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This subject is a descriptive one. Explains in photos, animation and drawings the basics of both mechanical and materials engineering. No mathematical complications will be included. This subject is beneficial to all students especially those who are studying issues not related to engineering but will work in future in an Engineering Firm be it a maker or sellers of machinery or materials. Even those who may not work in such an environment, this subject will be helpful for them in their daily life when dealing with machines and materials.
Design has changed and expanded its role over time. The role of esthetics, giving form and colour. The role of process improvement, such as research, prototyping and communication. The role of strategy, business model building and vision definition. ......
These changes and expansions of roles have generally been developed as techniques by design professionals. On the other hand, as some people say "design is too important to be kept only for designers", nowadays design has also started to be used as a tool open to the general public and applied to creating and improving government services, social movements and the construction of autonomous ecosystems.
Until now, design has mainly played a problem-solving role in order to create what society needs. But can't design be used to create small things that have meaning for an individual, even if they are not necessarily needed by society at the moment?
We are all born with much creativity. However, as we grow up, many of us put invisible shackles on it, thinking that it is a talent of a few. What can design do to help us break these shackles and reclaim our inherit ability?
Context design is an approach to design that focuses on "narratives" or "weak contexts" of individuals and their interpretations. It allows each individual who comes into contact with the design to create his or her own "story". In other words, it is a creative activity and a method of "weaving together" in which the writer intends for the reader's independent involvement and multiple interpretations to emerge. The result is a creative activity in which the writer intends for the reader to become a writer and the consumer to become an expressionist.
The class aims to provide the basic understanding of the Earth’s atmosphere and ocean. By omitting equations as much as possible, the history of the atmosphere and ocean, mechanism on wind and rain, will be introduced. Using the basic understanding, environmental issues such as global warming, air pollution, and heat island will be discussed in the class.
Imagine you have an ant in your hand. The ant does not know you are moving forward, nor you can crush it anytime. The ant is us human beings living on the Earth's surface. This course provides an introduction to learning how the Earth's dynamics works from the point of view of solid earth science. You will briefly learn the history of the Earth and its creations, and the consequent change in the environment. You will also learn the mechanism of an earthquake, a tsunami, and a volcanic eruption. You will feel the difference between time and space scales from your everyday life. (You can learn about fluid earth science in the class "Earth System B" held by Dr. Y. Miyamoto.)
This subject is complementary to other existing courses that tackle issues related to design. Thus students across all three faculties and the graduate schools will find this course applicable to them. Since SFC aims to prepare students to engage all kind of issues related to the society, Ergonomics will be a good addition to the knowledge of the graduates.
Tabletop! Advanced Discussion using Role-Playing Games (Online)
This class will engage students in Role-Playing (i.e., Tabletop Role-playing games (RPGs)) to learn about and experience different kinds of advanced interactions in English. This class is designed to create a rich, task-based approach to language learning where students must use their reading, speaking, and listening skills to (a) negotiate and cooperate with their fellow players to complete specific tasks in story-based games, (b) explore the role of language and identity, and (c) critically evaluate strategies necessary for the completion of those tasks.
This class is designed for improving fluency/pragmatic skills, and requires a high degree of conversation, listening, and creativity.
This class will be held entirely online, though if conditions permit we may hold occasional classes on campus.
This course is designed for those who are in the lower intermediate level of Japanese or who have completed the Japanese Intensive Elementary 2.
Students will practice reading, writing, listening, and speaking while studying grammar, vocabulary, and kanji. They will also study to be able to use Japanese well by making presentations, writing essays, and reviewing grammar.
In the era of data-driven economy, AI technology has been deployed in practice over the world including by large-scale digital platformers such as Google and Amazon. Other industries and applied areas will also practically take advantage of the AI in the near futures.
In order to utilize full potential of information and communications technologies (ICTs) including AI for promoting economic growth and addressing various social issues, we need to make human and society to be ready to use the technology, in addition to development of technology itself. Policy intervention is necessary as these goals are hard to accomplish, if solely relying on market competition. Understanding such policies required to support technology will be helpful to predict and take advantage of social dynamics related to new digital products and services that are emerging now and will emerge in the coming future.
This course will provide explanation on relationships between the technologies (AI and data collection and analyses) and society/economy, as well as necessity of policy interventions. The course will also introduce basic knowledges to understand policy backgrounds.
Then we will follow policy case studies in the areas of privacy, safety, open data, competition enhancement, fairness/ethics, promotion of usage, etc., focusing on each policy's necessity, purposes, features and further challenges, with viewpoints of international comparison or international competition.
Students on this course study a range of public policy issues, develop the ability to analyze these issues, provide solutions, hold extended discussions with classmates, and make academic presentations. We will widen students’ content knowledge in English on these issues while also working on the skill of openly exchanging ideas and opinions.
This lecture examines risk management as a management decision-making process from the "Shougo-seisaku-gaku". Traditional risk management focused on planning and reducing vulnerabilities. However, in the era of VUCA, is it appropriate to predict, plan, and reduce vulnerabilities? This lecture is to start with this question. Therefore, I will not be lecturing on so-called "how to's" such as how to avoid risks wisely. This lecture is not based on pragmatism in the United States, so please do not misunderstand this point.