2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Materials and Chemical Technology Department of Materials Science and Engineering Graduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
Properties and manufacturing process for automotive sheet steels
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- / Yukiko Kobayashi / Nobuyuki Yoshimura / Yusuke Mochida / Chisato Wakabayashi
- Class Format
- Lecture (HyFlex)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- MAT.M428
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 3-4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Oct 2, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Steel is one of the most familiar materials in our daily lives, with applications spanning a wide range of fields.
In the first half of the lecture, we will provide an overview of the different performance requirements for each part of an automobile body and how steel materials are designed to meet those requirements.
The second half will cover steel materials and manufacturing methods for ships and hydrogen storage tanks, the use of steel in disaster prevention and mitigation for river embankments, steel joining technologies, and an introduction to analysis techniques such as 3D atom probe (3DAP), which contribute to the development of new steel materials.
Each of these specialized topics will be explained by a lecturer from Nippon Steel, who is also an alumnus of Institute of Science Tokyo(Tokyo Institute of Technology).
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Trends in the Automotive Industry, Concepts of Material Design, and Manufacturing Methods
2) Concepts and Manufacturing Methods of Steel Materials for Steel Structures, Heavy Plate Construction, Shipbuilding, and the Energy Sector
3) Utilization and Joining Technologies of Steel Materials
4) Analytical Techniques for the Development of New Steel Materials
Keywords
Sheet steel, Automobile, High strength, Microstructure, Mechanical property
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Each class consists of lecture and exercise.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | This lecture is intensive course and consists of seven topics. Students learn properties and manufacturing processes of some representative sheet steels for automotive applications in each class. |
Specified by the lecturer. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Specified by the lecturer.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Handouts
Evaluation methods and criteria
Specified in the classes.
Related courses
- MAT.M405 ： Advanced Microstructure Design of Ferrous Materials
- MAT.M406 ： Advanced Microstructure Design of Non-ferrous Materials
Prerequisites
None
Other
None