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This home-page mainly explains you the courses for undergraduate students of our department. (Revised Mayl 18, 2007)

For information on the courses for graduate students, click here .

MEM : The International Graduate Program for non-Japanese students click here

Brief History

The history of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics is divided roughly into two eras. The first period was started in 1918 and was closed immediately after the Second World War. The total number of graduates in this period was 438. After reopening in 1954, it was reorganized and extended to the present state with the recent remarkable development in the fields of aeronautics and space technology. The graduate school education is more weighed nowadays responding to the recent technology sophistication.

Present Status

The Department has thirteen chairs and seventeen staffs as listed below. The total number of students is about 200 in which about 100 are the undergraduate students.

Educational Policy

Aeronautics and Astronautics deal with the problems of aircraft and space vehicles, including fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, V/STOL, rockets and space vehicles. In accordance with the rapid development of aeronautics and astronautics in recent years, the Department prepares up-to-date courses in aerodynamics, propulsion, dynamics of flight, instrumentation and control, structural mechanics, materials and system design. The objective of education of the Department is to give students a clear understanding of the problems related to the aforementioned fields and also give them a training in engineering sciences such that students are with broad and flexible adaptability. For conveniences of study, students are classified into the following specialized courses according to their major interests.

(1) Aerospace Engineering Course
Students are specialized in the study of aircraft and space vehicles, and receive tarining in the fields of aerodynamics, dynamics of flight, instrumentation and control, structural mechanics, materials, meteorology, drawings of aircraft, space vehicles and so forth.

(2) Aerospace Propulsion Course
Students are specialized in the study of aircraft engines and space propulsion, and receive training in the fields of reciprocating, jet and rocket engines, instrumentation and control, materials, design and drawings of aeroengine and so forth.

The graduate course provides the further detailed studies on the aerospace engineering subjects. The graduate students are also deeply involved in the advanced research of the field.

Active Fields of Department Graduates

About seventy percent of graduates enter the Graduate School every year. The rest of the graduates enter the national research laboratories and the relevant industories, such as aircraft and space, automobile and other heavy industories.

Professors and Associate Professors

Professors

Affiliation

Title

Name

Area of expertise

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Professor

KAWACHI,

Keij

Flight Mechanics, Bio-mechanics, Helicopter

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Professor

ARAKAWA,

Yoshihiro

Electric Propulsion

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Professor

SUZUKI,

Shinji

Flight Mechanics, System Optimization

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Professor

HORI,

Koichi

Artificial Intelligence Application in Space, Robotics in Space

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Professor

FUJIMOTO, Koji

Deformation and Fracture of Materials

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Professor

WATANABE

Toshinori

Unsteady Aerodynamics in Turbomachinery, Aerospace Propulsion

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Professor

AOKI,

Takahira

Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Composite Structures, Biomechanics

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Professor

RINOIE,

Kenich

Aircraft Design, Separated Flow Aerodynamics

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Professor

NAKASUKA,

Shin-ichi

Spacecraft Engineering, Artificial Intelligence,Control,Orbital Mechanics

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Professor

TSUE,

Mitsuhiro

Combustion, Propulsion System

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Associate Professor

AKAISHI,

Mina

Artificial Intelligence Application

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Associate Professor

TERAMOTO,

Susumu

Aerodynamics of Internal Flow

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Associate Professor

TSUCHIYA,

Takeshi

Flight Mechanics, System Optimization

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Associate Professor

HIMENO,

Takehiro

Aerospace Propulsion

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Associate Professor

IMAMURA,

Taro

Aircraft Design, Aerodynamics

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Associate Professor

YOKOZEKI, Tomohiro

Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Composite Structures

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Associate Professor

NAKAYA,
Shinji

Combustion, Propulsion System

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Associate Professor

 KOIZUMI,
Hiroyuki		 Electric Propulsion

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Associate Professor (Visiting)

MORIMOTO, Tetsuya

Industrial Policy in aviation

Dept. of

Aero. & Astro.

Professor

KOSHI, Mitsuo

Combustion chemistry, Reactive gas dynamics

School of Frontier Science

Professor

TAKEDA, Nobuo

Smart Structure and Materials, Composite Engineering

School of Frontier Science

Professor

SUZUKI, Kojiro

Aerodynamics and Aero-thermodynamics of High-Speed Flow

School of Frontier Science

Professor

KOMURASAKI, Kimiya

Electric Propulsion, High-Enthalpy Gas Dynamics

Dept.of AIS

Professor

IWASAKI, Akira

Earth Observation, Space Environment Utilization

Dept.of AIS

Associate Professor

YAIRI, Takehisa

Artificial Intelligence, Control

RCAST

Professor

NISHINARI, Kazuhiro

Non-linier Dynamics

Aero. & Astro.   : Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Graduate School of Engineering

AIS                    : Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering

RCAST              : Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology

ISAS/JAXA       : Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency




Major Facilities

Facility Specifications
1 Low Speed Wind Tunnel Goettingen Type, Test Section Diameter 1.5m, 60 Horse Power, Maximum Wind Speed 35m/sec
2 Shock Tube Cross Section 7cm X 7cm, Maximum Chamber Pressure 20kg/cm^2
3 Flutter Wind Tunnel Open-Jet Type, Test Section 0.3m X 1.2m, 15 Horse Power, Maximum Wind Speed 25m/sec
4 Smoke Wind Tunnel Suction Type, Test Section 0.1m X 1.2m, 15 Horse Power, Operating Wind Speed 8m/sec
5 Free Flight Wind Tunnel Open-Jet Type, Test Section 6m X 4m, 120 Horse Power, Maximum Wind Speed 15m/sec
6 Transonic Wind Tunnel Induction Type, Test Section 0.3m X 0.28m, Mach Number 0.4-1.2
7 Supersonic Wind Tunnel Blow-down Type, Test Section 0.4m X 0.4m, Stagnation Pressure 0.22MPa-1.0MPa, Mach Number 2,3,4
8 Hypersonic Thermal Wind Tunnel Ejector Type, Test Section Diameter 0.12m, Stagnation Pressure 50 ata, Stagnation Temperature 800K, Mach Number 7
9 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Ejector Type, Test Section Diameter 0.2m, Stagnation Pressure 5MPa, Stagnation Temperature 870K, Mach Number 7,8,9
10 Magnetoplasmadynamic Arc Jet Steady-Type, Max. Power 50kW, Max. Applied Magnetic Field 5,000Gauss, Max. Temperature 20,000K, Pressure 760-0.01Torr
11 Testing Machines 10 ton Universal Tester
12 Fatigue Testing Machine -10ton to +10ton
13 High Temperature Test Bath Maximum Temperature 400degC
14 CO2 Gas Dynamic Laser
15 Low Speed Cascade Wind Tunnel Maximum Wind Speed 50m/sec
16 Testing Machines for Materials
17 Photo-Elastic Test Apparatus
18 Flight Simulator Fixed Cockpit with CG Workstation
19 Scanning Electron Microscope Resolving Power 6nm
20 Transonic Cascade Tunnel
21 Falling Tower 10^-6 g, 1 sec
22 Aerospace Environmental Testing Facilities Space Chamber, High Temperature Universal Testing Machine, Information Processing System



Aerospace Environmental Testing Facilities


(a) Space Chamber


(b) High Temperature Universal Testing Machine

　

Contact us

Mailing address:

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

University of Tokyo

7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, JAPAN

　

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