2020 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Undergraduate major in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Introduction to Infrastructure and Environment
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Yasunori Muromachi / Junichiro Niwa / Yasuo Asakura / Tetsuo Yai / Jiro Takemura / Hitoshi Morikawa / Shinjiro Kanae / Daisuke Fukuda / Chihiro Yoshimura / Nobuhiro Chijiwa / Mitsuyasu Iwanami / Akihiro Takahashi / Sohichi Hirose / Masaki Kitazume / Ushio Saito / Tatsurou Sakano / Anil Wijeyewickrema / Eiichi Sasaki / Junko Sanada / Manabu Fujii
- Class Format
- Lecture (Zoom)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 7-8 Tue (W621) / 7-8 Fri (W621)
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- CVE.N210
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2020
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course comprehensively presents various issues which have been charged to civil and environmental engineering to solve, for example, global environmental problems as well as local community planning problem. It also includes lectures on the latest initiatives in technology, policy, and planning theory.
Students will understand that civil and environmental engineering is an academic system concerned with the methodology of technologies and policies for constructing a secure, safe, and sustainable human society and the philosophy of planning.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- View all the aspects included in civil and environmental engineering as one whole.
- Explain the basic technical, policy, and planning theories of civil and environmental engineering.
Keywords
Civil and environmental engineering, Sustainability, Secure and safety, Planning theory
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
This course will be held in omnibus format and led by various instructors specializing in civil, urban, and environmental fields.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering |
- To understand: 1. Current situation of globe; 2. Sustainable development; 3. Characteristics of infrastructure development; 4. Decisive factors of sustainable civil engineering; 5. Structural design considering environmental loads; and 6. Environment and coexistence |
| Class 2 | Advanced technology and challenges in water supply system |
- After understanding the advance technology and challenges in water supply system, students will deepen their knowledge and understanding on the relevant challenging issues. |
| Class 3 | Solid waste and ground contamination and environment |
- Through statics and case studies, understanding soil and ground water contaminations, solid waste in urban system. |
| Class 4 | Role of sewer system in basin-scale conservation of water environment |
- Students will understand the role of sewer system in basin-scale conservation of water environment and discuss future possibilities on this system. |
| Class 5 | Scenery and landscape |
- To understand the fundamental theory on landscape from citizens' perspective |
| Class 6 | Seashore protection and design |
- To think about what kind of meaning would be attached to landscape |
| Class 7 | Next-generation transportation system and environment |
- To understand environmental issues and concerns that can be solved by autonomous driving, electric vehicles, sharing, etc. |
| Class 8 | Energy consumption and sustainability in urban areas |
- To understand energy consumption and sustainability in urban areas |
| Class 9 | Framework and process of future road design |
- To think about the urban environment from the future design of human-oriented road spaces |
| Class 10 | Ground motions by crustal earthquakes and education for disaster prevention |
- To understand ground motions and disaster by crustal earthquake under urbanized area |
| Class 11 | Frontiers of technological development of structure monitoring |
- To understand brief overview of frontiers of technological development of structure monitoring |
| Class 12 | Investigating ground disaster from the viewpoint of soil and water dynamics |
- To understand the foundations of ground disaster generation |
| Class 13 | Challenges to slope disaster |
- To understand the mechanism of slope disaster and its mitigation measures. |
| Class 14 | Aging of urban infrastructure |
- To understand the current situation of aging in urban infrastructure and the fundamentals for countermeasure. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Lecture materials will be provided at OCWi.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Particularly not
Evaluation methods and criteria
-Small quiz during the class (3%*15=45%)
-Three assignments (20%*3=60%)
Note 1: If the total sum exceeds 100%, the score will be rounded to 100%.
Note 2: Assignment categories are 1-4th class: Water and soil environment, 5-9: Landscape and planning, 10-14: Secure and safety
Related courses
- CVE.N310 ： Special Lectures on Infrastructure and Environment
- CVE.N301 ： History of Civil Engineering and Engineering Ethics
Prerequisites
None in particular.
Office hours
Not fixed office hours. Therefore, please contact the organizer or each lecturer in advance by email for the appointment.