Introduction of Department of Environmental...
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Department Overview
Our mission and goals
The primary mission of the Department is to serve society through research and education in agricultural and environmental technologies.
We take an engineering approach towards developing agricultural production systems in harmony with the environment.
This approach will help us realize our goal of an ideal rural community, where the residents can enjoy the amenity and beauty of rural lifestyles, and benefit from sustainable agricultural production and efficient marketing systems.
Curriculum for Undergraduate Curriculum(excerpt)
Freshman
Lectures
【Compulsory subjects】 • Landscape ecology
Experiments &
Practices
• Agricultural Core Practices
• Science on agriculture and environment
• Environmental engineering seminar
• Science on biological resources
Sophomore
• Applied engineering mathematics 【Special subjects】
• Applied mechanics • Rural planning
• Thermodynamics • Hydrology
• Fluid mechanics • Automatic control in bio-production
• Systems engineering • Farm machinery
• Computer data processing • Soil physics
• Remote sensing basics
Junior
【Special subjects】 • Water quality engineering • Practices in surveying
• Engineering ethics • Fundamentals in resource conservation & recycling
• Experiments in bio-production and environmental engineering
• Environmental chemistry • Biological wastes management • Fundamental experiments in soil physics and mechanics
• Surveying • Rural energy engineering • Fundamental experiments in hydraulics and water quality
• Farmland engineering and management • Mechanical design • Internship in environmental
engineering
• Introduction to Environmental Biophysics • Biophysical informatics • Field trips in environmental
engineering
• Environmental impact assessment • Environment control in biology
• Postharvest and Distribution Engineering • Food Systems Engineering
Senior Graduation thesis
Accreditation for education
Our education program was accredited by JABEE (Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education) since 1993.
JABEE was established in 1999 for the purpose to promote professional education and to support fostering international professionals. JABEE, as a third-party accreditation body, accredits professional education programs in higher education institutions fostering professionals with benchmarks required by the society by JABEE Accreditation Criteria which is internationally equivalent. JABEE examination respects the originality of education programs and encourages programs to continuously improve education through examination. JABEE accredits education programs with JABEE accreditation criteria in accordance with the concept of each accord: Washington Accord for engineering education programs, Seoul Accord for Computing & IT-related education programs and UNESCO-UIA for architectural education programs.
Staff
Professor Dr. Akira Goto <[email protected]>
Environmental hydrology Hydrological approaches for appropriate management of water resources and water environment
Soil & Water Environmental Engineering Program
Associate Professor Dr. Hiroyuki Matsui <[email protected]>
Watershed engineering Behavior of pollutant in waters
Staff Soil & Water Environmental Engineering Program
Associate Professor Dr. Kazunari Fukumura <[email protected]>
Soil and geoenvironmental engineering Soil remediation and transport phenomena
Associate Professor Dr. Ippei Iiyama <[email protected]>
Environmental soil physics Evaluates transport rates and quantities of water, gases and energy in soils
Associate Professor Dr. Kazutoshi Osawa <[email protected]>
Land and soil engineering Soil erosion on agricultural land and sediment management for agricultural watershed
Staff Soil & Water Environmental Engineering Program
Associate Professor Dr. Takahiro Tamura <[email protected]>
Rural planning Development of residents participations method for rural planning
Lecturer Dr. Takumi Moriyama <[email protected]>
Rural eco-engineering Elucidation of the ecosystem of a rural area
Staff Food Production System Engineering Program
Professor Dr. Takahiro Saito <[email protected]>
Environmental control of biology The environmental control technology of biology in closed ecological life support system
Professor Dr. Atsuo Ikeguchi <[email protected]>
Bioresource engineering Utilization of renewable biowaste materials
Associate Professor Dr. Masami Matsui <[email protected]>
Farm machinery Flying paddy acting the cleaning wind
Staff Food Production System Engineering Program
Associate Professor Dr. Tatsuo Hishinuma <[email protected]>
Rural energy engineering Life cycle assessment on a stock farm
Associate Professor Dr. Masaru Kashiwazaki <[email protected]>
Environmental control engineering Environmental control, quality preservation and postharvest processing of agricultural produce
Ippei IIYAMA, Assoc. Prof. ([email protected])
To clarify the material cycling rates,
and to evaluate adequate rates with which
we can wisely utilize natural resources,
This lab.. evaluates transport rates and quantities
of water, gases and energy
in soils where
the material cycling
can be regulated.
Subjects in the lab. include
monitoring water or gas fluxes in soils
in seasonal or annual scale,
quantifying the transport and retention parameters,
and analyzing the water or the gaseous behaviors
in numerical schemes.
Iiyama Lab. (Environmental soil physics)
Soil erosion on farmlands
Sediment and nutrients
transport on rivers
Sediment and nutrients
influx into coasts
Active coral reef
Damaged coral reef
Ecological farming
Soil erosion and sediment and nutrients runoff have
led to agricultural and environmental problems in
Okinawa, and effective measures which can reduce
sediment yield in the farmland are necessary.
Osawa Lab. (Land and soil engineering)
To make high antioxidant content of fresh vegetable and traditional Japanese food
●How effects of the light quality on Biomass on Antioxidant capacity of vegetables in enclosed artificially plant factory
●How changes of Antioxidant capacity with sake brewing process miso fermentation process
Saito Lab. (Environmental control of biology)
Place of employment for students
• Government (National, Local)
• Contractor
• Construction consultation
• Food manufacturer
• Machine builder
• High school teacher
etc.
Graduate school
Government
Company
Education
Farmer
Manufacturer
Consultation
Wholesaler Contractor
Others
undecided
Place of employment for undergraduate students
About me Kazutoshi Osawa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi pref. <--> Sister state to Indiana
Research Interest: Water quality, soil quality and watershed-scale conservation effects assessment, especially soil erosion on agricultural land and sediment management for agricultural watershed.
Feature: 190cm (6 feet 3 inches) height Home town: Ota city, Gunma pref. <--> Sister city to Lafayette
In my home town, Ota city…
There is big factory of “SUBARU”
Ota city Lafayette city
Tochigi pref.
From April 2014 • Fortunately, I have got the fund to research abroad. • A professor (Taku Nishimura, The University of Tokyo) introduced
me a researcher (Prof. Chi Hua Huang) at the USDA-National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory (NSERL) on the campus of Purdue University.
• I will spend one year at the USDA-NSERL to conduct cooperative research in soil erosion processes and prediction.
Utsunomiya Univ.
Indiana state
Purdue Univ.
My research USDA-NSERL
It seems to be FATE!
Thank you very much for your kind attention