Course Overview

This course discusses historical examples and up-to-date issues related to engineering ethics. In the first half of the course, we mainly deal with preparedness, mitigation, and response for catastrophic disasters such as earthquakes and tsunami from an engineering point of view. In the second half, we mainly deal with genetic engineering technologies that can cause worldwide pandemic, such as gain-of-function research that artificially enhances transmissibility and pathogenicity of pathogens like bacteria and viruses.

Learning Achievement

This course discusses historical examples and up-to-date issues related to engineering ethics, from civil engineering to genetic engineering. The former includes preparedness, mitigation, and response for catastrophic disasters such as earthquakes and tsunami, while the latter includes gain-of-function research that artificially enhances transmissibility and pathogenicity of pathogens like bacteria and viruses.

Competence

Related to 4. Skills in the field of Micro Engineering and Nanoscience, and 5. Skills in the field of Macro Engineering and Systems Engineering.

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Presentation and report: 100%

Course schedule

All the lectures are given via zoom (online, interactive). Visit manaba for detail.
The schedule below can change depending on the number of students attending the course.
Topics on Fukushima nuclear power plant accident
Topics on Fukushima nuclear power plant accident
Topics on tsunami disaster
Topics on tsunami disaster
Presentation by students
Topics on genetic engineering (gain of function research and origin of COVID-19)
Topics on genetic engineering
Topics on genetic engineering
Topics on genetic engineering
Presentation by students

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Kakeya Hideki

Other information

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university