UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY Graduate School of Engineering Doctoral Degree Program
Department of Innovation Systems Engineering
Course Overview
The doctoral degree program consists of a single department, Innovation Systems Engineering, with four courses established within--namely, the Sustainable Design and Engineering Course, the Functional Materials Design Course, the Intelligence and Information Science Course, and the Advanced Interdisciplinary Science Course. Unifying the doctoral degree program into a single department has given the faculty freedom to move from one course to another as well as offered students the freedom to flexibly change their research themes in response to changing social demands. Based upon students' research achievements in the Master's degree program, those who move on to the doctoral degree program select a new research supervisor and research theme, providing them with the freedom to pursue a theme of their choice.
Sustainable Design and Engineering Course
This course delves into fields closely related to human life (such as production, energy, and society) from the perspective of systems engineering, energy science, and social space engineering. The twenty-first century has been called the century of the environment, and in response, this course has established a new comprehensive science called Sustainable Society System Science to provide education and carry out research on the formation of sustainable societies through energy conservation and new energy technologies in order to move away from consumer-based societies.
Specifically, the course covers research topics such as mechanical and manufacturing systems engineering, material engineering for mechanical systems, heat transfer and fluid engineering, energy transfer engineering, system functionality engineering, the fundamentals of sustainable systems, advanced architecture and civil engineering, social infrastructure engineering, social space engineering, and so forth.
Compulsory Subjects
Advanced Studies in Innovation Systems Engineering, Advanced Laboratory works in Innovation Systems Engineering
Electively Compulsory Subjects
Advanced Seminar on Minor A and B, Two-way Internship
Selective Subjects
Advanced Sustainable City Planning, Advanced Building Materials, Advanced Materials Design, Advanced Hybrid Structural Engineering, Advanced Building Recycle Technologies, Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Advanced Structural Materials, Advanced Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures, Advanced Tribosystem, Integrated Project Management, Advanced Stochastic Dynamics, Advanced Machine Tool, Advanced Nontraditional Ultraprecision Machining, Advanced Metal Forming, Advanced Rock Engineering, etc.
Functional Materials Design Course
Education in this course is based on mathematical physics and basic chemistry (applied science, chemical engineering, biotechnology, and so forth) to integrate advanced electron theory in solids, environmental process engineering, functional material science, organic synthesis, and energy engineering. Based on such studies, new functions are pursued from substances, materials, and processes in order to realize technical engineering for recycling. To create a system to this end, focus is placed on nanotechnology and precision processing.
Specifically, the course covers research topics such as materials science and engineering, superconductive devices, electronic property engineering, optical devices, photonics, nanotechnology, mathematical physics, solid state properties, new energy sources and energy conservation systems, environmental process engineering, applied organic synthesis, functional material design, bioengineering, bioinformatics, recycling systems, and so forth.
Compulsory Subjects
Advanced Studies in Innovation Systems Engineering, Advanced Laboratory works in Innovation Systems Engineering
Electively Compulsory Subjects
Advanced Seminar on Minor A and B, Two-way Internship
Selective Subjects
Advanced Theory of Excited-state Dynamics, Advanced Superconducting Electronics Engineering, Advanced Molecular Engineering of Analysis, Advanced Dynamical Processes at Solid Surface, Advanced Natural Material Chemistry, Advanced Electron Theory in Solids, Advance Chemistry of Solid State Properties, Advanced Solid State Physics, Advanced Quantum Physics and Engineering, Advanced Organic Materials Chemistry, etc.
Intelligence and Information Science Course
This course has been established on a foundation of mathematical physics, social science, and information science. It integrates advanced (intelligence engineering-type) topics in information communication such as computing engineering, intelligence engineering, control theory engineering, and networking with fields related to the fundamental environment of human society such as social science, comprehensive policy making, study of local facilities, and welfare engineering (bioengineering). In other words, the course delves into fields of human information science related to algorithms that pursue the intellectual and emotional activities of people required to structure a sustainable society. The research extends to social development engineering and environmental design in order to enable the pursuit of a social system that can comprehensively integrate these scientific fields. Moreover, the course provides education on systems and political policies that can comprehensively control such technologies.
Specifically, the course covers research topics such as information system science, social information engineering, human information engineering, management of local communities, image information and processing, computing systems, mathematical physics, biomaterials, photonic networks, control theory engineering, transportation engineering, local community environment interpretation, community facilities, community and regional development, and so forth.
Compulsory Subjects
Advanced Studies in Innovation Systems Engineering, Advanced Laboratory works in Innovation Systems Engineering
Electively Compulsory Subjects
Advanced Seminar on Minor A and B, Two-way Internship
Selective Subjects
Advanced Network Software, Advanced Medical Imaging Systems, Advanced Biological information Measurement, Advanced Information Transmission, Advanced Applied Information Mathematical Statistics, Advanced Bioengineering, Advanced Image Coding, Advanced Control Engineering, Advanced Power Conversion, Advanced Architectural Environment Planning, Advanced Integrated Information Systems, Advanced Control Systems Engineering, Advanced Computer Systems Architecture, etc.
Advanced Interdisciplinary Science Course
The objective of this course is to establish new interdisciplinary, advanced, and dynamic research systems. It provides higher education to develop students with expertise in specializations who are able to become high-quality researchers in interdisciplinary sciences with the ability to play leadership roles in creating new knowledge. It also aims to develop human resources who have eyes for and take leadership in scientific technology movements. In essence, the ultimate goal of the course is to develop engineers and researchers with the scholarship and capacity to correctly evaluate ethics. In so doing, it promotes research conducted in collaboration among interdisciplinary fields to tackle the most advanced engineering issues, an advantage that cannot be realized by a single field alone. With this, it aims to integrate scholastic and industrial fields by focusing on scientific engineering, a field that is rapidly progressing, as part of collaborative efforts among industry, academia, and government.
Specifically, the course covers research topics such as ultraprecision machining, thermal and fluid dynamics and transfer, robotics, electromagnetic energy science, plasma and particle beam physics, information optics, optical communication devices, nano- and soft-materials, interface design and electrochemistry, environmental geotechnics, design and analysis of social infrastructure and architecture, water environment engineering, color science, cognitive science, human information science, and so forth.
Compulsory Subjects
Advanced Studies in Innovation Systems Engineering, Advanced Laboratory works in Innovation Systems Engineering
Electively Compulsory Subjects
Advanced Seminar on Minor A and B, Two-way Internship
Selective Subjects
Advanced Visual Information Processing, Advanced Functional Interface Chemistry, Advanced Inland Water Environment, Advanced Lightwave Sensing, Advanced Robot Vision, Advanced Material Chemistry for Environmental Response, Advanced Electromagnetic Energy Science, Advanced Design of Environment, Advanced Functional Optical Materials and Devices, Advanced Lecture for Analysis of Material Function, Advanced Information Analysis in Acoustics, Advanced Quantum Electronics, Advanced Particle Beam Physics and Engineering, Advanced Mechatronics, etc.
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