【Awards and Commendations】The team in which Kodai Yasuda(M1), Liwen Murong and Minato Nakashima(M2) from Shibasaki Lab received 1st place in the category All-Student Teams at the first United Nations AIS Big Data Hackathon.

 

==Award date==
22nd September 2020

1.Name
Kodai Yasuda, Liwen Murong, Minato Nakashima

2.Faculty/Graduate School, Department (Stream / Program) / Major
(Kodai Yasuda) M1 student, Department of Systems Innovation, School of Engineering
(Liwen Murong & Minato Nakashima) M2 student, Department of Systems Innovation, School of Engineering

3.Name of award and short explanation about the award
(Name) 1st place in All-Student Teams at the first United Nations AIS Big Data Hackathon
(Explanation) Participating in the AIS Bigdata Hackathon hosted by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and achieving the 1st place among 17 all-student teams.

4.About awarded research
AIS Hackathon is a three-day event, focusing on exploring novel findings by using 3.6TB AIS data. AIS data is collected by equipment installed in ships, consisting of static information, such as total weight of ships and built year, and dynamic information collected every few seconds or minutes, such as speed and destination. All members including Mr. Hoshi Tagawa (Tokyo Tech) and Mr. Takumi Kamata (Hirosima Univ.) from our research team are conducting AIS-related research. During AIS Hackathon, the influence of COVID-19 on vessel movement is revealed. Based on findings from various perspectives, we are able to win the first place among all-student teams.

5.Your impression & future plan
This award is an impetus for us to continue doing our best in the following research.
Thank Prof. Shibasaki for encouraging us to participate in this event and supporting us during the event.

 

 

【Awards and Commendations】Gutao Shen, Sixin Yan, Yue Wang, Xiaohang Tong, and Takumi Morishima (M2/M1/B4, Takahashi lab.) received Best Bridge Award (First Price of Category B) of 2020 IHI/SAMPE Japan Student Bridge Contest

1.Name: Gutao Shen, Sixin Yan, Yue Wang, Xiaohang Tong, and Takumi Morishima

2.Faculty/Graduate School, Department (Stream / Program) / Major: Department of Systems Innovation, M2/M1/B4

3.Name of award and short explanation about the award:Best Bridge Award (First Price of Category B) of 2020 IHI/SAMPE Japan Student Bridge Contest

4.About awarded research: Using carbon fiber composite materials to build the lightest bridge with a certain load-carrying capacity.

5.Your impression & future plan: It is with great privilege and honor that we have received the award twice with our delicate optimization and full preparations since last year. And at the same time, we also want to congratulate the IHI Corporation and The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE), and Takahashi Lab of the University of Tokyo for their great work of organizing and making this event possible. Furthermore, we must express our sincere gratitude in particular to our supervisors Prof. Takahashi and Dr. Ice, as well as all the lab members who have provided us with enormous help from many perspectives. In the near future, the world tournament of this contest will be held in the U.S.A. in 2021, and our team share a common goal of ranking top 3 in the world final. For achieving this ambition, not only shall we continuously improve our skills in design and fabrication, but also the power from every each one of you who support us is indispensable. We again truly appreciate for the help and support from you that encourage us to move forward.

 

  【Awards and Commendations】 Hisaki Matsuda, Gutao Shen, Hao, Wu, Johan Friemann (M2, Takahashi lab.) received Encouraging Prize of SAMPE Japan.

Date:31st July  2020

1. Name:Hisaki Matsuda, Gutao Shen, Hao Wu, Johan Friemann
2. Faculty/Graduate School, Department (Stream / Program) / Major: Department of Systems Innovation, M2
   
   
3. Name of award and short explanation about the award:

Encouraging Prize of SAMPE Japan

4. About awarded research：Best Bridge Award (First Price of Category B) of IHI/SAMPE Japan Student Bridge Contest

5. Your impression & future plan

It is with great privilege and honor that we have received the award and got qualified for the international student bridge contest in US. First of all, we would like to congratulate the IHI Corporation and The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) for their great work of organizing and making this event possible. Furthermore, we must express our sincere gratitude in particular to our supervisors Prof. Takahashi and Dr. Ice, as well as all the lab members who have provided us with enormous help from many perspectives. Unfortunately, the international student bridge contest which should have been held in the US in May 2020, has already been canceled due to Covid-19 but our team will still make full preparations and wait for its reopening. For achieving our ambition, not only shall we continuously improve our skills in design and fabrication, but also the power from every each one of you who support us is indispensable. We again truly appreciate for the help and support from you that encourage us to move forward.

【Awards and Commendations】 Kazuki Shibanuma received The JACM Young Investigator Award　 from Japan Association for Computational Mechanics (JACM).

 

Date:　22nd July 2020

1. Name: Kazuki Shibanuma
2. Department: Department of Systems Innovation
3. Name of award and short explanation about the award:

The JACM Young Investigator Award（An award given to researchers under the age of 40 who have showed outstanding achievements in the computational mechanics）

4. About awarded research

Proposal of innovative numerical models for quantitatively explaining/evaluating complicated fracture phenomena in solids and structures

5. Your impression & future plan

I would like to continue high-quality research activities in the engineering with both academic and practical value.

【Awards and Commendations】Kei Kanamoto (graduated in March 2020) and other authors received　Maritime Economics & Logistics Best Conference Paper Award at Annual Conference of International Association of Maritime Economists. 1. Kei Kanamoto(a), Liwen Murong(b), Minato Nakashima(b), and Ryuichi Shibasaki(c) 2. (a) Department of Systems Innovation (Graduated in March 2020), Graduate school of Engineering (b) M2 student, same as above (c) Associate Professor, Resilience Engineering Research Center, Department of Techonology Management for Innovation (TMI) 3. Name of award and short explanation about the award International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) is an association that not only researchers, but practitioners, consultants, and governmental officers on the maritime shipping and logistics field join. This year’s annual conference was held online on June 10 to 13, hosted by Hong Kong Polytechnic University, having more than 220 presentations. The paper “Can Maritime Big Data be Applied to Shipping Industry Analysis? – Focusing on Commodities and Vessel Size of Dry Bulk Carriers” submitted from Shibasaki Lab was awarded “Maritime Economics & Logistics Best Conference Paper Award” as one of the four best papers of the conference. 4. About awarded research The paper is based on the Master thesis that Mr. Kanamoto, the first author of this paper, submitted at the end of last fiscal year. First, the global cargo flows shipped by dry bulk carriers were estimated on a port-basis by commodity including iron ore, coal, grain, fertilizer, and iron and steel. Subsequently, the vessel type selection model was developed by commodity, considering the difference in the effect of each variable, such as trade volume, shipping distance, draught limitation of export and import ports, and size limitation to transit canals, then applied to forecast the future shipping demand by vessel type. 5. Your impression & future plan The Automatic Identification System (AIS) data, which records the movements of all kinds of vessels over a certain size, is a big data in the maritime shipping field; however, the cargo information are not included. This paper enabled to estimate the cargo flow by combining other available information. We consider that the novelty and innovativeness of our approach was proved by this award, which will encourage the advancement of our research further. (Ryuichi Shibasaki) The Japan Maritime Daily (24th/June/2020) https://www.jmd.co.jp/article.php?no=258236

【Awards and Commendations】Hiroki, Toda (D2) received 13^th GSC Student Travel Grant Award.

1. Hiroki Toda
2. School of Engineering, Department of Systems Innovation, D2
3. GSC Student Travel Grant Award: Award to graduate students for outstanding research.
4. Ruthenium-catalyzed oxidative conversion of ammonia into dinitrogen.

http://www.jaci.or.jp/english/gscn/awards/aw_stga_13th.html

5. I am very honored to receive this award. I will continue to do my best in research.
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【Awards and Commendations】A paper authored by Hiroaki Kosuge, 2nd grade of Master course, was published in Materials and Design and it was picked up as a Featured Paper in Advances in Engineer (Canadian research company).

1. Hiroaki Kosuge
2. Department of Systems Innovation, second year master’s student
3. A paper (which has been published in Materials and Design) authored by Hiroaki Kosuge was selected as a “Featured Paper” by Advances in Engineering, AIE features particularly outstanding research papers from leading international journals in all engineering disciplines and presents them on its website. The selection committee consists of vice-presidents and deans of the world’s top universities and the editorial boards of prominent journals, and 20 papers per week (less than 0.1% of the total number of publications) will be selected from all fields of engineering, and the AIE will disseminate the results of its research to private companies around the world and provide consulting and matching services, which is expected to lead to future international collaborations.

 

URL: Material and Design

Advances in Engineering, Featured papers

 

4. A new material damage estimation rule was devised for the damage of structures by earthquakes and waves. This paper investigates how materials are damaged in an earthquake by reproducing prestrain which simulates shaking by an earthquake and carrying out a fracture test. By carrying out the finite element method analysis of crystal plasticity based on the micro mechanism of brittle fracture, the material damage mechanism which has not been clarified until now was discovered. In addition, this paper investigates the effect of prestrain on the critical fracture condition of material which leads to brittle fracture, and proposes a new model on the arrangement of the critical stress which has not been unified until.
5. In Japan, which is an earthquake-prone country, it is necessary to conduct further research on the damage law in order to handle structures more safely. In the future, we would like to focus on the damage law under more complicated conditions and the fluctuation of the damage law due to microstructure, and develop the research on the soundness of structures

 

【Awards and Commendations】Guzelbulut, Cem (D1) received First place Students Poster Award at IBRSP2020(International Research Forum on Biomechanics of Running-specific Prosthesis. Name： Cem Guzelbulut Faculty/Graduate School, Department (Stream / Program) / Major： School of Engineering, Department of Systems Innovation, D1 Name of award and short explanation about the award：IBRSP2020 First Place Students Poster Award About awarded research：Effect of Shape and Stiffness of the Prosthesis on Running Your impression & future plan：It is honor for me to receive such an award. I will do my best in my research.    

【Awards and Commendations】 Hiroki, Toda (D1) received Student Presentation Award at The 69th Conference of Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry. Name： Hiroki Toda Faculty/Graduate School, Department (Stream / Program) / Major： School of Engineering, Department of Systems Innovation, D1 Name of award and short explanation about the award： Student Presentation Award: Award for outstanding presentations. About awarded research： Ruthenium-catalyzed oxidative conversion of ammonia into dinitrogen. Your impression & future plan： I am very honored to receive this award. I will continue to do my best in research.