Mechanical Engineering Course
I want to make machines that support the world! I want to learn the basics of machine building in a broad range of areas.
We provide education and research that covers everything from the fundamentals to applications of mechanical engineering, robotics, and aerospace engineering, including vehicles such as automobiles, trains, and aircraft, construction machinery such as bulldozers, the engines that power them, air conditioning and heating equipment, and the robots and industrial machinery that are responsible for production in factories.
About the Education Program
A comprehensive curriculum that covers a wide range of subjects in mechanical engineering and related fields
In Course of Mechanical Engineering, students acquire a wide range of basic knowledge in related fields such as robotics, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, and electronics through education in mechanical engineering, and are trained to become engineers with a broad perspective and mechanical engineering skills who can play an active role in a wide range of manufacturing fields. Students are assigned to a course in the first semester of their second year, and systematically study a specialized curriculum consisting of mechanical engineering and related fields such as robotics, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, and electronics, with a focus on dynamics, systems, engineering design, and experiments.
In the first year, students will study common subjects for the Faculty Faculty of Science and Engineering, as well as common subjects for natural sciences and information sciences, to develop the foundations of science and engineering and acquire the ability to use data.
In the second year, students will study the basics of other courses through specialized foundation subjects to improve their basic engineering skills, and will also begin studying course subjects. In addition, students will learn the basics of semiconductor engineering regardless of their specialty.
Mechanical Engineering Course
Flow of the four years
First year
By studying common subjects for the Faculty Faculty of Science and Engineering, as well as common subjects for natural science and information science, students will develop the basics of science and engineering and acquire the ability to use data. In the second semester, students will also take an Introduction to Engineering course to learn the outline of each course.
Second Year
In the first semester, students will study the basics of other courses through specialized foundation subjects to improve their basic engineering skills, and will also begin studying foundation subjects for their course. Students will also learn the basics of semiconductor engineering regardless of their specialty. In the second semester, students will focus on their course subjects.
Third Year
From the second semester of the second year, students will continue to study course subjects. They will study compulsory and elective subjects, acquire specialized knowledge that is the foundation of mechanical engineering and related fields, and acquire application skills through practical training and exercises.
Fourth Year
The main part of learning in the fourth year is practical, through graduation research. By applying the knowledge acquired up to that point to problems set in each field, students will make their knowledge essential and develop their problem-solving skills.
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About the classes
Mechanical Engineering Experiment
In the mechanical engineering experiment, students conduct experiments related to various mechanical engineering themes (10 laboratories) to confirm the contents learned in class with their own hands and learn to apply the knowledge. One of these, the theme taught by the Materials Mechanics Laboratory, is "Measuring the material constants of metallic materials using strain gauges," and students measure the material constants of various commonly used metallic materials based on an understanding of strain (= deformation amount of solid) gauges and the variation and significant figures of experimental data.
About the Research
Research into next-generation robot technology and robot hands for a wide variety of tasks
Japan is a society with a declining population, and there is a shortage of workers to support the world. The use of robots and artificial intelligence is being considered as a way to compensate for this. Therefore, we are conducting research with the aim of developing robotics technology that will be useful for automation and labor saving. For example, next-generation robots will be required to work in collaboration with humans and in people's living spaces. We are researching robot hands that can perform a wide variety of tasks in such environments. As an example, the figure shows a robot finger with a multi-layer structure that uses fluids. A multi-layered finger makes it possible to easily hold a wide variety of objects. Aiming to further improve the functionality, we are working on improving the structure of each layer and adding tactile functions.
Assistant Professor Yoshitaka Fujihira
Research Field
Robot hand, object grasping/manipulation
Main research themes
Technology development for manipulating soft objects with robotic hands
Employment situation
- JFE Plant Engineering
- Hokkaido Railway Company
- Alps Electric
- Oki Electric Industry
- Kobelco Construction Machinery
- Nippon Steel Corporation
- Seiko Epson
- Taisei Corporation
- Narazaki Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Japan Steel Works, etc.
