The Department of Environment and Resource Sciences aims at training advanced technical specialists who can contribute to the promotion of a safe and vigorous recycling-oriented society which is focused on lowering environmental impact by the effective use of resources and resource recycling. We attempt to achieve this goal in order to address prominent issues human beings must face such as the depletion of resources, the deterioration of nature and habitats, the global food shortage etc. Therefore, it is our responsibility to promote and deepen education and research in hopes of creating a sound system involving recycling and symbiosis with the environment by uniting cities, farming lands and forests. In addition we seek to educate on methods to achieve a system of low environmental impact which promotes safe and affluent living by saving, reusing and recycling materials.
We aim to provide education and research concerning the development of a secure, safe and sustainable biological production system through the utilization of animal and plant resources, the development of animal and plant functions, the clarification of dynamics of ecology in the process of animal and plant production, and the improvement of the production of environmental equipment, mechanization and functionality.
In particular, our program provides comprehensive education and research, integrating agriculture and engineering in order to effectively utilize technology. Of particular interest is the circulation of biomass specific to warm climate regions; the resources used in recycling and the control of technology through forests, farming lands and urban areas; the creation of comfortable urban spaces; the function of enforcement of fire prevention in rural villages and urban areas; and the development of ecological and chemical restoration technology to aid the environment. Also, the program aims to train the human resource personnel functionally so that they will possess the ability to answer the requests from communities as well as contribute to the task of global betterment.
Doctor of Agriculture, Doctor of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy
The Course entitled "Environmentally Harmonized Technology and Science" provides an interdisciplinary and comprehensive educational approach, integrating agriculture and engineering in order to respond to the issues surrounding the search for renewable energy. This course primarily focuses on the utilization of biomass produced from agriculture, forestry and dairy farming; the creation of recycling based resources in local communities; the control of CO2 concentration by utilizing rich nature, forest in particular; the abundance of organisms; water resource recharging; environmental restoration technology; the enforcement of fire prevention, and the creation of comfortable local urban spaces.
Aiming to establish sustainable societies, this course involves instruction on theories, technologies and methodologies which focus on how to live harmoniously and symbiotically with nature and ecology.
The Course entitled "Sustainable Agricultural Technology and Science" provides education and research involving scientific technology which is concerned with sustainable production through the effective utilization, and development and appropriate control of biological resources. Therefore, by integrating plant production science, animal production science and agricultural environmental engineering, this course provides the necessary education and research in order to understand analyses related to the control of sustainable animal and plant production, the effective utilization of animal and plant resources, the development and improvement of animal and plant functions, the control of damage caused by diseases and pests, the analysis of the physiology of animals and plants, the dynamic clarification of ecology in the processes of animal and plant production through comprehensive agriculture education and research; and the development of a sustainable production system through environmental arrangement, mechanization and practicable agriculture.
The Department of Applied Biological Science aims to train advanced technical specialists who can attain understanding of the various functions involving animals and plants, micro organisms and aquatic organisms, and based upon such expertise, can contribute to the tasks of producing food, energy and a cleaner environment, which is of great importance to both local and global societies. Therefore, our department provides the education and research needed for clearly understanding the potential functions of micro organisms, decomposition of environmental pollutants and biomass conversion in local communities to produce useful materials.
The department and program also provide the education and research regarding the development of an assessment system for functions involving animals, plants and food, in addition to a functional materials searching system.
Furthermore, it provides the education and research relating to the development of functional aquatic food products and the search for highly functional materials; the preservation and resource management of coastal ecology unique to warm climates; the appropriate resource control and advanced technology for aquaculture and stock enhancement balancing preservation of ecology of coastal areas, and the efficient production of aquatic organisms for effective utilization of coastal organisms.
In particular, our department provides comprehensive education and research integrating agriculture and engineering for the functional clarification of local biomass by microbiology, enzyme engineering and fermentation engineering and the development of its utilization. In addition it focuses on the development of environmental preservation technology by utilizing animals, plants and micro organisms, improvement of diet integrating genetic analysis and biological information engineering and the development of new healthy foods and medicines. The aim is to train human resource personnel who can respond to the needs of local communities and various globally pertinent tasks.
Doctor of Agriculture, Doctor of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy
The Course entitled "Bioscience and Biotechnology"comprehensively focuses on food, health, biological resources and the environment by utilizing the biological functions of animals, plants and micro organisms, and provides education and research on biochemistry, genetic engineering, bioengineering, food science etc. From the perspective of molecular engineering and fermentation engineering, integrating agriculture and engineering, this course also seeks to develop potential functions of micro organism and educates about the decomposition of environmental pollutants and the conversion of local biomass into useful materials. It also provides education concerning the development of an assessment system that elucidates the functions of foods in the community, in addition to a system used to search for functional materials, and promote education regarding biological adjustment systems (生体調整機構) and detoxification metabolism for the functional components in these foods at the cellular level.
The Course entitled "Marine Biological Science" provides the education and research for deriving useful materials from aquatic organisms, the development of food, searching for and applying useful micro organisms, understanding ecology and genetic analysis of coastal organisms relating to fishery resources, and for aquaculture and stock enhancement. In this course we conduct education and research practically with the intent of being capable of responding to issues concerning coastal organisms. That being said, it is necessary to understand environmental problem, resource management, ecological preservation and food problems associated with the relationship between humans and coastal environments from the viewpoint of fishery science.
The Department of Materials and Information aims to train advanced technical specialists who can contribute to the development of new environmentally-friendly materials, technology concerning conversion and analysis of energy, energy-saving methods, highly computerized manufacturing technology, information processing technology and mathematical models. This will be accomplished by utilizing advanced algorithms and software in order to address the need for an environmentally-friendly recycling-oriented advanced information society. Therefore, this department provides the education and research concerning the creation of functional materials controlled by nano-order, the development of highly efficient converted symbiotic energy system, energy measurement and analysis. Furthermore, it provides the education and research corresponding to the development of measurement and control systems based on production engineering, designs with low environmental impact and production technologies, and the intellectual control of production information based on information network technologies etc.
Moreover, this department provides the education and research corresponding to the management of medical information and the clarification of information involved in the genome, the analysis and prediction of the functionality involved in food, the theoretical development of molecular modeling, the modeling itself, analysis and simulation of complicated nonlinear phenomena, and the analysis and design of information communication networks and integrated circuits. This is accomplished by applying bioinformatics combined with agriculture, biology and computer science.
The department aims to develop an educational environment allowing for research which combines many fields of engineering, and to train human resource personnel who can contribute to creating regional and global solutions with rich creative ability and originality.
Doctor of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy
The Course entitled "Advanced Materials and Energy" provides the education and research concerning the creation of environmentally-friendly and recycling-oriented materials in addition to the conversion and analysis of energy. Therefore, this course focuses on the tasks which correspond to the creation of functional materials controlled by nano-order, the production and assessment of newly developed, thin film semiconductors and the development of a highly efficient conversion system used in the symbiotic-type energy of solar batteries and power fuel cells. This is accomplished through combining chemistry, electric engineering and material engineering. Furthermore, this course provides education and research concerning the measurement and analysis of high energy particles (elemental particles, X-ray and plasma) based upon hadron physics, atomic physics and astrophysics.
The Course entitled "Production Technology" provides the education and research concerning energy saving and computerization of manufacturing technology. Therefore, it provides students with the necessary training corresponding to the development of measurement and control systems based upon industrial engineering, vibration engineering and fluid engineering. In addition this course emphasizes the development and manufacturing technology of structural materials, taking into consideration the ultrafine, high quality machining technology and environmental impact. This is accomplished by intimately combining mechanical engineering and computer science.
This course also provides education and research corresponding to the tasks of intellectual control etc. of production information based upon information network technology, software technology and mathematical engineering.
The Course entitled "Course of Computer Science and Bio-information" provides knowledge regarding advanced information processing technology. This course provides students with the education and research needed for the development of solution methods of mathematical models, and algorithm and software. For these purposes, this course primarily focuses on training corresponding to the clarification of medical information management and information involved with the genome, and works to develop an understanding and a vision of the potential functions that food has (health maintenance and antiviral factors) with bio informatics in conjunction with agriculture, biology and computer science. It also provides education and research corresponding to the development of molecular modeling theory, the modeling itself, analysis, and simulation of complicated nonlinear phenomena, the analysis and design of information communication and the integrated circuitry, 0and self-repairing type computer systems etc.
