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
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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
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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
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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
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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 |
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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
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Graduate School83.1%
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Machinery and Appliances12.5%
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Wholesale and Retail Trade1.1%
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Electronic Parts1.1%