Class Time-Table and Descriptions for Fall Semester, 1999

( 9:00-10:30)

(10:40-12:10)

                                   *** Lunch Break ***

(13:00-14:30)

(14:40-16:10)

(16:20-17:50)

This Class is designed for students who are the beginners with Japanese Language but with Non-Kanji-Culture Background.

Elementary Japanese IIA is designed for students who completed Elementary Japanese IA or who have equivalent standards with over 150 Kanji vocabulary.

Elementary Japanese IIB is designed for students who completed Elementary Japanese IB or who have equivalent standards with over 150 Kanji vocabulary.

Intermediate Japanese Language I is designed for students who completed Elementary Japanese IIA/IIB or who have equivalent standards with over 300 Kanji vocabulary and reasonable communication skills.

This Class is designed for students who completed Intermediate Japanese Language II or who have equivalent standards with reasonable communication skills and negotiation skills.

UEC Academic Class is designed to give you the graps of all sorts of computer experience. It aims to give you an opportunity to get familiar with very basic computer skills for Academic Work and Study. You will learn introductory parts of UNIX Networking Computer, Fortran, C Language, TeX and HTML (Homepage Making).

You will learn a presentation skill for oral / poster presentation. At the end of semester, all new/senior JUSST Students will be required to give a presentation on their major study and research. New JUSST Students will be required to give poster presentation with 1-2 panel space given. Senior JUSST Students of Postgraduate will be required to give an oral presentation for 20 minutes.

This course will cover the techniques used to solve problems in fluid mechanics on computers. Subjects to be covered will include;

   1.Basic Concepts of Fluid Flow 
   2.Introduction to Numerical Method 
   3.Finite Difference Method

Computers are often said to be a mere heavy box. After successful finishing this course students can change it to an intelligent machine  by putting into it the software he learned.  Subjects include,

   1. skill of programming
   2. Algorithm
   3. Data structure
   4. input output description

This course enables you to have a hands-on experience of introductory electronics. You build various circuits on the breadboard and meaure the characteristics. As a matter of fact, you join the Japanese students taking the same course. The topics are:

   1) Analog circuit A: properties of passive elements 
   2) Analog circuit B: applications of the operational amplifier 
   3) Transistors: their properties and applications 
   4) Digital circuit A: logic gates and simple arithmetic 
   5) Digital circuit B: clocked logic and its applications

Introduction to computational linguistics. Computer and hman languages, strings and string processing, grammatical theories, grammatcal analysis, parsers, meanings of sentences and discourses, semantic representation, understanding and generation, natural language processig systems. Three programming projects on word processing, parsing, and semanic analysis will be required.

This course will cover the fundamental principles of Industrial and  Manufacturing Systems Engineering. Subjects to be covered will include;

   1    Manufacturing Systems Engineering
   1.1 Fundamental Principles
   1.2 Production Planning and Scheduling
   1.3 New trends
   2.   Japanese Management for Manufacturing
   2.1 Toyota System
   2.2 Push/Pull System
   2.3 New Trends

The course will rely on discussions rather than on talks by the lecturer. 'Culture' is, by definition, a complex subject. 'Japanese culture' would be further complicated by the modernization it has 'suffered' since the Meiji era.  Students are asked to bring to the class their surprises and discoveries about living in Japan and among Japanese people. In case no topic is offered by the participants, The lecturer will prepare talks along the lines of following themes:

   1.  The role of 'yakuza' in Japanese politics, local and national,
   2.  The perception of 'uchi' and 'soto', or Ins and Outs of Japanese Society.
   3.  Worlds Apart: Perception Gaps between Japanese and English  languages,
   4.  Is Japan a Democratic Country?
   5.      The Great Unseen Pyramid

Aim of the program: The aim of the program is to acquire skills and knowledge for enjoying sports throughout lifelong. In addition, it includes development of health and physical fitness by practicing physical activities. The course is divided into 4 programs;

1.  Lifelong Learning in Sports-I (ordinary program)
The program is opened at the first semester in each year.  It has several courses of sports lesson such as badminton, table tennis, judo, tennis, swimming, etc.  The practice of the program is one lesson every week.

2.  Lifelong Learning in Sports-II (advanced program)
The program is opened at the second semester in each year.  It has several courses of sports lesson such as badminton, table        tennis, judo, tennis, etc. The practice of the program is one lesson every week..

3.  Lifelong Learning in Sports-III (intensive program)
The program is opened in summer vacation.  It has a tennis course and a golf course.  The practice of the program is all day lessons during four or five days with staying at a sports club's lodge.  The lodging charges are needed.

4.  Lifelong Learning in Sports-IV (intensive program)
The program is opened in winter or spring vacation.  It has a winter outdoor camp course and a skiing course.  The practice of the program is all day lessons during four or five days with staying at a mountain camp site or a ski lodge. The lodging charges are needed.

Measurements and standards play an important role in the progress of science and technology and give an indispensable base of industries. The fundamentals of measurements and standards will be introduced in the field of electrical engineering. Mechanical measurement is not covered in this course. The topics involve:

   (a) Basic terminology
   (b) Units and standards
   (c) Statistic treatment of measured data
   (d) Measurements of basic electric quantities (voltage, current, resistance, power, etc.)
   (e) Instrumentation
   (f) Error estimation, uncertainty, and traceability

This course will cover the fundamental principles of micro-Mechatronis. Subjects to be covered will include;

  1. Historical Background to Micro-Mechatronics
  2. Micro-Mechatronics in Consumer Products
  3. Optical Disk Storage System
  4. Micro Machine and Micro Robots,
  5. Several non-traditional micro-fabrication
  6.      Examples of Microsystems and Future Problems

 (Preliminary reading) Parallel Programming edited by Susann Ragsdale (Supplement) Designing Efficient Algorithms for Parallel Computers written by Michael J. Quinn

Parallel Computer architecture and parallel processing are included. Well-known parallel algorithms are introduced and several programs to investigate important parallel techniques will be implemented using MIMD computer systems. The practice in parallel programming is prepared. The course includes two hours of lectures and three hours of homework per week. It will focus on the following topics:

   1. The Parallel Systems: Divide and Conquer
   2. A programming Model for the Loosely ? Coupled Parallel System
   3. Working Smartly, Not Hard: Parallel Software Engineering Principles
   4. Decomposition Strategies
   5. Domain Decomposition: Examples and Techniques
   6. Control Decomposition: Examples and Techniques
   7.   Object ?Oriented Techniques for Distributed-Memory Systems but the topics will vary in accordance with the students' majoring.

This course will cover basic ideas of radio waves, radio propagation and antennas. The subject will include the following:

   1. Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Theory
   2. Characteristics of Electromagnetic Waves
   3. Wave Propagation
   4. Antennas
   5. Recent Topics of Radio Waves and Antennas

This course covers the fundamentals of digital signal processing applying speech, audio and image processing.  The lecture will include the following items;

   1. The development of Digital Signal Processing
   2. Converting Analog to Digital
   3. Filtering
   4. Transforming Signals into the Frequency Domain
   5. Encoding of Waveforms
   6. Basic Speech Analysis and Synthesis
   7.      Basic Image Processing

In this course the following topics will be disussed;

   1. Economic Systems as Feedback Systems
   2. Economic Policy as Built-in-Stabilizer
   3. Economic Systems and Econometric Methods
   4. Building Economic(or Econometric)Models
   5. Endogeneous Variables and Exogeneous Variables
   6. Estimating Parameters of Econometric Models
   7. Forecast through Introducing Econometric Models

This course will cover the fundamental principles of Digital Transmission Systems. Subjects to be covered will include;

   1. Baseband Pulse Transmission,
   2. Carrier Transmission,
   3. Synchronization,
   4. Source Coding and Line Coding,
   5. Optical Transmission Systems,
   6. Synchronous Digital Hierachy(SDH) and Aynchronous Transfer Mode(ATM)

This course will cover the fundamental principles of Broadcasting Systems.  Subjects to be covered will include;

   1. Basic terrestrial broadcasting system ,
   2. Basic satellite broadcasting system,
   3. Basic MUSE HDTV system ,
   4. Basic Digital satellite broadcasting system,
   5. Basic terrestrial digital broadcasting system,
   6. Introduction to the state-of-the-art broadcasting technologies such as Large-Screen Plasma Display, Mobile receiver, SNG, etc.