WECC2015 Newsletter No.2

May 15, 2014

Dr. Sato has been succeeding
the Chair of WECC2015 Organizing Committee
Dr. Jun’ichi Sato succeeded the chairmanship of WECC2015 Organizing Committee as well as thepresidency of the Japan Federation of Engineering Societies, the organizer of WECC2015, from Dr. Ayao
Tsuge on January 15, 2014 when Dr. Tsuge finished the term of JFES presidency.
Dr. Sato completed the doctoral program in aeronautics at the University of Tokyo in 1976, and started
his career as a researcher at IHI Corporation. He was awarded a doctorate by the University of Tokyo in
1979. In 2006 he was promoted to the positions of IHI Board Director and Managing Executive Officer,and Director General of Corporate R & D, and in 2008 he became President of IHI Inspection &Instrumentation Co., Ltd. He is now back on the management team of IHI Corporation as an advisor.
Beside his corporate career, he has also been engaged in education as a guest professor at the Universityof Bremen, Germany (1997-1998), Tohoku University, Japan (2004-2005), and Tsinghua University,China (2000-present).
Dr. Sato served as President of the Combustion Society of Japan from 2007 to 2008, and President of theJapan Society of Mechanical Engineers from 2011 to 2012. In 2008 he was elected a member of theScience Council of Japan.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Technical Program and Call for Papers
The conference technical program will be organized with the following tracks and symposia. Generalsubmission to those fields is welcome. However, fundamental research that is far from transfer
into practice is not the focus of WECC 2015.
1. Themes
Track 1: Resilient Infrastructure for Society
1-1 Reconstruction innovation
1-2 Land/city conservation and disaster mitigation
1-3 Robot technology used at disaster sites and its operating system
1-4 Strengthening national interests and creating new industries using big data
1-5 Creating a resilient economy
1-6 Resilience in manufacturing and energy sectors
Track 2: Energy for a Sustainable Society
2-1 Wider applications for fossil resources: Conventional and non-conventional resources
2-2 Power generation technology
2-3 Renewable energy sources and energy storage technologies
2-4 Energy saving and efficient energy use
2-5 Energy management
2-6 Smart grid, smart community
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Track 3: Natural Resources for a Sustainable Society
3-1 Satellite-based technology, land and marine survey, resource investigation, disaster monitoring3-2 Sustainable supply chain management from natural resources to chemicals and metallic/non-metallic
materials and their life cycle assessment
3-3 Water resource and environmental management
3-4 Advanced recycle technology
3-5 Process technology for sustainability
3-6 Agricultural machinery and food engineering, agricultural mechanization, agricultural structures
Track 4: Urban Development and Infrastructure
4-1 Environmental friendly and sustainable cities & housing
4-2 Net zero energy building technology, new air-conditioning and sanitary technology, green building
technology, water utilization technology
4-3 Measuring, control, security technology, robot technology
4-4 Next generation broadcasting systems
4-5 Construction technology and management
4-6 Innovation for maintenance and renovation of sustainable civil infrastructure
Track 5: Mobility and Communication Technology
5-1 Railway technology, high-speed train, urban transportation, maintenance technology
5-2 Automotive technology, society and mobility in 2030
5-3 Marine technology, ships, ocean energy utilization, marine resource developments
5-4 Aeronautical technology
5-5 Innovative telecommunications technologies
5-6 Information security and privacy
Track 6: Industry for Society
6-1 Creating value and solving social issues through the big data revolution
6-2 Trends in utilizing intellectual property for promoting innovation
6-3 Role of finance in industrial innovation
6-4 Value-added manufacturing for competitiveness
6-5 Innovation of cutting-edge technology and next generation devices
6-6 Advanced functional materials
Track 7: Life Innovation
7-1 Design of safe and secure communities, community medicine and home healthcare
7-2 Disease prevention (Early diagnosis, bioimaging, etc)
7-3 Recovery from disease: Part 1 (Nanomedicine)
7-4 Recovery from disease: Part 2 (minimally invasive therapy and personalized treatment)
7-5 Recovery from disease: Part 3 (Regenerative medicine, tissue engineering)
7-6 Sustaining good health (Medical and healthcare devices)

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Track 8: Engineering for Society and Engineering in Society
8-1 Social missions of engineering and ethics for engineers
8-2 Engineering qualification systems and ethics
8-3 Science & technology based on the societal trust & communication
Part 1: Fukushima Daiichi--the lessons learned
8-4 Science & technology based on the societal trust & communication
Part 2: For the environmental problem-free society
8-5 Science & technology based on the societal trust & communication
Part 3: For the society of robust and secure infrastructure
Track 9: Engineering Education and Women in Engineering
9-1 Promoting female leaders in engineering
9-2 Promoting young women in engineering
9-3 World human resource development and engineering education
9-4 Development and contribution of the Japanese engineering education to the world
Track 10: Other topics
2. Schedule

Deadline for Abstract Submission: December 10, 2014
The abstract submission page will be open on the WECC2015 website in May, 2014.
(http://www.congre.co.jp/wecc2015/)
3. Draft Program at a Glance (As of April 23, 2014)
TrackThemeTrack 1

Track 2

Track 3

Track 4

Track 5

Resilient Infrastructure forEnergy for a Sustainable

Natural Resources for a

Urban Development andMobility and Communication

SocietySociety

Sustainable Society

Infrastructure

Technology

9:00

Track 6

Track 7

Industry for SocietyLife Innovation

Track 8Track 9Engineering for Society andEngineering Education andEngineering in Society

Women in Engineering
9:00

Opening Ceremony (Main Hall)

30
10:00

30
10:00

Break (20 minutes)

30

30

Plenary Sessions: Conference Plenary Lectures, Part I (Main Hall)

11:00

11:00
30

30

Nov 30(Mon)

12:00
3013:00
30
14:00

Plenary Session: Conference Plenary Lecture, Part II (Main Hall)

30
15:00

12:00
30
13:00
30
14:00

Lunch (Swan, Sakura)

1-1

30

3-1

2-1
Reconstruction innovation

Wider applications for fossil

Satellite-based technology, land andresources: Conventional and non-marine survey, resource

conventional resources

investigation, disaster monitoring

16:00

Railway technology, high-speed

Environmental friendly and30

Break (10 minutes)

5-1

4-1
sustainable cities & housing

6-1

Creating value and solving social

7-1【Session Keynote Lecture】

Design of safe and securetrain, urban transportation,issues through the big data

communities, community medicine

maintenance technology

revolution

and home healthcare【Session Keynote Lecture】
Risk communication as the essentialsociotechnical system

30【Session Keynote Lecture】
Engineering literacy

Engineering for the society【Session keynote Lecture】
Promoting female leaders in engineering

18:00

9:00

10:00

1-2

3-2 Sustainable supply chain

2-2

Land/city conservation and disastermitigation

30

Power generation technology

12:00

Dec 1(Tue)

30
15:00

Break (20 minutes)
4-2 zero energy building technology,Netmanagement from natural resources

new air-conditioning and sanitary

to chemicals and metallic/non-technology, green building

metallic materials and their life cycle

technology, water utilizationassessment

technology

30
13:00
30
14:00

30

7-2

6-2

Automotive technology, society andTrends in utilizing intellectual

Disease prevention

mobility in 2030

property for promoting innovation(Early diagnosis, Bioimaging, etc)

1-3

3-3

2-3

4-3

Robot technology used at disaster

Renewable energy sources andWater resource and environmental

Measuring, control, security

sites and its operating systemenergy storage technologies

management

technology, robot technology

5-3Marine technology, ships, ocean

6-3energy utilization, marine resource
developments

30
Break (20 minutes)

1-4
Strengthening national interests and30

creating new industries using big data

10:00

Role of finance in industrial

Recovery from disease:innovation

Part 1 (Nanomedicine)

2-4

Energy saving andefficient energy use

1-5

2-5

3-4

4-4

Advanced recycle technology

Creating a resilient economy

3-5
Energy management

11:00

12:00
30

Dec 2(Wed)

13:00
30
14:00
30
15:00
30
16:00
30
17:00

6-4

5-4

Next generation

Value-added manufacturing

Aeronautical technology

broadcasting systems

for competitivenessProcess technology for sustainability

4-5 Construction technology

5-5Innovative telecommunications

and management

technologies

6-5 Innovation of cutting-edge

7-4

1-6

Resilience in manufacturing andenergy sectors

2-6Agricultural machinery and foodengineering, agricultural

Smart grid, smart community

mechanization, agricultural

3-6structures

Recovery from disease:

Part 2 (Minimally invasive therapy
and personalized treatment)

7-5 Recovery from disease:technology and next generation

Part 3 (Regenerative medicine,devices

Tissue engineering)【Session keynote Lecture】
Promoting young women in engineering

Science & technology based on thesocietal trust & communication
Part 1: Fukushima Daiichi--the lessons
learned【Panel Discussion】
Promoting young women in engineering:
Part 1 Information and communication
technology

9-2Innovation for maintenance and5-6renovation of sustainable civil

Information security and privacy

4-6

6-6
Advanced functional materials

infrastructure

Lunch (Swan, Sakura)

Summary and Concluding Remarks of the Sessions (Main Hall)
Break (20 minutes)

Closing Ceremony (Main Hall)

30

Banquet (19:00～21:00 at The Westin Miyako Kyoto)

37-6

Break (20 minutes)【Session keynote Lecture】(1) Features of engineering education in Japan(2) World trend of OCW and MOOC

Science & technology based on the
9-3
8-4 societal trust & communication
World human resource development andengineering education
Part 2: For the environmental problemfree society

Sustaining good health(Medical and healthcare devices)

8-5 Science & technology based on thesocietal trust & communication
Part 3: For the society of robust andsecure infrastructure

30
12:00
30
13:00
30
14:00
30
15:00

Break (10 minutes)【Panel Discussion】
Promoting young women in engineering:
Part 2 Social infrastructure technology

Break (20 minutes)

18:00
30
19:00
30
20:00
30
21:00

Engineering qualification systems andethics

30
11:00

Break (10 minutes)

Social missions of engineering andethics for engineers: Part 2

Break (20 minutes)

30

30

Promoting female leaders in engineering

8-1

8-2

7-3

18:00

30

Social missions of engineering andethics for engineers: Part 1

8-3

17:00

9:00

10:00

9-1

5-2

Lunch (Swan, Sakura)

16:00
30

9:00

Plenary Session: Conference Plenary Lecture, Part IV (Main Hall)

30

11:00

16:00

17:00
30

Plenary Sessions: Conference Plenary Lectures, Part III (Main Hall)

18:00

30

30

30

Break（20 minutes）

17:00
30

15:00

9-4
Development and contribution of theJapanese engineering education to theworld

30
16:00
30
17:00
30
18:00
9:00
30
10:00
30
11:00
30
12:00
30
13:00
30
14:00
30
15:00
30
16:00
30
17:00
30
18:00
30
19:00
30
20:00
30
21:00

WECC2015 Newsletter No.2

May 15, 2014

Progress of conference preparation reported
to the Executive Council of WFEO
Dr. Sato shared the progress of WECC2015 with theExecutive Council members of WFEO on April 9, 2014 inParis, where he also asked the chairs of WFEO Standing
Technical Committees to inform him of their planned
meetings to be held at the site of WECC2015. The
preparation of WECC2015 is now gathering momentumas scheduled.

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