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Yuji Toda, Professor
2 student voices
The Toda-Mizoguchi Lab (commonly known as Suiri-ken) studies river flow, topography, and the conservation of watershed environments. It works on topics such as changes in vegetation within rivers, evaluation of the habitats of aquatic organisms, and prediction of damage to levees and railways caused by floods. Its research combines field biological surveys and aerial photography with UAVs (drones) with numerical computation and machine learning. Rivers overseas are also subjects of study, such as floods caused by glacial lake outbursts in Bhutan and riverbank erosion in Bangladesh.
Takashi Tomita, Professor
1 student voices
The Tomita-Nakamura (Shin)-Tashiro Lab (Land Design Lab) studies design methods for creating a sustainable and resilient national land. The lab addresses challenges such as the risk of disasters from large earthquakes and climate change, population decline and aging, and aging infrastructure. It works with fields both inside and outside civil engineering, and places importance on identifying problems together with local residents and other stakeholders and turning solutions into reality. The lab conducts research in Japan and abroad, including Nagoya City, the Zenpukuji River in Tokyo, Nagano Prefecture, Chile, Thailand, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka.
Kiichiro Hayashi, Professor
1 student voices
The Hayashi Lab evaluates impacts on energy and the environment, and conducts research to build a sustainable society. It focuses in particular on spatial evaluation of land use and the natural environment, and works to resolve issues related to renewable energy, ecosystem services, and the economy and society in an integrated way. The lab evaluates impacts at many scales, from small-scale field surveys to the global scale across countries. It takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines spatial analysis with GIS (geographic information systems), AI, drones, and field surveys.
Toshiyuki Yamamoto, Professor
1 student voices
To make a convenient, comfortable society sustainable in terms of the environment and energy, the Morikawa-Yamamoto-Miwa Lab conducts research mainly from the perspective of transportation. The lab believes that future automobiles will not just run on roads but will be connected within information and energy networks, and will be expected to play a stronger role in society. Example research topics include automated driving, public transportation, mobility services such as car sharing, analysis of human travel behavior, safety and disaster prevention, and the use of big data. Prof. Yamamoto belongs to the Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability and Prof. Miwa belongs to the Institute of Innovation for Future Society, but the two operate as a single, integrated research unit.
Hirokazu Kato, Professor
1 student voices
The Kato Lab (Regional Strategy Lab) conducts research on land use, cities, transportation, and the environment, with 'sustainability' and 'quality of life' as keywords. The lab applies the concept of life cycle assessment to social systems that place a heavy burden on the environment, such as travel behavior, car ownership, and logistics, and explores what an 'environmentally friendly activity' really is. The lab places great importance on fieldwork on site, and also works on maintaining local public transportation and developing evaluation methods that help in shaping urban strategies. To act as a bridge between the university and society, the lab is developing and putting into practice clinical environmental studies.
Anatoly Zinchenko, Associate Professor
1 student voices
The Zinchenko Lab (Sustainable Materials Lab) researches how to turn waste plastics and biomass waste into materials with useful functions. Combining polymer and colloid science with environmental engineering, the lab uses cheap, abundant waste itself as the raw material and designs practical routes to turn it into materials. The results are materials you can hold in your hands: MOFs made from PET bottles to capture CO2, adsorbents for heavy metals made from crab shells, and soil stabilizers made from waste-derived polymers. The lab also carries out joint research with universities and companies in Japan and abroad, and Japanese and international students work together in English and Japanese.
Hiroto Shiraki, Associate Professor
1 student voices
The Shiraki Lab studies energy system analysis for examining measures to curb climate change. The lab combines regional climate, patterns of energy use, and the costs of countermeasures in mathematical models for analysis. Based on measured data on household electricity consumption and questionnaire surveys, the lab also examines ways to promote household energy saving.
Junji Kato, Professor
0 student voices
The Kato-Nishiguchi Lab studies 'mathematical structural design,' which uses computational mechanics to find optimal structures. Its central theme is topology optimization, which makes structures lighter while tuning performance, such as stiffness, toughness, vibration, and heat transfer, exactly as desired. The lab collaborates with a wide range of fields, not only civil engineering and architecture but also automotive and mechanical engineering, aerospace, robotics, and materials science. It also studies methods for solving structural and fluid problems on computers such as the supercomputer Fugaku, as well as design methods premised on additive manufacturing (3D printing).
Hikaru Nakamura, Professor
0 student voices
The Nakamura-Miura Lab studies concrete structures such as bridges, tunnels, and dams, as well as their materials. Its work focuses mainly on the scale of cracks, combining mesoscale analysis developed in-house with nano- and micro-scale analysis and structural experiments. The lab works on new maintenance and management methods for structures that deteriorate over the years, and on elucidating the mechanisms of phenomena caused by the combined action of loads and the environment. It also conducts joint research with companies and researchers in Japan, and international joint research with researchers overseas.
Tomoaki Nakamura, Professor
0 student voices
The Nakamura (Tomoaki) Lab (Coastal Lab) conducts research to create and make use of safe and secure coastal areas. The lab approaches this from three directions: large-scale hydraulic model experiment facilities, its own numerical models, and field observation with the latest measuring instruments. Cameras are installed at Ida Coast of Shichiri-mihama in Mie Prefecture, where the lab continues to observe beach morphological change.
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