{"id":1242,"date":"2020-10-08T22:32:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T13:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engr.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/program\/mechanical-and-systems-engineering-program\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T14:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:30:22","slug":"ms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.engr.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/program\/ms\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical and Systems Engineering Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Programs and Academic Staff<\/h2>\r\n

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Mechanical and Systems Engineering Program<\/h3>\r\n

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Engineers' Source of Meaning<\/h3>\r\n

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<\/span>\u3000important \"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.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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To High School Students: Discover New Knowledge in the Mechanical and Systems Engineering Program!<\/h3>\r\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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To Employers: We Contribute to Industrial Development<\/h3>\r\n

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.<\/p>\r\n

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Staff and Research Projects<\/h3>\r\n

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Theme<\/h6>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Structural Materials Engineering<\/td>\r\nProfessor<\/td>\r\nOKAYASU Mitsuhiro<\/a><\/td>\r\nMechanical and fatigue properties of engineering materials<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Associate Professor<\/td>\r\nTAKEMOTO Yoshito<\/a><\/td>\r\nDevelopment of \u03b2-titanium alloy with unique functions<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Assistant Professor<\/td>\r\nARAKAWA Jinta<\/a><\/td>\r\nFatigue of metalic material and fracture mechanics<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Applied Solid Mechanics<\/td>\r\nProfessor<\/td>\r\nTADA Naoya<\/a><\/td>\r\nMicroscopic deformation and fracture of solid materials<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Associate Professor<\/td>\r\nUEMORI Takeshi<\/a><\/td>\r\nConstitutive model for elasto-plastic deformation<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Assistant Professor<\/td>\r\nSAKAMOTO Junji<\/a><\/td>\r\nFatigue and fracture mechanics<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Machine Design & Tribology<\/td>\r\nAssociate Professor<\/td>\r\nSHIOTA Tadashi<\/a><\/td>\r\nTribology of hard materials and coatings<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Nontraditional Machining<\/td>\r\nProfessor<\/td>\r\nOKADA Akira<\/a><\/td>\r\nDevelopment of advanced machining methods applying electro-physical processes<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Assistant Professor<\/td>\r\nSHINONAGA Togo<\/a><\/td>\r\nHigh functionalization of material surface by electron beam and laser beam processes<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Manufacturing Engineeirng<\/td>\r\nProfessor<\/td>\r\nOHASHI Kazuhito<\/a><\/td>\r\nHigh efficiency and high precision grinding of difficult-to-cut materials<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Senior Assistant Professor<\/td>\r\nKODAMA Hiroyuki<\/a><\/td>\r\nDevelopment of novelty manufacturing system supported by data-mining methodology<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Assistant Professor<\/td>\r\nKANEKO Kazuki<\/a><\/td>\r\nDevelopment ond Application of cutting simulation<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Fluid Dynamics<\/td>\r\nProfessor<\/td>\r\nKOUCHI Toshinori<\/a><\/td>\r\nStudy on high speed flow related to aerospace engineerings<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Associate Professor<\/td>\r\nSUZUKI Hiroki<\/a><\/td>\r\nTurbulent flow and incompressible flow<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Assistant Professor<\/td>\r\nTANAKA Kento<\/a><\/td>\r\nComputational fluid dynamics on compressible flow<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Heat Transfer Engineering<\/td>\r\nProfessor<\/td>\r\nHORIBE Akihiko<\/a><\/td>\r\nHeat storage and transport using latent heat material, and new desiccant air conditioning systems<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Senior Assistant Professor<\/td>\r\nYAMADA Yutaka<\/a><\/td>\r\nSolid-liquid and liquid-vapor phase change phenomena<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Assistant Professor<\/td>\r\nISOBE Kazuma<\/a><\/td>\r\nThermal radiation phenomena around nano and micro scale structure<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Heat Power Engineering<\/td>\r\nProfessor<\/td>\r\nKAWAHARA Nobuyuki<\/a><\/td>\r\nExploration of scientific principles of combustion inside internal combustion engine<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Assistant Professor<\/td>\r\nTSUBOI Kazuya<\/a><\/td>\r\nMeasurement and Analysis on Turbulent Premixed Flames using DNS<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Associate Professor<\/td>\r\nKOBASHI Yoshimitsu<\/a><\/td>\r\nDiagnostics and modeling of spray combustion in internal combustion engines<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Biomedical Engineering<\/td>\r\nProfessor<\/td>\r\nYANG Jiajia<\/a><\/td>\r\nApproaching human brain function across multiple spatial scales using laminar fMRI<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Associate Professor<\/td>\r\nTAKAHASHI Satoshi<\/a><\/td>\r\nStudy on mechanism of multisensory attention and preventaion of accidental accident<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Assitant Professor<\/td>\r\nYOKOYAMA Hiroshi<\/a><\/td>\r\nData-driven modeling for revealing synchronous network dynamics underlying neurophysiological mechanisms<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Advanced System Safety<\/td>\r\nAssociate Professor<\/td>\r\nSATO Haruo<\/a><\/td>\r\nSafety assessment technologies for radioactive waste disposal, environmental dynamics for behaviour of radionuclides in the environment and radiation safety for shielding and dose analyses<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Intelligent Robotics, Field Robotics and Control<\/td>\r\nProfessor<\/td>\r\nMATSUNO Takayuki<\/a><\/td>\r\nManipulator robot for industrial application and medical robot system<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Assistant Professor<\/td>\r\nTODA Yuichiro<\/a><\/td>\r\nSoft computing for intteligent robot<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Mathematical Systems Optimization<\/span>
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\r\n<\/span><\/td>\r\n		Professor<\/td>\r\nTANAKA Shunji<\/a><\/td>\r\nCombinatorial optimization, mathematical programming, scheduling, logistics<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Associate Professor<\/td>\r\nYANAGAWA Yoshinari<\/a><\/td>\r\nResource management such as scheduling, line balancing and container loading in production control<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Assistant Professor<\/td>\r\nKAWAMOTO Takaki<\/a><\/td>\r\nOperations research, combinatorial optimization, algorithm development<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Control Engineering<\/span><\/td>\r\nProfessor<\/td>\r\nNISHIMURA Yuki<\/a><\/td>\r\nNonlinear stochastic systems control and its application<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Intelligent Mechanical Control<\/td>\r\nAssistant Professor<\/td>\r\nIKEZAKI Taichi<\/a><\/td>\r\nSystems control theory and its application, Data-driven control and
\r\nprediction, cyber security for control systems<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
System Integration<\/td>\r\nProfessor<\/td>\r\nKANDA Takefumi<\/a><\/td>\r\nMicro actuators, sensors and devices and their applications for micro mechatronics systems<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Associate Professor<\/td>\r\nWAKIMOTO Shuichi<\/a><\/td>\r\nSoft actuators and sensors and their applications to soft robots in medical and welfare fields<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Assistant Professor<\/td>\r\nYAMAGUCHI Daisuke<\/a><\/td>\r\nActuators and sensors for extreme environments, spacecraft technologies and film-based mechatronics<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Interface Systems<\/td>\r\nProfessor<\/td>\r\nKAMEGAWA Tetsushi<\/a><\/td>\r\nResearch and development of snake robots, disaster response robots and medical robots.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Assistant Professor<\/td>\r\nSHIMOOKA Sou<\/a><\/td>\r\nSoft actuator and rehabilitation device<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Computer vision, human information processing, media processing artificial intelligence<\/td>\r\nProfessor<\/td>\r\nNAKAZAWA Atsushi<\/a><\/td>\r\nimage recognition and analysis, human behavioral understanding
\r\nmedical and nursing communication<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Mechatronic systems
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\r\n<\/td>\r\n		Professor<\/td>\r\nMASHIMO Tomoaki<\/a><\/td>\r\nMicromotors, insect-scale robots, bio-inspired robots, actuators<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Associate Professor<\/td>\r\nSHIBANOKI Taro<\/a><\/td>\r\nHuman machine interface, medical and welfare systems,
\r\nbiological signal processing<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Assistant Professor<\/td>\r\nIZUHARA Shunsuke<\/a><\/td>\r\nMicromotors, Linear actuator, Ultrasonic motors<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

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