Message for Overseas Researchers and Exchange Students

<What International Exchange Means>

In my opinion, the aims of international exchange of our university are

1.Providing opportunities to associate with many people to work for engineering focused on human beings and engineering for life design

2.Improving our university so that it has research divisions and educational programs that can appeal to people from other countries

3.Cultivating international mindedness by experiencing different cultures from associating with people from other countries

 

It makes other people happy and our own life richer to experience mutual understanding obtained by association with not only people of our own country but also people with different cultures and sense of values.
The activities to promote such experience are based on unification of professional education and liberal arts education.
For students in Japan and also in other countries what they achieve from this experience is important for their character-building, and for teachers it enhances their self-enlightenment and their educational research.

 

In that sense, we are making efforts to improve the environment for the work of international exchange, based on the idea that it has the same importance to invite exchange students and teachers from other countries and to send our students and teachers abroad to study.

<Divisions of research>

My specialty is Water Supply Engineering in Civil Engineering. I have studied for a long time the topics of Water Resource Management, Water Environmental Evaluation for water sources, and Water Treatment Process, especially some issues caused by algae such as coagulation-blocking, residual aluminum in purified water, and sand filter clogging and abnormal taste and odor.
I have had consultation about designing water treatment facilities and participating in the national project for instructor training in the field of waterworks in the developing countries such as Southeastern Asian and African countries, and have also experienced instructing in actual work sites.

<Personal History in Brief>

Keywords of Research: Waterworks, Water Pollution, Eutrophication, Water Purification Treatment, Coagulation-sedimentation Method, Sand Filtration

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Vice-president

KONNO Hiroshi

[Education]

1971

Graduated from Civil Engineering Division in Department of Engineering, Tohoku Institute of Technology

1974

Entered Master’s Degree Course majoring in Civil Engineering, Tohoku University

1979

Completed Doctoral Degree Course majoring in Civil Engineering, Tohoku University

[Occupation]

1971-1974

Assistant, Division of Engineering, Tohoku Institute of Technology

1979-1980

Assistant, Division of Engineering, Tohoku University

1980-1984

Lecturer, Tohoku Institute of Technology

1984-1988

Associate Professor, Tohoku Institute of Technology

1988,Sept.

Leave of Absence from Associate Professor, Tohoku Institute of Technology

1988,Sept.
-1990,Mar.

Dispatched to Ministry of the Interior, Thailand by JICA as Specialist for Waterworks Project

1990,Mar.

Resumed Role as Associate Professor, Tohoku Institute of Technology

1995,Apr.

Professor, Tohoku Institute of Technology

2008

Vice President, Professor, Tohoku Institute of Technology

[Academic Society Membership]
Japan Society of Civil Engineers (Corporate Juridical Member)
Japan Water Works Association (Corporate Juridical Member)
Japan Society on Water Environment (Corporate Juridical Member)
The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan (Corporate Juridical Member)