2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Engineering Undergraduate major in Mechanical Engineering

Mechano-science and Experiment Project

Academic unit or major: Undergraduate major in Mechanical Engineering
Instructor(s): Teaching Staffs
Class Format: Experiment (Face-to-face)
Media-enhanced courses: -
Day of week/Period (Classrooms): 5-8 Tue (I3-101) / 1-4 Wed (I3-101)
Class: -
Course Code: MEC.Q322
Number of credits: 004
Course offered: 2025
Offered quarter: 3-4Q
Syllabus updated: Sep 17, 2025
Language: Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

[Overview]
The aim is to deepen understanding the physical phenomena learned in class through measurement and visualization by forming teams of around 4-5 people and experimentally verifying . To achieve this, students design, discuss, and create experimental equipment (or parts of it, such as measuremental setup and data processing software), and then carry out experiments and evaluations.

[Objectives]
1. Develop the ability to clarify the phenomena under investigation, determine what should be verified and understood, identify issues, and propose solutions.
2. Master the PDCA cycle by examining the required equipment, measurement instruments, and data processing methods, planning the experiments (Plan), manufacturing the equipment and conducting the experiments (Do), evaluating the results (Check), and making improvements as needed (Action).
3. Cultivate management skills by planning and promoting projects as a group.
4. By applying and utilizing previously acquired knowledge while independently studying unlearned areas, acquire a broader range of mechanical engineering knowledge and deepen understanding.

Course description and aims

1) Through discussions within the team, be able to plan and carry out projects to solve problems.
2) Be able to learn and use knowledge of mechanical engineering and other necessary related fields on your own initiative.
3) Understand your own role in the team, and acquire teamwork skills to carry out the project as planned.
4) Develop the skills to record the details of your work, and to complete the final outcomes (experimental equipment, reports, presentation materials, video reports, etc.) and bring the project to a successful conclusion.
5) Develop the skills to clearly explain the details of your work to others.

Keywords

Creative thinking, project planning, management skills, discussion skills, presentation skills, experimental demonstrations

Competencies

Specialist skills
Intercultural skills
Communication skills
Critical thinking skills
Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Creative thinking, project planning, management skills, discussion skills, presentation skills, experimental demonstrations

Class flow

Each team sets its own theme, primarily led by students, and develops and executes an overall plan working backward from the interim and final presentation dates.In the fourth quarter (4Q) following the interim presentation, teams refine their efforts by revising their theme and plan based on the outcomes of the third quarter (3Q). Finally, they compile their work into a final product , presentation materials, and a report.

Course schedule/Objectives

	Course schedule	Objectives
Class 1	Orientation and safety training	Assignments will be given as appropriate.
Class 2	Mini-lectures, Grouping, Selecting a Field, Theme Discussion	Assignments will be given as appropriate.
Class 3	Theme discussion and theme decision	Assignments will be given as appropriate.
Class 4	Scheduling and starting individual themes	Assignments will be given as appropriate.
Class 5	Promote individual themes	Assignments will be given as appropriate.
Class 6	Promote individual themes	Assignments will be given as appropriate.
Class 7	Promote individual themes	Assignments will be given as appropriate.
Class 8	Promote individual themes	Assignments will be given as appropriate.
Class 9	Promote individual themes	Assignments will be given as appropriate.
Class 10	Promote individual themes	Assignments will be given as appropriate.
Class 11	Completion of products and measurement data	Completion of products and measurement data
Class 12	Preparing for the interim presentation	Preparing for the interim presentation
Class 13	Interim presentations by each team	Planning for the 4th quarter and preparing interim reports
Class 14	Planning for the 4th quarter and preparing interim reports	Submission of interim report
Class 15	Orientation and promotion of individual themes	Assignments will be given as appropriate.
Class 16	Promote individual themes	Assignments will be given as appropriate.
Class 17	Promote individual themes	Assignments will be given as appropriate.
Class 18	Promote individual themes	Assignments will be given as appropriate.
Class 19	Promote individual themes	Completion the data.
Class 20	Promote individual themes	Completion the data.
Class 21	Promote individual themes	Completion the data.
Class 22	Promote individual themes	Completion the data.
Class 23	Promote individual themes	Completion the data.
Class 24	Promote individual themes	Completion the data.
Class 25	Promote individual themes	Completion the data and preparing for the final presentation
Class 26	Preparing for the final presentation	Preparing for the final presentation
Class 27	The final presentation for each team	Submission of deliverables (products, videos, reports, etc.)
Class 28	Completion of Deliverables (e.g., products, videos, reports, etc.) and clean up	Submission of deliverables (products, videos, reports, etc.)

Study advice (preparation and review)

To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend a certain length of time outside of class on preparation and review (including for assignments), as specified by the Tokyo Institute of Technology Rules on Undergraduate Learning (東京科学大学学修規程) and the Tokyo Institute of Technology Rules on Graduate Learning (東京科学大学大学院学修規程), for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.

Textbook(s)

It will be introduced as appropriate.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

It will be introduced as appropriate.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Comprehensive evaluation based on weekly reports, prototype, interim and final reports, and presentations

Related courses

XEG.B101 ： Engineering Literacy I
XEG.B102 ： Engineering Literacy II
XEG.B103 ： Engineering Literacy III
XEG.B104 ： Engineering Literacy IV
MEC.A202 ： Mechanical engineering literacy
MEC.Q310 ： Machine Tool Training
MEC.H202 ： Machine elements
MEC.H203 ： Machine drawing

Prerequisites

The students enrolled in this class must belong to mechanical engineering departments and have credits for “MEC.Q201: Introduction to Mechanical Systems” or “MEC.A202: Mechanical engineering literacy”.