ISSN 2186-1714 KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY NEWSLETTER Spring 2018 Special Issue 学部紹介 特集 Faculty of Engineering KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY Contents KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY Special Issue NEWSLETTER No.15 Faculty of Engineering, P.1 Graduate School of Engineering Published by International Community Kagoshima University Global Initiative Centre 国際交流 1-21-30, Korimoto, Kagoshima National Institute of Technology Japan, 890-8580 P.9 email: Karnataka (NITK), India [email protected] Dhruva Narayana Katpady Board Editor Sameshima Sōichirō Editor in Chief International Programme Steve Cother The GOES Programme Contributing Editors Nakatani Sumie P.10 Bo Causer, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Morita Toyoko Global Development Office, Graduate School of Science Fukutomi Shō and Engineering Design & Printing Shibundo Co. Ltd. KUToday is a biannual publication to Discover KU present information about Kagoshima University to a wider What artifacts can tell us international audience. Each edition P.12 will feature one faculty for about our ancestors prospective overseas students as well as other topics such as educational Shinzato Takayuki, Research Associate, Research Centre programmes, research and alumni for Archaeology information. Some articles are translations from the Japanese-language publication, Kadai Journal, upon which KU Today 鹿大 is loosely based. Any comments or suggestions about KUToday will be Campus Walk Around warmly received. 見て P.14 あ Division of Instrumental Analysis PDF files on KUToday can be る Sawada Tsuyoshi, Associate Professor, Research Support Centre downloaded from https://www.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/en/ 紀 about/newsletter.html A Note on Names Following convention East Asian names appearing in KU Today are written family name followed by P.16 Faces and Snapshots given name. Exploring Kagoshima Spring 2018 Exploring Kagoshima Eco-tours in Osumi’s forests P.18 かごしま探訪 and villages Inokura Yōji, Associate Professor, Takakuma Experimental Forest Special Issue Exciting Engineering!! http://www.eng.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/english/index.html The Faculty of funded construction of the university’s Inamori Engineering started Auditorium, designed by eminent architect Ando as Kagoshima Tadao, that is used for seminars, lectures and Prefectural College other university events. of Engineering With our mission of “Exciting Engineering established in – supporting your manufacturing ambitions”, 1945. The College we aim to provide students with the fun of of Engineering creativity with a global perspective, all the became Kagoshima while contributing to the development of Prefectural manufacturing technology. The Japanese University to way of manufacturing based on culture and be united with craftsmanship has been the pillar of Japanese the College of industry. We also work to cultivate excellent Watanabe Mutsumi, Dean Medicine, then, human resources to lead research in many the Prefectural fields and hope students learning excitement of University became part of Kagoshima University monozukuri (manufacturing) mind based on good in 1955. Today, the Faculty of Engineering is Japanese tradition. located on Korimoto Campus close to the centre Our faculty actively promotes of scenic Kagoshima city which is known as internationalisation in the fields of engineering “Naples of the East”. technology by collaborating with overseas The Faculty of Engineering is the largest one universities, such as National Institute of of the nine faculties in Kagoshima University. Technology Karnataka in India, University of Over 20,000 students have graduated from our Indonesia, College of Engineering of National faculty so far, and many alumni are playing Cheng Kong University in Taiwan and other active parts in a wide variety of fields throughout universities in joint research and exchanges of society. One representative alumnus is Dr. students and academic staff. Inamori Kazuo, founder and chairman emeritus We are looking forward to welcoming you in of Kyocera Corporation. In 1994, Dr. Inamori the Faculty of Engineering! Undergraduate Departments Graduate School (118/440) Mechanical Engineering (24/9) Mechanical Engineering (50) Electrical and Electronics Engineering (22/8) Electrical and Electronics Engineering (45) Architecture and Architectural Engineering (14/55) Architecture and Architectural Engineering (25) Interdisciplinary Department of Chemical Engineering (10/35) Science and Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Chemical Engineering (42) Engineeing PhD Course] (24) Chemistry and Biotechnology (14/50) Ocean Civil Engineering (14/48) Ocean Civil Engineering (18) Information Science and Biomedical Engineering (20/80) Information Science and Biomedical Engineering (42) (Staff Numbers / Annual Intake) (Annual Intake) KU Today 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering Production and Design Engineering, Fluid Engineering, Thermal Engineering, Strength of Materials, Mechanical Materials, Control Engineering The Department ●Diesel Engine Combustion of Various Biofuels of Mechanical ●Computational and Experimental Gas Dynamics and Engineering provides Heat Transfer education and ●Performance Improvement of the Savonius Rotor substantial research ●Numerical study of Turbulent Combustion and Fire programmes for design, ●Vibration Characteristics of Delaminated Materials production and energy which introduce advanced ●Intelligent Robot Manipulation, Smart Rehabilitation aspects into normal mechanical engineering subjects Systems to adapt to new industrial techniques. ●Intelligent Manufacturing System The Department is organised around research ●Instrument and Control Engineering divisions specialising in Production Engineering, Energy ●Control of Mechanical Systems Engineering and Mechanical System Engineering. ●Fracture Mechanics of Delaminations of Laminated These research divisions are achieved by the research Materials and education based on following field: ●Measurement-integrated Simulation Production Engineering: Strength of Materials, Mechanical Materials, etc. Energy Engineering: Fluid Engineering, Fluid Machinery, Thermal Engineering, Internal Combustion Murakoshi Michio Engine, etc. Mechanical System Engineering: Dynamics, Associate Professor Measurements, Automatic control, Mechanical Elements, Lubrication, Design, Industrial Processing, Performing hearing tests Production System, etc. on adults is straight forward because you can The following is a list of the research being carried ask if they can hear a out in the department: sound or not. However ●Mechanism and Evaluation of Strength in Fatigue this is not the case with ●Damage Evaluation & Remaining-Life Prediction of infants. If they have some trouble hearing, how can we High-Temperature Materials find out what the problem is? The research interests ●Interfacial Fracture Mechanics of our laboratory encompass both basic research into ●Reliability of Electronic Packaging hearing mechanics and the application of our findings ●Development and Mechanical Properties of Metals, in the development of hearing diagnostic devices Ceramics and Composites and biomicromachine such as the development of ●Tribology in Metal Forming Process a diagnostic system for newborn hearing screening, ●Metal Forming Simulation and Computational the numerical analysis of the hearing organ at the Mechanics nanoscale level, the structural analysis of molecular ●Flow Engineering motor expressed in the plasma membrane by ●Development of Environmental Conservation atomic force microscopy and the development of an Apparatus using Fluid Force implantable drug delivery system for the treatment of ●Flow Phenomena of Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow in hereditary hearing loss. Microchannels and Minichannels Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Electromagnetism, Semiconductor Engineering, Electron Device Engineering, Electric Circuit Theory, Electric Machinery, Electric Power System Engineering, Automatic Control Engineering, Communication Technology and Computer Engineering 2 KU Today Special Issue Electrical and power generation systems, Matrix converters, High Electronics Engineering efficiency and low loss electrical machines, Utilization is playing a leading and measurement technique of motor core material, role in highly- Power electronics, Switched-mode power supply, developed science and Analysis and control of power systems, Identification technology, industry and control of nonlinear systems and social life in the 21st century. Our Communication System Engineering Course curriculum covers a Keywords: Parallel and distributed system, lot of subjects in the field of electrical and electronics Machine learning, THz, MMIC, Transformation engineering. Three major research fields of Electronic electromagnetics, Electromagnetic metamaterials, Device Engineering, Electrical Power Engineering and Millimeter-wave antenna, Microwave power Communication System Engineering are well organised transmission, Microwave photonics, Photonic network, and students can choose one of the study courses for Optical switching, Analogue-to-digital and digital- their research field. Since the students are needed in to-analogue converters, Time-domain analogue many fields, almost 100 per cent of students can find processing, Liquid crystal device jobs after graduation. Electronic Device Engineering Course Keywords: Thin film engineering, High temperature Watanabe Toshio superconductors, Surface and interface physics, Electronic materials, Optical materials, Compound Associate Professor semiconductor, Thermoelectric materials, Field- effect transistor, Strongly