International Program
The Annual Meeting will feature the international programs focusing on current
issues surrounding the civil engineering profession. All registrants of the Meeting
are cordially invited to the following meetings. Please take this opportunity to hear
the ideas and opinions of our distinguished guest engineers from home and abroad.
Venue: Fukuoka University, Nanakuma Campus
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1. International Roundtable Meeting
Topic:"Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Technological Progress"
Date: Wednesday, 2nd September
Time: 15:00-17:00
Venue: Room 5, 15F, Humanities and Social Sciences Center
Objectives
Civil engineering is a professional discipline to realize sustainable infrastructure
development and management so as to ensure a safe and comfortable living environment
for the public. This discipline, which derives mainly from structural engineering and
hydrodynamics principles based on physical principle, has developed taking the perspectives
and approaches of natural science and humanities. Today when environmental issues are growing
more complex, which disciplinary perspectives and approaches should be introduced into
the discipline to promote its progress and deal with those issues effectively?
Looking at the engineering field, people notice that the areas which bring in scientific approaches have been making good progress. Two significant achievements made based on the collaboration between science and engineering are the advancement of electronics engineering accelerated by the development of semiconductor technology and the progress of biotechnology facilitated by the development of molecular biology. In other words, without cross-disciplinary collaboration, there is little advance in that field in the future.
Civil engineering deals with the ground on which diverse flora and fauna populate. Then, how can civil engineers assess the present status of ecosystems, and in what way should they use their knowledge and technology to safeguard and enhance that status? Can they foresee what influences their practices will create on the ecosystems and how can they prevent or minimize those influences? Moreover, can they prove to the public that what they have done makes a positive contribution to the protection and preservation of the ecosystems? To answer these questions, it may be logical to make collaborations with biology and ecology.
Moreover, the civil engineers are aware that conventional technologies and mono-disciplinary perspectives have been no longer good enough to respond to the today's environmental problems and society's needs as well.
Now, therefore, they should review "civil engineering" and form new ideas, approaches and methods by adopting the perspectives drawn from biology, ecology and others influencing on civil engineering practice.
This discussion will explore effective collaborations between civil engineering and other disciplines which will promote and progress civil engineering and contribute to protecting and improving the natural environment and qualify of life of people.
AGENDA
1) Opening Remarks by Dr. KONDO Toru, President
"Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Technological Progress - A case with ecology -"
2) Presentations by participant organizations
CICHE:
"The Environmental Harmonization Design in Taiwan National Expresway"
KSCE:"Recent Environmentally Friendly Civil Constructions in Korea"
NEA-JC:
"Efforts of Nepal Engineers' Association towards the development of Engineering Education in Nepal"
JSCE Turkey Section:
"Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Technological Progress"
3) Discussions and Conclusions
Date: Thursday, 3rd September
Time: 9:00-12:00
Venue: Room 5, 15F, Humanities and Social Sciences Center
Organizers: WFEO, JFES, JSCE
Co-organizer: SCJ (Science Council of Japan)
Perceiving the importance of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) under the climate change to address the UN Millennium Development Goals and to sustain the global prosperity, Science Council of Japan (SCJ) and Japan Federation of Engineering Societies (JFES), members of World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) had proposed establishing a task group on DRM and this proposal was accepted in WFEO General Assembly in November, 2007. As a part of activities of the Task Group, the Symposium is held to showcase state-of-the-art technologies, information and discuss measures to prevent, reduce and adapt to risks of water and earthquake - related disasters.
Date: Thursday, 3rd September
Time: 1st Session: 9:00-10:30, 2nd Session: 10:45-12:15
Venue: Room 842, Classroom Building 8
Looking at the engineering field, people notice that the areas which bring in scientific approaches have been making good progress. Two significant achievements made based on the collaboration between science and engineering are the advancement of electronics engineering accelerated by the development of semiconductor technology and the progress of biotechnology facilitated by the development of molecular biology. In other words, without cross-disciplinary collaboration, there is little advance in that field in the future.
Civil engineering deals with the ground on which diverse flora and fauna populate. Then, how can civil engineers assess the present status of ecosystems, and in what way should they use their knowledge and technology to safeguard and enhance that status? Can they foresee what influences their practices will create on the ecosystems and how can they prevent or minimize those influences? Moreover, can they prove to the public that what they have done makes a positive contribution to the protection and preservation of the ecosystems? To answer these questions, it may be logical to make collaborations with biology and ecology.
Moreover, the civil engineers are aware that conventional technologies and mono-disciplinary perspectives have been no longer good enough to respond to the today's environmental problems and society's needs as well.
Now, therefore, they should review "civil engineering" and form new ideas, approaches and methods by adopting the perspectives drawn from biology, ecology and others influencing on civil engineering practice.
This discussion will explore effective collaborations between civil engineering and other disciplines which will promote and progress civil engineering and contribute to protecting and improving the natural environment and qualify of life of people.
AGENDA
1) Opening Remarks by Dr. KONDO Toru, President
"Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Technological Progress - A case with ecology -"
2) Presentations by participant organizations
CICHE:
"The Environmental Harmonization Design in Taiwan National Expresway"
KSCE:"Recent Environmentally Friendly Civil Constructions in Korea"
NEA-JC:
"Efforts of Nepal Engineers' Association towards the development of Engineering Education in Nepal"
JSCE Turkey Section:
"Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Technological Progress"
3) Discussions and Conclusions
2. The 3rd WFEO-JFES-JSCE Joint International Symposium - Disaster Risk Management
Date: Thursday, 3rd September
Time: 9:00-12:00
Venue: Room 5, 15F, Humanities and Social Sciences Center
Organizers: WFEO, JFES, JSCE
Co-organizer: SCJ (Science Council of Japan)
Perceiving the importance of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) under the climate change to address the UN Millennium Development Goals and to sustain the global prosperity, Science Council of Japan (SCJ) and Japan Federation of Engineering Societies (JFES), members of World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) had proposed establishing a task group on DRM and this proposal was accepted in WFEO General Assembly in November, 2007. As a part of activities of the Task Group, the Symposium is held to showcase state-of-the-art technologies, information and discuss measures to prevent, reduce and adapt to risks of water and earthquake - related disasters.
3. International Session
Date: Thursday, 3rd September
Time: 1st Session: 9:00-10:30, 2nd Session: 10:45-12:15
Venue: Room 842, Classroom Building 8
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