2024 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering Graduate major in Global Engineering for Development, Environment and Society
Perspective and Understanding of Various Kinds of Material and Standardization
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Global Engineering for Development, Environment and Society
- Instructor(s)
- Kunio Takahashi
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 1-2 Thu
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- GEG.T502
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Standards and industry are closely interlinked. Standards must be determined based on science and technology, but are frequently influenced by other societal aspects. Standards set on the basis of factors other than science and technology are not unusual. For example, almost all engineers may be confused by the co-existence of both ISO and ASME standards. Focusing on the materials used in many industries, this course provides an overview of the standard-setting process required now and in the future for the global engineer.
Course description and aims
This lecture enables students to show a basic guidline for the standardization of the material engineering.
Keywords
Science and technology of materials, Standard, Globalization of Industry
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Lecture and Discussion on some subjects
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Guidance. Type of standards, Standardization and industry | To understand the type of standards and the relation between industry and standards, and the role and its significance of the standard in industry |
| Class 2 | Mechanism of international standards | To understand the process to determine international standards |
| Class 3 | Mechanism of Japanese standards | To understand the process to determine Japanese standards |
| Class 4 | Position of materials in industry and Materials-related standards and science and technology | To understand materials science and technology in industry and understand the relation between the standard and science and technology |
| Class 5 | An example of ISO standard vs American standard in a field of engineering | To understand the problems in the relation between ISO standards and American standards, which causes difficulty for engineers in a global company |
| Class 6 | Examples in many fields of engineering | To understand the situation which depends of fields of engineering. |
| Class 7 | Standards, policy of governments, democracy and capitalism | To understand the standards are influenced by the policy of governments as well as science and technology under democracy and capitalism. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
The relation between science, industry, and standards depends on the field of science and technology. To recognize this point and to enhance effective learning, each student will be required to pick up an example of standard in his/her related field and make a presentation to share the situation of the relation.
Textbook(s)
none
Reference books, course materials, etc.
none, to be distributed if necessary.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Report
Related courses
- TSE.A321 ： Introduction to metallurgy of engineering materials
Prerequisites
none