Research Activities in BICS Engineering Department of Regional Environmental Science University of Osaka Prefecture

摘要

The University of Osaka Prefecture (UOP) is one of the leading local-government-financed universities in Japan. The UOP has an integrated urbanized campus (126 acre) in the heart of Sakai-city, a cosmopolitan community of more than 810 000 with an enrollment of over 5 300 undergraduate, graduate and research students. The UOP's over 1 000 faculty and administrative personnel provide students with scrupulous care in every way. The University was established under the name of Naniwa University in 1949. In 1955 it was renamed the University of Osaka Prefecture. Since the first degree in 1953, the UOP has continued to grow. There are now five undergraduate colleges including a College of Engineering, a College of Agriculture, a College of Economics, a College of Integrated Arts and Science, and a College of Social Welfare; five divisions of Graduate Studies. There are currently about 750 students in graduate programs. They come from virtually every prefecture in Japan and 15 foreign countries. The UOP is ideally located, within a 30-minute drive of Osaka City (the second largest city in Japan) with many outdoor recreational opportunities, cultural attractions and historic interests nearby. While having all the advantages of a large Osaka metropolitan area, the UOP campus is in a quiet historic atmosphere immediately adjacent to a 1500 year old archaeological asset (the world largest burial mound).