Graduate Courses : Department of Industrial Design : Teaching Staff

UMEDA Hiroki

Professor
UMEDA Hiroki
Research : Generally practicing and studying the design of industrial products and fashion.

OOBA Makoto

ONUMA Masahiro

Professor
ONUMA Masahiro
Research :My main theme is architectural design for “the worth of maturity” of life and work place with projects typified by preservation, utilization and renovation of regional cultural properties in Tohoku Region as a town architect professor. Recently, I'm trying to encourage unknown collaboration ateliers of arts and crafts or to support rehabilitation of disaster area, for example Rikuzen Area that is famous for natural slate roofed houses in vernacular landscapes.

OYA Ryuichi

Professor
OYA Ryuichi
Research :Snuggling up to the feeling of the person, and contributing the society. I aim at the making of heart full Mono（ products） & Koto（ experience） with a sense of Japanese beauty and Motenashi mind（ heart of service）.
Vision setting, creating products and service to realize it, and communicating the value. These are the role of the designer. Sometimes led to people’s ‘sympathy’ beyond just ‘perception’ or ‘understanding’, then the value becomes ‘brands’. I want to nurture comprehensive future innovators who can build ‘brands’.

KAWASHIMA Kazuhiro

Professor
KAWASHIMA Kazuhiro
Research :I am studying management accounting methods for small and medium-sized enterprises（SMEs）in Japan. Currently, focusing on the Hokkaido and Tohoku regions, we are conducting empirical research to determine whether the introduction of management accounting methods in SMEs has a positive effect on financial performance. As a research method, we conduct a questionnaire survey using a mail questionnaire, and then conduct a detailed interview survey. In the course of the research, we are searching for SMEs that are actively utilizing management accounting methods to improve their management.

KISHIMOTO Seiji

Professor
KISHIMOTO Seiji
Research : Through many years of fieldwork in various parts of Japan, I have been conducting research on the history of the relationship between people and nature, and livelihood techniques. Now that the population is declining and globalization is progressing, we will explore new values and hints of connections necessary for the future society from the folk society.

KOIWAI Hironori

Professor
KOIWAI Hironori
Research : I dedicate myself to research in the fields called "environmental economics" and "law and economics", both of which are sub-disciplines of the applied microeconomics.（I believe, in particular, "law and economics", will further develop in near future.） Specifically, based on institutional theory, I make an analysis of the effects produced by deciding the provisions defined the applicable laws on proprietary rights and transaction costs in reference to precedents and specific laws. I hope my works will contribute to establishing the better legal system of environmental laws and governmental policies.

KOYAMA Yuji

Professor
KOYAMA Yuji
Research :The research theme is to investigate the relation between the organization and technical skill on the buildings and others.
Especially I have studied on the carpenters and another architectural artisans who supported the construction and repairs for buildings and city space in Tohoku region in the Edo period.I am concerned with restoration of the cultural heritage buildings such as the ancient farm-houses, shrines ,temples and others.
In addition, I have surveyed the town such as the post-town, the castle town and others.

SAKATE Yuji

Professor
SAKATE Yuji
Research : Studying the ideal method for the product design, to create the function and the shape.

SHINOHARA Ryota

HORIE Masahiro

Professor
HORIE Masahiro
Research :It is a critical challenge to design User Experience （UX）in the software development. But the designing of UX is quite a difficult task. Therefore, we have referred to agile software development and structured the design method. There are two features in this design method as follows;
1. UX designer attends the software development from its early stage.
2. Carrying out the Workshop several times, using prototype software

ITO Miyuki

Associate Professor
ITO Miyuki
Research :The research is recognition and self decision of the person with physical imperfections and the disease.
The research is healthy maintenance of the mind and body of the people and the improvement of QOL.

SATO Asuka

Associate Professor
SATO Asuka
Research :My major research interests are "Contingent Work Arrangements" and "Staffing Industry" as match pump of low income workers, and structural analysis how the industry worsen their working conditions in the U.S., and how improve contingent workers' working conditions.
Another interests are Creation of New Industries and Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration through "Knowledge Cluster Initiative". My last position from 2004 to 2007- was plotter, and drew up strategies for new industry creation of Ishikawa prefecture, here in Japan.

SHIMOUA Yoshinori

Associate Professor
SHIMOUA Yoshinori
Research : After graduated from art university, I worked as a designer in the field of Industrial and Graphic design.
I studied business administration in graduate school,and I am active in the theme of what can we do by combining design and business administration.
For example, I founded RAC, a non-profit organization that I founded with my peers. And at RAC, we are doing social design activities to publicize and raise awareness of the foster care system, as an action that leads to child abuse prevention.
My research field is design and business management,which leads to innovation and branding.

TAKAKI Rie

Associate Professor
TAKAKI Rie
Research :I have studied methods to create energy-efficient and comfortable indoor environments. I have carried out field surveys and experiments concerning both the exterior and the interior construction of buildings, including functions for environmental control provided in the building, and investigations into both the performance and the method of the operation of equipment used for this purpose. Through our research, I consider ways of reconciling both indoor environmental comfort and energy saving.

HATAKEYAMA Yugo

Associate Professor
HATAKEYAMA Yugo
Research :My research explores mainly about the regional disaster prevention from the point of architectural planning and urban planning, which regards both macroscopic and microscopic perspective as important about evacuation planning, regional disaster prevention and landscape evaluation.

TANIMOTO Yukako

Lecturer
TANIMOTO Yukako
Research :Japan is now a super-aged society, so creating an environment for elderly people to live a healthy and productive life is necessary. My studies show the condition for the architectural planning on the housing designs by analyzing the movement of elderly people and staffs in both nursing and group homes. These studies mainly refer to Architectural designs. In addition, they also include Nursing care public welfare services, Nursing, and Sociology.