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The goal of our laboratory is to create new values by actively integrating disciplines, while keeping concrete engineering as the core of our research. To achieve this, it is necessary not only to deepen our understanding of concrete, which is the focus of our research, but also to deepen our understanding of the disciplines to be fused, as well as of people and society, and to promote successful collaboration.

From this perspective, our laboratory encourages students to take their university studies ‘for granted’, but to get out of the laboratory as much as possible and take the opportunity to grow as a person. By taking advantage of being a student and gaining many one-of-a-kind experiences, such as working part-time not to earn a wage but to gain experience, travelling and inspecting, participating in national and international conferences, studying abroad, interacting with other university students and working people, and gaining the experience of others through reading, we hope that decades after graduation/completion We encourage them to form a growth vector to become leaders. Our aim is to form a vector for becoming leaders decades later.

We make sure that our laboratory members experience both experimental and numerical analysis. The truth we want to know cannot be clarified by experiments alone or by numerical analysis alone, but can only be reached by looking at things from multiple perspectives and using our imagination. We want them to experience both of these and acquire the methods to get closer to the truth.

We hold seminars every Friday. For details about the seminar topics, please refer to the Chijiwa lab blog .

Additionally, there are two joint seminars with the Concrete Research Lab: the "Monday Seminar" and the "Monthly Seminar." The Monday Seminar is held every Monday, where we share experiment plans and announcements. "Monthly Seminar" is held once a month on holiday(Saturday or Sunday), where progress reports and practice presentations are conducted.

For more information, please visit the Concrete lab website.

If you have a research theme that you have brought in or are interested in, we will support you in carrying it out as much as possible. If you are unable to come up with such a theme, the teachers can suggest one, or you can think of a theme while participating in the research of your seniors after you have been assigned.

Regular events include an experimental meeting on Monday mornings to confirm the weekly schedule, laboratory seminars on Friday mornings, group meetings where students with close research interests gather regularly for discussions, and monthly research presentations and get-togethers held as a concrete laboratory. Meetings with faculty members are held at any time (at least once a month) to discuss the results of progress and to discuss future research policies.

Because concrete is heavy and large, it is necessary to get other laboratory members to cooperate with me when I want to carry out experiments. This requires management skills such as planning, calculating when and how many helpers are needed to carry out your experiments, and coordinating the work while taking into account the schedules of the other members of the laboratory. This is a characteristic of a concrete laboratory, and through this process, you can hone your own management skills while building a deep cooperative relationship with laboratory members.

To join our laboratory, you must first pass the Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate school entrance exam. If you're considering applying to our lab for graduate studies, please feel free to contact the faculty. We also welcome laboratory visits, so feel free to come by. For information on how to contact or find the lab, please refer to the "Access" section.

A. It is roughly 50:50. Additionally, many members conduct research using both experiments and analysis.