Division of Mechanical Science and ResearchMechanism Design
ｆieldEngineering
Laboratory web site
http://mechs.ms.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp [in Japanese]Lab. ID
ME11Research subjects
Our laboratory is composed of three research groups: textile machinery group [Machine], texitile kansei
engineering group [Kansei], and nano-scale computational simulation group [Nano].
[Machine] We develop technological elements in order to match the needs for high performance textile machinery.
We also research mechanical properties of fiber assemblies those are main fields of textile machinery.
[Kansei] The visual judgement by skilled workers is required to produce excellent engineering products. However,
it is quite difficult to quantify their judgment criterions. Therefore, for visual judgement by unskilled workers, ourgoal is to develop a new method to obtain objective and quantitative criteria by elucidating roles of each visual
information in visual judgements.
[Nano] The strength of solid materials is studied through atomic- and nano-scale phanomena. Because it is noteasy to elucidate the nano-scale phanomena only by a theoretical/experimantal approach, we adopt the atomicscale computer simulation approach. Our goal is to proporse a new guiding principle for the design of materials
with exellent mecnanical properties by discovering "beautiful, reasonable atomic collective behavior" from theMaster/Doctor course: Education policy, curriculum, typical activity in the laboratory[Machine] We have a joint seminar with aother research group every week. We think that it is important todiscuss other topics related to your subject. We also have one-on-one meeting a week in order to promote yoursubject.
[Kansei] We hold three kinds of meetings every week, a joint seminar with other research group, our groupseminar, and an one-on-one meeting.
[Nano] Original reserch subjects are given to each graduate student. Almost every week, students are required
to report their studies to the group leader and discuss with him. Reviews of selected papers in English is given bystudents by turns every two weeks to obtain the latest knowledment required to promote their reseach activities.
Almost every student attends domestic conferences hold in various places in Japan and sometimes wins a prize
for his excellent presentation.

Daily life in the laboratory, etc.
Personal working desk with a personal computer is available for every student.
[Machine] All relevant students of undergraduate, Master, Doctor share the laboratory rooms, and everyday free
discussion on textile engineering or related topics are strongly encouraged.
[Kansei] I was able to solve the questions of the study by my ideas and ingenuity. Own ideas are reflected
directly in the results of the study. (Graduates)[Nano] Our group have a large number of high performance workstations, so every student can freely perform
computer simulations according to your original idea.

Message or comments by the laboratory faculty staffs[Machine] Almost Master graduates take occupation as engineers in Japanese famaous manufacturer. Very few
MC graduates entered the Doctor course. Doctoral course graduates got some research occupation such asteachers in technical colleges or polytechnic college, researchers in research institutes in local governments.
[Kansei] We think it is very important ability for you to discuss with reasonable considarations and ideas. Let'sdevelop new objective evaluation method together!
[Nano] It is a great pleasure for us to find new ideas and phenomena not yet discovered. We want to shear thepleasure with you. But, unfortunately, we do not know the shortcut to success. Only we can do is to face theresearch subjects in sincerity and use our brains as much as possible. Let's investigate "beautiful, reasonableatomic collective behavior" while being excited together!

Laboratory mail address[Machine] Toshiyasu Kinari <kinari *at* se.kanazawa-u.ac.jp>[Kansei] Lina Wakako <linawakako *at* se.kanazawa-u.ac.jp>[Nano] Tomotsugu Shimokawa <simokawa *at* se.kanazawa-u.ac.jp>