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Program System and Curriculum
The Division employs a program system and curriculums. Seven programs are mutually linked.
Cross-sectional and organic unification of these programs enables us to organize projects that meet various social requirements.
Students select a major program and a sub program.
After completing the major program, they participate in a research project and incorporate the results into a master's thesis and a doctoral thesis.
This enables them to acquire knowledge necessary for human resources that can lead industrial society or for engineers and researchers/developers that can be immediately of service to the society.
In addition, it can be expected that the completion of the sub program will allow them to acquire a wide variety of knowledge across environment and energy.
Outline of Individual Programs and Main Curriculums

Environmental Management Sustainable Environmental Design
Circulatory Material and Resources System Sustainable Energy System
Preservation of Sustainable Environmental System Quantum and Energy
Environmental Risk Management @

Environmental Management
Under the program, students design a sustainable system for an area straddling both systems of engineering technology and society, and also learn and study principles and theories and practical activities for managing environmental actions under a cooperation between actors.
Being conscious of horizontal connection with other programs, we study and educate an environmental system and environmental management for solving environment and energy issues.
Students make researches on a comprehensive process from discovery of a problem to formulation of a management program and operation of the program, the design of a social system under which the result of analysis on a phenomenon is evaluated in consideration of uncertainties and so on and design a platform for environmental communication, whereby, proposing a technique and a social system to form a sustainable recycling-oriented society.
Through these activities, we develop human resources that can contribute to national and local governments, international organizations, firms, and private organization, etc., with their special skills.
Program's main subjects
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Environmental Planning Theory
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Industrial Environment Management Theory
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Thermal Environment System Special Theory
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Sustainable Urban Environment Theory
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Global Metabolism and Cycles
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Resources Recycling Use System Special Theory
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Sustainable Environmental Design
Students gain an insight into a relationship between human beings and environment and seek the modality of sustainable cities and living environment.
Accepting that human environment is spatially made up of social environment elements such as politics, economy, legal framework, history and culture, and nature and artificial buildings, they pursue the modality of coexistence of "people and people," "people and nature," "people and technology," "people and (characteristic) individual places" in the spatial fields of the environment.
"Design" shown by this Program does not simply mean to decorate a thing in an aesthetic manner, but to give a structure to the thing by conceiving its makeup based on the relationship among various elements.
From this viewpoint, they study the way of elucidating a mechanism for human environment, specifically urban environment and the way of "design", the ways of residents and local municipalities' participation in "design" and their cooperation for the design and the modality of an information system necessary for these activities.
With an eye on the above goals, we conduct education and research that fuse principles and theories in humanities and social science without being constraint to engineering.
In addition, we develop human resources that can assume concrete planning and coordination for the establishment of sustainable city and living environment from the viewpoints of national and local governments' staff and consultant engineers, and nurture researchers involved in the related areas.
Program's main subjects
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Sustainable Urban Environment Theory
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Sustainable Environmental Design Theory
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Sustainable Space Configuration Theory
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Information, Media and Communication Theory
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Development of Designer for Building Renovated Town
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Circulatory Material and Resources System
We aim to establish a system that is based on the development of recyclable materials and materials aimed at recycling waste and on recycling techniques for the resources.
For it, our research covers the design and creation process with which materials can be easily recycled, without being constraint only to the improvement of their functionality.
Additionally, it also covers the methods for managing resource recycling in terms of environmental protection. In particular, we advance our own research with a focus on environment-conscious materials, low environmental load process and recycling techniques and develop the methods for recycling waste and using recyclable resources.
Our emphasis for the development of researchers is placed on the fostering of human resources that acquired proficiency in problem-solving environmental techniques with various methods and obtained management skills of resource recycling such as efficient use of resources and production of ecological materials, without being constraint to the quest for principles and theories.
Program's main subjects
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Bioenvironmental Engineering Special Theory
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Advanced Environmental Materials Special Theory
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Resources Recycling Use System Special Theory
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Energy Conversion Materials
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Environment-conscious Materials
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Energy Resources Cycle Engineering
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Green Chemistry
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Sustainable Energy System
We aim to develop an ecological energy system necessary for establishing a sustainable society.
Students solve various energy issues, covering technical aspects of science in a micro area of fuel and materials to system configuration of various element techniques and interface between energy and people to social acceptability of large-scale energy system, from the aspects of both technology and human science.
We develop conversion techniques and materials for using ecological energy such as hydrogen and sunlight. In consideration of global energy cycle, this program is intended to make research on energy and risk management.
In addition, a technique to use quantum beams for analysis and as energy source is studied.
Through these studies, we develop human resources that can aspire to developing new sustainable energy, understanding various demand-side energy techniques in the social system, recognizing long-range issues related to the techniques, and acquiring the methods for solving the problems.
Program's main subjects
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Consuming End Energy System Engineering
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Thermal Environment System Special Theory
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Global Metabolism and Cycles
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New Energy Chemistry
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Energy Conversion Materials
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Preservation of Sustainable Environmental System
The program is intended to quest for an engineering approach to protect environment, coexist with nature and establish a safer and securer society.
Maintaining a viewpoint with which environment is taken as a combination of global and social systems, we conduct education and research with an eye toward individual techniques.
The research covers environmental monitoring and analysis techniques for elucidating a relationship between nature and human activities, methods for evaluating environmental risk involved in the soundness of human health and natural ecosystem, application of ecosystem analysis and measurement techniques to medical and welfare fields, water/air/soil cleanup and restoration techniques, engineering response techniques for reducing human loads to environment.
We develop human resources that can contribute to the development and implementation of environmental protection techniques, those that can commercialize the protection techniques and researchers that assume basic research on the fields involved in the protection.
Program's main subjects
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Environmental Dynamics Special Theory
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Bioenvironmental Engineering Special Theory
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Environmental Bioprocess
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Thermal Environment System Special Theory
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Advanced Medical Engineering
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Welfare Engineering
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Quantum and Energy
Nuclear engineering is an integrated science that is supported by a wide variety of academic fields, so requires knowledge on basic areas such as physics, chemistry, biology and mathematic to application areas such as nucleonics, materials, energy conversion, safety, environmental science, measurement and control and computational simulation science.
Taking over the policy for the former nucleardepartment's research and educational activities, this program is aimed to conduct researches for advancing the techniques for nuclear energy, energy resource essential for our country in the future and for developing a nuclear energy system that has a higher level of safety, reliability and environmental protection, and to nurture human resources that can accomplish such development.
In addition to the application of existing techniques, we aim to develop human resources that can contribute to the solution of social problems, with a wide perspective covering a micro world to the entire society, a macro world, using the characteristics of nuclear engineering, a fusion of basic and application fields.
Program's main subjects
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Neutron Engineering
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Nuclear Reactor Physics
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Nuclear Reactor Engineering
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Fuel Cycle
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Quantum Beam Bioengineering
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Environmental Risk Management
We aim to nurture human resources that acquire systematic and practical skills concerning environmental risk management and have knowledge and capabilities to develop "anticipation" and "preventive actions" or organizational "future orientation" with an eye toward human sustainability when the movements of new environment emerge.
In order to develop practical engineers and researchers, we provide lectures and drills by interior and exterior practitioners with pragmatic experiences and lectures concerning risk analysis on the harm of chemicals and concerning communication and project management among different concerned parties, while actively introducing an OJT approach, offering on-the-job case-based learning and supporting on-site training.
In this program, if students complete over 30 credits of opened courses, they can be certified as an "Environmental Risk Manager" by an exterior accreditation organization.
Program's main subjects
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Technical Risk Decision-making Theory
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Risk Response Practice Theory
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Risk Communication Theory
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Risk Management Theory
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Environmental Risk Management of Chemicals
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Health Risk Evaluation
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Risk Management System
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