A research section on the history and engineering of Brunels has been established in the Division of Technology & Society, the JSME, in November, 2003. The research section focuses into the great engineers of Marc Isambard Brunel and Isambard Kingdom Brunel who left the valuable works that formed a lot of epochs in civil engineering in the 19 century. The aim and scope of the research section is to collect and evaluate their efforts from the standpoint of history of engineering, and to inform the summarized materials to public as paper, publication, and digital archives. In 2006 of two hundreds birth anniversary of Isambard, some special events will be held in Japan and also England. In this research section, then, we would like to participate in the events.

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The investigation is done on the recognition about what degree of false step is caused by the students, when the teachers of Arts course at Junior High School guided metalworking work. Survey items are "the degree of false step of the student", "the Necessity for study" and "the existence of instruction experiences of teacher". The investigation was done about the false step of student by the questionnairings and the interviews to the teachers. As the result, there were the correlations between "the degree of the false step of student and the existence of the instruction experience of teacher", "the Necessity for study and the existence of instruction experiences of teacher", and "the degree of false step of student and the necessity for learning".

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The field of the technical high school seems to be far from the actual industry field. Over the years we became acquinted with the small and medium-scale enterprises workers, and we have been looking around various enterprises ever since. We are astonished at the latest machine and the skilled worker. Nowadays, the small and medium-scale enterprises have developed information technology. Moreover we have learned many things from workers. We need to study in cooperation with various enterprises. This paper describes the educational practices of the technical high school which cooperated with the small and medium-scale enterprises.

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This study clarifies whether the practical engineering education reflects the class for the student as how interesting thing. Four cases on them are shown and mentioned below, (1) the performance of hybrid system by wind power and photovoltaic power generation, (2) the performance of the educational Stirling engine, (3) the performance of the temperature characteristic of double tube heat exchanger, (4) the performance of the mini wind force car in creation and practical training. The present paper has clarified the effectiveness in teaching and has tried its argumentation.

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A curriculum of Fundamental Engineering Drawing, which serves to support engineering design education, is beginning a series of lecture on spring term of the freshman. In this course, students experiences the "learning of basic skill for drawing ", " drawing of idea for personal article" and communication through drawing ". As a result they are able to acquire "drawing skill for engineering design" using their own abilities.

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This paper describes how we, the Kochi University of Technology, educate 3D-CAD design. In the past, design education using drafters was common. However, 3D-CAD education has become more common due to the recent trend of cheap software and more convenient computer tools. The issues to be considered for the education are selection of a text, study hours including homeworks, and how students can learn by themselves. The text is the one for design of manual winch, hours as actual results were 4 hours including 1.5 hours in class for each lecture, and students needed to learn by themselves following the instruction by teaching assistants.

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In recent years, society shows the rise of the concern about "Monozukuri". According to the results of present condition's research on the technological skill for the Japanese manufacturing industries, it is necessary to continue the skill to next generation. We have analyzed the statue of the technician engineer of society demand from three-view point skill, nature and role. In conclusion, I would suggest that we must train the created type technician engineer.

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This research has examined the need of "the high creativity object" which should be necessary for the future global society. And, this research has been defined as the universally diachronic power which it has creativity proved scientifically. Four stages are set up about the expression of the creativity by this research newly. This research is thought this stage to be common even to the expression of the creativity in which field. It gives the outline about the expression process of the creativity stated before by this report. And it thought which point this research was useful in comparison with the research until now in. It was found out that it was useful as that result in some points. As for the utility of this research as well, this report is reported.

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This paper deals with the Thames Tunnel designed by Marc Isambard Brunel, 1769-1849,and co-worked by his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1806-1859. The Thames Tunnel is the first thoroughfare sub-river tunnel produced by bricks, 1202ft long, built between 1825 and 1843,joining Rotherhithe and Wapping beneath the Thames in East London. Although Marc invented a shielding device for 'Forming Tunnels or Drifts Under Ground' in 1818,he changed the cylindrical shield into the rectangular shield and applied. It is due to that the Thames Tunnel had two parallel roadways. The project had experienced so many accidents, but had finally succeeded. The shield, presently, has been become a standard for tunneling.

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The bucket chain water scoop wheel invented in China in the second century is the proto-type of a chain conveyor technology system. The industry of present age is benefiting by the advance of its technology. The technology of the water scoop wheel of this type was invented 1500 years earlier than Western Europe. And it is the essence of Chinese ancient-times machine technology. Authors report the results of an investigation of this water scoop wheel which is existing in Yunnan, China.

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The Yunnan museum of minority nationalities in Kunming of the provincial capital in Yunnan in China is the greatest race museum in Asia. Many ethnic minorities are living in Yunnan. The cart led by two buffalos currently used was restored and was exhibited in the museum. The results of an investigation and a comparison result with the two-wheeled oxcart already investigated in Vietnam and Cambodia are reported here.

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The first domestically-built electric locomotive is said as locomotive which used at the Ashio Copper Mine of Tochigi Prefecture. Wheel arrangement of this electric locomotive was 0-4-0,and built in 1893 by the Ashio Copper Mine Works. Later, this works renamed as Ashio Seisakusho and later renamed again as Furukawa Kikai Kinzoku Co.. In addition to this example, other five examples of electric locomotive building are introduced. They are as follows, 1) The 0-4-0 mine-type electric locomotive built in 1911 by Hitachi Ltd, 2) The Class ED40 (former Class 10020) 0-8-0 Apt-type electric locomotive built in 1919 by Omiya Works of Railway Agency (later, Ministry of Railway), 3) The Class ED15 (former Class 1070) 0-4・4-0 trunk-line electric locomotive for freight trains built in 1924 by Hitachi Ltd., 4) The Class EF52 4-6・6-4 trunk-line electric locomotive for passenger services designed in 1928 by Ministry of Railway., 5) The No.1 0-4・4-0 convex-type electric locomotive built in 1916 by the Sakai Higashi Works of Osaka Koya Railway (later, Nankai Electric Railway).

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