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Development of English Text for the Engineers to Preserve the Environment of North-East Asia Development of English Text for the engineers to preserve the environment of North-East Asia Yuji Minami National Institute of Technology, Ube College 2-14-1 Tokiwadai, Ube, 755-8555, Japan Fukuchi Kenji, Shinya Tagawa National Institute of Technology, Ube College 2-14-1 Tokiwadai, Ube, 755-8555, Japan E-mail : [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] www.ube-k.ac.jp Abstract Our research began in 2007 as a part of the activities of ‘Good Practice’ for Education of Engineers in cooperation with the UMICNEA, that is, “Union of Machinery Industrial Cities in North-East Asia”. Through our study, we found it necessary to acquire the knowledge of ‘Fish Breeding Forest’ when developing and preserving the area of North-East Asia, where the river Amur plays an important role for sustaining the environment of this region. We made the research of the origin of the river Amur, named ‘the river Onon’, located in the area of ‘Strictly Protected Area’ in Mongolia by the agreement of Mongolia, Russia, and China in 2005. We plan to make it clear that future engineers should find a good way of cooperation through English as a communication tool for the purpose of playing an active part together. Keywords: North-East Asia, Strictly Protected Area, Amur Green Belt, Fish Breeding Forest 1. Introduction ‘ICAP : International Conference of Aqua-polices’ held every 4 years since 1990. The purpose of this thesis is to make it clear that the After taking those 3 projects into consideration, we younger generation of engineers who are expected to continued to send students to the foreign internship, to work especially in the area of North-East Asia should exchange students mutually, and planned to make a learn the basic concept of safe and sound but dynamic textbook in English for all those engineers who wish to circulation system of environment for the preservation play active part and to take an important role for of Amur River Basin. developing and preserving the environment of the area Before reaching the above-mentioned recognition of of North-East Asia . the importance of preserving the origin of the River Amur, chronologically speaking, we learned some basic 2. Projects Taken into Consideration ideas through three major projects in the North-East 2.1 Modern GP at NIT, UC from 2007 to 2009 Asia, such as ‘the modern GP at NIT, UC from 2007 to 2009’, ‘Amur-Okhotsk project from 2005 to 2009’, and We’ve learned to continue the mutual exchange © The 2017 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB 2017), Jan. 19-22, Seagaia Convention Center, Miyazaki, Japan P - 545 Yuji Minami, Kenji Fukuchi, Shinya Tagawa program of foreign Internship after 3 years activities 28th of November, 2016. Aiming to continue our of “Education of engineers in cooperation with foreign internship by using UBE airport, opening of this UMICNEA; the ‘Union of Machinery Industrial Cities new line has long been expected among researchers. In North-East Asia’” adopted and supported for Referring to the Incheon international airport, it can contemporary education needs by the Ministry of deal with 40,000 passengers a day according to our Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology in research in 2012 at the meeting of ‘Project of the Japan(2007-2009). Internationalization of UBE airport’ committee. So the Students of NIT, UC (National Institute of Tech- new line mentioned above can surely support the nology, Ube College, Japan) began their foreign sustainability of the activities of NIT,UC foreign internship activities in 3 universities, such as DIT internship. (DongEui Institute of Technology, South Korea), HIT, WH (Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai, China), 2.2 Amur-Okhotsk project from 2005 to 2009 and KnASTU (Komsomolsk-na-Amure State Technical University, Russia). We had one week acceptance In the process of continuous activities of foreign program and its PDCA worked well as follows. internship for 3 years, we happened to find that the big project concerning the river Amur among 3 countries, Table 1. PDCA Example of Acceptance Program Russia, China, and Japan had almost done by the end of GP activities mentioned above. Period 22-29/April/2013 20-29/April/2014 University KnASTU, Russia KnASTU, Russia This big project made efforts to prove the essential 1Arrival *(KHV-NRT-FUK) *(KHV-NRT-FUK) object, soluble iron, circulating in the Amur River 2Reception HAKATA→NIT,UC HAKATA→NIT,UC covering the Amur River basin in the North-East Asia 3Day1 President Interview President Interview including Russia, China, and Mongolia. Campus Tour Campus Tour This systematic circulation of soluble iron enables the Welcome Party Welcome Party sea of Okhotsk abundant enough to sustain the industry 4Day 2 Class Activities Class Activities of fisheries in Japan. In brief, as ‘Fish-Breeding Forest’ Visit Ube City Hall Visit Ube City Hall Tokiwa Park Tour Tokiwa Park Tour directly suggests, soluble iron can breed fish and this Student Academic object exists abundantly in the area of North-East Asia, Conference that is, the Amur River Basin. Researchers of this field 5Day 3 Factory Tour Student Academic especially call this area ‘Giant Fish-Breeding Forest’. UBE Industries Conference Moreover, we found out that there existed the agree- 6Day4 Culture Tour Factory Tour ment of protected area (PA) among 3 countries such as 1. Rurikoji Temple 1. UBE Industries 2. Hofu Tenmangu 2. UBEKAMA Russia, China, and Mongolia in 2005, which was called Shrine 3. YANAGIYA “Amur Green Belt” by WWF (World Wide Fund for Machinery Nature). “Amur Green Belt” is defined as the network of protected areas (PAs) in the Amur River Basin. 7Day5 NIT,UC→HAKATA Culture Tour Consequently, we recognized that along with the 1. Rurikoji Temple foreign internship activities as young engineers in the 2. Akiyoshido Cave 8Departure *(FUK-NRT-KHV) NIT,UC→HAKATA area of North-East Asia, environmental preservation Free must be taken into consideration. *(FUK-NRT-KHV) (* refers to the names of international airport, such as 2.3 ICAP: International Conference of Aqua-polices KHV;Khabarovsk, NRT;Narita, FUK;Fukuoka ) According to ‘Busan Declaration’ in 2008 at the end In comparison with the present situation of airport of the 5th International Conference of aquapolices convenience, Air Seoul, a South Korean low-cost carrier, (ICAP), all efforts are supposed to be made on the base launched the new line between Ube and Incheon from of ‘environment-first principle’. © The 2017 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB 2017), Jan. 19-22, Seagaia Convention Center, Miyazaki, Japan P - 546 Development of English Text In the end of 2.1, Incheon air port is referred to have 3. Strictly Protected Area in Mongolia the capacity of dealing with 40,000 people a day. While this city can be called the biggest hub city of As is mentioned in the previous chapter 2, especially Korea at present, Korea needs the second biggest hub in North-East Asia, there exists ‘PA’, the Protected Area city to become the gateway to Asian Highway covered with the agreement of 3 countries, Russia, China, and countries including the area of North-East Asia. Mongolia. This area holds the Amur River Basin, and Along with the environment-first principle, Busan this basin is called ‘Giant Fish-Breeding Forest’ by ‘Amur Okhotsk Project’ researchers. municipality has shown its future vision in public. First Through our activities mentioned above, we recognize Master plan of U-City was established in 2005. Among the origin of the River Amur must be taken into many projects for developing the U-City, there exists consideration for the sustainable completion of U-Environment project. ecological cycle in the North-East Asia along with the Thanks to this U-Environment project, Nakdong- active young engineers playing an important role in this gang River and its riverside trees are monitored, area. managed and protected well enough to sustain its eco- For the sake of learning geographical view of this logical cycle. area in English, the following table is prepared. Table 2. The Amur River Basic Geographical Data with local city names City(Local) City(Global) lat long/lon/lng Никола́евск-на-Аму́ре nikol.ru 53° 8'32.60"N 140°43'53.30"E Комсомо́льск-на-Амуре kmscity.ru 50°34'1.33"N 137° 0'1.88"E Хабаровск khabarovskadm.ru 48°30'9.83"N 135° 3'58.54"E Благовещенск admblag.ru 50°16'21.99"N 127°32'25.45"E 黒竜江省 黒河市 heihe.gov.cn 50°14'42.46"N 127°31'41.86"E 黒竜江省大興安嶺地区漠河県北極村 Bĕijí 53°28'49.94"N 122°21'32.69"E Шилка Shilka 51°50'55.43"N 116° 1'58.17"E Чиндант Chindant 50°34'31.71"N 115°24'27.24"E Улача Ulacha 50°24'12.99"N 113°16'2.22"E Онон Onon 48°37'7.01"N 110°36'18.30"E Улаанбаатар ulaanbaatar.mn 47°55'11.44"N 106°55'11.81"E Table 3. The Amur River Basic Geographical Data with altitude report columns City(Global) lat long/lon/lng altitude nikol.ru 53° 8'32.60"N 140°43'53.30"E Report1 kmscity.ru 50°34'1.33"N 137° 0'1.88"E Report2 khabarovskadm.ru 48°30'9.83"N 135° 3'58.54"E Report3 admblag.ru 50°16'21.99"N 127°32'25.45"E Report4 heihe.gov.cn 50°14'42.46"N 127°31'41.86"E Report5 Bĕijí 53°28'49.94"N 122°21'32.69"E Report6 Shilka 51°50'55.43"N 116° 1'58.17"E Report7 Chindant 50°34'31.71"N 115°24'27.24"E Report8 Ulacha 50°24'12.99"N 113°16'2.22"E Report9 Onon 48°37'7.01"N 110°36'18.30"E Report10 ulaanbaatar.mn 47°55'11.44"N 106°55'11.81"E Report11 © The 2017 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB 2017), Jan.
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