GIFU UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ENGINEERING and GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Master's Program

Doctoral Program

  The master's course educates and cultivates advanced engineers and researchers by teaching diverse topics in advanced-technology. The school provides educational facilities and classes for learning advanced concepts from each engineering field together with interdisciplinary and boundary-field technologies in order to meet the requirements of these changing times.

Civil Engineering Division

  Civil Engineering Division aims to educate students to a high technical knowledge and designing capability as well as integrating all the knowledge related to civil engineering systems. The department consists of five courses as follows: Structural Design which studies design and construction material concerning infrastructures by making full use of structural and material mechanics; Geotechnical Management Engineering that studies development and preservation of supporting foundation of the existing structures; Environmental Preservation which studies local and global environments related to water and the structures; and Urban Design that studies traffic flows, urban planning, project evaluations and design concepts of the infrastructure.

Mechanical and Systems Engineering Division

  Fundamental mechanical engineering technology such as, "material strength", forming and machining process, thermal and fluid dynamics, "control technologies" will be studied and enhanced to make these technologies applicable for research and development in a wide range of new machinery. Students who master these programs can contribute in many industrial fields such as, "transportation systems", "engine systems", electric/electronic devices", "industrial robots", process machine.

Applied Chemistry Division

  In order to cope with the future technical innovation, education and research have been widely carried out in the fields of molecular design, molecular transformation, and molecular functionality, so that the chemical and physical natures of those materials that exist naturally could be clearly understood. Molecular designs that utilize theoretical approaches and numerical simulations, electronic materials and the new functional materials that use liquid crystal are major areas of study. Research on new industrial materials which are comprised of orgamometallic compounds and other organic compounds, together with the development of high functional polymer materials, biological production technology, as well as the environmental improvement technology are also being carried out vigorously. Thus, we aim to develop researchers with excellent powers of creativity as well as advanced technical experts concerned with the industrialization and the synthesis of these new materials.

Electrical and Electronic Engineering Division

  In response to the growth in electronics, and information science this department will actively support researchers who can investigate fundamental characteristics of solid-state materials and their unknown phenomena. The development of new electronic materials, devices, and technologies related to electric power generation, transmission and conversion, information analysis and processing, communications, and control systems will be a significant direction for the department.

Biomolecular Science Division

  The educational and research programs of this division cover the field of "bioscience" which promotes the understanding of life in the molecular levels, and that of "biotechnology" which has important applications to engineering. These areas not only advance new academic fields, but also train highly specialized engineers and researchers in the spirit of inquiry and creativity in response to demands of industrial society.

Information Science Division

  The education and research fields of this division include the Analysis Technique to represent and to process information, the Intelligent System to simulate human thought, the Network Technology, the advanced image processing system, the hardware and software computer technology, the human interface and the virtual reality to support human life, the autonomous machine and the applications for medical information processing etc. which are based on advanced technologies constructed from mathematical and logical theories. The division develops capable engineers and researchers for the evolving information society.

Materials Science and Technology Division

  Materials science and technology are the base of many industries; however, innovation in this field sometimes triggers a drastic change in technology. Nowadays such innovation is desired to solve global environmental problems. The educational and research programs of this division cover a wide area of the material sciences and technology, synthesis of materials, chemistry of materials, evaluation, and processing for utilization of materials. These programs assist researchers and engineers with highly specialized skills and ability in research work, and leadership in individual fields to solve environmental problems.

Human and Information Systems Division

  Human and Information Systems Engineering is a new field dedicated to building Intelligent-Mechanical-Information systems friendly to humans and the environment. This department conducts education and research merging information, control, measurement, robotics, and energy transfer technologies centered on living organisms research and human support engineering.

Mathematical and Design Engineering Division

  Using mathematical models which describe complex phenomena, we are carrying out various research projects, such as developing optimum algorithms, designing novel materials, utilizing quantum effects, and designing safe and optimum engineering systems. Based on our research experiences, we are educating our students to be creative engineers with substantial mathematical backgrounds who are discovering new engineering principles and methods for overcoming engineering difficulties.

Environmental and Renewable Energy Systems Division

  The education and research programs of the division are developing renewable energy systems and dispersed energy supply systems with innovative technology based on conventional energy. Such systems contribute to solving environmental and energy problems for mankind in the 21st century.