2024 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Technology and Innovation Management Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
Analysis of Risk and Crisis Management
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
- Instructor(s)
- Masako Ikegami
- Class Format
- Lecture (Livestream)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 9-12 Wed
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- TIM.B519
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 3-4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Globalization has made the highly industrialized society vulnerable to various risks, e.g. natural disasters, disasters of technology/infrastructure/systems failures such as nuclear power accidents, power/cyber system blackouts, pandemics, and man-made disasters such as terrorism, bio-terrorism, riots, and cyber-attacks. This course aims at understanding critical risks of advanced industrial society through case studies.
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Course description and aims
To understand risk analysis and crisis management through case studies to get better prepared for crisis management.
Keywords
risk analysis and crisis management, security
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Lectures, independent research and pre-lecture discussion, active participation to the lectures and active discussion, final essay
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Engineering Ethics and Risk Management (1) Prof. M. Nakamura (former Professor of Tokyo Tech) | Engineering Ethics and Risk Management (1) |
| Class 2 | Engineering Ethics and Risk Management (2) Prof. M. Nakamura (former Professor of Tokyo Tech) | Engineering Ethics and Risk Management (2) |
| Class 3 | Lessons from the Fukushima nuclear disaster Prof. M. Nakamura (former Professor of Tokyo Tech) | Lessons of the Fukushima F1 Accident crisis management; Energy Security |
| Class 4 | Corporate scandals and the challenges facing Japan's manufacturing industry Prof. M. Nakamura (former Professor of Tokyo Tech) |
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.
Each class consists of discussion based on reading materials (17:00-18:00), thereafter lecture and Q&A by specially invited lecturers (18:00-20:00).
Textbook(s)
Ulrich BECK (1992) RISK SOCIETY: Towards a New Modernity, SAGE
Beat HABEGGER (ed.) (2008) INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK ON RISK ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Reference books, course materials, etc.
A compendium of articles and book chapters as hand-outs for pre-class readings
Evaluation methods and criteria
The evaluation is based on the followings:
• Regular class attendance and active participation: 50%
• Essay work (final paper) of independent research: 50%
Related courses
- TIM.C532 ： Research, Development, Test & Evaluation of Advanced/Defense Technology
- TIM.C510 ： Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Analysis I：The Politics of Nuclear Non-Proliferation
- TIM.A403 ： Methodology of Political Science and Economics I
Prerequisites
This course is a semi-intensive course scheduled on Wednesday evenings (9-12 Tamachi-time slots) in 3Q-4Q in coordination with two other courses (Lectures by Innovation Policy Makers and Entrepreneurs Seminar) in the same Tamachi-time session (9-12) so that the students can register and complete the three courses simultaneously.
Other
Details TBD