2022 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 / Tetsuo Yai / Jiro Takemura / Hitoshi Morikawa / Shinjiro Kanae / Chihiro Yoshimura / Nobuhiro Chijiwa / Mitsuyasu Iwanami / Akihiro Takahashi / Sohichi Hirose / Ushio Saito / Anil Wijeyewickrema / Eiichi Sasaki / Junko Sanada / Manabu Fujii / Mai Sawada
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- 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
- 2022
- 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 | Water environment and SDGs | To understand Water environment and SDGs |
| Class 3 | Advanced technology and challenges in water supply system | To understand Advanced technology and challenges in water supply system |
| Class 4 | Global environmental changes and water disasters | To understand Global environmental changes and water disasters |
| Class 5 | Solid waste and ground contamination and environment | To understand Solid waste and ground contamination and environment |
| Class 6 | Sustainable chiikizukuri and landscape | To understand Sustainable chiikizukuri and landscape |
| Class 7 | Seashore protection and design | To understand Seashore protection and design |
| Class 8 | Energy consumption and sustainability in urban areas | To understand Energy consumption and sustainability in urban areas |
| Class 9 | Transportation infrastructure and urban environments | To understand Transportation infrastructure and urban environments |
| Class 10 | Ground motions by crustal earthquakes and education for disaster prevention | To understand Ground motions by crustal earthquakes and education for disaster prevention |
| Class 11 | Natural disaster and soil dynamics | To understand Natural disaster and soil dynamics |
| Class 12 | Frontiers of technological development of structure monitoring | To understand Frontiers of technological development of structure monitoring |
| Class 13 | Aging of urban infrastructure | To understand Aging of urban infrastructure |
| Class 14 | Maintenance of structures and non-destructive inspection | To understand Maintenance of structures and non-destructive inspection |
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 T2SCHOLA.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Particularly not
Evaluation methods and criteria
-Small quiz during the class (3%*14=42%)
-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: Water and soil environment, Landscape and planning, 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.