Elementary Experiments in Engineering

HASHIMOTO, Keizo
  Requisites  2 credits
【Aerospace Engineering・2nd semester】
16-1-0287-2335

1.
Objectives
This course enables students to acquire the necessary minimum knowledge and technical skills for performing various engineering experiments, and prepares them for “Aerospace Engineering Experiments 1 and 2,” to be taken in the third year. Students will also learn how to conduct experiments safely and correctly, and to write organized experimental reports.
[Common foundations] Students will learn how to ensure safety during experiments, the use of basic equipment, and the way of writing experimental reports.
[Experiment details] Students will experience the process of making preparations in advance, conducting experiments, and summarizing the results in reports for basic experiments relating to mechanics, radiation, electronics, electrical engineering, vacuums, and machine processing. Through these activities, the knowledge, technical skills, and sense necessary for conducting practical experiments will be acquired.
2.
Outline
[Entire class] All participants will be gathered together in a single classroom to take the course. The course will focus on lectures and will include exercises and experiments. Lectures will focus on safety training, basic knowledge and basic techniques for experimental measurements, methods of creating figures and tables, and methods of preparing reports.
[Group experiments] The class will be divided into small groups which, under the guidance of the teaching staff, perform one experiment per session, gaining experience of seven experiments in total. Themes of experiments shall include gravity measurements, the motion of falling bodies under resistance, radiation, operational amplifiers and amplification circuits, vacuum experiments, and practical machine processing 1 and 2.