Engineering ethics education should be considered as core of a comprehensive ethics program to share values on which engineers make professional decisions. An engineering society, such as JSCE, has an important role to construct and implement a value-sharing type ethics program for its stakeholders.
The author introduces the concept of value sharing in ethics education and describes the implementation of an engineering "ethics across the curriculum" program at Kanazawa Institute of Technology. Referring to the requests made by the Science Coucil of Japan by its statement entitled "Toward Autonomous Implementation of the Code of Conduct for Scientists," the author examines essential elements of an effective ethics program.

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Proper development of infrastructures on the planet is greatly dependent on wise decision making of our human being. From this point of view, civil engineering education is significantly important not only for university students but also for non-professionals including school boys and girls who are responsible for our sustainable life in the next generation. In order to promote and realize proper understanding of civil engineering, the author devised various types of education materials through his many years of experience and carrier as a civil engineer. Focus in the classes has been always placed on feeling structures' functions through simplified portable experiments. The experimental kits were prepared from very familiar staffs in our everyday life. The students are able to experience mechanisms of civil engineering structures through performing the experiments by their own. The present report is to propose ways of education and illumination of civil engineering to society.

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In Japan, civil engineering is in a quite tough condition such as delay of transferring techniques, troubles of products, down the technology in ordering side, and deteriorating of construction skills. In this severe condition, social capital infrastructures of keeping performance and quality which can produce enough benefits to the society are required. In terms of above problem, educating and securing civil engineers who contain appropriate skills is an urgent task. For this purpose, a long term strategy of raising civil engineers should be implemented with definite purpose, subject, and system for this plan. This material is rewritten by the authors of 'A report of the committee on proper implementation of "Hinkakuho"' with some addition.

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In Japanese school education, citizenship education has been regarded as an important educational goal. On the other hand, transport policy practices of mobility management that tries to induce voluntary cooperative travel behavior has been implemented, and mobility management education in school was also implemented in elementary and junior high school in all over Japan, while focusing on issues of regional mobility and traffic congestion. In the education, necessity to implement cooperative behavior to mitigate several problems regarding regional mobility has been taught. In this paper, actual cases of mobility management education in school was introduced and it was discussed based on theorist of social dilemmas that mobility management education can contribute to education of citizenship.

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Gender equal society has been promoted with the increased fear for labor shortage caused by aging society, and the enforcement of the Law for a Gender Equal Society. At Japan Society of Civil Engineers or JSCE, a subcommittee for the Gender Equal Society was established in 2004 and has been actively working on the issue.
This report first introduces the history and current situations of the gender diversity at JSCE, then compares and discusses the activities by other science and engineering societies, and finally discusses the strategies for gender diversity management by JSCE.

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The Japan Construction Training Center published five volumes of a series of civil engineering picture books for not only children but also adults to learn about civil engineering. These picture books describe the achievement of the civil engineers who worked actively at the time of the historical turning points from the ancient times to the modern times and tracing how these people were involved with their time. They have been distributed to 24,000 elementary schools nationwide in Japan for the purpose of cultivating understanding as to what civil engineering is and what it does for the society. The result of the follow up survey as to how and why they are being utilized is introduced in the paper.

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According to the plan of Travel Demand management, Hadano city government have done educational program for elementary school students concerning about grovel environment and travel behavior. The program implemented in five different schools. In each school, student's attitude toward travel and environmental behavior was measured by questionnaire survey before and after the program.
In this paper, we analyzed relationship between student's attitude toward environment and travel behavior focusing on the difference of the area characteristics which each elementary school located and difference of the program content. As the results, student's attitude changed more into environment consciousness even though the area of low level of service on public transportation. And the experience to feel moral dilemma between environmental consciousness and car use was effective to activate student's attitude.

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To do natural environmental education in the elementary and the secondary education based on th civil engineering education, the teaching materials development using the satellite data and the practice class were done. The target was the science class of the first grade students (45 people) in the Kamogawa Junior High School, Takehata, Hiroshima Prefecture. In this class, the teaching material using the latest computer technologies such as the Google Earth software (© google), the anaglyph technique, e-learning system, and MS Excel software was made. As a result, such a teaching material (especially three dimensional teaching materials) was evaluated high from the student and the teacher.

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Literature review on environmental education, questionnaire survey to university students in environment related classes on environmental education in their school days, from elementary school to high school, and investigation on the Official Course of Study of the Ministry of Education, Japan, of social and natural sciences at the time when the students were in elementary and high schools were conducted. Moreover, relationship of environmental education and existing subjects in elementary and secondary education with education of civil engineering are discussed. In the literature review on environmental education, existing researches on environmental education through elementary, middle and higher educations and in the society was found to be very scarce, however, considerations thorough these school stages were necessary from the view of growing and educating students. Some tasks on environmental education were found in the literatures including preparation of curriculums. Questionnaire results showed that the students have some appropriate knowledge and information on some environmental issues. However, such answers were rare that showed they have studied the watching and thinking ways and methods on nature and environment, which were described in the Official Course of Study of Japan. Therefore, some considerations on environmental education will be considered to be necessary including that both teachers and students should reassure the structures of the Course of Study, which includes growing the ways and methods on thinking and watching based on knowledge and information. For the relationship of the existing subjects and environmental education with education of civil engineering, most related in the categories of Japan Society of Civil Engineers are categories B and G. We should consider about the transfer of subjects and materials into elementary and secondary education including environmental education and other existing subjects.

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KUT executes [Study-Skills] as the first-year education. The purposes of this SS classes are to support power to let the students find an answer by themselves ,and to experience problem reseach that acquires various, basic skills by the site experience. The concept of the engineering design education is subjacent. This report shows Author's classes'points,and student's evaluation result concerning the effect of the classes.

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The hydraulics education is emphasized in the department of civil engineering in institutions of higher education due to the importance of river administration and management, including preservation of water environment and prevention of flood disaster. However, many students were weak in the hydraulics. The aim of this study is to examine the ideal way of hydraulics education for beginners and to write a hydraulics textbook for them.
After analyzing headings of chapters adopted in 48 hydraulics textbooks and the questionnaire to students who had taken the hydraulics class, the following became apparent. The headings of chapters reflected the needs for civil engineers, and the composition of chapters in some hydraulics textbooks would be useful for beginners in understanding the content of hydraulics education.

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Recently, higher education facilities increasingly adopt the business studies and internship. But, in many cases, there involve issues concerning the setting of educational objective and content and the cooperation between office and school. As it is now, those efforts rarely bring in benefit for both sides. So, in this article, we go into details of the internship by cooperation between 'Onahama Port Office' and Fukushima National College of Technology, pointing out the evaluations and issues, so that our finding helps following efforts aimed at making a suggestion based on the survey.

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In the construction industry in recent years, it is pointed out that the qualification acquisition such as a Professional Engineer, Civil engineering works execution management engineer, landscape Architectural execution managing engineers, and surveyor is important in a national qualification from the viewpoint of engineer who has the transparency in the society and is trusted and is trusted. It is one of the evaluation items when the presence of the qualification acquisition increases salary and is promoted in the fact private company. There is the second class for one of the qualifications that can be taken an examination while engineering works system student is attending school engineering works construction Management Section examination. However, there is no advantage that becomes a make one stand out a prospective employer even if it passes this qualification.
In this thesis, it proposed the method of causing the advantage by making it cooperate with the second class engineer qualification of Japan Society Civil Engineers to use this qualification effectively and educating the civil engineering technician of practice immediately etc.

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In order to obtain an understanding of stakeholders in infrastructure planning, developing professional communicators such as facilitator and mediator is required. However, it is also important and urgent to build the capacity of public administrators in charge of the project. An academic education program for the development of discussion and presentation capability of civil engineering students is currently being studied due to the lack of learning opportunities on communication skills for public administrators. This article shows uses and characteristics of proposed syllabus planning for improvement of communication skills. This proposed syllabus has feedback process for communication skills assessment. Feedback should provide the student with information on current status and offer advice for improved performance. The communication performance indices are measured in practical classes with civil engineering students.

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Engineering design skills are some of the important competencies of an engineer. A standard for teaching engineering design skills has already been published by ABET in its "Engineering Design Criteria 2000." In Japan, JABEE has strongly emphasized the need for an engineering design education program, mainly as a result of joining the Washington Accord as a signatory. At the same time, ASCE has announced "The Vision for Civil Engineering in 2025" and summarized the skills that future civil engineers should possess in the BOK2 (Body of Knowledge 2). In the BOK2, engineering design is treated as a critical skill that engineers who develop and maintain a sustainable infrastructure for the society must acquire. In this paper, we consider the nature of "civil engineering design education" in the context of tertiary education and make remarks on the planning and experimental implementation of an actual education program.

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This article summarizes examples of education system reconstruction made by departments except for civil engineering, based on the 2005-2006 report made by the subcommittee of university education in the committee of the education promotion and enhancement committee of JSCE. Studied are departments of several universities for architecture, mechanical engineering, ship building engineering, texture engineering, chemical engineering, electronics and information engineering and inter-discipline engineering. It is shown that reconstruction is made by analyzing the current state and the future trend of social demands of industries, with a few core subjects being selected.

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Recently, various human resources development projects have been implemented by competitive funds. However, it is not clear that how the higher education institutions establish and operate education system. In this study, we conducted the questionnaires survey for 40 human resources development projects funded by the Special Coordination Fund for Promoting Science and Technology from MEXT, Japan.
As a result, the followings were identified: (1) much of the education projects were intended for adult students, (2) a certification system was established in more than 90% of projects, (3) education projects had a tendency to depend on external economic and human resources, (4) more than a half of projects had the plan to built the project-based education program into the regular course of their division. These results indicate the importance of financial aid for educational system change, necessity of more appropriate criteria for project evaluation, and need for certification system other than degree system.

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The authors consider the capabilities required for a consulting engineer and the effective training methods, and introduce the example of the training program in a private company for the engineer's career development. Based on the practical data of the training, three contrivances for the effective training practice were obtained and it was, moreover, clearly understood that it was important not only a training program arrangement but also a monitoring and follow-up of whether the motivation studied by the training can be continuing autonomously.

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