06s-02
INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE -NATURE
& HUMAN ACTIVITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT-

Toshio YAMANAKA, et al. (Graduate School of Engineering)

Objective
The 21st Century will be an era of Global partnership, and all nations and organizations in the world have to make best effort for sustainable development. In order to enable this sustainable development, the effect of human activities on nature should be predicted with enough understanding of the global environment and the human culture. The topics of this course are technology and design concept for the sustainable development. Various topics will be presented by some members of Department of Global Architecture, Department of Energy and Environment.

Schedule
(1) Orientation
Associate Prof. Toshio Yamanaka (Department of Architectural Engineering)
(2) Biotechnologies for Environmental Conservation
Assistant Prof. Satoshi Soda (Department of Energy and Environment)
(3) An Approach to Sustainable Transport System
Prof. Yasutsugu Nitta (Department of Civil Engineering)
(4) Utilization of Very Large Mobile Offshore Structure for Clean Energy Conversion
Associate Prof. Ken Takagi (Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering)
(5) Urban Heat Island and its Impact
Associate Prof. Yoshiyuki Shimoda (Department of Energy and Environment)
(6) Toward the Comprehensive & Effective Use of Domestic Wood and the Grand Strategy for the Century of Forest
Prof. Katsuhiko Imai (Department of Architectural Engineering)
(7) Designing Person-Environment Relationship
Associate Prof. Takeshi Suzuki (Department of Architectural Engineering)
(8) Sustainable Use of Ocean Fisheries Resources
Associate Prof. Naoya Umeda (Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering)
(9) History of Atmospheric Environment in Japan
Associate Prof. Akira Kondo (Department of Environmental Energy)
(10) Bio-mechanisms of Animals in Swimming and Those Applications to Ocean Engineering
Prof. Naomi Kato (Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering)
(11) Climate and Building
Associate Prof. Toshio Yamanaka (Department of Architectural Engineering)
(12) Wave generation and wave energy absorption
Prof. Shigeru Naito (Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering)
(13) Coastal Zone Environmental Management for Sustainable Development
Prof. Keiji Nakatsuji (Department of Civil Engineering)
(14) Presentation by students
(15) Discussion

Grading
*Class participation 40%
Checking participation of students at the time of 30 minutes passed after the lecture has started.
*Reports 60%
Selecting three of 10 subjects which each lecture has proposed. Submitting them at the last lesson of January. 24.
*How to make a paper
Using A4-sized papers. Attaching front page written subject title, lecturer‘s name and student’s name.