Events and Research Activities

~For students considering joining a research lab~

The Concrete Laboratory is a laboratory with many events and vigorous research activities.

We are looking for motivated and proactive people!

Events

One of the features of our laboratory is that we have a lot of exchanges with other universities and other laboratories!

There are many opportunities to make friends working on concrete research, such as social gatherings with the Nagoya University Architectural Concrete Research Center and four-university social gatherings (Gifu University, Kansai University, Hosei University, Nagoya University), and you can make horizontal connections with people of the same generation that will continue even after graduation! There are also strong vertical connections with alumni from the laboratory, so you can make strong allies in your job search. In addition, since there are many international students enrolled, we hold events such as laboratory drinking parties that are very international.

Our laboratory also encourages students to continue on to a doctoral program, and we plan doctoral student networking events that bring together students from all over the country who wish to continue on to doctoral programs. These events allow students to interact with young researchers and students (doctorates, masters, and undergraduates) from all over the country, making continuing on to a doctoral program feel more accessible.

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Research activities

Research activities ~Undergraduate edition~

Once you are assigned to a laboratory, you will immediately be assigned a tentative research topic, and during your third year of undergraduate studies, you will conduct research aimed at submitting a paper to the Japan Society of Civil Engineers National Conference, which is usually submitted by graduation thesis students. This is a unique initiative of this laboratory, where you will have a four-month preparation period after being assigned, during which you will be able to experience the entire research process (experiment/analysis ⇒ analysis ⇒ writing a paper ⇒ presentation in September) before your graduation thesis. You will surely gain more experience than you could have ever imagined, and feel that you have grown as a person.

In the fourth year of undergraduate studies, students will either continue their previous research or proceed with their graduation research on a new research topic. They will begin full-scale research based on the experience they gained during the preparatory period of their third year. In the summer, they will have the opportunity to give a presentation at the Japan Society of Civil Engineers National Convention, while also taking the graduate school entrance exam. From October onwards, they will gradually enter the final stages of their graduation research. In cooperation with their peers and seniors, they will write and present their graduation theses in January and February. During this period, depending on the results of their research, they will also submit papers to the Japan Concrete Institute and the Chubu branch of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers.

A distinctive feature of our laboratory is that we provide an environment in which undergraduate students can take on challenges in research, allowing them to grow significantly.

Our professors place great importance on research discussions, so we are always available to discuss research. We also have a biweekly progress report on the overall research. Through discussions with our professors and seniors, we can build a solid foundation for our graduation research.

Since concrete cannot be made by one person, I often work in collaboration with my peers and seniors in the lab. Therefore, even if the research topic is experiment or analysis, I think I will be able to find reliable colleagues.

Research activities ~Master's edition~

During the two years of the master's program, students will continue to conduct their research while gaining experience in presenting at academic conferences and writing papers.

You can take on the challenge of international conferences.

In the master's program, students step up from the research style of the undergraduate program, which is to just try things out, to a style of solving problems by thinking by trial and error. There are also more opportunities to discuss with various researchers active in Japan and abroad, and I think it is a time to fully enjoy the fun of research activities.

Through these two years of research activities, students will be able to improve a variety of skills, including logical thinking, presentation skills, and management skills , and the environment is rich in allowing them to acquire skills and experience that will be useful even after they enter society as civil engineers .