Mechanical Engineering is an academic field where the knowledge and techniques for developing, designing and manufacturing various industrial products, facilities and mechanical systems, such as automobiles, aircrafts, robots, computers, power plants and petroleum refinery plants, are organized together. The educational philosophy and objective of this department is to carry out academic research related to monozukuri (manufacturing) that contributes to lasting development of societies for all mankind and to cultivate advanced and specialized engineers and researchers.

Research Groups & Research Areas

  • Thermal / Fluid Engineering

    In addition to research on phenomena related to heat and flows such as the flow of air and water around airplanes, automobiles and ships, as well as the high-speed / high-temperature flows inside gasoline engines, jet engines, power plants and the like, we study their application to energy machinery.

    Gotoda Research Group / Ishikawa Research Group / Motosuke Research Group / Yamamoto Research Group

  • Materials / Structural Mechanics

    While learning the properties, strength, etc. of materials such as metal, ceramics, and plastics, we study how to determine durable shapes and sizes by calculating the forces acting on each member, for the production of automobiles, airplanes, robots and the like.

    Arai Research Group / Inoue Research Group / Ushijima Research Group

  • Intelligent Machinery / Mechanical Dynamics

    Typical areas of this field are robots and mechatronics. We make things, and cause them to move or analyze their movements. This area is related to the origins and roots of Japan’s technological skills which have been supporting Japan as a technological power.

    Hashimoto Research Group / Hayashi Research Group / Kobayashi Research Group

  • Design / Manufacturing Methods

    To produce machinery such as automobiles or robots, it is necessary to consider the mechanisms for obtaining the shapes, strength, and functionality of the required components, and to determine the methods by which these items are manufactured. These processes are called mechanical design and machinery production.

    Miyatake Research Group / Sasaki Research Group

List of Faculty Members

Name Title Research Area Keyword
ARAI Masayuki Professor Materials/Mechanics of materials Solid Mechanics, Damage Mechanics, Interface Mechanics
GOTODA Hiroshi Professor Thermal engineering Combution Engineering, Nonlinear Dynamics, Thermal Fluid Dynamics, Network Science
ISHIKAWA Hitoshi Professor Fluid engineering Turbulence, Vortex Dynamics, Flow Control
KOBAYASHI Hiroshi Professor Intelligent mechanics/Mechanical systems Robot, Image processing, Practical application
MIYATAKE Masaaki Professor Design engineering/Machine functional elements/Tribology Fluid film bearing, Precision Engineering
MOTOSUKE Masahiro Professor Thermal engineering Micro/Nanoscale Thermo-Fluid Engineering
SASAKI SHINYA Professor Design engineering/Machine functional elements/Tribology Tribology Design Mechanical element Nano mechanical property Vaccum technology
USHIJIMA Kuniharu Professor Materials/Mechanics of materials Computational Mechanics
YAMAMOTO Makoto Professor Fluid engineering Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulent Flow, Compressible Flow, Multi-Physics
Hashimoto Takuya Associate Professor Intelligent mechanics/Mechanical systems
HAYASHI Ryuzo Associate Professor Dynamics/Control
Intelligent mechanics/Mechanical systems
Vibration Control, Motion Control, Transport System Control, Vehicle Dynamics
Mechatronics, Human-Machine System, Active Safety System
INOUE Ryo Associate Professor Materials/Mechanics of materials
Inorganic materials/Physical properties
Structural/Functional materials
Deformation, damage, and failure of structural materials
Mechanical properties of composite materials and coatings
Reliability of heat resistant structural composites, and coating
FUJIMURA Soichiro Assistant Professor
ICHIKAWA Yoshiyasu Assistant Professor Fluid engineering Thermofluid control and measurement
KITANO Keisuke Assistant Professor
Meng Yuxian Assistant Professor Materials/Mechanics of materials Materials/Mechanics of materials
NABAE Yusuke Assistant Professor Fluid engineering turbulence, flow control
SATO Kaisei Assistant Professor

Information on Career Paths

  • Graduate School
    83.1%
  • Machinery and Appliances
    12.5%
  • Wholesale and Retail Trade
    1.1%
  • Electronic Parts
    1.1%
  • Information Industry
    1.1%
  • Other(Persons Planning on Continuing Education, Studying Abroad, etc.)
    1.1%
(As of March 2024)
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