SYLLABUS
OSAKA UNIVERSITY SHORT-TERM STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM _
99f-9 INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE
Kensuke BABA, Tsuyoshi FUJITA, Kazuhiko HASEGAWA, Michihiko IKE, Mitsuo KAWATANI, Hisako KOURA, Haruyuki KUSAMA, Yasuo MORI, Hidekazu MURAKAWA, Keiji NAKATSUJI, Takeshi SUZUKI, Ken TAKAGI, Chikaosa TANIMOTO, Katsuhito YAMAGUCHI and Toshio YAMANAKA (Faculty of Engineering)

Objective
Human beings are living in the unique planet; the earth. Everybody knows that the development is essential to their prosperous lives, but at the same time against the environmental preservation. In this lecture several staffs from Departments of Global Architecture, Naval Architecture, Civil Engineering, Architecture Engineering and Environmental Engineering will review and discuss various aspects of human activities related to the global influences. Those students who are interested in the sustainable development, future urban system, environmental society and recycling and transportation of energy and economical resources are encouraged to join the class without regarding their original courses.

Textbook
No particular textbook will be used.

Lecture Outline
Week 1. Environmental Risk Management in Global Society
Week 2. Hydrodynamics and Ecosystem in Estuarine and Coastal Waters
Week 3. Application of Biotic Function to Environmental Conservation
Week 4. Modeling and Simulation for Atmospheric Environment
Week 5. Building & Climate
Week 6. Environmental Design & CG
Week 7. Building Structures & Global Surroundings
Week 8. Environmental Behavior Study of Urban Public Space
Week 9. Landscape and Development as Regional Setting
Week 10.Use of Underground Space
Week 11.Role of Ships and Harbors        
Week 12.Design of the world-longest bridge: Akashi-Kaikyou Bridge
Week 13.Very Large Floating Structure   
Week 14.Transportation Systems in Japan
Week 15.Collision of Ships

Grading

Class participation40%
Term paper to be submitted of the end of the course 60%

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