• Date: 25th September, 2023
• Name:　 Takumi Morishima
• Graduate School, Department: Department of Systems Innovation, D1
• Name of award: Encouraging Prize of SAMPE Japan
• About awarded research： Life cycle analysis on Floating axis wind turbine
• Your impression & future plan： I am truly honored to receive this scholarship award. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Professor Takahashi for his guidance, as well as to all the members of the research lab who were involved in this study. Floating offshore wind turbines are a relatively new structure with many challenges to overcome. I will take this award as an encouragement and continue to strive towards solving these challenges in the future.

• Date, Name: Peng Xue, Zhengyang Zhu, Qiujun Wang, Yuanyuan Wu
• Faculty/Graduate School, Department (Stream / Program) / Major: Department of Systems Innovation, D3, M2, M2, D3
• Name of the award and a short explanation about the award: Encouraging Prize of SAMPE Japan
• About awarded research: The University of Tokyo team has been awarded First Place in the SAMPE Student Bridge Contest 2023 World Competition, Category B.
• Your impression & future plan: We are very honored to receive this award. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to the members of our laboratory for making it possible for us to receive this award. We gained valuable insights and advice from the world-class competition, and we will continue to improve our design and molding techniques to pass them on to the younger members of our laboratory.