Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical engineers traditionally plays a major role in a variety of industrial fields such as aerospace, automobiles, transportation, machine tools, power plants, chemical plants, micro-electronics, appliances, foods, textiles, printing and so on. Mechanical engineering embraces areas of engineering design; kinematics and dynamics; the generation, conversion, transmission, and utilization of thermal and mechanical energy; manufacturing engineering; material science; and precision engineering and control. The graduate program includes the following curriculum: Mechanical Vibrations, Elasticity, Computational Dynamics, Dynamics of Mechanical Systems, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Combustion, Engines, Fluid Mechanics, Turbo machinery, Manufacturing Processes, Material Science, Principles of Ultra-Precision Machining, Metrology, Robotics, Applied Mathematics, and Nuclear Engineering. Advanced research has been done in close cooperation with various Japanese industries as well as the Innovation Center for Production Engineering in Chubu University.
Applied Mechanics
Studies on free, forced and transient vibrations of laminated plates and shells; Studies on nonlinear vibrations due to material or geometrical non linearity; Developments in nondestructive measuring systems for mechanical properties of sports equipments such as skis, tennis rackets and golf clubs; Developments in simulating methods for coupled movements of a man-sporting goods system; Developments in theoretical or experimental approaches for dynamic behavior of machine elements; Dynamic control of link system, such as crane suspended load, active stereo vision and force control; Learning Control and Control of Non-minimum phase systems.
Environment and Energy
Development of numerical schemes for compressible flow and sound-wave propagation; Numerical simulation for noise reduction problems, such as radiation of a propagating sound wave from an open end of tube or tunnel; Attenuation by a barrier in a free field; Numerical analysis on propagation of nonlinear pulse wave; Numerical ad experimental studies of sound transmission through a slit and a splitter.
Research in heat transfer, combustion and energy conversion; Temperature and velocity fields in the near wall region; Buoyancy effects in the turbulent boundary layer of natural convection; Experimental studies and numerical analysis of thin hot wire; Measurements of three dimensional turbulence and properties of turbulent flow; Numerical analysis of turbulent boundary layer in natural convection; Combustion of a moving droplet; Intelligent measurement methods of two-phase flow; Experimental studies of renewable energy systems.
Strength of Materials
Research in development of new methods for evaluation of strength of metallic materials and application of image processing techniques to materials tests; Development of non-contact methods for evaluation of material using laser to estimate fatigue life and plastic strain in metallic materials; Non-contact method for measurement of fatigue strain using lasers; Software development for automated measurement for hardness test using image processing techniques. Development of new surface origination technologies using high velocity impact phenomena of fine particles; High functionalization of ferrous materials by solid nit riding using waste plastics.
Precision Engineering
Development of ultra-precision machining of optical components for space X-ray microscopes, laser fusion program, neutron interferometers, gravitational wave laser interferometers, DUV micro lithography and ring laser gyroscopes; Development of ultra-precision machine tools; Geometrical and physical analysis of super-smooth surfaces; Nondestructive inspection of very tiny defects; Novel laser machining process using compact UV lasers with nonlinear optical crystals and laser diodes.