2012

Bulletin

Faculty of Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering and Scienece

About us
Universities are different from other educational organizations in that they carry out
research activities. Universities provide education to the extent which humans possess suchknowledge, and beyond such limits, universities engage in research. Research requires
academic freedom, which is also known as the freedom of thought. Therefore, it is of utmost
importance that you think freely and act of your own volition.
In engineering, all man-made objects in our surroundings may become subjects forresearch. As such, it is my opinion that the Japanese word for engineering, “kougaku,” is anabbreviation of the word “jinkoukagaku,” which means artificial systems science in English.
This serves as a binary term for the concept of natural sciences. Engineering seeks to continually surpass the limits of human knowledge by carefully researching man-made objects throughscientific methodology.
The Faculty of Engineering at University of the Ryukyus is organized into the departmentsof Mechanical Systems Engineering, Civil Engineering & Architecture, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and Information Engineering. Through its world-class education in each field,
the Faculty nurtures individuals who possess cultural refinement, the ethics of technical experts,
as well as a high level of technical knowledge, who are able to contribute to society and theconservation of the local environment, and are creative and possess the power of execution.
In order to maintain a world-class education, organizations need to carry out high-levelresearch. The engineering divisions of the Graduate School of Science & Technology researchbeyond the limit of human knowledge in the engineering field by organizing doctoral programs
which involve the majors of Material, Structural & Energy Engineering and InterdisciplinaryIntelligent Systems Engineering, and master’s programs which involve the majors of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Civil Engineering & Architecture, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and Information Engineering. The Graduate School has a special program using English as
the official language. This program is for scholarship or
non-scholarship international students who come mainly
from developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Dean Tomio TAKARA

Organization
Materials Science and Processing Engineering
Department of Mechanical
Systems Engineering

Thermal and Fluid Engineering
Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Engineering
Environmental Planning and Design

Department of Civil
Engineering and Architecture

Structural Design Engineering
Environmental Disaster Prevention Engineering
Electromagnetic Energy Engineering

Department of Electrical andElectronics Engineering

Electronics and Electronic Materials
Electronic Systems Engineering

Faculty ofEngineering
Department of Information
Engineering

Computer Systems
Intelligent Systems
Mechanical Engineering Group
Civil and Architectural Engineering Group

Technical Engineering Division

Electronic and Information Engineering Group
Information Systems Group
Technical Workshop Engineering Group
General Affairs

Administration OfficeStudent Affairs
Mechanical Systems Engineering
Civil Engineering and Architecture
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Master's Programs

Information Engineering
Mathematical Sciences

Graduate
School ofEngineeringand Science

Physics and Earth Sciences
Chemistry, Biology and Marine Sciences
Material, Structural and Energy Engineering
Doctoral Programs

Interdisciplinary Intelligent Systems Engineering
Marine and Environmental SciencesDepartment of Mechanical Systems Engineering
Mechanical Engineering forms the base for all branches of engineering. It includes thestudies of imaging, manufacturing, and controlling of all types of machinery and instruments inour society and huge industrial machinery such as space exploration vehicles, as well as
estimating the effects of machinery on the environment. The Mechanical Engineering Department consists of three divisions, which are Materials Science & Processing Engineering, Thermal & Fluid Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence & Mathematical Engineering. In addition
to these divisions, there are studies on production systems and computer aided ones.
The undergraduate education program, which is fully accredited by JABEE (Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education), provides our students with international standard
education level trials in mechanical engineering.
While freshmen take general education, engineering mathematics, and mechanics courses,
second or third year students will take courses in their respective major in a well-branchedcurriculum in the three divisions. From these courses, the students will acquire a well-roundedknowledge necessary for an engineer or researcher. In their senior year, students will start working on their graduation theses. They will then learn study methods and acquire an engineering
sense.

Personal Computer Software PracticeExperimental Test for Material Strength

Curricum of Engineering Design

3kW horizontal wind turbine generator
with three variable pitch bladesDepartment of Civil Engineering and Architecture
The Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture aims to develop high-level humanresources with extensive knowledge and skills in the civil and architectural engineering fields
for sustainable development and conservation of the global environment.
The Department consists of three research divisions and two educational courses. The
three research divisions are Environmental Planning and Design, Structural Design Engineering and Environmental Disaster Prevention Engineering. The two educational courses are Civil
Engineering and Architecture. The students of the Department attend one of the two courses.
The students of both courses mainly learn liberal arts in the freshmen year and special subjects
set out for their respective courses in the sophomore year.

Civil Engineering Course
The Civil Engineering Course of the Department obtained certification and educational recognition through the Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education (JABEE) Quality System andoffers education programs at the international education level. Students who have completed the education program are exempt from the first-stage professional engineer examination.
Five research fields are provided: infrastructure
planning, structural engineering, concrete materials,
coastal engineering, and geotechnical engineering.
In the senior year, each student has to become amember of one of the supervisors’ study group andget involved in research work for their theses regarding the research field of their supervisor.

On-Site Inspection

Concrete Technology Class

Architecture Course
The Architecture Course provides a holistic
education program of not only architecture but alsobuilding sciences in four years, which is the typicalsystem in Japan. The graduates then acquire thequalification to take the architect license examination. This course consists of six research fields:
Architectural Planning and Design, Urban andRegional Planning, Urban and Architectural Environmental Engineering, Building Structural Engineering,
Building Material Engineering, and Disaster Prevention Engineering. The students study these special
subjects from the first year in addition to liberal arts.
They are required to complete their graduate theses
under the supervision of teaching staff in the final
year.

Architectural Design Assignment

Seismic Strengthening Test

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Technologies in the electrical and electronics engineering fields form the infrastructure of
information and communication technology, which supports all aspects of human activities.
The technologies are also an engine of economic growth, and innovative research and humanresources development in this field are always required. Because of these social demands, theDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering focuses on education for the development of expert engineers who are active internationally and possess flexible minds and broader
viewpoints.
The educational program of this department has been accredited by the Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education (JABEE) in the fields of electrical, electronics, andcommunications engineering since 2006. In this program, general and foundational educationand specialized education are well-organized and balanced so that students can acquire a broad
perspective and flexible thinking. The department emphasizes practical learning through laboratory experiments, problem-solving researches, and computer programming to obtain an ability
to provide solutions for actual problems. The Department also offers scheduling evening course
for students who work during the daytime.

Sequential Control ExperimentHall Effect Experiment

LectureRobot ExperimentDepartment of Information Engineering
In the Information age, computer technology plays an important role in every field of oursociety. Information Technologies related industries are promoted as leading technology of
Okinawa in 21st century.
Our department contains computer systems and intelligent systems, where students canstudy a unique combination of practical systems and complex intelligence. There are six educational courses: Computer System Engineering, Information and Communication, Software Engineering, Intelligent Information Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and Intelligent Control.
During special courses studies, students develop their own activities and creativity. Specifically, each freshman can use their own personal computer to study the practical usage of computers. Sophomore students attend seminars with working professionals. Most of the seminars arecomprised of discussions and writing, and all provide opportunities for individual expression andintellectual exploration. In the third year, students carry out one year projects to implement real
VLSI design, robotics, multi-media entertainment and signal information processing products.
The fourth year students join various research projects such as communication systems, signal
processing, artificial intelligence, intelligent robotics, software engineering, and high performance computing. We also provide general culture courses during the four years of education todevelop knowledge in more general areas.
For more information, please visit 'http://www.ie.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/'.

Informaition Engineering Experiments

Multipod RobotMaster's Program (Engineering Division)

Mechanical Systems Engineering Course
The Mechanical Systems Engineering Course consists of three divisions: Design, Analysis
and Processing of Engineering Materials, Thermal and Fluid Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Engineering. The course trains students to become professional
engineers and researchers with advanced knowledge and techniques in the fields of materials,
energy, dynamics, control, and processing.

Stadilization of carbon dioxide and the developmentof a new energy source through the use of marine biomass

Atmospheric corrosion test for several metals

Master’s Program

Civil Engineering and Architecture Course
The Civil Engineering and Architecture Course consists of three divisions: Environmental
Planning and Design, Structural Design Engineering, and Environmental Disaster Prevention
Engineering. The aim of this course is to train the students to be professional engineers andresearchers who work as expert scientists and engineers for sustainable development of theearth. The students are required to consider the everlasting relationship between human beingsand nature, which means the peaceful coexistence of both and the prevention of natural disasters.

Ultimate shearing test of stainless steel plate giders

An experiment on the seismic response of stone
masonry arch structures using a shaking tale

Master’s Program (Engineering Division)

Electrical and Electronics Engineering Course
The Electrical and Electronics Engineering Course is made of three divisions: Electromagnetic Energy Engineering, Electronic Materials Engineering, and Electronic Systems Engineering, where students and young professional engineers are provided with advanced knowledge
and up to date techniques in those fields.

Semiconductor Devices Laboratory

Biomedical Engineering Laboratory

Master’s Program (Engineering Division)

Information Engineering Course
The Information Engineering Course has two divisions: Computer Systems and Intelligent
Systems. The studies in each range from hardware to software. Students can develop theirtalents of research and development to adapt to a technological society which consists ofhuman intelligence, computers, communication networks, and media.

Terrestrial Mobile TV Receiver Demo System

VLSI Design CAD System

Doctoral Program (Engineering Division)Material, Structural and Energy Engineering
This course consists of two divisions: Processing Development Engineering and Energy
Development Engineering. Education and research in the Divisions are in the fields of intelligent materials, design and processing, thermal and fluid transfer, energy conversion, seismic
performance and durability, and ocean development.

Sintering Process

Manufacturing of functionally graded materials by
spark plasma sintering

Doctoral Program (Engineering Division)

Interdisciplinary Intelligent Systems Engineering
Two divisions of this course, Environmental and Information Engineering and Electronics
and Information Engineering, offer education and research in the fields of urban environmental
design, intelligent design and planning technology for the living environment, intelligent
systems engineering, electric and electronic systems, intelligent robotics, and control and information engineering.

A SEM photograph of SOI DRAM cell capacitors

Luminescence from ECR plasma of N2 gasaround permanent magnets
The description of the Science Division of the Program is omitted.

Technical Engineering Division
About usThe new system of the Technical Engineering Division was established in April of 2008. It
is the fourth year.
It consists of five groups, Mechanical Engineering Group, Civil and Architecture Group,
Electronic Engineering Group, Information System Group and Technical Workshop Engineering Group. The Mechanical Engineering Group supports analyses of the processing of metalmaterials, fluid experiments, experiments of internal-combustion engine, and experiments of
information engineering. The Civil and Architecture Engineering Group supports analyses ofsoil, earthquake-resistance experiments, surveying practices, and experiments of informationengineering. The Electronic Engineering Group supports electrical experiments, developmentsof robots, device control by computers. Information System Group is primarily involved in the
Support Services Department of Information Engineering. Supporting the experiment of Information Engineering, Server administration, Programming. In addition, Project-based learning,and project management we also lecture. The Technical Workshop Engineering Group makes
machine tools to support MONOZUKURI (manufacturing).
For the faculty and all the departments’ administrations, we assist the open campus event,entrance and graduation ceremonies, and office work of all the departments. We successfully
continue to participate in department meetings as we did even before the establishment of new
system.
Other than these five groups, there are education support team, public relation team, management and evaluation team, and training project team that the Technical Engineering Division organizes in order to support education and research activities as smoothly as possible bycooperating with each other.

Practice of lathe

Electronic and electric power system experimentSetting of earthquake-resistance test

Practice of assemblySpecial Graduate Programs for International Students
The Graduate School of Engineering and Science offers the following special graduate
programs for international students:

These special programs have been organized in order to offer better opportunities forgraduate study to students from abroad by conducting all courses and research in English, andcommencing academic programs in April and October.

International Students by Nationality

Number of Staff Members

University and Faculty Level Exchange

University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
http://www.tec.u-ryukyu.ac.jp