| August, 1972 | Waste Management Committee was established. |
| March, 1977 | Organic liquid waste incineration plant was built. |
| July, 1977 | Organic liquid waste incineration plant was put into operation. |
| April, 1980 | Inorganic liquid waste treatment facility was constructed for shared use within the university. |
| Liquid Waste Management Steering Committee was established. |
| Inorganic liquid waste treatment facility was put into operation. |
| April, 1982 | Etsu Yamada was appointed as a teaching staff. |
| July, 1982 | Periodic analysis of wastewater from two locations on the Matsugasaki campus, east and west, was started under the direction of the Waste Management Committee. |
| May, 1983 | The sewage system on campus was Improved. |
| Wastewater monitoring rooms were set up at two locations on the Matsugasaki campus, east and west, to automatically record temperature and pH. |
| May, 1987 | A storage tank with a capacity of 30 cubic meters was built next to the wastewater monitoring room on the west side of the Matsugasaki campus to prevent mercury leakage. |
| Organic liquid waste incineration plant underwent large-scale renovation. |
| April, 1992 | Center for Environmental Science was reorganized and expanded. The Director of the Center is appointed from among the professors. |
| July, 1993 | Etsu Yamada was promoted to Lecturer and became Deputy Director of the Center. |
| Management Committee of Center for Environmental Science was established with the Education and Research Subcommittee, Liquid Waste Treatment Subcommittee, Waste Subcommittee, and Public Relations Subcommittee as subordinate organizations. |
| October, 1994 | Construction of the waste accumulation site, including the incinerator, was completed. |
| A lecture on "Environmental Science" began by a faculty member of Center for Environmental Science. |
| November, 1994 | Waste Management System in University updated. |
| April, 1995 | Lian-Chun Hu was appointed as a teaching staff. |
| June, 1995 | First Public Lecture "Living with the Green Earth" was held. |
| March, 1998 | Etsu Yamada was promoted to Associate Professor. |
| April, 1998 | Yasuro Fuse was appointed as a teaching staff. |
| July, 1998 | On-campus incineration at the waste accumulation site stopped due to stricter dioxin regulations. |
| March, 1999 | The organic liquid waste incineration plant was upgraded to one with dioxin emission prevention measures. |
| April, 1999 | The name of the lecture "Environmental Science" was changed to "Global Environmentalism". |
| March, 2000 | Automatic water quality measurement system, wastewater monitor, at Matsugasaki Campus was updated. |
| November, 2000 | The 18th general meeting and workshop of the Council for University Waste Management Facilities ,now the Council for University Environmental Safety, held at our university. |
| January, 2001 | Wastewater monitors were installed at Saga Campus, and periodic wastewater analysis was also started. |
| September, 2001 | Official ISO 14001 certification was obtained for 28 sites, including the Center for Environmental Science and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. |
| September, 2002 | Inorganic liquid waste treatment equipment was upgraded to one using the iron powder method. |
| September, 2003 | ISO 14001 certification was obtained for the entire university. |
| September, 2004 | ISO 14001 certification was renewed for the first time. |
| September, 2005 | Conformity was assessed in accordance with the transition from the 1996 edition of ISO 14001 to the 2004 edition. |
| January, 2006 | Etsu Yamada was promoted to Professor. |
| July, 2006 | The Kyoto Institute of Technology Environmental Report was published for the first time as a combined issue in 2005 and 2006. |
| June, 2007 | Hitoshi Iwasaki, associate professor, was transferred from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering to the Center as a full-time faculty member. |
| September, 2007 | ISO 14001 certification was renewed for the 2nd time. |
| November, 2008 | Center for Environmental Science was temporarily relocated due to earthquake-resistant construction of Building No. 12. |
| May, 2009 | After the construction was finished, Center for Environmental Science returned to its original location. |
| Workrooms and laboratories for Center for Environmental Science was set up in Building No. 12. |
| September, 2009 | Faculty from Center for Environmental Science offered an intensive lecture on "Environmental Management”. |
| September, 2010 | ISO 14001 certification was renewed for the 3rd time. |
| May, 2012 | A day was set aside once a year to educate students about environmental and safety management. |
| September, 2013 | ISO 14001 certification was renewed for the 4th time. |
| April, 2016 | The Environmental and Safety Management System ,ESMS, was put into operation. |
| August, 2016 | Conformity was assessed in accordance with the transition from the 2004 edition of ISO 14001 to the 2015 edition. |
| September, 2016 | ISO 14001 certification was renewed for the 5th time. |
| July, 2017 | The operation of the organic liquid waste incineration plant was terminated, and outsourcing liquid waste treatment to an outside contractor began. |
| A web-based Waste Liquid Application System was established and is now in operation. |
| April, 2019 | The University declared a new "Environmental and Safety Policy". |
| September, 2019 | ISO 14001 certification was renewed for the 6th time. |
| February, 2020 | Yasuro Fuse was promoted to Associate Professor. |
| November, 2021 | The organic liquid waste incineration plant was dismantled and disposed of. |
| September, 2022 | ISO 14001 certification was renewed for the 7th time. |
| January, 2023 | The former organic liquid waste incineration plant converted into organic liquid waste treatment room and a specially controlled industrial waste accumulation area. |
| April, 2023 | Xue Chu was appointed as an assistant professor. |
| June, 2023 | The operation of the Inorganic liquid waste treatment equipment was terminated, and outsourcing liquid waste treatment to an outside contractor began. |