Using the marketing teaching materials , the radio control method which is easy for the learner from the beginner above the intermediate to use developed vehicle type robot teaching materials by the device of the control software with the device of the operation mechanism. By the introduction of these teaching materials, the improvement with being considerable in the both sides with the quality and the quantity of the learning contents could be realized. As for these teaching materials, the learner can choose a wide range of features very easily. Moreover, by making use of merits of the marketing teaching material use, a lot of robot groups could be installed in the identical control range, it became easy to build more practicing status.

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In our laboratory, problem based learning type studies have been carried out as graduation research programs for several years. They are developments of equipments for environment and welfare. This report is concerned with the practical activities about manufacturing bear bells as one of these problem based learning programs. This program was carried out by the advanced engineering course students in the advance exercise for design fundamentals. Through manufacturing bear bells, our students understood that manufacturing design, considering of working process, and use of effective working jigs took very important role in manufacturing. In engineering (manufacturing) education at colleges, necessity of some practical design exercise related to manufacturing design and designing working jigs etc. are emphasized here.

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Many reports exist of educational practices that introduce experiments and manufacturing into lessons for the purpose of promoting students' motivation for learning, supporting their independent learning, and training their problem solving ability. Various teaching materials are developed to support these teaching and learning activities. We have developed a multimedia learning support system of ultra micro-wind turbines. This system consists of teaching material concerning fundamental knowledge and theory of wind turbines, the database and the software program for predicting wind turbines' performance. Ultra micro-wind turbines of 220-mm diameter are produced from paper; the database is produced based on experimental values of their performance. The software program for predicting wind turbines' performance is developed based on this database. Students learn fundamental knowledge and theory of wind turbines and refer both to results predicted by the software program and to actual data of the database; then they produce wind turbines using paper. Effectiveness of these three kinds of teaching materials is software program was verified through these students' activities.

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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. In this paper describes the relationship between the mechanical drawing and engineering drawing.

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It is important to think for students to consider the difference between the virtual reality on CAD and the real object as product using 3D-CAD/CAM. Even the basic operations of 3D-CAD can be quite complicated therefore it takes much time to get used to these basic operations. The purpose of this course is to teach the students what to do through these operations. It is to make students understand the meaning of these basic operations such as what set-ups the students do and what the set-ups are connected to. We have developed the following teaching aids used in this course:

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Lecture of mechanical design is composed of a lot of technical elements, and is complicated. Moreover, the lecture method is different according to student's ability. Therefore, we have developed a teaching material support system for mechanical design. This paper describes the developed teaching material "Reducer" by using the support system. Especially, a function to understand student's ability, and a result of using the function by the lecture is explained.

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In recent years, many schools have cooperated with local community. Our technical high school has cooperated with small companies in the Minato-ku, Tokyo. They were a member of the group which called MMR (Minato Monodukuri Renaissance). This year, we tried to manufacture the robot parts which was used as two legged robot in a sheet metal factory in the Minato-ku. Four technical high school students studied press working such as shearing and bending in the field-work. And, they completed a control circuit, constructed robot parts. Two legged robot was able to walk smoothly. The result of this educational-industrial complex was exhibited in the 8th MINATO CITY Industrial & Cultural Exhibition. In this exhibition, we could communicated with many local inhabitants.

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Faculty of Engineering of Tamagawa University provides the recycling education as a part of Zenjin education. The project was launched seven years ago for students enrolled in the Faculty of Engineering , but was extended to include the environmental education for all students four years ago, as Tamagawa Gakuen acquired a certificate of ISO14001. In this paper, we report the experiences and results of our educational activities mainly pursued in the last academic year. Specifically, the activities include 1) reports on recycling and repairing of bicycles in the foreign countries; 2) practical educations for the environmental problems such as cleaning at sea side area and local areas around our campus, or generating process of water with negatively ionized hydrogen; 3) recycling of umbrellas with repair and reuse for the local communities and exhibition of repairing umbrellas and goods for repairing.

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From the relation with the local community, the education in the wide meaning of the place which withdrew from the active service to children of neighbouring region member of society general beginning by various people is important not a few for the children who are future leader. Future science education is to gently guide in order to the educator extend the autonomy of children, and in addition, in order to satisfy the matter as an object of the interest. In this paper, it is dependent on whether the more appropriate recommendation for raising individual problem through the each theme in which children suggested practically, is possible.

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With the aim of the construction of the organization for activating the activity of the institute on the education . , as a means for transversely grasping the activity in the institute, department activity results investigation .it was considered that it clarified the human who is active on the education relation of the department through the work and carries out the call to those humans, and that it contributes to the achievement of the purpose . The result of the investigation is reported.

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This paper presents a new method to measure the levels of technology in developing countries. Almost developing countries entered to WTO have intellectual property systems and there are some domestic patent applications. We have found the good method to measure the real levels of their technology with those applications. Here, we analyze Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and people's China.

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The selection invention has close positions between patentability and unpatentability, or validity and invalidity, because the subject matter of the invention had known as to the generic concept. Therefore, it seems to consider as lacking of novelty or inventive step and these judgment accompany with many difficulties and arguments. However, the selection invention has the vital and important limitations to a competitor in the art. If the specification can have more convincing disclosure to the technical criticality of the definition against prior art, the invention able to acquire the patent right. Consequently, the selection invention is possible to have strong enforceability against the competitor.

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For the past decade patent appl ication in the field of mechanical engineering has been almost constant in both the number and ratio in respect to the patent applications made in the entire industries field. The three major sectors of application have been 1) mechanical element, 2) combustion engines and 3) heat/venti lation techniques. The trend has been the same for the past decade. Then author proposes that the engineers should commit themselves more to practice the patent analysis in the field of their specialty.

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The atmospheric railway is one of challenged projects of Isambard Kingdom Brunei who was a British engineer, 1806 to 1859. It was designed and directed by him from the standpoints of environmental benefits, such as no-noise, no-smoke, no-spew, and no-slip on steep gradient. The mechanism to wheel the train was based on the atmospheric force, which was induced by a piston in the pipeline evacuated by steam vacuum pumps. The atmospheric railway was serviced in the line from Exeter to Newton Abbot of the SDR in 1847-48. It is written in references that the trains of atmospheric railway run in VOmph (112km/h) under a weight of 28tones. The railway, however, was abandoned by troubles of air leakage through the slit at the top of the pipeline. In this paper, the mechanism of the system among piston, cylinder, and valve was discussed and the mechanism of impulse in the atmospheric railway was examined by mechanics of movement.

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The European countries and the USA can be called nations well advanced in the museum field, and many of them have devised various methods of exhibition of historical technology and industry data. Often, the data are not just exhibited in the static condition. For example, they are exhibited in the operating condition, or the information about the exhibition is acquired only when a visitor does a certain operation. This research reports some of such exhibitions in the museums of the UK, France, Germany, and the United States.

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This report describes four new railway monuments designated by the West Japan Railway Co. (JR-West) and discusses their historical engineering significance. The last designation of railway monuments took place thirty-two years ago by the Japanese National Railways (JNR). The contents of this report are as follows: 1) Introduction, 2) A short history of railway monuments and quasi-railway monuments designated by JNR, 3) Four new railway monuments designated by JR-West in 2004 and their historical engineering significance, and 4) Conclusion.

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In this report, wheel ruts of ancient Roman chariots in the ruins of Sabratha is investigated. Sabratha is famous for Roman ruin in Tripolitania of Libya. Sabratha has Greek theater and many Roman ruins. Some chariot gauge are measured, and they are very nearly equal to the present international standard railway gauge 1,435mm.

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The history of Former Ikegai Iron Works are reviewed especially on the productive works of Diesel engines. Engineer dream of the president Shotaro-Ikegai of the company, was production of mother machines for the domestic country. He was a so skill full and so excellent wise engineer that he had started to produce reciprocal engine energized with fuel materials beside of works of mother machine-shop. The first realization of production of diesel engine in Japan was taking place in his iron works, modifying commercial engine inported in Japan from Deutschrand. By such industrial activities, he and his followers had established the Ikegai konzern around 1940in Japan, in which the Ikegai automobile company was established. After the second world war, the Ikegai works had been fallen in severe economical situations. Those historical problems with developing technology of Diesel-engines are reviewed briefly.

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The Engine department of the Gas-Den, predecessor of the Hino Motors, Ltd. was reorganized as the Tokyo Automobile Industries Co. and the Hitachi Aero plane Co. in 1937 and 1939 respectively. In 1938, Japanese Navy ordered the production of German trainer "Biicker Jungman" to Kyushu Aero plane Co. and of its engine "Hirth HM504" to Gas-Den Co. respectively based on a license agreement. Although the Gas-Den (Hitachi) produced more than 1300 engines under the name of "Hatsukaze (First Wing)" for both Japanese Navy and also Army, but it was completely redesigned by Gas-Den. Its unique design was based on Gas-Den's own know-how and production technology. Hino Motors restored it by its original engine that was preserved in Hamamatsu base of Japanese Self Defense Air Force. This paper describes structure of "Hatsukaze" with comparison of original "Hirth HM504" and philosophy of technology transfer.

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Alongside Thomas Telford, bambard Kingdom Brunei and Robert Stephenson are regarded as the greatest engineers of the early Victorian age. While George and Robert Stephenson represented the main stream of railway engineering that had emerged from coal mines in northern England, I. K. Brunei was a brave challenger willing to introduce new techniques that were disliked by the orthodox engineers. The achievements of I. K. Brunei and Robert Stephenson in railway engineering were probably almost equally-matched, but Brunei's bold and determined attempts such as the introduction of broad gauge and atmospheric traction still attract many people.

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It is no doubt that Isambard Kingdom Brunei made a significant contribution to the world and established himself as a leader in his selected field. In this report, his engineering spirit that designed and conducted his great work, for example railway, ships, tunnels, cuts and stations, has been discussed through practical illustration. Presumably, the training given to 1KB by his father Mark Brunei led to his engineering spirit and its core is creative imagination based on mathematical skill, love and passion, patience, challenging and dreaming.

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Marc Isambard Brunei and Isambard Kmgdom Brunei were heroitfcivil engineers iir.lfie 19^<th> century-the Victorian era-and nowadays, as well in Britain. For example, the BBC's voting as the Great Britomin 2002, I. K Brunei won the second prize. But imJapan, the name 'Brunei' is not so much popular. Who (or what) are the Brunels? Why do we attention them? What is the meaning? Now we will introduce the images of the Brunei's legacy, their lives and their times on the movie and to consider whatis to be a civillengineer, and how we CAN get to be a civil engineer under the time of socio-engineering, what might be called 'synergy'.

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The Research Section on the History and Engineering of Brunels, the JSME, is working to understanding Isambard Kingdom Brunei (IKB, 1806-1859) and his achievements. We have a time to discuss the man from various stands of views- engineering, achievements, personality, friendship, engineering history, patents, etc., and to try to discover his new profession nature. The article describes and shows the points for discussions: Who is Brunel? and - What was Brunei going to transmit to us of today? Also, the article describes the approaches and schedule of the research section from now to 2006. The research section is going to proceed the understanding of Brunei who was a genius civil and mechanical engineer in the Victorian Age.

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A part of researches on conservation of traditional architectural technology in Japan, field research works are conducted in those few month. The memorial congress of the Japan traditional architectural conservation association, Kuonji-temple, Honmyuji-temple, and the east Japan training shop for younger architecture artisans are visited and observed. Also some traditional monumental buildings located in Kochi-prefecture are visited for the survey.

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This paper descried different windmill and watermill at Japan and Europe,So different millwright.

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