Features
Environmental wind tunnel
Mechanical engineering plays an important role in manufacturing. Students can acquire the basic knowledge and ideas of mechanical engineering as well as skills that can be applied apply in the real world. Students mainly study mechanical dynamics, mechanics of materials, fluid dynamics and thermodynamics. Furthermore, we aim at integrated manufacturing and the development of technologies requiring even more enhanced specialization. Therefore we educate and research in three fields; aerospace, biotechnology and robotics, and system design. We foster engineers and researchers who can play an active role in industrial fields and experts who can support a variety of regional industries and contribute to recovery.
Contents of Study
Combustion laboratory
Underwater robots
Field of Aerospace
We respond to the needs of aerospace systems and educate from the basics to a wide range of practical skills of mechanical and aerospace engineering. We mainly teach the introduction to aerospace engineering, aviation-fluid engineering, solid mechanics, mechanics of materials, system control engineering and aerospace systems engineering.
Field of Biotechnology and Robotics
We respond to the needs of biotechnology and robotics system and educate from the basics to a wide range of practical skills of mechanical engineering and biotech/robot engineering. We mainly teach the introduction to robot engineering, bioengineering, measurement engineering, precision engineering and robotics engineering.
Field of System Design
We respond to the needs of system design and educate from the basics to a wide range of practical skills of systems design. We mainly teach the introduction to automotive engineering, production and processing, combustion engineering, environment and energy, and heat transfer engineering.
My dream is to create robots for disaster
Mechanical Engineering SATO Wataru
[from Ofunato High School, Iwate Prefecture]
I chose this course because, in addition to being interested in manufacturing, I experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake. At that time, I wanted to create robots that could work instead of people. In the lab, I work on robots. I was so excited when the robot I had made from scratch moved.
Meanwhile, in my club activity, I started to play music for the first time and am playing the violin. At first, I couldn’t read scores at all but now I’m a section leader. Although this important responsibility weighs on me, I love the sense of accomplishment I get when I overcome that heavy feeling and the recital ends in a success.
Curriculum
| First year | Second year | Third year | Fourth year |
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| Specialized Basic Courses | |||
| ●Basic Mathematics ●Calculus Ⅰ ●Calculus Ⅱ ●Linear Algebra ●Physics Ⅰ ●Physics Ⅱ ●Chemistry |
●Differential Equations ●Vector Analysis ●Fourier Analysis ●Physics Laboratory |
●Complex Analysis ●Probability and Statistics |
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| Mechanical Science and Engineering Course Subjects | |||
| ●Workshop Practicum ●First Year Mechanics Seminar ●Basic Mechanical Drawing Ⅰ ●CAD Practicum ○Introduction to Automobile Engineering ○Introduction to Robotics ○Introduction to Aerospace Engineering |
●Basic Mechanical Drawing Ⅱ ●Mechanical Design Drawing ●Exercises in Mechanics of Materials ●Engineering Materials ●Hydraulics ●Exercises in Hydraulics ●Exercises in Mechanical Dynamics ●Thermodynamics ●Exercises in Thermodynamics ●Metal Cutting ●FORTRAN Programming Practicum ○Manufacturing Processes ○Mechanics of Materials Ⅱ ○Fluid Mechanics ○Numerical Analysis |
●Mechanical Science Laboratory ●Control Engineering ●C Programming Language Practicum ●Selected Topics in Mechanical Science Ⅰ ●English Seminar in Science and Technology ●Mechanical Science Seminar Ⅰ ○Selected Topics in Mechanical Science Ⅱ ○Heat Transfer ○Combustion Engineering ○Environment and Energy ○Biomedical Engineering ○Precision Engineering ○System Control Engineering ○Measurement Engineering ○Mechanics of Solids ○Elementary Computational Mechanics ○Aeronautical Fluid Engineering |
●Mechanical Science Seminar Ⅱ ●Graduation Research ○Tribology ○Robotics Engineering ○Aerospace System Engineering |
| Common Courses within Science | |||
| ○Circuit Theory Ⅰ ○Electricity and Magnetism Ⅰ ○Basic Computer Engineering ○Surveying |
●Mechanics of Materials Ⅰ ●Mechanical Dynamics ●Mechanical Design ○Analog Electronic Circuits ○Discrete Mathematics ○Logic Circuits ○Structural Mechanics Ⅰ ○Environmental Engineering |
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| Common Courses within the Department | |||
| ●Introduction to Soft Path Science and Engineering | ●Ethics for Engineers ○Nuclear Engineering ○Quality Control and Industrial Management Plan |
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○Selected Topics in Patent Law |
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| ○Internships | |||
●Compulsory Subjects ○Elective Subjects
Career Paths
Besides going to graduate school, graduates who have acquired knowledge and skills in mechanical engineering are needed in every industry and every field. Consequently, a high rate of employment is expected.
machine manufacturing / aviation machinery / transportation machinery / heavy machinery / medical devices and daily support equipment / electricity and electronics / civil service / go on to graduate school, etc.
Faculty Members
| UENO Kazuyuki Professor |
Research and development of aerospace-related flow |
| NISHIMURA Fumihito Professor |
Analysis of the material design and thermodynamic behavior of functional materials |
| HANAHARA Kazuyuki Professor |
Research and Application of Optimization Technique |
| HIROSE Koichi Professor |
Research into convective heat transfer in various environments |
| FUNAZAKI Kenichi Professor |
Higher performance of aircraft engines and rocket engines |
| MIZUNO Masahiro Professor |
High-precision slicing |
| YANAOKA Hideki Professor |
Clarification of various heat flow phenomena |
| WAKI Hiroyuki Professor |
Research into special mechanical assessment methods and destruction of advanced high-temperature materials |
| UCHIDATE Michimasa Associate Professor |
Modeling and assessment of tribology surfaces |
| ONODERA Hideki Associate Professor |
Research into the use of wind-power energy |
| SATOH Atsushi Associate Professor |
System control theory and its application to aerospace systems |
| SHIMIZU Tomoharu Associate Professor |
Research into the development of mold technology and products that use molds |
| MIYOSHI Tasuku Associate Professor |
Fisheries Robotics |
| YUKAWA Toshihiro Associate Professor |
Research and development of robot mechanisms/components/systems |
| YOSHINO Yasuhiro Associate Professor |
Clarification of special friction and wear characteristics of mechanical structure materials in special environments |
| YOSHIHARA Nobuhito Associate Professor |
Research into precision work |
| KATO Hiromasa Assistant Professor |
Research into design optimization methods in many fields for many purposes |
| SASAKI Makoto Assistant Professor |
Human interface development and its application to rehabilitative support |
| SUENAGA Yosuke Assistant Professor |
Research into the basics of combustion phenomena and their application |
| TANIGUCHI Hideo Assistant Professor |
Research into flow instability and turbulent transition |
| NISHIKAWA Naohiro Assistant Professor |
Electrical rust-proofing treatment methods that are human- and environmentally-friendly |
| FUKUE Takashi Assistant Professor |
Research into heat problems in advanced electronic equipment |
| HOJO Tomohiko Assistant Professor |
Research and development of materials to enable improvements in vehicle weight reduction and collision safety |
