In Japan, the population of elderly, who are at age of 65 and over, is estimated to be about 36million in 2050. This number is one-third of the total population, which indicates the coming of hyper elderly society. Such situation becomes the big financial burden by the increase of the medical cost. This paper describes the nursing-care prevention classes cooperated with Kisarazu city. Furthermore, this report examined the educational effects on the students who voluntary participated in the nursing-care classes.

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The time has come to reflect on our civilization which has been blessed with convenient fossil fuels for the past 100 years. Fossil fuels such as petroleum, coal, and natural gas have become limited resources. In addition, bad effects caused by excessive carbon dioxide (CO_2) emissions have now begun destroying our global environment seriously. In these background, in 2005, we manufactured a practical Stirling engine using woody biomass fuels for the first time in Japan. Further we proposed a unique co-generation system with the Stirling engine that uses woody biomass fuels such as sawdust, firewood, and wood pellets. In this report, we introduce an educational challenge of environmental engineering using this Stirling engine. A unique system in which both heating/cooling and power generation are available can be constructed. And students in our laboratory have challenged to the design of a model Stirling engine contest "Stirling Techno Rally" last year. Then we took part in "RC class" and won third prize in the rally. We introduce "Stirling Techno Rally" and our radio-controlled model of Stirling engine car.

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This paper describes a practical subject called "Mechanical Design and Practice IB". The subject has been offered since 2009 to freshmen of our department of mechanical engineering, at Ichinoseki National College of Technology (INCT). This practical subject is aimed at teaching basic techniques of mechanical engineering (e.g. measuring, calculating and practical use of tools). The program consists of the following sessions, (a) measuring techniques using a vernier caliper and micrometer and the use of a pocket calculator, (b) how to use tools through the disassembly and assembly of a machine and (c) the designing and making of a paper airplane. These practices focus on the development of the basic knowledge of mechanical engineering and basic techniques for solving problems through the students' own "trial and error". The results of a questionnaire, that was given at the end of the school year, concerning this subject, are also shown in this paper. The students who take this subject will cultivate a wide interest in the fundamental techniques of mechanical engineering.

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The aim of this study is to develop an educational FA model in order to help students understand sequence control. The FA model incorporates PLC and SCADA through the Ethernet so as to show the latest sequence control and how to make rudder programs and SCADA projects. An evaluation of the Basic FA by student questionnaire was high, even though they were not able to understand completely the relationship between the ladder diagram and wiring.

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In NHK Robot Contest of "College of Technology"(this is called Kosen Robocon for short), students of College of Technology contend with robot manufactured by themselves. It is thought in general that winning the championship is the best result in Contest. By contrast, there are some teams for robots action performance, the author's team is latter one. The team is named "mIui", and there are manual robot called "miu-kun" with stilts and automatic robot called "i-chan" with Bamboomerang and Jacob's Ladder. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the robots, were developed for appealing interest of manufacturing. In several demonstrations,"mIui" present revolution orbit was interested by people of all ages, thereby usefulness of appealing robot results are confirmed.

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We experimented with experience-based education, asking our university engineering students to teach elementary school children about fuel cells. Our instructors first prepared educational materials, and then, in the educational program "Toyota Monozukuri Festival," taught how fuel cells generate electricity, and helped elementary school children assemble and test fuel cell kits. Finally, we polled all elementary school children and instructors, and found that in 2006, 2008, and 2009, our experience-based education improved instructor communication skills, while increasing the elementary school children's understanding of, and interest in, fuel cells.

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Recently, the importance of Problem-based learning (PBL) has been emphasizing in the field of engineering. In our laboratory, two teaching materials for PBL were presented such as airplane robot and paper plane. The 5th grade of students challenged these materials as graduation work. It was shown these materials to be effective as PBL.

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As for the designation of "Mechanical Engineering Heritage" that was begun by the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2007, applications and designations situation of 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 years are analyzed. Moreover, continuing the former paper, designation of 2009 and 2010 years are mentioned in this paper.

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This report has two contents. One is a short history on the Class 1070 No.1080 British-made tank engine and another is significance of technology history of this engine. In 1901, this locomotive was constructed at Dubs and Company(Dubs) in Glasgow for Japanese Government Railway(J.G.R.) as tender locomotive in Meiji era. For the purpose of urban and rural train service, these tender locomotives were remodeled into tank engines at railway works of Japanese Ministry of Railway (J.M.R). The No.1080 tank engine was remodeled at Hamamatsu works in 1926, but this was discontinued its train operation and was transferred to the Akatani mine railway of Nittetsu Mining Co. at Niigata Prefecture in 1940. As this mine railway was discontinued its operation in 1957, it was transferred to the Hanezuru mine railway of Nittetsu Mining Co. at Tochigi Prefecture. In 1979, this tank engine was used as its last operation for goods train and this mine was closed its business in 1991. In 2009, West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) preserved this engine at Umekoji Locomotive Museum in Kyoto. It is thought that this engine has a historic value of technology and is equal to a candidate for Mechanical Engineering Heritage of JSME.

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Chuhachi Ninomiya, a Japanese, developed the airplane quite independently, and succeeded in flying a powered miniature aircraft using rubber to drive the propeller in 1891. His achievement was 12 years in advance of the Wright brothers' success. Ninomiya proposed the manufacture of a practical airplane to the army demonstrating his achievement, but his proposal was dismissed without consideration. Afterwards, he was promoted and saved money and he used his savings to develop his airplane. When his development had made significant progress, he heard the news about the Wright brother's success and so he discontinued his development. Later, airplanes were imported into Japan from abroad and their manufacture technology was transferred also. However, Ninomiya did not participate in this project. His experience or knowledge remained unutilized and his development stopped before coming to fruition.

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This paper proposes a new virtual reality-based job training and human resource development. In our proposed system, the education content is displayed in the immersive virtual environment with haptic information, whereby a trainee may experience work in the virtual site operation. The brain functional activities of the worker under virtual and real skills training are measured using near-infrared spectroscopy, and the characteristics of these activities are analyzed in detail.

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Laser beam was oscillated first by T.H.MAIMAN in 1960, before just 50years ago. And nowadays, laser beams are used widely in production fields such as precision instrument and electrical appliance manufacturers, automobile industries, heavy industries and so on. In this presentation, outcomes are shown such as fundamental research works (oscillation characteristics and the quantification, observation of phenomena in the processing, machinability of metals with pulsed YAG laser beams, progress of melt and removed zones, processing mechanism) and application ones (complicate micro-parts of few hundreds micron, welding of magnesium alloys, dissimilar welding and precise cutting of thick plates of 36mm obtained in our laboratory).

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The teaching tool to learn the energy conversion technology in the technology education course in junior high schools were developed using a mass production type Stirling engine. Kinetic energy that was generated by the Stirling engine was converted into electric energy by a dynamo and charged in an electric double layer capacitor. The experimental practice class was carried out using this teaching tool for junior high school students. Students produced several kinds of robot including motor as production subjects and competed their performance using electric energy charged in the electric double layer capacitor. As the result, it was effective for students to learn the mechanism of energy conversion technology and the efficient usage of the energy experimentally.

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Engineering ethics is a response to the public's opinions, and "Awareness", "Autonomy", and "Practice" are its basic elements. In Japan, Engineering ethics education is offered at a lot of schools, but actually many of these studies are provided by the lecture method. By using this teaching approach, it is difficult for the students to acquire the three basic elements of engineering ethics. Even if the student understands the content, he feels that he obtained knowledge only, and thus may forget the content of study by the time he/she graduates. Moreover, the time when engineering ethics is really needed is when the student finds employment in an enterprise. Until that time, the engineer should experience continuous motivation toward ethical actions, similar to the soldier in the Trojan horse. We propose adding a fieldwork component with the theme of safety to the engineering ethics education class. To address the problem concerning safety, the students should fulfill this responsibility by communicating and acting in regards to their surroundings. The students' independent behavior in the fieldwork experience should help them acquire the necessary awareness, autonomy, and practice for the basic elements of engineering ethics.And as another method, we have proposed Ethics-Based Engineering (E.B.E), in which engineering judgments are made based on a sense of ethics. EBE allows engineers to have these viewpoints in learning specialized subjects, and helps them nurture an independent spirit.

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In this paper, we show an effectiveness of Scenario Graph which is one of the system design approach. Conventionally, Systems Design Methodology is used in product design but we transfer them from product design to service design. We take up a safety and security as research theme of system design approach and perform problem establishment and proposing solution. Firstly, by using KJ method and Pugh Selection, we determine important problems, which are concerned about the future of Japan such as increase of Hikikomori, which is the abnormal avoidance of social contact. Secondary, by using Scenario Graph, we derive new type of insurance as a solution, named Hikikomori insurance. Parents pay an insurance premium for their children and insurance company pays a cost for recovery program such as mental care and private tutor if insurance contractor's children become Hikikomori. Finally we have carried out verification of the solution.

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In recent years, new university educational methods are being sought for cultivating abilities in students to solve problems that are directly related to many issues faced by the humans such as the effects on the environment. Such trends can be understood from the statements in the criteria documentations by Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education (JABEE). In order to materialize such an education, the ability to perform a wide variety of activities such as being able to identify the source of a problem by oneself is in demand. The basis of learning is the learning through the activities of planning and research carried out by the students themselves on whatever they wish to do. With the aim of supporting this concept, the authors created a course named "Special Course for Active Students," and have put it into practice for several years. We encourage the students to propose research topics, which are not from subjects commonly thought but which are practical, appropriate for the present time, closely concerned with them, and which can be solved by their own effort. Here, we report on the efforts on environmental issues and education of recycling made by the authors through the "Special Course for Active Students" developed at Tamagawa University

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Environmental and energy issues are causing major concerns as a result of the prospects of global warming. This report presents the authors' entries in the first event of the 'New Energy Contest' organized by Tamagawa University. The challenge in the contest was building a non-electric refrigerator. Students from universities and national colleges of technology were locked in a battle for various ideas to build a refrigerator. The authors designed and built two types of refrigerators: a refrigerator that uses a regenerative material and another that uses the combined effect of boiling at a reduced-pressure and an adsorptive material. Here we report on the design and fabrication aspects of the refrigerators and the measured final temperatures of the two refrigerators.

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In this presentation, repair on the Class 1070 No.1080 British-made 4-4-2 tank engine preserved in the Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum at Kyoto will be introduced.

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