We have designed, developed, and implemented a management training program for an engineering organization responsible for expressway operation, and examined the mechanism of tacit knowledge transfer within the organization.

 To maintain the organization’s identity in creating technical standards for high-performance expressway operation, we developed a dual-structure training program, where learners were able to re-experience good practices from the past with discussion based on new social situations and technologies. The work of the learners was evaluated before and after training to estimate the effects of the training program.

 We also found that improved effectiveness of the training program was associated with greater knowledge and experience among the leaners and greater utilization of role-playing elements. In addition, the training effect doubled due to the leadership of the facilitators. As the participants understood and evaluated the mechanism of training without receiving explanations, it was considered that tacit knowledge, which had not yet been defined, had been transmitted to the learners.

 The authors have been promoting various PR activities through education to children in order to foster their understandings of the current state of social infrastructure and its countermeasures. It is expected that this is not a temporary event but educated children and their families change their awareness and interests for civil engineering and infrastructure. Under the theme of “bridge”, “concrete”, and “maintenance”, we created original teaching materials such as paper craft, objects and straps made of concrete, and simple bridge inspection check sheet respectively, and wrote textbooks according to each level of elementary and secondary education. As a result, elementary school students participating in summer vacation research project with parents, junior high school students performing group learning in the Period for Integrated Studies in school, and high school students carrying out bridge inspection and its clean-up activities by the team as a research project can obtain sufficient educational effects corresponding to each aim and level.

 Under the Coronavirus pandemic, an on-line meeting system is just beginning to be utilized for meetings, academic conferences and university lectures. The interaction event of students and civil engineers which is held by Chubu branch of JSCE every year was conducted by utilizing such system in 2020. This paper reports about the planning process, knowledge obtained through this event and evaluation questionnaire survey result. From the questionnaire survey for participants, it was found that the satisfaction level of students tend to be higher than engineers. In addition, it was found that the number of students who attend to a interaction event should be 3 to 10 for effective implementation.

 In response to the worsening social impression, there are cases where the civil engineering industry avoids using the word “DOBOKU” itself. This is particularly evident in the fact that the word “DOBOKU” is being dropped from the names of many university departments. However, there is no empirical analysis of the effect of the name change on the popularity of the department in the entrance examinations and on the attitudes of the students. In order to clarify the influence of the name change, this study empirically analyzes the influence of the department name based on the questionnaire survey of students belonging to civil engineering departments of several universities, the data of entrance examinations and the data of current students’ attributes. The results show that the renaming of civil engineering departments can increase the ratio of female students, confuse civil engineering departments with architecture departments, and decrease the level of interest in civil engineering as a career field.