Program

Schedule at a Glance

Main Program

Nov 28
(Sat)
Nov 29
(Sun)
Nov 30
(Mon)
Dec 1
(Tue)
Dec 2
(Wed)
Dec 3
(Thu)
Dec 4
(Fri)
  Registration Registration Registration Registration WFEO
General
Assembly
WFEO
General Assembly
WFEO-
STCs
WFEO-
STCs
Opening Ceremony & Conference Plenary Lecture 1, 2, 3 Conference Plenary Lecture 7 Oral
Sessions
Oral
Sessions
WFEO-
STCs
WFEO-
STCs
Kyoto Program Conference Plenary Lecture 4, 5, 6 Poster Session Poster Session WFEO
General Assembly
WFEO
New Executive Council
Oral
Sessions
Oral
Sessions
Summary and Concluding Remarks of the Sessions
Closing Ceremony
  Reception     Banquet WFEO Gala Dinner  

Simultaneous interpretation between Japanese and English is provided for Kyoto Program, Opening Ceremony and Conference Plenary Lectures.

Technical Exhibition

Nov 28
(Sat)
Nov 29
(Sun)
Nov 30
(Mon)
Dec 1
(Tue)
Dec 2
(Wed)
Dec 3
(Thu)
Dec 4
(Fri)
    Exhibition    

Other Events

Nov 28
(Sat)
Nov 29
(Sun)
Nov 30
(Mon)
Dec 1
(Tue)
Dec 2
(Wed)
Dec 3
(Thu)
Dec 4
(Fri)
          Technical Visits  
    Introduction of Traditional Arts and Technology    
    Accompanying Person Tour      
    Engineering Café        

Note: Session design may be flexibly modified

Program at a Glance (as of November 2015)

Opening Ceremony / Conference Plenary Lectures

November 30 (Mon.), 2015

9:00-10:00 Opening Ceremony
10:30-12:30 Conference Plenary Lectures Part 1, 2, 3
  • Science and Technology for Water in a
    Carbon-Constrained World

    Dr. Han Seung-soo

    UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Disaster Risk Reduction and Water
    Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea
  • Engineering-Society Interface for Delivering New Agenda 2030

    Prof. Dr. Shahbaz Khan

    Director and Representative, Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO Office, Jakarta
  • Stormy Energy Future and Role of Sustainable Nuclear Power

    Mr. Nobuo Tanaka

    Former Executive Director, International Energy Agency
    Visiting Professor, The University of Tokyo
    Director, CHIYODA CORPORATION
14:00-16:00 Conference Plenary Lectures Part 4, 5, 6
  • Mr. Keiichi Ishii

    Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
  • Mr. Tsuneo Kitamura

    Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
  • Embracing a Hydrogen Society: Toyota's Strategy for Environmental Technology

    Mr. Takeshi Uchiyamada

    Chairman of the Board, Toyota Motor Corporation
    Vice Chair, Japan Business Federation

December 1 (Tue.), 2015

9:00-9:50 Conference Plenary Lecture Part 7

Wide-bandgap semiconductors as tools for realizing a sustainable society

Prof. Hiroshi Amano

Director, Professor, Center for Integrated Research of Future
Electronics, Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability,
Nagoya University
2014 Nobel Prize Laureate

Poster Session (As of November 20, 2015)

Sessions at a Glance

Overall Conference Theme: "Engineering: Innovation and Society"

Track 1: Resilient Infrastructure for Society
1-1 Reconstruction innovation
1-2 Land/city conservation and disaster mitigation
1-3 Robot technology used at disaster sites and its operating system
1-4 Strengthening national interests and creating new industries using big data
1-5 Creating a resilient economy
1-6 Resilience in manufacturing and energy sectors
Track 2: Energy for a Sustainable Society
2-1 Wider applications for fossil resources: Conventional and non-conventional resources
2-2 Power generation technology
2-3 Renewable energy sources and energy storage technologies
2-4 Energy saving and efficient energy use
2-5 Energy management
2-6 Smart grid, smart community
Track 3: Natural Resources for a Sustainable Society
3-1 Satellite-based technology, land and marine survey, resource investigation, disaster monitoring
3-2  Supply chain of mineral resources and life cycle of human beings
3-3 Water resource and environmental management
3-4 Advanced recycling technology
3-5 Process technology for sustainability
3-6  Agricultural machinery and food engineering, agricultural mechanization, agricultural structures
Track 4: Urban Development and Infrastructure
4-1 Environmental friendly and sustainable cities & housing
4-2  Net zero energy building technology, new air-conditioning and sanitary technology, green building technology, water utilization technology
4-3 Measuring, control, security technology, robot technology
4-4 Next generation broadcasting systems
4-5 Construction technology and management
4-6 Innovation for maintenance and renovation of sustainable civil infrastructure
Track 5: Mobility and Communication Technology
5-1 Railway technology, high-speed train, urban transportation, maintenance technology
5-2 Automotive technology, society and mobility in 2030
5-3 Marine technology, ships, ocean energy utilization, marine resource developments
5-4 Aeronautical technology
5-5 Innovative telecommunications technologies
5-6 Information security and privacy
Track 6: Industry for Society
6-1 Creating value and solving social issues through the big data revolution
6-2 Trends in utilizing intellectual property for promoting innovation
6-3 Role of finance in industrial innovation
6-4 Value-added manufacturing for competitiveness
6-5 Innovation of cutting-edge technology and next generation devices
6-6 Advanced functional materials
Track 7: Life Innovation
7-1 Design of safe and secure communities, reflections on human and robot
7-2 Molecular imaging in early diagnosis/treatment
7-3 Recovery from disease: Part 1 (Nanomedicine)
7-4 Recovery from disease: Part 2 (minimally invasive therapy and personalized treatment)
7-5 Recovery from disease: Part 3 (Regenerative medicine, tissue engineering)
7-6 Sustaining good health (Medical and healthcare devices)
Track 8: Engineering for Society and Engineering in Society
8-1 Social missions of engineering and ethics for engineers
8-2  Science & technology based on the societal trust & communication
Part 1: Fukushima Daiichi--the lessons learned
8-3  Science & technology based on the societal trust & communication
Part 2: For the society of robust and secure infrastructure
8-4 Engineering qualification systems and ethics
Track 9: Engineering Education and Women in Engineering
9-1 Promoting female leaders in engineering
9-2 Promoting young women in engineering
9-3 World human resource development and engineering education
9-4  Development and contribution of the Japanese engineering education to the world
Track 10: Groundwork for the Future

Session Descriptions