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The working model of Brunel's atmospheric railway was made and demonstrated at a museum event and a university festival event. The atmospheric railway was worked in England for a half year in 1848. The system of the railway is interested in due to very simple principal but the mechanism is complicated. The working model is, therefore, good for us because of understanding the principal and mechanism through hand-made work. In the events, children, also adults, well enjoyed watching and playing with the working model. In the present report we summarized the detail of the model, such as materials, sizes and shapes, parts, performances, problems, and further tasks for application.

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The atmospheric railway was an environment-friendly railway in the 19^<th> century directed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) in England. The railway could run as no-noise, no smoke, no spew, and no slip on the line, by driving force generated from the pressure difference between the front and rear of the piston. This principle, named atmospheric or pneumatic system was applied in Kingstown in Ireland, London, Parris, New York, etc. In this paper, some examples of such applications have been surveyed through references about atmospheric and pneumatic railway systems. This aims to study and design the practical system in Japan and to familiarize the railway to Japanese.

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In the circumstances of cold war after World War II, space activity has expanded to various applications such as humankind's lunar landing by the Apollo spacecraft, construction of space stations, communications and broadcasting satellites. In such circumstances, Japan has also been active in space development for peaceful purposes, based on technology imported from the United States, and improved upon it in her own way. Presently, the developed technologies are transferred from governmental agencies to private companies in order to provide commercial services. In this paper, we discuss the process of space development in Japan, stressing the activity among government, industry and academia.

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Recently, introduction of wind powered generation systems are extremely active all over the world. The scales of these output of the systems are more than 2MW as the grid connection systems. Moreover, the offshore wind powered generation systems are practical use level in European countries. This paper describes the development of large scale horizontal-axis propeller type of two-bladed and three-bladed wind powered generation systems in European countries and U.S.A from the historical point of view, especially focused on late 20^<th> century. Then, the authors describe the assignment of wind machines of coming generation.

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In this report, "Mechanical Engineering Heritage" authorized by JSME in 2007 and its continuation and development will be introduced. Next three contents will be explained. 1) Authorization of "Mechanical Engineering Heritage" by JSME and responses from society. 2) Authorization of "Mechanical Engineering Heritage" and its continuation and development in future. 3) Succession of "Mechanical Engineering Heritage" authorization and conclusions on this report.

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Up to the present, authors have sometimes researched in the field for chain conveyor water scoop wheel with rectangular plates remained in People's republic of China. At that time, each dimension of the parts of the water wheel was measured. In the mechanical engineering field, the unit of the length is used "millimeter" with no declaration. However, it flashed by chance when drawing was performed from the measurement value. Parts are sure to be made from the unit of "里・丈・尺・寸・分・厘・毫" from which use is prohibited now if it is a sphere of the culture of the Chinese character. Then, authors analogized the unit of length in manufacturing standards from the measurement values of the parts of the water wheel.

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The ideal way of the product manufacturing manufacturing from the user side is described about the product development and inverse manufacturing that describes the ideal way of manufacturing that doesn't deprave the global environment and thinks about the comfortable production site, and defends safe product product liability law.

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This paper considers the potential of "regional ecotourism" for understanding co-relationship between natural environment and artificial objects. The regional ecotourism need not special geological characteristics, it need only land beneath our feet. Through understanding the geological construction processes of imminent area, the participants understand the change of regional environment condition with time. The understanding the role of artificial objects and its environmental impact, the participants can set priority of regional environment and make consensus of the future regional environmental condition. This paper further argues that the regional ecotourism is the most appropriate form for solving the scenery problem between natural environment and artificial objects.

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The analytical and experimental evaluations of the newly developed panel type solar cooker are performed in the study to show its practicality and efficiency especially for the use in the developing countries. The developments of two kinds of panel type solar cookers are introduced in the paper. One is a small and less expensive cooker for the educational purpose aimed for the use in the elementary or junior high schools. The other is a relatively larger foldable cooker with durable material intended for the use in the developing countries. Both analyses and experiments show that these cookers work sufficiently for the all sun elevations.

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Although many types of small wind turbines have been introduced to the market such as Darius, Savonius, and Ducted, none of these conventional products succeeded to gain users' satisfaction due to their problems such as excessive rotation speed, noise, vibration, visual impact, and electric consumption upon starting. Featuring unique loop-shape blades, Loopwing Wind Turbine is a whole new type of wind turbine that solves the problems faced by the conventional small wind turbines and brings about an innovation to the wind power industry. In this report, I introduce the design concept, experimental performances, educational kit and products as its developer and suplier.

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It is very important for us to conserve our beautiful planet, the earth. In order to sustain the earth, we have to conquer many problems. Abnormal climate caused by the too much energy which has been consumed by human society for a long time is one of the typical examples. A possible way to stand against environment and energy problems is to enlighten the young people who will be tackling these problems in the future. To achieve the targets, some useful and interesting teaching materials for students are introduced such as windmills, solar heat collectors, and data logging systems to recognize our environment.

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In this paper, I will describe how environmental management system (EMS) in Chiba University works. Chiba University utilizes EMS as a chance to give students business education. The Students ISO committee, which consists of students who take the EMS course I or II which is provided by the university, plays an important role in the EMS. This program was awarded with the Good Practice Program in University Education by MEXT.

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This paper describes a new point of view for the environment and energy education that is the important task to teach the urgent and serious issue of the global warming. The key context of this paper is to introduce the tacit knowledge into the environment and energy education also with explicit knowledge. The tacit knowledge, in this field, is a private and social custom to behave alert and agile based on environment friendly mind. The teachers should introduce their class to educate such custom and sense through experiences in the natural environment and field works. The simply way to behave like environment friendly is to say "mottainai" and act with a sense of "mottainai".

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The cooperation of children in regional education is roughly devided into two forms, using by college institutions and visiting the elemantary school. In the former case, various equipments and apparatus can be used. In the open school of "science and monotukuri", using the college institutions,children make windships under the guide of teacers and students of technical college.

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The science education actibity of the region to children is expansively and actively carried out on the basis of many educational institutions. The cost which can be used for science experiment in the elementary school is very little. The material which can be used for the experiment in the school is very inferior, and it does not contribute to the development of science and technology. It is difficult independently judges that what the pupil learns in the curriculum of the special activity. Then "the teachers of the town" have supported the club activity. The fact is useful for the alternating current with children of the region. Each school year is established for club activities in the mixing, and the leadership of the upperclassman is asked, and content is satisfactory in the result.

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The author and friends have developed various types of toys for children. The manufacturing and playing methods of these toys have been serialized in the magazine "Happiness for Children" for children with their parents. The summary of the series is introduced.

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Joetsu City was born in 2005 as a result of the largest scale merger of municipalities in Japan. This led the newborn city to hold as many as 400 companies in manufacturing industry. For the small- and medium-sized enterprises faced with keen competition, securing and developing human resources is the most imminent challenge. This study deals with an extension course for manufacturing industry with a focus on processing using machining centers conducted with collaboration of the local community and the government. The program was developed to help participants to acquire basic NC machining knowledge and skills through practical training covering from NC programming to parts manufacturing using a machining center. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted after the program, which revealed that participants rated the program highly in terms of the degree of satisfaction, usefulness at work, etc. Besides, a hands-on learning experience was provided to elementary and junior high school students, as well as general citizens, as part of local effort in public education with the cooperation of the Joetsu City Center for Supporting Learning Experiences. The joy and importance of manufacturing was appealed to the participants through making pictograph stamps using machining center.

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In Museum of Institute of Technology, a lot of drawing and documents of the Machine Tool of the early period of TAISHO & SHOWA are collected. However, it is easy to use the all, and it is not arranged. In this study, I compile these documents into a Digital-Database. I consider then machine production technology with the database. And I apply the database in History of Technology Education.

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This paper describes the contents and the practice results of the design and drawing education in the technology teacher education course. Students grapple with the design and drawing of a motor driven winch using a motor and a gearbox for models. Students don't learn the basis of techmology systematically. It is neccesary to draw up the curriculum of minimum essentials on technology and educate the abilities for evaluating and managing technology.

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We have developed a computer assisted instruction (CAI) system for simulating 3-dimensional mechanism construction. In this study, the system was applied to out-of-class learning of gear mechanisms. Fundamental questions and exercises on gear mechanism construction were delivered to students who take the class in machine mechanism design as the contents of the Leaning Management System (LMS). Since few students dropped out in exercises of mechanism construction, the system seems to be useful for out-of-class learning. And, the analysis of the access logs obtained from the LMS reveals that there are four typical learning styles among the students. The analysis of the logs also suggests that the system with simple user interface to construct mechanism is recommended to some students. Additionally, answers to the questionnaire indicate that the system is effective for students to improve motivation for studying and understanding of gear mechanism.

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The Innovation Center for Research and Engineering Education purports to promote innovative and creative mind for engineering in students. It provides various education programs and events for students, and supports teaching staff to carry out such education and research programs. The paper describes the engineering education conducted by the center for the first year students since 2002.

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The academic ability of freshman widely spreads due to the variety of learning experience at high school. This research introduced a system based on team learning to improve this problem. How to untie a practice problem is explained each other between the students in the team learning. The experiment with which a student can participate aggressively was put into effect in the team learning Intelligibility improvement to the class of the student was tried from these methods. It was questioned about to team learning in this research. As a result it became clear that vanity and team learning are useful for improvement of understanding of the class of the student.

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"Monozukuri" is defined as long range from the basic concept of goods and products created from basic research results by science and technology, design, manufacturing and furthermore recycling concept to its realization through the idea that engineering and technical skills are both wheels of the vehicle. To educate leaders with high qualities is essential in order to create new industry with making things. The paper describes new liberal arts lecture which compose NHK video program and student's reports contents.

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Shonan Institute of Technology offers a course, entitled "Introduction to Emerging, High Technologies," for undergraduate students at all engineering departments. In each year, freshmen constitute a majority of a total of about three hundred course attendees. The purpose of this course was to brief the students on the subject, with the introduction of new technologies, which had been and/or were being under research and development (R & D) mainly at industry, so that they can familiarize themselves with trends of the emerging, high technologies, intended to be utilized in the market. The first author taught the subject course for Fall Semester of Fiscal Year 2005, and conducted a variety of surveys for the students to investigate their interest and motivation in learning the emerging, high technologies, industrial areas of their interest, their career interest, etc. As a result of this study, the authors reached a conclusion that it would be desirable to combine discussion of general trends of the eight, major science and technology areas, defined by White Paper on Science and Technology, and explanation of relationship between technology, society, industry, and the market, among others, in addition to the ongoing, specific presentations of the new technologies, for the students to gain broader perspectives in considering and choosing their future directions for their research and career.

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Following Report No. 4 of a series of the papers on "New Approaches for Industry and Economy Focused Courses," the current report describes results of the survey given to the subject course attendees, and a case for the impact of the subject course on a male student at Doshisha University, who went to the United States to earn his pre-MBA degree and then Kyoto University Graduate School to earn his Master's degree to become a multidisciplinary business engineer. It is shown that the subject course is effective in giving broad perspectives for the students to advance their studies, elevate their professional skills, and thereby achieve their objectives and career interests, among others.

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In recent years, manufacturing based on the universal design, emerged from barrier-free technology, has been demanded. This technology in manufacturing products is to design on the assumption that various people like the senior citizen and persons with disabilities, etc. can use it without trouble. In this paper, it reports on the following as the first step to the universal design. We developed a computer input device based on the knowledge learnt at the technical high school as a barrier-free design, and improve it on a PDCA cycle.

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As the subject of "Project Study", we chose to manufacture an electric wheelchair. Designing and making it helped us acquire more knowledge of the frames and learn how to control motors with micro-computers such as H8 and so on. Also we are going to study human engineering from the standpoint of the welfare and review the wheelchair accordingly.

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In case a design builds monochrome, it is a process which materializes what monochrome is built how. The subject outline and attainment target of machine design and exercise are fully utilizing the knowledge of the basic subject of mechanical engineering, and creating a machine and parts. At this lecture, an understanding of a design process, the statement of principles of a design, the embodiment of a design, design calculation, drawing, etc. are learned about the design of the machine product currently used for training (creative) of the problem solution capability as a designer of a machine. In the 1st report, it carried out to what should be made now, the machine design education of the next machine element designing method center of describing the lesson form of machine design and exercise has been improved, and consideration about new machine design and exercise education was performed from the viewpoint of the production of a design=thing.

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As the main point of a design, the contents of a lecture about planning of a plan drawing, creation of a working drawing, and processing and assembly adjustment are outlined. The outline of how to advance load calculation of lifting and lowering device and its contents was performed. It evaluation of the submitted design account and a drawing was performed. Furthermore, this considered the educational result of a machine design and exercise to the lesson evaluation questionnaire carried out when a lesson was completed.

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There are few examples of Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) software for the master of CAD/CAM system. In addition, there is no CAI software which guides a correct operation procedure, while synchronizing with the user operation. Then, we have developed a teaching material support system which can correspond to various teaching materials, and user (student) can learn the teaching materials by himself. An external system (CAD/CAM system) is also the same, it is necessary for the teaching material (the manual) which user can learn by himself. In that case, a usual manual cannot understand user's operation procedure. Therefore, by making the manual animation, the system side enabled to guide user's operation procedure and understood the operation procedure. On the other hand, by developing the function which guides the correct operation (navigation function), user enabled to learn the correct operation procedure. This paper describes the navigation function in the animation manual and the study career.

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There is no system which can do suitable guidance for the student's ability and can apply to various teaching materials. Therefore, we have developed a teaching material support system which can correspond to various teaching materials, and can learn for myself. In dividing the lecture method into the teaching material and the guidance procedure, this support system can be applied to various teaching materials only by constructing the content of the teaching material. On the other hand, by installing the mechanism which can understand student's ability, this support system can do suitable guidance for student's ability by the content of teaching material constructed according to ability. This paper describes the outline of this support system and problems for practical use.

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We have developed a teaching material support system which can correspond to various teaching materials, and can learn for myself. In dividing the lecture method into the teaching material and the guidance procedure, this support system can be applied to various teaching materials only by constructing the content of the teaching material. On the other hand, by installing the mechanism which can understand student's ability, this support system can do suitable guidance for student's ability by the content of teaching material constructed according to ability. In addition, this support system has a function to change teaching material specification. This paper describes the mechanism of automatic grading by the function.

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We have conducted to develop the computer assisted instruction system which provides an e-Learning environment for drawing practice. In this study, we propose two functions of the system to find out mistakes on the projection view without the help of teachers. The first function realizes that the system generates 3-dimensional object based on the projections drawn by the learner. In the case of the incorrect projections, such as lack of lines, mismatch between each view, etc., are provided, the unnatural shaped object is shown on the display so that the learner can easily understand one's mistakes in projection. The second function is used for checking the line type on the projections. This function informs the learner about the mistake of hidden outline by using the 3-D object with colored lines. The prototype system was developed and examples of execution were demonstrated.

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Department of Production Systems Engineering in Tokyo Metropolitan College of Technology was established as a new department descendent from Department of Mechanical Engineering at 1996. It is the purpose of the department to foster creative and promising production systems engineers. A core of curriculum is 3D-CAD skill in the field of designing and drafting course, because it is an increasing interest in manufacturing systems as concurrent engineering used 3D-CAD in the recent industrial world. This paper is intended as a proposition of concurrent education which is a new practical education system used 3D-CAD/CAE in the field of a mechanical deign.

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In recent years, economic globalization, shortening of product development period, diversification of consumer taste, etc. are remarkable. The above severe environment, small and medium-sized enterprises on the manufacturing industry have many difficulties. Although it is said for product differentiation or branding that applying of a strategic design approach is effective, in small and medium-sized enterprises, the strategic design approach is not applied enough. Then, we maintain the apparatus used for the strategic design approach such as goods plan, machine design, trial production, product evaluation, and sales promotion, etc. Using these apparatus, we have begun the design support to the small and medium-sized enterprises since 2006, and the place is called Design Center in TIRI (Tokyo Metroporitan Industial Technology Research Institute). In this paper, we describe the directionality of design use method and the support service of Design Center, based on the report concerning the design use of Tokyo and national government.

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Among small and medium-sized companies, it is considered essential to activate the basic manufacturing industry supporting the advanced technologies of major, companies (supporting industry). For this activation, reliance on skills is not enough; it is also necessary to develop unique technologies of high novelty based on the latest scientific knowledge by making effective use of existing technologies available to small and medium-sized companies. We consider that the key to this activation is the cultivation of new human resources. The Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology (TMCIT) is located in the heart of the Keihin Industrial Area, where many small and medium-sized companies are integrated. By assuming future production based on digitization, the Production Systems Engineering Department of TMCIT adopted 3D CAD for design education from the beginning, and has been promoting an education system of digital production using these databases. With the consideration that the advanced facilities at TMCIT will contribute to local small and medium-sized companies, we have been cultivating new engineering talent for these companies since 2006. This report will introduce the content and effect of this education.

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