This course provides third-year students with an opportunity to experience and learn design and drafting methods, which are important in the field of mechanical engineering. The targets of design include the selective compliance assembly robot arm (SCARA), gear pumps, and single-cylinder gasoline engines. Students themselves perform design calculations in accordance with the mechanics of materials, mechanical dynamics, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, etc., which they have studied in their second year. On the basis of the results of design calculations, modeling is performed using a 3D CAD (Computer-Aided Design) system. Eventually, by creating 2D drawings from modeling data, students develop the ability to understand and describe design information necessary for production.

In this course, students will experience and learn the fundamentals of electrical and electronic engineering. This course is necessary to acquire a systematic understanding of electrical and electronic engineering and serves as the foundation for more advanced laboratory courses. Specific experimental topics are “measurement errors and their handling,” “circuit theorems,” “introduction to microcomputer control programming,” “electrostatic field,” “characteristics of magnetic materials and electromagnetic induction,” and “AC circuits and transient phenomena.” Through this course, students will learn how to perform experiments, handle equipment, process data, proceed with the investigation, and write reports. In addition, students will be able to deepen their understanding of the theories and laws learned in lectures by actual confirmation through experiments.