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International Cooperative Activities
The Mechanical Engineering Laboratory encourages its members to be involved with international activities, i.e., international conferences, collaborative research projects and researcher exchange programs with foreign research organizations.
In 1999, several research staff members were away for periods of up to one year for research work at overseas government laboratories and universities, and about 230 researchers went abroad to present their research work at international conferences or to visit foreign research organizations.
MEL also makes active use of a variety of researcher invitation programs supported by the Japanese Government and other institutions. In 1999, over 70 foreign researchers visited our laboratory as guest researchers, using fellowship programs supported by the STA, AIST, ITIT, and other organizations.
The following two figures show the numbers of visits and lengths of stay of invited researchers over the past decade, and the regional distribution of invited foreign researchers for FY1999. The following tables show a list of international cooperative research projects in progress in FY1999, and a list of invitation programs with the number of invited researchers in FY1999.
Number of researchers sent abroad / accepted from abroad and total length of their stay
Composition of accepted researchers by region (1999FY)
International Cooperative Research Projects
| Budgeting system | Project title | Counterpart |
| Specific International Joint Research | Development of Supe-Materials in Application of EIectromagnetism in Solid | Washington State University (USA) |
| Research on MR-compatiblr active holder for surgical assistance | Surgical Planning Laboratory, Harvard Medical School (USA) | |
| Two Phase Fluid Behavior and its Application under Microgravity Surfaces | University of Toronto (CANADA) | |
| Establishment of Comprehensive International Research Cooperation System | Mechanical Properties of Surface of Materials | University of Oxford (ENGLAND) |
| High-functional Wear Resistant Material of Powder Molding | Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KOREA) | |
| Institute for Transfer of Industrial Technology (ITIT) | Precision Forging Technology to Manufacture Net-shape Parts | National Physical Laboratory (INDIA), Regional Research Laboratory (INDIA) |
| Advanced Control of Machine Tool | Autonomous University of Querelaro National Politechnical Institute (MEXICO), Center of Research and High Studies (MEXICO) | |
| Development of High Performance Metal Matrix Composites (High Performance MMC) | SIRM Berhad (MALAYSIA), University Technology Malaysia (MALAYSIA) Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KOREA), National Industrial Technology Institute (KOREA) Beijing Research Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Technology (CHINA) Nanyang Technological University (SINGAPORE) Chulalongkorn University (THAILAND) |
Invitation Programs
| Program | Number of researchers | Invited from: |
| AIST Fellowship | 1 | Germany |
| ITIT Fellowship | 16 | India, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Mexico, Korea, China |
| STA Fellowship | 5 | Turkey, Korea, Finland, China, Poland |
| NEDO Fellowship | 4 | China, Pakistan, Algeria |
| JICA | 2 | Mexico |
| JKF | 2 | Korea |
| Summer Institute Program | 4 | USA |
| Winter Institute Program | 4 | Korea |
| Other (Including self-funding) | 17 | Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Mexico, China, USA, Finland, Thailand, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Singapore, Taiwan |
International Workshops
| Workshop title | Counterpart |
| International Workshop on APEC/ITIT Symposium of High Performance Metal Matrix Composites for Manufacturing Technology of Advanced Materials | Beijing Research Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Technology (CHINA), SIRM Berhad (MALAYSIA), Nanyang Technological University (SINGAPORE), Chulaolngkorn University (THAILAND) |
| International Workshop on Environment Conscious Metal Processing | RWTH Aachen, Institute for Metal Forming (GERMANY) |
International conferences organized by MEL
In 1999, MEL organized an international workshop and an international symposium for dissemination of research results and to promote international collaboration, as listed in the table above. Some details of the APEC / ITIT Workshop on High Performance Metal Matrix Composites for Advanced Materials Manufacturing Technology, organized by the laboratory, are given below.
The APEC/ITIT International Workshop on High Performance Metal Matrix Composites for Advanced Materials Manufacturing Technology
The workshop on High Performance Metal Matrix Composites for Advanced Materials Manufacturing Technology was held from March 2 to 4, 1999 at the Tsukuba Center in Tsukuba Science City. It was organized by MEL, and supported by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Institute for Transfer of Industrial Technology (ITIT), and AIST. 33 papers were presented, and the opening address was given by Dr. Y. Nakazawa, a former director-general of MEL.
The purpose of the workshop was to discuss results from a multi-national R&D project entitled : "Development of High Performance Metal Matrix Composites" which MEL is undertaking together with laboratories in China, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. This project is run within the framework of the ITIT program organized by the International R&D Cooperation Division of AIST. The project started in 1993 and is scheduled to be completed in March 2000.
About 90 participants from 9 countries discussed results obtained in the project and the steps required to apply these results in industry.
produced by General Research Counselor
