Subject Descriptions
Departmental Curriculum
Master’s Thesis in Engineering I - IVSpecial Seminars in Engineering I - IV
Ethical and Social Implications of Engineering

Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering
Thermal and Fluid EngineeringIntelligent Machine Systems
Design, Analysis and Processing of Engineering Materials
Advanced Theory of Plasticity (Sueyoshi, T.)
Studies on continuum mechanics and plastic constitutive theory, Analysis of plastic
large deformation of metals.
Corrosion and Protection (Oshikawa, W.)
Corrosion, Corrosion Protection.
Theory of Elasticity (Miyazaki, T.)
Study on stress analysis of two-dimensional problems and linear fracture mechanics.
Advanced Material Processing (Shibata, S.)
Composites materials consisting of polymer, fibers and particles.
Solid Mechanics (Fujikawa, M.)
Study of the continuum mechanics at the large deformation and its use in the Finite
Element Method.
Advanced Partial Differential Equation I (Kondou, R.)
Advanced Partial Differential Equation
Advanced Partial Differential Equation II (Kondou, R.)
Advanced Partial Differential Equation

Thermal and Fluid Engineering
Advanced Fluid Mechanics I (Yaga, M.)
Study of numerical calculations of compressible flow by solving shock tube problems
changing the intial and boundary conditions.
Advanced Fluid Mechanics II (Ishikawa, M.)
Wing theory, aerodynamic tools of two and three dimensional incompressible flow.

9Advanced Measurements of Turbulent Flow (Teruya, I.)
Measurements of turbulent flow by using sensors, Data acquisition.
Advanced Fluid Machinery (Ameku, K.)
Airfoil performances, design for wind energy conversion systems.
Advanced Heat Transfer Engineering I (Senaha, I.)
Study of heat and mass transfer on the heat conduction, the heat convection and thethermal radiation.
Advanced Heat Transfer Engineering II (Matsuda, S)
Study of heat transfer and its application, modeling of heat and mass transfer
phenomena.
Advanced Transport Phenomena (Minakuchi, H.)
Fundamentals of momentum, heat and mass transfer.
Advanced Partial Differential Equation I (Kondou, R.)
Advanced Partial Differential Equation
Advanced Partial Differential Equation II (Kondou, R.)
Advanced Partial Differential Equation

Mechanics and Control Engineering
Advanced Signal Processing in Mechanical Engineering (Oshiro, N.)
Digital signal processing, Fast Fourier Transform, Wavelet, Image processing andfeature extraction
Soft Control Engineering (Kinjo, H.)
An intensive study of the intelligent control systems: fuzzy control system, neuro-control
system, genetic algorithms, stochastic control system.
Advanced Control System Theory (Uezato, E.)
PID control, Regulator, Observer, Fuzzy control, GA., Intelligent control.
Intelligent Control Engineering (Nakazono, K.)
Genetic Algorithms, Neural Network, Design for Nonlinear Systems.
Advanced Partial Differential Equation I (Kondou, R.)
Advanced Partial Differential Equation
Advanced Partial Differential Equation II (Kondou, R.)
Advanced Partial Differential Equation

10Electrical Energy and Systems Control Engineering
Advanced Magnetic Materials (Yamamoto, K.)
Ferromagnetic Materials, Magnetostriction, Magnetic Anisotropy.
Advanced Electric Machinery (Urasaki, N.)
DC motors, AC motors, Variable frequency drives, Switching converters, Powerconversion.
Advanced Power Energy Conversion (Yona, A.)
Power energy conversion, Renewable energy, Optimal operation.
Advanced Power Electronics (Senjyu, T.)
DC/DC converter, PWM inverter, Motor control, AC/DC converter, Energy conversion,
FACTS devices in Power System, Advanced Control.
Advanced Power System Analysis (Harada, S.)
Computational Methods for Power System Load Flow, Optimal Power Flow andStability Analysis.
Advanced Plasma Engineering (Yonesu, A.)
Characteristics of plasma, Plasma processing.
Advanced Nonlinear Control Theory (Hanba, S.)
Geometric properties of nonlinear control systems, stability, nonlinear control system
Design.
Advanced Medical Electronics (Higa, H.)
Medical Instrumentation, Therapeutic and prosthetic devices.
Advanced Modern Control Theory (Nagado, T.)
State equations, Stability, Controllability and Observability.
Advanced Relativistic Electromagnetism (Shimoji, N.)
Electrodynamics, Maxwell's equations, Special relativity, Tensor analysis.

Electronic Systems and Devices
Organic Electronics Material Engineering (Kageyama, H.)
Organic Functional Materials, Organic Electronics Devices.
Advanced Thin Film Materials Engineering (Higa, A.)
Thin film materials, preparation methods of thin films, characterization methods of thinfilms and surfaces.
VLSI System Design (Shimabukuro, K.)
VLSI architecture, VLSI layout, Circuit simulation, VLSI CAD tools.
Advanced Quantum Computer Engineering (Kinjo, M.)
Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Gates, Quantum Devices.
Advanced Semiconductor Electronics (Yamazato, M.)
p-n junction, MOS device, Sensor device.

11Advanced Vacuum Technology (Okada, T.)
Vacuum pumps and gauges, Phenomena in vacuum, Fabrication processes forsemiconductor.
Advanced Dependable Systems (Nagata, Y.)
Dependable computer systems, Fault-tolerant systems and error detecting/correcting
CodeAdvanced Signal Processing Systems (Fujii, S.)
Digital signal processing, High-resolution spectral analysis in signal processing, Neuralnetwork application for signal processing.
Advanced Wireless Communication Systems (Saito, M.)
Mobile Radio, Propagation, Multiple Access, Modulation Techniques.
Advanced Image Processing (Nozaki, S.)
Image processing systems and its applications based on image analysis or inverse
problems.
Advanced Reconfigurable Architecture (Osana, Y.)
Fundamental of reconfigurable device architecture, and its design method.
Optical Device Instrumentation Technology (Miyagi, K.)
Passive and Active fiber components using the ultra long optical transmission system
based on light-wave phenomenon, "Maxwell's equations, transmission characteristics
on optical fibers and fiber design".
Telecommunication and Speech Signal Processing (Funaki, K.)
Speech coding, linear prediction, signal processing, telecommunication.

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Civil Engineering
Architecture & Building Engineering
Environmental Planning and Design Engineering
Advanced Architectural Design (Irie, T.)
Design, Planning, and Program.
Advanced Urban Planning (Ono, H)
Landscape and urban planning system, Land use planning.
Advanced Community Space Planning (Shimizu, H.)
District planning, Neighborhood, Community．
Advanced Environmental Noise (Tokashiki, T.)
The analysis and the results of the research on environmental noise.
Advanced Regional Planning and Design (Ando, T.)
Sustainable Development, Appropriate and affordable technology.

Structural and Mechanical Engineering of Bridges and Buildings
Advanced Building Materials (Yamada, Y.)
Durability of concrete, Salt attack, Alkali aggregate reaction, Fresh concrete.
Advanced Structural Mechanics (Nakada, K.)
Plasticity, Redistribution of stress, Collapse mechanism, Full plastic moment.
Advanced Design Engineering of Steel Structures (Shimozato, T.)
Steel structure, Structural design. Bridge design
Advanced Computational Solid Mechanics (Tomiyama, J.)
Numerical simulation method, Computational engineering and science.
Advanced Materials Science of Concrete (Suda, Y)
Cement hydration, Microstructure of concrete, Deterioration mechanism.
Advanced Diagnosis Engineering of Steel Structures (Tai. M.)
Fatigue, Corrosion, Maintenance of steel structures.

Environmental Disaster Prevention Engineering
Advanced Continuum Mechanics (Nakaza, E.)
Hooke's law, constitutive equations of a solid and a fluid, properties of modulus,
properties of failure of a solid material, new theory of continuum mechanics. Numericalsimulations.
Advanced Structural Design in Natural Hazard Prone Areas (Castro, J.J.)
Natural hazards (wind, earthquakes & ocean waves) and their interaction with buildingstructures. Design provisions for structures to resist horizontal loads.

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Advanced River Engineering (Fukuda, T)
Numerical simulation of flood flows and river-bed variation, depth integration ofequations of fluid flows, and curvilinear coordinate system.
Advanced Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering (Matsubara, H)
Theory of unsaturated soil mechanics (Equation of continuity, Richards' equation, etc.),
numerical simulation method in geomechanics, rock weathering, mathematicalmodelling of geomaterials, some issues in geotechnical and geoenvirionmentalengineering.
Advanced Rock Mechanics (Ito, T)
Fundamental laws of continuum mechanics and basis of rock mechanics andengineering. Characteristics of discontinuous rock, slope stability and undergroundcabity.
Advanced Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics (Iribe, T.)
To learn the basics of fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, programmingtechniques, simulation method and large-scale simulation.

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Computer Science and Intelligent Systems
Advanced Algorithms (Nakamura, M.)
Graph Algorithms, Optimization Algorithms, and Related Applications
Advanced Software Engineering (Kono, S.)
Software System Development, Large program, Object Oriented Systems, Persistent
Object, Verification, Test.
Advanced Parallel Processing (Nakamura, M.)
Parallel Programming, Parallel Algorithms, Distributed Algorithms, and Distributedsystems.
Advanced Wireless Systems (Wada, T.)
Wireless Communication Related Signal Processing Basics, One of the State-of-the-art
Communication System such as OFDM, Mobile Phone such as 4G LTE and 5G, 5G New
Radio System, Digital Signal Processing Simulation Tools such as Matlab.
.
Advanced Multimedia Information Processing (Nagayama, I.)
Digital Signal Processing, Intelligent Image Processing, Physiology and Cognitive
Science for Human Perception. Neural Computing and Algorithms for Communication
Systems.
Advanced Probabilistic Models (Okazaki, T.)
Mathematical Statistics, Computational Statistics, Data Science, and Human Behavior
Modeling.
Advanced Service Engineering (Okazaki, T.)
Service Engineering, Data Science, and Human Behavior Analysis.
Advanced Data Mining (Naruaki, T.)
Web inspired Research involving Search, Models of Search, Retrieval and Data Mining,
Algorithm Design and Analysis.
Advanced UI/UX (Akamine, Y.)
Human Computer Interaction, Usability Engineering, Interaction Design and UserCentered Design.
Advanced Intelligent Robotics (Yamada, K.)Intelligence of Autonomous Robots, Learning Methods and Emergence of Robotbehaviors. Behavior based AI Systems.
Advanced Human Augmentation Engineering (Yamada, K.)
Studying Technologies and Elemental Technologies to extend and support Human
Perception, Cognitive Abilities, and Physical Abilities from Engineering Perspective.
Advanced Intelligent Information Processing (Kang, D.)
Design and Development of Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning, Signal Processing,
Knowledge Representation.
Advanced Artificial Intelligence (Endo, S.)
Problem Solving, Knowledge Representation, Machine Learning, Evolutionary
Computation and Intelligent Agents.

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Advanced Artificial Society & Multi-agent Systems (Endo, S.)
Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, Simulated Organizations and Interaction ofHumans & Computational Agents.
Advanced Biological Information Processing (Kunita, I.)
Techniques for Biosignal Measurements, Analysis of Biological Time-Series Data,
Nonlinear Time-Series Analysis.
Project Management Practice (Nakamura, M.)
Project Management Body of Knowledge, Exercise on IT-related projects.

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