Department of Production and Civil Engineering

   Production and life bases responding to information technology innovation and an aging society with fewer children have to be made secure for sustainable human development. Construction of a recycling-oriented society by long- and short-term strategies is demanded from the aspect of a stable energy supply on a global mass scale with protection of global and local environments.

   For such needs, the Department of Production and Civil Engineering offers a program of education and research on mechanical engineering and civil engineering. The department is composed of three divisions. Production Engineering is related to producing value-added mechanical devices in a competitive market under sustainable human development while considering the global environment. Civil Engineering is related to the measurement and planning of the construction and maintenance of life and production bases while considering disaster-prevention and security. Welfare System Engineering is related to the development of assistive devices for aged and disabled persons, as regional environments prepare for an aging society with fewer children.

Division of Production System Engineering

   This program of education and research has relevance to the development of automatic control systems involving electronic and information technologies and the flexible man-machine system. It also covers theories and their applications on high-efficiency energy conversion machinery based on thermal and fluid engineering, and the evaluation of advanced materials and the ultraprecision measurement system with an atomic level of accuracy. This division aims at training researchers and engineers with advanced technology that will contribute to the construction of a sustainable growth society.

Division of Civil Engineering

   This program of education and research has relevance to structural analysis and design of public constructs that constitute a social base. It evaluates mechanical properties of structural materials such as steel, concrete, carbon fiber, polymer, and a composite structure composed of various materials. It also provides education and research on measures and planning on the construction and maintenance of life and production bases, i.e., traffic planning, regional environment planning, soil engineering, water environment conservation and disaster-prevention technology prepared for global environmental change. This division aims at training researchers and engineers contributing to construction and maintenance of an infrastructure at this time of globalism.

Division of Welfare System Engineering

   In an aging society with fewer children, it is necessary to create a social environment where people can live safely and comfortably while production takes place. Research on the construction of welfare-oriented city and community, and the development of mechanical systems with a barrier-free concept is thus required. Our program of education and research has relevance to the improvement of motor functions and the development of assistive devices for aged and disabled persons on the basis of automatic control systems and vibration control. This division aims at training researchers and engineers with hardware and software technologies that contribute to human society.

Division	Production System Engineering
Field of Instruction and Research	Quality	Faculty Member	Instruction Subject
Theory of Elasticity	Strategic Method of Eco-products Design by Sophisticated Usage of Elastic Materials, and Developing Method of the Computer Code		Elastic Material Systems and Engineering Design
	Analysis of Mechanical Behavior of Advanced Composites and Material Systems based on Physical Modelling	Prof. Yotsugi Shibuya	Mechanics of Materials for Systems
	Structures of Excited States in Atomic Molecules and Nuclear Clusters Studied by the Normal Modes of Motions (Characteristic Vibrations)	Prof. Eiji Uegaki *1	Mechanics for Vibrational Modes in Clusters
	Experimental Investigations of Magnetic Materials using a Pulsed Magnetic Field		Magnetic Properties of Condensed Matter Physics
	Experimental Investigations of Nanostructured Magnetic Materials	Associate Prof. Yoshiyuki Yamamoto	Nano magnetic Materials Engineering
	Raman Spectroscopic Characterization and Fabrication of Subsurface Structure	Associate Prof. Makoto Yamaguchi	Characterization of Subsurface structure
Mechanical Strength, Measurement and Control Engineering	Evaluation Method and Improvement of Joining Strength on New Engineering Materials	Prof. Osamu Kamiya	Joining of Engineering Materials
	Design of the Measurement System at the Micrometer to Nanometer Domain	Associate Prof. Eiki Okuyama	Ultraprecision Measurement System
	Scanning Probe Microscopy for Chacacterization of Micro/Nano Materials	Prof. Mikio Muraoka	Micro/Nano Material Engineering
	Machining Technology for Improvement of Engineering Materials Surface and Evaluation of Mechanical Properties of Improved Surface.	Associate Prof. Mamoru Takahashi	Advanced Surface Processing Engineering
	Integrated Optimal Design of Structural and Control Systems		Control Engineering for Production
Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Engineering	Ecodesign and Eco-efficiency Analysys of Manufacturing Processes, Products, Product-Service Systems, Businesses, and Social Systems.	Prof. Nozomu Mishima	Special Theory on Systems Ecodesign
	Basic Theoretical Instruction and Investigation for Heat and Mass Transfer associated with Freezing/Melting of Phase Change Materials used for Low Temperature Thermal Energy Strage Systems		Low Temperature Thermal Energy Strage Engineering
	Convection Heat and Mass Transfer in Fluid Saturated Porous Media Encountered in Developing Geothermal Resources	Prof. Makoto Tago	Thermal Energy Conversion Engineering
	Fluid Phenomena in Unsteady Flow and Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Fluid Motion	Associate Prof. Hiroaki Hasegawa	Advanced Applied Fluid Mechanics
	Correlation between Heat Transfer Enhancement and Transition of Fluid Flow	Associate Prof. Takahiro Adachi	Heat Transfer Enhancement

Division	Civil Engineering
Field of Instruction and Research	Quality	Faculty Member	Instruction Subject
Structural Materials and Structural Analysis	Construction Materials Including Concrete Polymer Composites, and Advanced Materials	Prof. Hidenobu Tokushige	Advanced Construction Materials
	Mechanics and Numerical Analysis of Composite Structures	Associate Prof. Humihiko Gotou	Numerical Analysis
Regional System Engineering	Settlement and Failure of Soft Soil Ground	Prof. Hiroshi Oikawa *1	Geotechnical Engineering
	Deformation and Failure of Geomaterials	Associate Prof. Toshihiro Ogino	Soil Mechanics
	Comprehension of Natural Environment and Mitigation of Disasters in Rivers and Coasts	Prof. Hideo Matsutomi	Environmental Hydraulics
	Disaster Assessment on Regional preparedness for Tsunamis, Storm Surges and Floods		Engineering of Welfare Transportation System
	Design of an Urban Transportation System and a Welfare City	Prof. Hidekatsu Hamaoka	Regional Traffic Engineering
		Associate Prof. Satoru Hino	Regional Infrastructure Planning

Division	Welfare System Engineering
Field of Instruction and Research	Quality	Faculty Member	Instruction Subject
Human Welfare Engineering	Environmental Functions and Control Techniques of Disaster Prevention in Rivers and Coasts		Environmental Hydraulics Engineering
Control Engineering for the Human Body	Dynamic Analysis and Control of a Bio-mechanical System related to Welfare Equipment and Sports Control Methods of Actuators for Assisting Handicapped and Senior Persons	Prof. Hitoshi Doki	Control Engineering for Biomechanisms
	Design Method and its Application of the Intelligent Control System and the Digital Control System	Prof. Akihiro Naganawa	Intelligent and Digital Control Systems
	The Education and Research on the Elucidation of a Physical Movement Mechanism, and the Application to its Medical Treatment and Welfare Field	Associate Prof. Takehiro Iwami	Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Fluid Mechanics	Numerical Analysis and Model Study on Biomedical Fluid Systems	Prof. Masahide Nakamura	Biomedical Fluid Mechanics
Structural Materials Engineering	Education and Study on the Theory and Experiments of Fracture Mechanisms and Mechanical Properties of Materials on the basis of Fracture Mechanics, Strength of Materials and Damage Mechanics		Fracture and Strength of Materials
	A dynamics characteristic of viscoelastic materials and functional materials, and vibration decrement theory		Damper and Damping Design Engineering
	Analysis of Properties for Reflection, Dispersion and Pulse Propagation of the Elastic Waves for Homogeneous and Graded Inhomogeneous Materials		Structural Elastic Engineering

*1 This professor will retire by the mandatory retirement regulation in March 2015.