Department Overview. Our mission and goals

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2 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.

3 Curriculum for Undergraduate Freshman Sophomore Curriculum(excerpt) Compulsory subjects Landscape ecology Science on agriculture and environment Science on biological resources Environmental engineering seminar Applied engineering mathematics Special subjects Applied mechanics Rural planning Thermodynamics Hydrology Fluid mechanics Automatic control in bioproduction Systems engineering Farm machinery Agricultural Core Practices Junior Senior Lectures Computer data processing Soil physics Remote sensing basics Experiments & Practices Special subjects Water quality engineering Practices in surveying Engineering ethics Fundamentals in resource conservation & recycling Environmental chemistry Biological wastes management Surveying Rural energy engineering Farmland engineering and management Introduction to Environmental Biophysics Mechanical design Biophysical informatics Environmental impact assessment Environment control in biology Postharvest and Distribution Engineering Food Systems Engineering Graduation thesis Experiments in bioproduction and environmental engineering Fundamental experiments in soil physics and mechanics Fundamental experiments in hydraulics and water quality Internship in environmental engineering Field trips in environmental engineering

4 Accreditation for education Our education program was accredited by JABEE (Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education) since 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.

5 Staff Soil & Water Environmental Engineering Program Professor Dr. Akira Goto Environmental hydrology Hydrological approaches for appropriate management of water resources and water environment Associate Professor Dr. Hiroyuki Matsui Watershed engineering Behavior of pollutant in waters

6 Staff Soil & Water Environmental Engineering Program Associate Professor Dr. Kazunari Fukumura Soil and geoenvironmental engineering Soil remediation and transport phenomena Associate Professor Dr. Ippei Iiyama Environmental soil physics Evaluates transport rates and quantities of water, gases and energy in soils Associate Professor Dr. Kazutoshi Osawa Land and soil engineering Soil erosion on agricultural land and sediment management for agricultural watershed

7 Staff Soil & Water Environmental Engineering Program Associate Professor Dr. Takahiro Tamura Rural planning Development of residents participations method for rural planning Lecturer Dr. Takumi Moriyama Rural eco-engineering Elucidation of the ecosystem of a rural area

8 Staff Food Production System Engineering Program Professor Dr. Takahiro Saito Environmental control of biology The environmental control technology of biology in closed ecological life support system Professor Dr. Atsuo Ikeguchi Bioresource engineering Utilization of renewable biowaste materials Associate Professor Dr. Masami Matsui Farm machinery Flying paddy acting the cleaning wind

9 Staff Food Production System Engineering Program Associate Professor Dr. Tatsuo Hishinuma Rural energy engineering Life cycle assessment on a stock farm Associate Professor Dr. Masaru Kashiwazaki <mkashiwa@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Environmental control engineering Environmental control, quality preservation and postharvest processing of agricultural produce

10 Iiyama Lab. (Environmental soil physics) 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. Ippei IIYAMA, Assoc. Prof.

11 Osawa Lab. (Land and soil engineering) Soil erosion on farmlands Active coral reef Sediment and nutrients transport on rivers Ecological farming Sediment and nutrients influx into coasts Damaged coral reef 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.

12 Saito Lab. (Environmental control of biology) 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

13 Place of employment for students Government (National, Local) Contractor Construction consultation Food manufacturer Machine builder High school teacher etc. Wholesaler Contractor Others Consultation Company Manufacturer Farmer undecided Education Graduate school Government Place of employment for undergraduate students

14 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

15 In my home town, Ota city There is big factory of SUBARU

16 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. USDA-NSERL Purdue Univ. Indiana state Lafayette city My research Utsunomiya Univ. Tochigi pref. Ota city It seems to be FATE!

17 Thank you very much for your kind attention