【Research Area 】　Area of Mechanical Science (Number of Faculty: 13)

Name	English Name	Position	Research Field	Department in the Master's Course
荒居 善雄	Arai, Yoshio	Professor	Materials Science	Mechanical Engineering
Specialty: Materials science, elasticity, fracture mechanics, micro and nano mechanics, boundary dynamics, strength of materials, fatigue and delayed fracture of materials, computational mechanics, acoustoelasticity.
平原 裕行	Hirahara, Hiroyuki	Associate Professor	Thermal Fluid Science	Mechanical Engineering
Specialty: Thermal fluid dynamics, development of the laser speckle and PIV method for velocity and density field measurement, air flow accompanying shock waves, micro wind turbine development, groups of organisms in flow, development of a bioreactor.
堀尾 健一郎	Horio, Kenichiro	Professor	Manufacturing and Processing	Mechanical Engineering
Specialty: Manufacturing and Processing, production engineering, ultraprecision polishing and cutting, micro-machining, electrical discharge machining, ion machining, thin film technology, surface evaluation, processing characteristics and processing affected layers.
池野 順一	Ikeno, Junichi	Associate Professor	Manufacturing and Processing	Mechanical Engineering
Specialty: Manufacture and processing, ultra-precision grinding, micro machining, laser trapping, production and environment, processing characteristics, principles of manufacturing technology.
蔭山 健介	Kageyama, Kensuke	Associate Professor	Materials Science	Mechanical Engineering
Specialty: Materials science, materials engineering, evaluation of materials, experimental mechanics, nondestructive evaluation, acoustic emission, sensor materials, plant biotechnology.
加藤 寛	Kato, Hiroshi	Professor	Materials Science	Mechanical Engineering
Specialty: Materials science, materials engineering, materials informatics, materials evaluation science, experimental mechanics, methods of joining materials, creation of new materials, biomaterials, smart materials.
川橋 正昭	Kawahashi, Masaaki	Professor	Thermal Fluid Science	Mechanical Engineering
Specialty: Thermal fluid science, acoustic steaming and thermoacoustic effects, development of the laser speckle and PIV method for velocity and density field measurement, air flow accompanying shock waves, analysis of airflow in centrifugal fans, numerical fluid dynamics, micro wind turbine development.
小原 哲郎	Obara, Tetsuro	Associate Professor	Thermal Fluid Science	Mechanical Engineering
Specialty: Thermal fluid science, supersonic combustion, propagation, initiation, and extinction process of detonation waves, shockwave engineering, numerical simulation of thermal fluid dynamics, scram jet engine, shockwave-induced ignition.
大八木 重治	Ohyagi, Shigeharu	Professor	Thermal Fluid Science	Mechanical Engineering
Specialty: Combustion engineering, detonation wave propagation and initiation, aerospace propulsion engineering.
尾笹 一成	Ozasa, Kazunari	Visiting Associate Professor (RIKEN)	Materials Science	Electrical and Electronic Systems
Specialty: Materials science, nanostructure of semiconductors, nano-particles, semiconductor surfaces, nanoprobes, organic semiconductors, surface potential, optical properties of semiconductors, nanoprobe-induced strain, measurement of cell activity.
鈴木 章彦	Suzuki, Akihiko	Professor	Materials Science	Mechanical Engineering
Specialty: Materials science, reliability engineering, high temperature strength, damage mechanics, application technology for ceramics, molecular dynamics, principles of manufacturing technology, law and technology, multi-agent simulation, constitutive equations.
田島 右副	Tajima, Yusuke	Visiting Associate Professor (RIKEN)	Materials Science	Applied Chemistry
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山本 浩	Yamamoto, Hiroshi	Associate Professor	Manufacturing and Processing	Mechanical Engineering
Vibration analysis, plain bearings, gas bearings, tribology (lubrication, friction, wear), damping.