Importance of the school safety is realized by the Great East Japan Earthquake. Disaster prevention education and evacuation drill are carried out in many school. The support plan for the vulnerable people made each place. This paper intends for the special support school where children with a disability goes to. The present conditions and problems of the school safety are arranged. Evacuation drill and discussion of tsunami disaster are done in special support school in the reclaimed land. The effect of the cooperation of teacher and researcher, between school, are considered using SECI model and the theory of communities of practice. It was shown that ICF model is effective for the consideration of the support method.

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 The assistant surveyor license could be given to graduate students of designated higher education with fulfill the credit requirements for survey-related coursework, without any specific examination. Furthermore, the surveyor license as the upper grade is given without examination when fulfill the requirement based on their survey experiences. The license should be generally provided for the contents of survey education. Evaluating the content and quality of survey education, some problems were identified from the viewpoints of effective education. The problems includes disciplines and standard, the contents that referenced operation specifications for public surveys, the new surveying technology, the education of mathematics, and so on. The new teaching materials were studied and developed to overcome these problems, and then the material was newly published as a 253-page textbook in 2014. This paper describes the development of the newest survey teaching materials, through present circumstance of survey education and surveyor license system.

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 In the paper, the cloud storage system on the Internet was used to distribute educational materials to students for improving students' self-study of structural mechanics. The students could contact the materials through various mobile devices; a smart phone, a tablet computer, etc. anytime and anywhere. We conducted a questionnaire survey to the students taking structural mechanics at National Institute of Technology, Oita College to consider the effect of the cloud system. Effectiveness of using the cloud system was clarified to produce educational benefits, especially improvement of self-study in reviewing for structural mechanics. Strategy was discussed to produce more benefits on the basis of some problems and future subjects found in the survey.

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 Fundamentally, public policies including public works, infrastructure development aims to build better and more sustainable country. Citizen's adequate understanding on public works is essential in order to proceed desired public works and achieve above the purpose appropriately. It is said that citizen's understandings have strongly influenced on government's decision on public works policy. It seems that school education makes certain influence on common understandings. In such circumstance, analysis of the educational situation over public works is strongly required in order to make adequate common understandings and achieve faster provision of infrastructure. The purpose of this study is to analyze the description contents of textbooks about Social Studies in Junior High school that aim to develop recognition and views on the world. As a result, some textbooks descript public works negatively, and emphasize financial situation worse than current situation.

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 Recently the changes such as the retirement of baby boomers, the revision of the pension system, the introduction of the post retirement employment system and so on occurred in Japan. This study focuses on the activity of senior civil engineer after retirement. The study has clarified the followings. 1) Most of civil engineers want to continue employment till 65 years old. 2) The system of the continued employment till the pension eligibility age became established. 3) Although the description of their job does not change after retirement, their income decreases. 4) Maintenance of a senior engineer's motivation is important. Finally, the study concludes that it is necessary to discuss the employment system for senior civil engineer based on the change of social situation like the governmental public investment and so on.

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 Civil engineering aims to create public welfare and social benefits; studying the subject will develop the public consciousness, which is one of the objectives for school education as well.
 While civil engineering is still limited in education as a practical subject, it is beginning to expand and gain some traction.
 We hope that this report on the first year of our Mobility Management Education project carried out in Kyoto city will assist with the continuing evolution of the field of civil engineering in school education.

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 In the paper, a tablet-type device was applied to classes of structural mechanics and dynamics to improve educational effectiveness. Because additional comments, equations, markers, etc. were written or drawn directly on image of handouts from the device to a screen, utilizing the device leaded students to a better understanding of class contents. Questionnaires were carried out to students in National Institute of Technology, Oita College to research educational effectiveness and problems after the classes. The tablet-type device was found to be useful for students to deeply understand the structural mechanics and dynamics from the questionnaire results.

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 Active seniors have attracted attention for serving important roles in helping each other since 2007, when baby boomers began to retire. However, the actual circumstances related to active seniors remain unknown. This study refers to active seniors' real image and conditions in which talented people grow up potentially or apparently. The object of this research is Ushiku City, a typical suburban area with aging residents. Results clarified that people in their 60s who go out about 3-6 times per week and who have a small number of people to socialize with other than family members take part in activities to help each other in the area. Nevertheless, for those who go out 7 or more times per week and for people older than 70 years old, the will to participate in activities tends to be low.

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 Engineers working at a ready-mixed concrete factory have little opportunity to study mixture design of concrete due to developed technologies and shortage of workers. The lack of knowledge of mixture-designing should be concerned especially for young concrete-engineers. The foci of the present study are to reeducate fundamental mixture-design method and to develop an effective education program for young engineers. To study properties of former concrete, river aggregate was employed and a competition of mixture design for the concrete was conducted. The educative competition confirmed that practiced engineers have more superior skill to modify concrete design than young engineers. A questionnaire survey after the competition shows that the education method for the young engineers should be modified to learn the skill and experiences from skilled engineers.

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 Author is involved in the super global high school program by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as the lecturer of the research program. In the program, author taught high school students of Matsuyama Higashi High School about the history, beauty, and importance of infrastructure. Then, author also tried to tell them that it is necessary to conduct maintenance and repair action on the infrastructures to keep the society safe. It is found from the questionnaire result that the object is successfully met.

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