with exchange students from overseas.