Civil Engineering

This course provides methodologies and tools for the adaptation of water resource systems with respect to climate change and climate variability. The course provides a fundamental understanding of the physical processes behind climate change and its effects on the hydrological cycle.  Course topics include the climate of the world, global circulation patterns, climate variability, basic meteorology, rain-generating processes, downscaling in time and space, changes in rainfall patterns, extreme events, disaster risk reduction, sea level change and its consequences on near-shore constructions, urban hydrology, maintaining quality drinking water in a changing climate, and problems unique to arid areas and developing countries.

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 research training for students through the experience of belonging to a specific laboratory at the University of Tokyo. Students carry out an original research project under the guidance of assigned faculty members. Through a full-time commitment, students will be able to improve their research skills by applying the basic principles and knowledge from the literature related to the research questions, and by developing the skills to collect, interpret, and critique data in order to resolve a research question or evaluate a design for a research project. At the conclusion of the program, students submit their final work (paper, presentation, report etc.) as instructed by their lab supervisors

In this course students acquire a broad knowledge base and develop analytical and critical thinking skills. Students actively participate in seminars, read assigned texts and research papers, and analyze research data. Students also discuss results obtained in their own experiments with peers and senior laboratory members.

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.