Students learn a variety of research topics from our experienced faculty members
Mechanical and Precision Systems
| Laboratory name | Specialized Fields | Main research contents |
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| Akihiko Shinotake Laboratory | Combustion / heat transfer research | Research on fuel conversion and efficiency improvement in combustion and heat transfer processes -Toward the construction of a low-carbon society- |
| Takeshi Isogai Laboratory | Mechanics of materials, Strength and Fracture of Materials | Research on material strength and fracture necessary to ensure the safety of equipment and structures |
| Hideaki Inoue Laboratory | Automotive kinematics / autonomous driving |
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| Akira Kato Laboratory | Internal combustion engines (gasoline, diesel) and advanced automobiles | Future research on power-plants for automobiles |
| Yoshio Kurosawa Laboratory | Vibration / acoustic research |
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| Sadatoshi Koroyasu Laboratory | Foundry engineering | Study on hot water flow in lost model casting method of aluminum alloy |
| Naohiro Nishiguchi Laboratory | production system, mechatronics | Research on surface quality improvement technology based on error transfer characteristics to machined surface |
| Yoshito Ikemata Laboratory | Robotics |
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| Masashi Makita Laboratory | Car collision and ride quality |
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| Iku Mihashi Laboratory | User experience, design engineering, augmented reality, ergonomics, educational technology |
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| Naoki Fukuda Laboratory | Electrical equipment, motorized force application, tribology |
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Department of Aerospace Engineering
| Laboratory name | Specialized Fields | Main research contents |
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| Aircraft Design Laboratory (Takashi Hiramoto Laboratory) | Aircraft design, helicopter engineering | Research on aircraft design, especially structural design and helicopter operation |
| Akihiko Oshima Laboratory | Aircraft maneuvering | Research on helicopter operation and aviation safety |
| High temperature materials laboratory (Keizo Hashimoto laboratory) | High temperature materials, especially intermetallic compounds, electron microscopes and their utilization technologies, gas turbine characteristics, space science | Research on intermetallic compounds and composite materials |
| Hiroyasu Manako Laboratory | Rocket engineering, engine engineering, thermo-fluid mechanics, reactive fluid mechanics | Basic research on liquid rocket engine combustor |
| Flight Dynamics Laboratory (Yoneda Hiroshi Laboratory) | Flight guidance control, aircraft mechanics | Research mainly on flight dynamics, performance, stable maneuverability, and aircraft systems of fixed-wing aircraft |
| Space Flying Body Laboratory (Masaaki Kawamura Laboratory) | Gas mechanics (high-speed gas, weakly ionized gas), space system engineering |
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| Space Materials Laboratory (Ayaka Takahashi Laboratory) | Tribology, sulfide | Solid Lubricant for Space |
| Space Electrical and Electronic Radio Laboratory (Yoshihiro Tsuruta Laboratory) | Space system engineering, design engineering, reliability engineering |
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| Astrodynamics Laboratory (Kenju Nakamiya Laboratory) | Orbit/attitude control, celestial mechanics |
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Information and Electronic Engineering
| Laboratory name | Specialized Fields | Main research contents |
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| Yuichi Hasuda Laboratory | Robotics, technology education | Design and development of autonomous robots and development of movement measuring devices for river benthic animals |
| Masayuki Arai Laboratory | Cognitive information processing engineering |
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| Mitsuhiro Ogawa Laboratory | Biomedical engineering, medical electronics, welfare engineering, game science |
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| Shigeru Sasaki Laboratory | Computational mechanics, educational technology | 3D computer graphics, educational technology, computational science, etc. |
| Koichi Hamada Laboratory | Cognitive information processing engineering | Image processing, image recognition, indoor environment recognition |
| Kozo Mizutani Laboratory | Information Systems, Web Engineering, Software Engineering | Realization of information systems suitable for the environment and society and application of IT to the education field |
| Koichi Muro Laboratory | Optoelectronics, Optical Engineering, Optical Information and Communication Engineering |
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| Takuo Mori Laboratory | Information theory, coding theory, information security | Software protection, digital content protection, personal authentication method, visual cryptography and its applications, application of virtualization technology |
| Naoki Kimura Laboratory | Process system engineering, Chemical engineering |
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| Takeaki Shionome Laboratory | Welfare information engineering |
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| Shinnosuke Nishiki Laboratory | Computational science, social / safety system, mechanical engineering (combustion / fluid) | Numerical simulation of fire and safety by FDS, DNS and modeling of turbulent premixed combustion |
| Mieko Masaka Laboratory | Social Systems Engineering, Life Intelligence |
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| Ken Yamane Laboratory | Intellectual information processing, soft computing, human assistance technology |
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| Tomohiro Nagata Laboratory | Voice information engineering, computer engineering | Research on speech synthesis that can express nonverbal information |
| Yuta Fukushima Laboratory | Robotics, human-machine coordination, control engineering, medical engineering | Research on human support / cooperative robots based on human behavior |
| Tetsushi Tanamoto Laboratory | Quantum engineering | Quantum annealing machine / quantum computer simulation |
| Yasuyuki Kobayashi Laboratory | Soundness diagnosis, applied statistical science | Researching the basics and applications of statistical machine learning (improvement of classifiers, abnormality detection and diagnosis of photovoltaic power generation systems) |
| Fumito Furukawa Laboratory | High-performance computer system, educational technology |
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Biosciences
| Laboratory name | Specialized Fields | Main research contents |
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| Genetic Engineering Laboratory (Masayuki Kajitani Laboratory) | Genetic engineering, science education | Gene structure and function, DNA typing, experimental classroom program development |
| Plant Physiology Laboratory (Masashi Asahina Laboratory) | Plant physiology, plant molecular biology | Elucidation of fusion and environmental response mechanism of severed plant tissue |
| Organic Structural Chemistry Laboratory (Kenichi Uchida Laboratory) | Synthetic organic chemistry, structural analysis of natural products | Research on synthetic chemistry of physiologically active substances such as plant hormones, and research on structural determination of organic natural compounds |
| Neurobiology Laboratory (Shigeo Uchino Laboratory) | Molecular biology, neuroscience | We aim to elucidate the molecular mechanism of brain development and the neurological pathology of developmental disorders in the brain. |
| Biomolecular Chemistry Laboratory (Niichiro Koga Laboratory) | Food science, applied microbiology, plant pathology | Research on cacao protein, which has a bowel movement improving effect, and sphingolipid, which has an effect of suppressing cancer in animals and inducing disease resistance in plants. |
| Bioactivity Utilization Laboratory (Shohei Sakuda Laboratory) | ioorganic Chemistry, Environmental Natural Resources | We discover new bioactive substances with useful effects for agriculture and medicine from the metabolites of microorganisms, plants, and other sources, and conduct both basic and applied research on their mechanisms of action and physiological effects. |
| Microbial Chemical Chemistry Laboratory (Takahashi Nobuharu Laboratory) | Natural chemistry, organic chemistry, applied microbiology | Search for new bioactive substances from soil and plant-derived microbial secondary metabolites |
| Chromosome construction control laboratory (Yuko Takayama laboratory) | Molecular cell biology | Molecular analysis of histone transcriptional regulation, elucidation of chromosome partitioning mechanism |
| Neurodevelopmental Physiology Laboratory (Takae Hirasawa Laboratory) | Neuroscience | Study on the mechanism of how environmental factors such as mental stress and child-rearing in early childhood and fetal period affect brain function development after maturity |
| Reproductive Developmental Biology Laboratory (Ryoma Ota Laboratory) | Reproductive biology / developmental genetics | Elucidation of germ cell formation mechanism |
| Phytochemistry Laboratory (Koji Miyamoto Laboratory) | Phytochemistry / plant biotechnology | Elucidation of the defense response mechanism of plants against environmental stress |