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
Curriculumexcerpt
Compulsory subjects Landscape ecology Agricultural Core Practices

Freshman Science on agriculture and Environmental engineering

environment seminar
Science on biological resources
Applied engineering mathematics Special subjects
Applied mechanics Rural planning
Thermodynamics Hydrology
Fluid mechanics Automatic control in bio-
Sophomore production
Systems engineering Farm machinery

Computer data processing Soil physics

Remote sensing basics Experiments

Lectures &
Practices
Special subjects Water quality engineering Practices in surveying

Fundamentals in resource Experiments in bio-

Engineering ethics conservation & recycling production and
environmental engineering

Environmental chemistry Biological wastes management Fundamental experiments in

soil physics and mechanics
Surveying Rural energy engineering Fundamental experiments in
Junior hydraulics and water quality
Farmland engineering and Mechanical design Internship in environmental
management engineering
Introduction to Environmental Biophysical informatics Field trips in environmental
Biophysics engineering
Environmental impact assessment Environment control in biology
Postharvest and Distribution Food Systems Engineering
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
Soil & Water Environmental Engineering Program
Professor
Dr. Akira Goto <goto@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Environmental hydrology
Hydrological approaches for appropriate management of water
resources and water environment
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
 Iiyama Lab. (Environmental soil physics)

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.

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

 Osawa Lab. (Land and soil engineering)

Soil erosion on farmlands Active coral reef

Sediment and nutrients

transport on rivers

Sediment and nutrients

influx into coasts
Ecological farming

Damaged coral reef

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.
 Saito Lab. (Environmental control of biology)

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
 Place of employment
for students
Government (National, Local)
Contractor
Contractor Others
Construction consultation Wholesaler

Food manufacturer Graduate school

Consultation

Machine builder Company

High school teacher Government

Manufacturer

etc.
Farmer
undecided
Education

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

 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.

USDA-NSERL My research

Purdue Univ. Utsunomiya

Univ.
Indiana state Tochigi pref.
Lafayette city Ota city
It seems to be FATE!
 Thank you very much
for your kind attention