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Exercise on Management of Built Environment

• This course comprehensively explains the environmental impact of buildings, including evaluation by LCA and labeling tools, energy-saving technologies, technologies to reduce environmental impact during construction, demolition and recycling technologies.
• Tag: LCA, Energy, Environment, Materials, Design
• Lecturer: SEIKE Tsuyoshi
• Semester, Period, Course Offered by: S1S2, Mon 2nd, Frontier Sciences
• Language: Japanese
• Remarks:
• UTokyo Course Catalogue: GFS-SC6B04S1

Life Cycle Engineering

• After learning the basics of energy, participants will learn about inventory analysis methods. The course will also cover the setting of objectives and scope of study – inventory analysis – impact assessment – interpretation, as well as LCC, SLCA, and LCSA in accordance with ISO. Finally, as applications of LCA, heat island issues, urban planning, biomass, and the Paris Agreement will be studied as case studies.
• Tag: LCA, Energy, Environment, Socioeconomics
• Lecturer: YOSHIDA Yoshikuni, IHARA Tomohiko, GENCHI Yu
• Semester, Period, Course Offered by: A2, Mon 2nd, Thu 2nd, Engineering
• Language: Japanese
• Remarks: 　
• UTokyo Course Catalogue: FEN-SI3709L1

Life Cycle System Engineering

• The course aims at acquiring various modeling, statistical processing, and simulation methods to analyze resource use efficiency and environmental performance throughout the life cycle, using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as the main evaluation method.
• Tag: LCA, Process, Design
• Lecturer: KIKUCHI Yasunori
• Semester, Period, Course Offered by: S1S2, Tue 3rd, Engineering
• Language: Japanese
• Remarks: 　
• UTokyo Course Catalogue: FEN-CS4706L1

Management of Global and Urban Environment

• The lecture will introduce “Urban Environmental Management Theory” from investigation, planning, evaluation, and decision making for cities and regions, as well as approaches to specific social implementation research projects such as regional energy systems, green chain systems, and SDGs urban management systems, including management that responds to global environmental issues on a multi-scale, to transform the global environment into a sustainable one. The lecture will also introduce approaches to specific social implementation research projects, such as regional energy systems, green chain systems, and SDGs urban management systems.
• Tag: LCA, Environment
• Lecturer: FUJITA Tsuyoshi, NAKATANI Jun, KURUSU Kiyo,etc.
• Semester, Period, Course Offered by: A1A2, Thu 4th, Engineering
• Language: English
• Remarks:
• UTokyo Course Catalogue: FEN-CS4706L1

Environmental System Analysis

• First half: Overview of LCA, Inventory Analysis, Impact Assessment, Weighting and Interpretation, Development of LCA, Second half: Environmental Economics and Environmental Behavior
• Tag: LCA, Environment, Recycling
• Lecturer: Kiyo Kurisu, NAKATANI Jun
• Semester, Period, Course Offered by: S1S2, Mon 3rd, Engineering
• Language: Japanese
• Remarks: 　
• UTokyo Course Catalogue: FEN-UE4m32L1

Life Cycle Impact Assessment

• The course will cover LCA, including its objectives, scope of investigation, inventory analysis, impact assessment, and interpretation, as well as a case study of a waste treatment system. In addition to LCA, LCC, SLCA, and LCSA will also be covered in outline as an application of life cycle thinking to sustainability.
• Tag: LCA, Environment, Socioeconomics
• Lecturer: IHARA Tomohiko
• Semester, Period, Course Offered by: S2, Thu 2nd, Thu 3rd, Frontier Sciences
• Language: Japanese, Partially in English
• Remarks:
• UTokyo Course Catalogue: GFS-ES6302L1

Systems and Tools toward a Sound Material-cycle Society

• Material Flow/Stock Analysis and Urban Metabolism; Recycling of Plastics, Food Loss and Waste; Assessment of Technologies and Societal Systems for Material Cycles
• Tag: LCA, Environment, Waste, Recycling, MFA, Urban material metabolism
• Lecturer: NAKATANI Jun, FUJITA Tsuyoshi,
• Semester, Period, Course Offered by: S2, Wed 4th, Engineering
• Language: English
• Remarks:
• UTokyo Course Catalogue: GEN-UE5m51L3

Material Enviromental Engineering

• Environmental Constraints in Society, Relationship between Life Cycle of Materials and Environment, LCA Exercise for Production of Materials, Regional Circulation and Symbiosis, etc.
• Tag: LCA, Materials, Process, Recycling
• Lecturer: DAIGO Ichiro
• Semester, Period, Course Offered by: A1, Tue 3rd, Fri 3rd, Engineering
• Language: Japanese
• Remarks:
• UTokyo Course Catalogue: GEN-UE5m51L3

Life Cycle Engineering

• Overview of Circular Economy, Lecture on design and evaluation methods based on life cycle thinking
• Tag: LCA, Design
• Lecturer: KISHITA Yusuke
• Semester, Period, Course Offered by: S2, Wed 3rd, Engineering
• Language: Japanese
• Remarks:
• UTokyo Course Catalogue: FEN-PE3802L1

Sustainability System Engineering

• The course will provide the knowledge, analytical methods, and design techniques necessary to develop realistic policies, responses, and adaptations to the systems engineering methods that contribute to the realization of sustainability, with specific examples.
• Tag: Energy, Environment, Socioeconomics
• Lecturer: KIKUCHI Yasunori
• Semester, Period, Course Offered by: S1S2, Mon 4th, Engineering
• Language: Japanese, Partially in English
• Remarks: Offered every other year and only in even-numbered years
• UTokyo Course Catalogue: GEN-CS6709L1

Society and Design Methodology

• Discuss mezzo-level design issues, covering topics related to sustainability issues such as the circular economy, nuclear power, exporting waste, and whether to buy a car.
• Tag: Energy, Environment, Socioeconomics, Design
• Lecturer: UMEDA Yasushi
• Semester, Period, Course Offered by: S1S2, Tue 2nd, Engineering
• Language: Japanese
• Remarks: Offered only every other year and in odd-numbered years
• UTokyo Course Catalogue:

Advanced Electrochemistry of Materials／Advanced Lecture on Materials Electrochemistry

• This course introduces electrochemistry and related basic concepts necessary to understand storage battery materials, electrochemical catalysts, corrosion and corrosion protection of metal materials, and various electrode reaction processes. In particular, students will deepen their understanding of acid-base and redox reactions, learn how to draw a potential-pH diagram, one of the state diagrams, from thermodynamic data, and learn how to use a potential-pH diagram for specific purposes.
• Tag: Energy, Materials
• Lecturer: YAGI Shunsuke
• Semester, Period, Course Offered by: S2, Fri 3rd, Engineering
• Language: JapaneseとEnglish
• Remarks: Offered only every other year and in odd-numbered years
• UTokyo Course Catalogue:

Sustainable Manufacturing

• Sustainability-oriented manufacturing, PSS, Reliability engineering, Production systems engineering
• Tag: Environment, Process, Design
• Lecturer: UMEDA Yasushi, HARA Tatsunori
• Semester, Period, Course Offered by: A1, Mon 2nd, Engineering
• Language: Japanese
• Remarks:
• UTokyo Course Catalogue: FEN-PE3803L1

Special Lecture on Science of Polymeric Materials I

• Fundamentals and applications of environmentally friendly plastics (biomass plastics and biodegradable plastics)
• Tag: Environment, Materials
• Lecturer: IWATA Tadahisa
• Semester, Period, Course Offered by: S1, Tue 3rd, Agricultural and Life Sciences
• Language: Japanese
• Remarks:
• UTokyo Course Catalogue: GAG-BM5C05L2

Sustainable Service Design

• Based on an understanding of product-service systems (PSS) and the shift to services in manufacturing, which is one of the means to realize a circular economy, participants will learn methods for their design and environmental and economic evaluation.
• Tag: Environment, Design
• Lecturer: KIMITA Koji, NISHINO Nariaki, MURAKAMI Shinsuke
• Semester, Period, Course Offered by: S2, Fri 3rd, Fri 4th, Engineering
• Language: Japanese
• Remarks:

Design Theory and Methodology

• Focus on mechanical design, design methodology, general design studies (including exercises)
• Tag: Design
• Lecturer: UMEDA Yasushi
• Semester, Period, Course Offered by: S1, Wed 3rd, Engineering
• Language: Japanese
• Remarks:
• UTokyo Course Catalogue: FEN-PE3804L1