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

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

Course schedule

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Kakeya Hideki

Other information

Lecture is conducted in English.

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university