Civil Engineering

This course provides a study of basic soil mechanics and investigates geotechnical engineering principles. It examines how to make simplifications to complex soil conditions, how to establish strength/deformation characteristics of the soil, and how to apply fundamental geo-mechanics knowledge to solve problems involving the stability of an earth mass.

This course focuses on various aspects of disaster science and their practical application for disaster mitigation and risk reduction. The course discusses the basics of disaster history; hazard generation and mechanisms and their impact; related emergency response; medical needs, and post-disaster reconstruction. 

This course emphasizes hands-on laboratory experience and teaches students research background, relevant theories, and basic laboratory techniques relevant to their field of study. Students formulate a research plan, implement it by conducting experiment-based research, and convey the results in scholarly presentations. Students submit a written research report at the end of the course.

This course provides a physical understanding of phenomena and concepts in advanced water flows and introduces calculation methods to analyze a number of important hydraulic problems. The course deals mainly with free-surface flows with an emphasis on open-channel hydraulics.

The Individual Research Training Senior (IRT Senior) Course is an advanced course of the Individual Research Training B (IRT B) course in the Tohoku University Junior Year Program in English (JYPE) in the spring semester. Though short-term international exchange students are not degree candidates at Tohoku University, a similar experience is offered by special arrangement. Students are required to submit: an abstract concerning the results of their IRT Senior project, a paper (A4, 20-30 pages) on their research at the end of the exchange term, and an oral presentation on the results of their IRT Senior project near the end of the　term.

The course focuses on the performance of structural systems in relation to seismic forces. It encompasses basic concepts of seismology, seismic threat, and characterization of earthquakes and analyzes the seismic response of structures on elastic and inelastic performance. This course presents the scopes and limitations of the seismic design codes as well as the foundations for performance-based seismic analysis and design.

Rail transportation requires infrastructure, vehicles, motive power and energy to move goods and people. Each of these factors interact to affect the efficiency, energy requirements and economics of railroad operation. This course covers the principles of railroad transportation efficiency; economics, energy, and engineering. Topics include: Introduction to railroad infrastructure; rolling stocks; signal systems, and operations. The course is designed to establish the basic understanding and skills for conducting railway research and industrial projects.