Department Overview

Our mission and goals

The primary mission of the Department is to serve society through research and education in agricultural and environmental technologies.

We take an engineering approach towards developing agricultural production systems in harmony with the environment.

This approach will help us realize our goal of an ideal rural community, where the residents can enjoy the amenity and beauty of rural lifestyles, and benefit from sustainable agricultural production and efficient marketing systems.

Curriculum for Undergraduate Curriculum（excerpt）

Freshman

Lectures

【Compulsory subjects】 • Landscape ecology

Experiments &

Practices

• Agricultural Core Practices

• Science on agriculture and environment

• Environmental engineering seminar

• Science on biological resources

Sophomore

• Applied engineering mathematics 【Special subjects】

• Applied mechanics • Rural planning

• Thermodynamics • Hydrology

• Fluid mechanics • Automatic control in bio-production

• Systems engineering • Farm machinery

• Computer data processing • Soil physics

• Remote sensing basics

Junior

【Special subjects】 • Water quality engineering • Practices in surveying

• Engineering ethics • Fundamentals in resource conservation & recycling

• Experiments in bio-production and environmental engineering

• Environmental chemistry • Biological wastes management • Fundamental experiments in soil physics and mechanics

• Surveying • Rural energy engineering • Fundamental experiments in hydraulics and water quality

• Farmland engineering and management • Mechanical design • Internship in environmental

engineering

• Introduction to Environmental Biophysics • Biophysical informatics • Field trips in environmental

engineering

• Environmental impact assessment • Environment control in biology

• Postharvest and Distribution Engineering • Food Systems Engineering

Senior Graduation thesis

Accreditation for education

Our education program was accredited by JABEE (Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education) since 1993.

JABEE was established in 1999 for the purpose to promote professional education and to support fostering international professionals. JABEE, as a third-party accreditation body, accredits professional education programs in higher education institutions fostering professionals with benchmarks required by the society by JABEE Accreditation Criteria which is internationally equivalent. JABEE examination respects the originality of education programs and encourages programs to continuously improve education through examination. JABEE accredits education programs with JABEE accreditation criteria in accordance with the concept of each accord: Washington Accord for engineering education programs, Seoul Accord for Computing & IT-related education programs and UNESCO-UIA for architectural education programs.

Staff

Professor Dr. Akira Goto <goto@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

Environmental hydrology Hydrological approaches for appropriate management of water resources and water environment

Soil & Water Environmental Engineering Program

Associate Professor Dr. Hiroyuki Matsui <matsuih@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

Watershed engineering Behavior of pollutant in waters

Staff Soil & Water Environmental Engineering Program

Associate Professor Dr. Kazunari Fukumura <fukumura@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

Soil and geoenvironmental engineering Soil remediation and transport phenomena

Associate Professor Dr. Ippei Iiyama <iiyama@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

Environmental soil physics Evaluates transport rates and quantities of water, gases and energy in soils

Associate Professor Dr. Kazutoshi Osawa <osawa@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

Land and soil engineering Soil erosion on agricultural land and sediment management for agricultural watershed

Staff Soil & Water Environmental Engineering Program

Associate Professor Dr. Takahiro Tamura <tamurat@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

Rural planning Development of residents participations method for rural planning

Lecturer Dr. Takumi Moriyama <t-moriyama@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

Rural eco-engineering Elucidation of the ecosystem of a rural area

Staff Food Production System Engineering Program

Professor Dr. Takahiro Saito <saitot@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

Environmental control of biology The environmental control technology of biology in closed ecological life support system

Professor Dr. Atsuo Ikeguchi <ikeguchi@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

Bioresource engineering Utilization of renewable biowaste materials

Associate Professor Dr. Masami Matsui <m-matsui@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

Farm machinery Flying paddy acting the cleaning wind

Staff Food Production System Engineering Program

Associate Professor Dr. Tatsuo Hishinuma <thishinuma@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

Rural energy engineering Life cycle assessment on a stock farm

Associate Professor Dr. Masaru Kashiwazaki <mkashiwa@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

Environmental control engineering Environmental control, quality preservation and postharvest processing of agricultural produce

Ippei IIYAMA, Assoc. Prof. (iiyama@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp)

To clarify the material cycling rates,

and to evaluate adequate rates with which

we can wisely utilize natural resources,

This lab.. evaluates transport rates and quantities

of water, gases and energy

in soils where

the material cycling

can be regulated.

Subjects in the lab. include

monitoring water or gas fluxes in soils

in seasonal or annual scale,

quantifying the transport and retention parameters,

and analyzing the water or the gaseous behaviors

in numerical schemes.

Iiyama Lab. (Environmental soil physics)

Soil erosion on farmlands

Sediment and nutrients

transport on rivers

Sediment and nutrients

influx into coasts

Active coral reef

Damaged coral reef

Ecological farming

Soil erosion and sediment and nutrients runoff have

led to agricultural and environmental problems in

Okinawa, and effective measures which can reduce

sediment yield in the farmland are necessary.

Osawa Lab. (Land and soil engineering)

To make high antioxidant content of fresh vegetable and traditional Japanese food

●How effects of the light quality on Biomass on Antioxidant capacity of vegetables in enclosed artificially plant factory

●How changes of Antioxidant capacity with sake brewing process miso fermentation process

Saito Lab. (Environmental control of biology)

Place of employment for students

• Government (National, Local)

• Contractor

• Construction consultation

• Food manufacturer

• Machine builder

• High school teacher

etc.

Graduate school

Government

Company

Education

Farmer

Manufacturer

Consultation

Wholesaler Contractor

Others

undecided

Place of employment for undergraduate students

About me Kazutoshi Osawa, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi pref. <--> Sister state to Indiana

Research Interest: Water quality, soil quality and watershed-scale conservation effects assessment, especially soil erosion on agricultural land and sediment management for agricultural watershed.

Feature: 190cm (6 feet 3 inches) height Home town: Ota city, Gunma pref. <--> Sister city to Lafayette

In my home town, Ota city…

There is big factory of “SUBARU”

Ota city Lafayette city

Tochigi pref.

From April 2014 • Fortunately, I have got the fund to research abroad. • A professor (Taku Nishimura, The University of Tokyo) introduced

me a researcher (Prof. Chi Hua Huang) at the USDA-National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory (NSERL) on the campus of Purdue University.

• I will spend one year at the USDA-NSERL to conduct cooperative research in soil erosion processes and prediction.

Utsunomiya Univ.

Indiana state

Purdue Univ.

My research USDA-NSERL

It seems to be FATE!

Thank you very much for your kind attention