This century is unfolding as an "environmental era" in which humans, their artifacts, and nature interact ever more intimately and dynamically. Of those three elements, the Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies focuses on humans and nature-which require our active involvement through the application of science and technology-and pursues science targeted at finding solutions for the dynamic complexity that the environment represents. Because of the inadequacy of knowledge, information, and theories pertaining to environments, it is not possible to easily form a bird's-eye picture of the environment as a whole. For this reason, we must overcome the limits of knowledge through constant communication with one another.
Our department is largely divided, according to its research areas and methods, into the Human Environment Division and the Engineered Environment Division. The Human Environment Division comprehensively studies the spatial-temporal environment that is directly interrelated with humans, seeking to analyze and solve various challenges through a multifaceted approach. The research is mainly spread across the fields of Human Environment Support, Environmental Amenities, Energy Environment, Media Environment, and Biomechanics. The division also collaborates with the Research Center for Total Life Health and Sports Sciences in conducting research to identify the ideal shape for the relationships formed by the various environments, and in training students to be able to adapt to the environmental era.
The Engineered Environment Division studies the science and technology necessary for active design, creation, monitoring, and management of the environments shared by humanity. This research entails the combination of advanced technologies in design, information, control, measurement, simulation, and other processes, and is based on a comprehensive approach covering the five areas of Environmental Design, Visualization, Industrial Information Systems , Simulation Environmental Studies, and Environmental Information Microsystems. Research focuses include design and development of nature interfacers, new transport systems, and other artifacts; material cycling control; environmental information monitoring; creation of the information commons; data mining; simulation; visualization; and consensus-building.
As suggested by the broad range of fields described above, our department pursues education and research through the cooperation of faculty members representing diverse backgrounds, including engineering, medicine, social science, and even the arts. We eagerly welcome students who possess many interests and are filled with the ambition to pioneer new fields of learning.

DAIGUJI, Hirofumi
HIEKATA, Kazuo
HISADA, Toshiaki
JIMBO, Yasuhiko
MORITA, Takeshi
SOMEYA, Satoshi
TORII, Toru

DANG, Chaobin
HIHARA, Eiji
HOSAKA, Hiroshi
KOTANI, Kiyoshi
OKAMOTO, Koji
SUGIURA, Seiryo
WATANABE, Hiroshi

HAMANO, Yasuki
HIROTA, Koichi
IWATA, Shuichi
MORIGUCHI, Hiroyuki
SASAKI, Ken
SUZUKI, Katsuyuki
YAMATO, Hiroyuki

ABE, Takashi
FUKUSAKI, Chiho
KOBAYASHI, Etsuko
NAGAI, Ryozo
OKUDA, Yoji
SHIRAYAMA, Susumu
YAMAMOTO, Yoshiharu

ANDO, Joji
FURUTA, Kazuo
KOBAYASHI, Kando
NAGASAKI, Shinya
OTAKE, Mihoko
TAKAMOTO, Shinichi
YAMAZAKI, Tsutomu

ASAMA, Hajime
ISHI, Naokata
MATSUOKA, Fumio
OHTANI, Masaru
SAKUMA, Ichiro
UEDA, Kanji
YOSHIMURA, Shinobu