Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering

<What is Mechanical Systems Engineering?>
Mechanical Systems Engineering remains central in its close connections with all other engineering fields. Recently several types of machinery of higher efficiency have developed as mechatronic techniques have progressed. Due to these developments, the field of mechanical systems engineering has become one of the broadest and diverse in engineering.
Meanwhile, to further the future development and innovation in this field, the department has included mechatronics in educating students. This enables students to integrate mechanical technology with electronics involving high computer skills. Mechatronics means mecha(nical) plus (elec)tronics.

<Study Objectives>
A machine of leading edge consists of various mechanical components. With the development in mechanical engineering, high performance machines have been reaching a high level of function and efficiency each year. This requires the optimum selection and arrangement of the mechanical components to a degree. Students must now learn the mechanism of the mechanical components and the mutual relationship between them in a systematic way and not merely look at the individual components. The department seeks for students to look at the detailed mechanism in terms of the all-encompassing whole.

Curriculum

Courses & Features	Subjects offered
Thermo and Fluid Dynamics Basic and applied courses on Fluid, Thermo and Energy.	Thermo Dynamics I.II, Seminar on Thermo Dynamics, Energy Systems Engineering, Internal Combustion Engine, Fluid Dynamics I.II, Seminar on Fluid Dynamics, Gas Dynamics, Turbo Machines, Heat Transfer Engineering.
Mechanics of Materials / Material Engineering Basic and applied courses on materials of machines and on statics of force of structural components and their deformations.	Mechanics of Materials I.II, Seminar on Mechanics of Materials, Material Engineering, Material Forming and Processing, Strength and Fracture of Materials.
Mechatronics (Control and Measurement) Basic and applied courses on Control and Measurement, the foundation for Mechatronics.	Control Engineering I.II, Metrological Engineering, Optical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, Mechatronic Systems.
Design and Manufacturing Basic and applied courses on Machine Design and Manufacturing.	Practice on Mechanical Processing, Kinematics of Mechanism, Mechanical Component Design, Manufacturing Engineering I.II, Machine Design and Drawing, Tribology, Design / Manufacturing Systems.
Computational Mechanics Courses on basic theories and skills necessary to analyze engineering phenomena (written in mathematical models) through computers.	Computer Practice I.II, Dynamics of Machinery I.II, Seminar on Dynamics of Machinery, Computational Mechanics, Seminar on Computational Mechanics, Analysis for Mechanical Engineering.
Interdisciplinary Courses Courses necessary to nurture well-balanced students, with both theoretical and practical skills.	Introduction to Mechanical Systems Engineering, Basic Practice on Machining, Fundamental Machine Drawing, Graphics, Technical Writing, Introduction to Information Processing, Experiments on Micro-Computers, Experiments on Mechanical Systems Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Special Seminar on Mechanical Systems Engineering, Seminar on Mechanical Systems Engineering, Graduation Research, Introduction to Electrical Engineering, Introduction to Electronics.

Faculty Members

Hiroyuki KUMANO (Professor, Dr. Eng.) Classes: Dynamics of Machinery I.II. Research areas: Applied Elasticity, Solid Mechanics, the stress, deformation and dynamics of steel structure with elastically contacts.	Nobuo TANAKA (Processor, Dr. Eng.) Classes:Control Engineering, Systems Engineering. Researchareas: System Control, Active Wave Control, Control of Distributed-parameter structures, Smart Structures, Power Flow Control, Silence Engineering.	Seiichiro HIRONAKA (Professor, Dr. Sci.) Classes: Mechanical Materials(tribomaterials), Tribology. Research areas: Friction and wear mechanism of materials (metal, ceramics and polymers), Development of new tribo-composites.	Yasuaki MATUDARA (Professor, Dr. Eng.) Classes: Fluid Dynamics I.II. Research areas: Fluid Dynamics, Fluid Engineering; Unsteady flows occurs in axial compressor, super-cavitation flow.
Shinichi TASHIRO (Professor, Dr. Eng.) Classes: Computational Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Gas Dynamics. Research areas: Thermo-Fluid Engineering; Turbulent Flow Phenomenon, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Unstedy flow pheromena.	Shuji SAKAKI (Professor, Dr. Eng.) Classes: Mechanics of Materials I.II. Research areas: Mechanics of Materials, Metal forming, stability and working limit of material processing.	Seiichi USUI (Professor, Dr. Eng.) Classes: Robotics, Engineering Analgsis. Research areas: Dynamics of Machinery, Automatic Control	Keiji KONISHI (Associated Professor, Dr. Eng.) Classes: Thermodynamics II, Energy Systems Engineering, Fundamental Machine Drawing. Research areas: Internal Combustion Engine; Unsteady characteristics of radial turbines, Turbo-charging performance of diesel engines.
Koji KAKEHI (Associate Professor, Dr. Eng.) Classes: Manufacturing Engineering I.II, Metrogical Engineering. Research areas: Materials science; Advanced Ni-based superalloys for turbine blade of aircraft engine, Manufacturing Processes for engineering materials.	Kuniaki IWAI (Associate Professor, Dr. Eng.) Classes: Material Engineering, Tribology. Research areas: Industrial Materials, Tribology; material surfaces that interact each other through functional materials and relative motions, and it's related problems.	Satoshi HONDA (Associate Professor, Dr. Eng.) Classes: Kinematics of Machinery, Mechanical Component Design, Machine Design and Drawing. Research areas: Ultra precise miniature machine, Tweezers robots, Ultra precise positioning stage traveling on the micro pitch racks, Miniature posture adjuster composed of a parallel linkage.