Architecture and Building Engineering

• Seismic capacity of reinforced concrete structures
• Ultimate strength of reinforced concrete members
• Seismic response analyses

Architecture and Building Engineering

• Steel Structure
• Passive Control and Base Isolation
• Quick Inspection of Damaged Buildings

Architecture and Building Engineering

• Performance based design of RC buildings
• Prestressed and precast concrete structures
• Seismic behavior of piles and pile foundations

Good command of either English or Japanese is necessary.

Architecture and Building Engineering

• Environmental Architecture
• Passive Solar design
• Courtyard house

Please send your CV and portfolio (including your architectural design works) by PDF when you apply.

Architecture and Building Engineering

• Urban Planning
• Urban Development
• Urban Design

Architecture and Building Engineering

• Mechanical Behaviour of RC Structures under Earthquake
• Mechanical Behaviour of Timber Structures under Earthquake
• Mechanical Behaviour of PC-Mild-Press Joint Structures

Architecture and Building Engineering

• Description for Architecture and Urban Space
• Naming and Terminology of Architecture

Architecture and Building Engineering

• Composition of Architecture and Urban Space
• Behaviorology
• Architectural and Town Design Practice

Architecture and Building Engineering

• Engineering seismology
• Applied geophysics
• Ground motion simulation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Transport Network Analysis
• Travel Behavioural Analysis
• Traffic Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Structural analysis of concrete
• Maintenance of infrastructure

Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Elastodynamic Analysis
• Nondestructive Testing
• Fracture Mechanics

Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Infrastructure management
• Concrete engineering
• Maritime structure engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Impact of climate change on hydrology and water resources
• Global and regional scale modeling of hydrology and water resources
• Remote sensing, seasonal prediction, and data assimilation of continental-scale hydrology such as river discharge

Please see the titles of papers I have co-authored in the past several years, for example by using Google Scholar, to verify whether topics of this lab match your interests.

Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Geotechnical Engineering
• Geo-disaster Prevention
• Geo-environmental Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Microtremor Survey
• Gravity Survey
• Identification of Stractural Dynamics

Basic knowledge of mathematics is required, including stochastic process, signal processing, statistics. Skill of programming and operation of UNIX (or Linux) system are also required. One or more of the following languages are necessary: FORTRAN, C, C++, Perl, Ruby, Python, Matlab.

Civil and Environmental Engineering

• urban planning
• climate change
• transport planning

Educational background in planning or climate change is desirable.

Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
• Disaster Mitigation Technology

Basic knowledge of soil mechanics/geotechnical engineering is essential.

Civil and Environmental Engineering

• pile founation socked into rock
• Large diameter steel tubular pipe structures
• seismic stability of piled raft foundation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Design methods to retrofit existing RC buildings with viscous dampers
• Analysis of Base-isolated Structures
• Seismic Pounding between Structures

Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering

• biofuel processing, catalyst, educational technology, energy policy
• learning analytics

Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering

• Separation Engineering
• Solvent Extraction
• Adsorption

Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering

• Air Transport
• Logistics & Supply Chain Management
• Transport in Developing Countries

Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering

• Development of compact neutron sources using discharge plasma
• Control of high flux plasma flow using magnetic nozzles

Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering

• Development of catalysts for environmental purification
• Effective utilization of inorganic waste resources

Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering

• Solid Mechanics
• Fluid Dynamics
• Computational Mechanics

Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering

• Neutron nuclear reaction
• Neutron capture therapy
• Radiation detection

Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering

• Hydrological modeling
• Precipitation and climate

Duration of stay should be 6 months or longer

Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering

• Molecular Mechanisms for Recognition and Repair of DNA damage
• Effects of Low Dose and Low Dose Rate Radiation
• Radiation Biological Characteristics of Stem Cells, Including iPS Cells

Students who have learned basics of molecular biology are especially welcome.

Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering

• Environmental impact assessment
• Risk management and communication

Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering

• Nuclear 3Ss, Safety Security and Safeguards/Non-proliferation, by Design
• Nuclear waste transmutation in advanced reactors
• Non-destructive assay technology

Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering

• International Student Policy
• Human Mobility and Circulation
• Internationalization of Higher Education

Proficiency in English or Japanese
High motivation for study/research

Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering

• radiowave propagation and wireless channels
• applied radio measurements
• electromagnetic wave simulation

Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering

• Surface and Interface tension (theory and application ex.Adhesion devices)
• Energy harvester (design and application)
• Small (mm-sized) plasma (analysis and application)

We require an agreement on intellectual property obtained in this lab.

Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering

• techno-economic assessment of energy technology
• energy systems analysis and climate change mitigation
• lifecycle assessment

Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering

• Nuclear Fusion
• Plasma Physics

Innovation Science

• Nuclear security and non-proliferation
• R&D of advanced technology
• Energy security

Those accepted must submit a final essay (approximately 3000-5000 words) at the conclusion of study at Tokyo Tech

Innovation Science

• Research and Development (R&D) Management
• Science and Industrial Policy
• Sustainability

Innovation Science

• Evolution of cooperation
• Evolution of culture
• Evolutionary game theory

Students who have programming skills and mathematics skills (linear algebra, calculus) and who are interested in social sciences.

Innovation Science

• Innovation in biotechnology
• Innovation in healthcare
• Innovation management of advanced technology

Social and Human Sciences

• Circulatory responses in brain and ocular to physical and mental tasks

Social and Human Sciences

• Civil Dispute Resolution
• Law and Society
• Computer Forensics and Privacy Protection on AI

Social and Human Sciences

• History of Modern Science
• Science and Technology Studies

Social and Human Sciences

• Japanese Linguistics
• Mathematical Linguistics
• Language and culture

If you want to research on Japanese Linguistics, you will be asked fully understanding of the Japanese as a second language.
If you want to research on Japanese Culture, you will not be asked fully understanding of the Japanese language.
If you want to learn Japanese as a foreign language and conduct research on Japanese culture, you must have, at least, basic skills in Japanese.
If you want to learn Japanese language processing as a mathematical linguistic, you will be asked the skill of the basic operation and programming skills of UNIX-relating OS.
You must understand and use a near-native skill of English, and you will be asked to present research in English.

Technology and Innovation Management (professional master’s degree program)

• Platform Management
• Ecosystem Management
• Social Network