The Faculty of Engineering includes the Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences and five departments: Mechanical Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Environmental and Civil Engineering, Biotechnology, and Pharmaceutical Engineering.
Faculty members conduct research across a wide variety of fields, while ensuring close cooperation among the five departments, and with outside organizations.
The Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences is responsible for liberal arts education in the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Information Engineering, and the Faculty of Nursing.
The Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences aims to cultivate a broad perspective, deep insight, and a rich sense of humanity in students, through a diverse liberal arts education that spans the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences, while at the same time developing the basic skills students need to become flexible and responsible members of society.
Courses in The Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences cultivate students to develop broad perspectives and deep insights into humans, society, culture, and nature, as well as the ability to correctly understand reality. The Center also fosters the skills related to language, communication, and information usage that are necessary for working adults.
This department aims to promote Mechanical Engineers who will contribute to the realization of a sustainable society, equipped with solid basic academic skills, a broad perspective, and rich communication skills related to Mechanical Engineering. To achieve this goal, we have organized a systematic curriculum along with liberal arts education, career development education, data science education, and environmental literacy education, which are implemented University-wide. Also, we focus on promoting a rich sense of humanity and improving students' ability to explore issues through classes in which students work on issues in groups and graduation research under the guidance of faculty members.
We study heat transfer phenomena, flow phenomena, and thermophysical properties that are deeply involved in increasing the efficiency and sophistication of energy conversion and utilization technologies that support "Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing”.
We study the strength and deformation of solid materials, which are necessary to improve the reliability and quality of electronic devices, automobiles, industrial machinery, etc., through both experiments and numerical simulations, and research the technologies necessary for manufacturing.
We research life cycle design, integrated production systems, 3D shape processing, and adaptive functional design technologies that are necessary for the design and production of human- and environmentally-friendly mechanical products.
We research mechanical materials (metallic materials, composite materials, and polymer materials), from understanding their basic properties to their applications, high performance, manufacturing processes, and productization.
The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering offers two courses, the “Integrated and Functional Devices Engineering” and “Electronic and Communication Systems Engineering.” These equip students with the basic and advanced knowledge and skills in the field of electrical and electronic engineering, supported by a systematic curriculum and state-of-the-art research projects.
Our department develops engineers who have expertise of both environmental engineering to solve environmental problems and civil engineering to construct safe and sustainable society. The students systematically learn environmental problems caused by interaction between natural environment such as soil, water, air and life, and social environment where human lives, from the local level to the global level. Our department is dedicated for education and research in order to solve the environmental problems from various perspectives, thereby contributing to sustainable development.
Our section researches measures and technologies for conservation of water, air, soil, and ecosystem, pollution remediation, energy conversion, and so on, to protect our health and pleasant environment and to develop sustainable society where materials circulate.
We research measures and technologies of planning, constructing and maintaining infrastructure that supports our life, such as river protection, soil improvement, road, and energy facilities, toward creating a social environment that is harmonized with natural ecosystem and resilient against natural disaster.
The Department of Biotechnology offers seven courses. The faculty is responsible for teaching advanced subjects that cover the themes mentioned below, under each course of study.
1 Enzyme Chemistry
Applied microbiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, gene expression, enzymology, organic chemistry, X-ray crystallography, protein engineering based on 3D structure, high-throughput screening of enzymes, enzymatic synthesis of chiral intermediates, and biotransformation of synthetic chemicals.
2 Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing
Biocatalysis, enzyme engineering, molecular genetics, protein engineering, biological chemistry, and applied microbiology.
3 Microbial Engineering
Exploration of new bioactive compounds from underexploited marine and terrestrial microorganisms, structure elucidation, evaluation of bioactivity, and biosynthesis.
4 Bioorganic Chemistry
Total synthesis of bioactive natural products, computational chemistry, drug design, and chemistry of woody biomass and lignin.
5 Food Science and Technology
Molecular biochemistry of functional foods, metabolism of biofactors including physiological and dietary compounds, enzyme chemistry of xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes, and molecular biology in animals.
6 Plant and Cell Engineering
Biochemistry, enzymology, bioorganic chemistry, plant cell and tissue culture, genetic engineering, molecular breeding, natural product biosynthesis, secondary metabolism and its regulation, and biomass utilization.
7 Applied Bioinformatics
Microbioinformatics, genome engineering, genome evolution, cell engineering, cell evolution, and systems biology.
1 Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Formulation
Education and research in this course is geared toward small drug development. It involves studying how small drugs are chemically synthesized in simple and effective processes, how drug formulations are designed to maximize their efficacy in the body, and how final products are inspected and packaged with cutting-edge technologies.
Keywords: Organic chemistry, process chemistry, fine chemistry, analytical chemistry, advanced lithography, functional materials, chemical engineering, powder engineering, drug delivery system.
2 Biopharmaceutical Engineering
This course aims to foster qualified persons with the knowledge and skills that are required
to apply engineering principles to the pharmaceutical industry by using biological systems including materials from molecules to cells. These systems are based on recent advancements in scientific fields described by the following key words.
Keywords: Biochemistry, genetic engineering, drug metabolism, cell engineering, protein chemistry, protein engineering, bioinformatics, biophysics, protein design, structure-based drug design, antibody engineering, drug discovery, pharmacology, regenerative medicine.
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