Laboratories and Academic Staff

The Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering was newly established in 2003 for conducting their missions by reorganizing Department of Civil Engineering and Department of Earth Resources Engineering. The Department, together with the simultaneously organized Department of Urban Management, Department of Urban and Environmental Engineering, comprises the Department System of Geosciences, which is closely connected with the Undergraduate School of Global Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering. The research and education activities in the Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering are interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and based on theory and practice in collaboration with other organizations in a number of specialized fields.

Concerning the sustainable development of the public infrastructure, we collaborate with the industry, and with the other related establishments such as the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, the Departments of Global Environmental Education and of Global Environmental Research, International Innovation Center, in the University. The Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering is placed to conduct on and off Campus joint projects, taking the advantage of the characteristics of the organization to promote creative, practical education through the advancement of collaborative researches.

Laboratories

Chair/Laboratory	Academic Staff
Applied Mechanics	Jun SAITO [Associate Professor] Abbas KHAYYER [Associate Professor] Tomohiro TANAKA [Assistant Professor]
Structural Engineering
Structural Materials Engineering	Takashi YAMAMOTO [Professor]
Structural Mechanics	Kunitomo SUGIURA [Professor] Yasuo KITANE [Associate Professor] Yoshinao GOI [Assistant Professor]
Bridge Engineering	Tomomi YAGI [Professor] Kyohei NOGUCHI [Assistant Professor]
Structural Dynamics	Yoshikazu TAKAHASHI [Professor] Lin AN [Associate Professor] Keita UEMURA [Assistant Professor]
International Management of Civil Infrastructure	Sunmin KIM [Associate Professor] Kaichun CHANG [Junior Associate Professor]
Hydraulic Engineering
Environmental Hydrodynamics	Keiichi TODA [Professor] Michio SANJOU [Associate Professor] Takaaki OKAMOTO [Assistant Professor]
Hydrology and Water Resources Research	Yasuto TACHIKAWA [Professor] Yutaka ICHIKAWA [Associate Professor] Kazuaki YOROZU [Junior Associate Professor]
Geomechanics
Geomechanics	Makoto KIMURA [Professor] Ryunosuke KIDO [Assistant Professor]
Infrastructure Innovation Engineering	Chul-Woo KIM [Professor]
Geoinformatics	Nobuhiro UNO [Professor] Yusuke KIMURA [Assistant Professor]
Urban Infrastructure Design
Urban and Landscape Design	Masashi KAWASAKI [Professor] Keita YAMAGUCHI [Associate Professor]
Urban Coast Design	Hitoshi GOTOH [Professor] Eiji HARADA [Associate Professor] Hiroyuki IKARI [Assistant Professor] Yuma SHIMIZU [Assistant Professor]
Earth Resources Engineering
Geophysics	Hitoshi MIKADA [Professor] Junichi TAKEKAWA [Associate Professor] Shibo XU [Assistant Professor]
Earth Crust Engineering	Eiichi FUKUYAMA [Professor] Yoshitaka NARA [Associate Professor] Nana YOSHIMITSU [Assistant Professor]
Measurement and Evaluation Technology	Kazuhiko TSUKADA [Professor] Sumihiko MURATA [Associate Professor]

Cooperating Chairs

Chair/Laboratory	Academic Staff
Disaster Prevention Engineering (Disaster Prevention Research Institute)
Erosion and Sediment Runoff Control Engineering	Masaharu FUJITA [Professor] Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI [Associate Professor] Shusuke MIYATA [Associate Professor]
Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering	Kenji KAWAIKE [Professor] Kazuki YAMANOI [Assistant Professor]
Geotechnics for Hazard Mitigation	Ryosuke UZUOKA [Professor] Kyohei UEDA [Assistant Professor]
Hydrometeorological Disasters Engineering	Eiichi NAKAKITA [Professor] Kosei YAMAGUCHI [Associate Professor] Satoshi WATANABE [Associate Professor] Yukari OSAKADA [Assistant Professor]
Coastal Disaster Prevention Engineering	Nobuhito MORI [Professor] Tomoya SHIMURA [Associate Professor] Amin CHABCHOUB [Associate Professor] Takuya MIYASHITA [Assistant Professor]
Innovative Disaster Prevention Technology and Policy Research	Takahiro SAYAMA [Associate Professor] Florence LAHOURNAT [Junior Associate Professor] Eva Mia Siska YAMAMOTO [Assistant Professor]
Waterfront and Marine Geohazards	Tetsuya HIRAISHI [Professor] Yasuyuki BABA [Associate Professor] Che-Wei CHANG [Assistant Professor]
Computational Engineering (Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies)	Satoru USHIJIMA [Professor] Daisuke TORIU [Assistant Professor]

Endowed Chair

Chair/Laboratory	Academic Staff
Disaster Risk Management Engineering (West JR)	Tomoyasu SUGIYAMA [Professor] Naotoshi YASUDA [Assistant Professor]

Collaborative Research

Chair/Laboratory	Academic Staff
Innovative Technologies for Infrastructures (NEXCO-West, NEXCO Engineering Kansai, Hanshin Expressway, Hanshin Expressway Technology Center)	Tomoki SHIOTANI [Professor] Atsushi HATTORI [Professor]