Department of Mechanical Engineering

  It is needless to say that Mechanical Engineering is a fundamental field of engineering, supporting the activities of industries at any age and any place. However, together with the recent remarkable development of computers, electronics and its applied technologies, mechanical industries have been abruptly oriented to information, reduction of labor, and automation concerns. Today, industries are required to make products having a high value reasonably and effectively while using less energy, by developing and applying highly functional materials. Furthermore, Mechanical Engineering is expected to contribute to aging and welfare community issues in order to make our lives more comfortable.
  To meet the above needs, this department provides education and study related to the following wide variety of  subjects by combining the former mechanical engineering, electronics-information technology, and bioengineering. The subjects covered by the department are automation and the high reliability of design and production systems, the development of optimum control technology for human-mechanical systems, the development of technologies for transport,　conversion and application of thermal and fluid energy, the development of new engineering materials and their evaluation and manufacturing methods, new aspects of micro-engineering based on quantum mechanics and atomic physics, as well as assistive technology for the disabled, and sports engineering. Thus, the department aims at training researchers and engineers who contribute to the human society.

 

Division	Mechanical Engineering Science
Field of Instruction and Research	Quality	Faculty Member	Instruction Subject
Microscopic Mechanism of Materials	Applications of Atomic Physics on Microscopic Mechanisms and Materials, Micro-behavior of Materials, and Computational Analysis in Solid Mechanics for the Evaluation of Advanced Composite Materials	Prof. Eiji Uegaki *1	Basic Atomic Technology
		Prof. Yotsugi Shibuya	Advanced Solid Mechanics
		Prof. Mikio Muraoka	Micro/Nano Materials
		Associate Prof. Yoshiyuki Yamamoto	Advanced Applied Electromagnetism
		Associate Prof. Makoto Yamaguchi	Characterization of Subsurface Structure

Division	Mechanical Dynamics
Field of Instruction and Research	Quality	Faculty Member	Instruction Subject
Thermal and Fluid Engineering	Ice Melting and Water Freezing, Theory and Application for Energy Conversion and Basic Investigation for Non-Newto-nian Fluid and its Application		Numerical Heat Transfer
		Prof. Masahide Nakamura	Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics
		Prof. Makoto Tago	Advanced Natural Convection Heat Transfer
		Associate Prof. Hiroaki Hasegawa	Unsteady Fluid Dynamics and Flow Control
		Associate Prof. Takahiro Adachi	Heat Transfar Enhancement
		Lecturer Yoshimi Komatsu	Computational Thermodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
Vacuum System Engineering	Analysis and practical Application for the Mechanism of Rarefied Gas Flow	Lecturer Wataru Sugiyama	Molecular Gas Motion

Division	Systems Design
Field of Instruction and Research	Quality	Faculty Member	Instruction Subject
Engineering Materials	Materials Science from Micro to Macro Aspects and Joining of Materials and Estimation of Strength and Fracture Toughness	Prof. Osamu Kamiya	Advanced Engineering Materials
			Advanced Mechanics of Materials
		Associate Prof. Mamoru Takahashi	Micro Processing
Elastic Systems of Dynamics for Design	Applied Mathematical Design for Environmental Oriented Elastic Systems	Associate Prof. Yasumasa Miyano	Applied Mathematics for Mechanical Design
Nano-Metrology	Ultra-Precision Measurement using Software Datum	Associate Prof. Eiki Okuyama	Advanced Sensors Engineering
Surface Engineering	Synthesization and Design of Micro-Nano Fabricated Surface and its Protect Coating	Associate Prof. Takayuki Tokoroyama	Advanced Course on Functional Surface Engineering
Engineering of Waves	Propagation Behavior of Elastic Waves for Composite Material and Application to the Non-Destructive Inspection		Advanced Dynamics of Mechanical Waves

Division	Robotics and Welfare Engineering
Field of Instruction and Research	Quality	Faculty Member	Instruction Subject
Vibration-Control Engineering	Dynamics of mechanical systems and its application to welfare problems, and vibration engineering, wind and seismic problems.	Prof. Hitoshi Doki	Advanced Vibration Control
		Associate Prof. Yoshiki Sugawara	Advanced Vibration  Engineering
Computer Controlled Systems	Controller Design for Electro Mechanical Systems	Prof. Akihiro Naganawa	Advanced Control Engineering
		Lecturer Takeshi Seki	Design of Digital Control System
Intelligent Control Engineering	The Theory of Control Design of Intelligent Mechanical Systems and the Application to Medical Devices	Associate Prof. Yoshihiro Sasaki	Actuator Engineering
		Lecturer Kiyoshi Hirose
Bio-welfare Engineering	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

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