Programs and Academic Staff
Mechanical and Systems Engineering Program
Engineers' Source of Meaning
Engineering is a privilege exclusive to humanity that gives us all the potential to live better lives. Developments in engineering provide us with a wide range of hopes and dreams for reimagining the spaces around us. Knowledge accumulated through engineering is an all important "must-have" asset that is indispensable to human development. By acquiring this wisdom, you can take pride in being an engineer who is capable of meaningfully contributing to society. In the Mechanical and Systems Engineering Program, you will learn how to acquire such wisdom, and, through this learning, better develop yourself as a human being, enriching your life in the process. I believe that young people, who are expected to take an active role in society, will find a source of meaning through engineering.
To High School Students: Discover New Knowledge in the Mechanical and Systems Engineering Program!
The Mechanical and Systems Engineering Program consists of the Mechanical Engineering Track and the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Engineering Track, and covers 17 fields of education and research that provide foundations in engineering and technology. The Program conducts research activities that have gained wide recognition among the public, and focuses on developing excellent researchers and engineers who can lead society in the future. For details, please visit the web pages of each track of the Program. I believe you will find an extensive range and depth of education programs available through the Program that will satisfy your needs. Education programs are elaborately designed not only to develop expertise in areas of interest but also to enhance creativity and communication skills, while enjoying exceptional repute from the public. Engineering graduates receive about ten times as many job offers as other fields. Seventy percent or more of our graduates go on to graduate school to gain higher academic expertise and technical skills. And after graduating from graduate school, they play active roles in society as promising industry talent. Okayama University gives you the opportunity to enjoy campus life surrounded by academically inspiring, excellent scholars and researchers, and graduates seeking to cultivate new research and technologies. You will receive intellectual training in a teaching and research environment enveloped in natural greenery and set in the urban vicinity of Okayama City. The University is always open to those willing to learn. In this learning environment, we hope you will discover a dramatic change in yourself as a result of your studies at the Mechanical and Systems Engineering Program, in the School of Engineering.
To Employers: We Contribute to Industrial Development
To enable the human talent cultivated at our University to become active contributors to society, we make sure to provide students with opportunities to learn what types of employees companies are seeking. In this respect, we regard internships as important stepping stones and look forward to your cooperation and support. In contributing to the development of mechanical systems technologies that bolster various industries, our Program covers 17 fields of education and research, and focuses on producing research results each day that lead to new innovations. Cooperation with businesses that contribute to regional industrial development is a central and indispensable role for our University. As part of our contributions to society, this Program is determined to actively promote human resource development and collaborative research.
Staff and Research Projects
（As of June. 27, 2023）
Research Area |
Position |
Name |
Theme |
| Structural Materials Engineering | Professor | OKAYASU Mitsuhiro | Mechanical and fatigue properties of engineering materials |
| Associate Professor | TAKEMOTO Yoshito | Development of β-titanium alloy with unique functions | |
| Assistant Professor | ARAKAWA Jinta | Fatigue of metalic material and fracture mechanics | |
| Applied Solid Mechanics | Professor | TADA Naoya | Microscopic deformation and fracture of solid materials |
| Associate Professor | UEMORI Takeshi | Constitutive model for elasto-plastic deformation | |
| Assistant Professor | SAKAMOTO Junji | Fatigue and fracture mechanics | |
| Machine Design & Tribology | Professor | FUJII Masahiro | Development of high strength, high efficiency and high performance machine elements |
| Associate Professor | SHIOTA Tadashi | Tribology of hard materials and coatings | |
| Nontraditional Machining | Professor | OKADA Akira | Development of advanced machining methods applying electro-physical processes |
| Associate Professor | OKAMOTO Yasuhiro | Smart laser joining and removal machining for functional material processes | |
| Assistant Professor | SHINONAGA Togo | High functionalization of material surface by electron beam and laser beam processes | |
| Manufacturing Engineeirng | Professor | OHASHI Kazuhito | High efficiency and high precision grinding of difficult-to-cut materials |
| Senior Assistant Professor | KODAMA Hiroyuki | Development of novelty manufacturing system supported by data-mining methodology | |
| Assistant Professor | ONISHI Takashi | Development of computer aided machining system for high accuracy grinding | |
| Fluid Dynamics | Professor | KOUCHI Toshinori | Study on high speed flow related to aerospace engineerings |
| Associate Professor | SUZUKI Hiroki | Turbulent flow and incompressible flow | |
| Assistant Professor | TANAKA Kento | Computational fluid dynamics on compressible flow | |
| Heat Transfer Engineering | Professor | HORIBE Akihiko | Heat storage and transport using latent heat material, and new desiccant air conditioning systems |
| Senior Assistant Professor | YAMADA Yutaka | Solid-liquid and liquid-vapor phase change phenomena | |
| Assistant Professor | ISOBE Kazuma | Thermal radiation phenomena around nano and micro scale structure | |
| Heat Power Engineering | Professor | KAWAHARA Nobuyuki | Exploration of scientific principles of combustion inside internal combustion engine |
| Assistant Professor | TSUBOI Kazuya | Measurement and Analysis on Turbulent Premixed Flames using DNS | |
| Associate Professor | KOBASHI Yoshimitsu | Diagnostics and modeling of spray combustion in internal combustion engines | |
| Biomedical Engineering | Professor | WU Jinglong | Studies of neural mechanisms of memory for neurodegenerative disease early detection and treatment |
| Associate Professor | TAKAHASHI Satoshi | Study on mechanism of multisensory attention and preventaion of accidental accident | |
| Assistant Professor | YANG Jiajia | Neural mechanism of haptic object perception and application for Alzheimer’s disease early detection | |
| Advanced System Safety | Professor | NISHI Tatsushi | Artificial intelligence, systems optimization, supply chain management, scheduling, robotics and automation, mathematical programming, operations research, process systems engineering |
| Associate Professor | SATO Haruo | Safety assessment technologies for radioactive waste disposal, environmental dynamics for behaviour of radionuclides in the environment and radiation safety for shielding and dose analyses | |
| Intelligent systems optimization | Assistant Professor | LIU ZIANG | Supply chain management, artificial intelligence, and game theory |
| Intelligent Robotics, Field Robotics and Control | Professor | MATSUNO Takayuki | Manipulator robot for industrial application and medical robot system |
| Assistant Professor | TODA Yuichiro | Soft computing for intteligent robot | |
| Human Factors and Management Systems | Professor | Murata Atsuo | Cognitive Engineering, Safety Management |
| Production Intelligence | Professor | ARIZONO Ikuo | Statistical Quality Control, Applied Statistics, Operations research, System Reliability, Queueing Theory |
| Associate Professor | YANAGAWA Yoshinari | Resource management such as scheduling, line balancing and container loading in production control | |
| Assistant Professor | LEE JIEUN | Risk management, human factors, human-machine system design | |
| Intelligent Mechanical Control | Professor | HIRATA Kentaro | Systems control theory for time-delayed systems and periodic motion and its application for mechatronic and process systems |
| Senior Assistant Professor | NAKAMURA Yukinori | Systems control theory and its application for mechatronic and human-machine systems | |
| Assistant Professor | IKEZAKI Taichi | Systems control theory and its application, Data-driven control and prediction, cyber security for control systems |
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| System Integration | Professor | KANDA Takefumi | Micro actuators, sensors and devices and their applications for micro mechatronics systems |
| Associate Professor | WAKIMOTO Shuichi | Soft actuators and sensors and their applications to soft robots in medical and welfare fields | |
| Assistant Professor | YAMAGUCHI Daisuke | Actuators and sensors for extreme environments, spacecraft technologies and film-based mechatronics | |
| Interface Systems | Associate Professor | KAMEGAWA Tetsushi | Research and development of snake robots, disaster response robots and medical robots. |
| Assistant Professor | SHIMOOKA Sou | Soft actuator and rehabilitation device | |
| Computer vision, human information processing, media processing artificial intelligence | Professor | NAKAZAWA Atsushi | image recognition and analysis, human behavioral understanding medical and nursing communication |
| Mechatronic systems |
Professor | MASHIMO Tomoaki | Micromotors, insect-scale robots, bio-inspired robots, actuators |
| Special Contract Personnel Professor (Special Appointment) | WATANABE Keigo | Nonlinear control for autonomous underwater vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and omnidirectional mobile robots | |
| Associate Professor | SHIBANOKI Taro | Human machine interface, medical and welfare systems, biological signal processing |
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| Assistant Professor | NAGAI Isaku | Localization and development of mobile robots, automated guided vehicles, and personal mobility vehicles |