History
The Environmental Engineering Course is one of the undergraduate programs in the School of Global Engineering along with the Civil Engineering Course and Earth and Resource Engineering Course. The Environmental Engineering Course was reorganized in 1996 from the Department of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering. The former department was established in 1958, having separated from the Department of Civil Engineering, and has achieved high recognition as one of the top educational and research organizations in environmental engineering in Japan. The education and research activities in the Environmental Engineering Course are currently managed by the faculty members in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, and the Graduate School of Energy Science.
Environmental Engineering Course History
| 1897 | Foundation of "Kyoto Imperial University", and establishment of "the College of Science and Engineering" including "the Department of Civil Engineering". |
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| 1947 | Renaming to "Kyoto University" from "Kyoto Imperial University". |
| 1953 | Establishment of "Graduate School of Engineering". |
| 1958 | Establishment of "the Department of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering" from the sanitary engineering section in the Department of Civil Engineering. |
| 1963 | Establishment of "Research Reactor Institute". |
| 1971 | Establishment of "Water Pollution Simulation Facilities" at Otsu. |
| 1977 | Establishment of "Environment Preservation Center". |
| 1985 | Expansion and Renaming of "Water Pollution Simulation Facilities" to "Environment Micro-pollutants Control Laboratory". |
| 1991 | Establishment of "the Department of Global Environment Engineering" for graduate education. |
| 1995 | Expansion and Renaming of "Environment Micro-pollutants Control Laboratory" to "Research Center for Environmental Quality Control". |
| 1996 | Reorganization and amalgamation in "Faculty of Engineering". "The Department of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering" was reorganized and renamed to "the Department of Environmental Engineering" for graduate education, and amalgamated to "the School of Global Engineering" for undergraduate education with other departments. |
| 1996 | Reorganization of "Institute of Atomic Energy", and establishment of "Graduate School of Energy Science. |
| 2002 | Establishment of the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies. |
| 2003 | The Department of Urban and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Urban Management established. |
| 2005 | The Kyoto University – Tsinghua University Cooperative Research and Education Center for Environmental Technology established at Shenzhen in China. |