About Department of Energy and Materials
Opened in April 2022
Study energy, create new technologies
Achieve the SDGs for a brighter future
Energy is innovating like never before. Now is the time to study energy and create new technologies so that the world can reduce fossil fuel use and become carbon free, as well as build a society where people can live in health and comfort.
To contribute to this brighter future and help the world achieve the SDGs, Kindai has established the Department of Energy and Materials.
Graduates who have studied energy and can contribute to the realisation of the SDGs are just what many sectors of industry are looking for. Kindai graduates can work at energy-related companies in the electricity, gas, and petroleum sectors, as well as at manufacturers in industries such as automotive, consumer electronics, housing, medical equipment, materials, textiles, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.
They can also get teaching licences (for science subjects) or proceed to graduate school.
Find and develop your strengths.
New department comprises three learning fields and three pillars of the energy field.
Education policy: Create a vision for the energy field and foster students who can make this vision a reality.
Society’s needs: Achieve SDGs, build the foundation for Society 5.0.
Foster student’s practical skills to carry out synergistic manufacturing by closely integrating chemistry, electric and electronic engineering, nuclear energy engineering, mechanical engineering, and life sciences.
Message from the Manager of the Department of Energy and Materials
Professor SUDO Atsushi
The instructors in this new department have a range of expertise in areas such as hydrogen, plasma, coordination compounds, macromolecules, solar cells, nuclear physics, mechanics, and life sciences. This department was born of the desire to bring all this expertise together in comprehensive research into energy and materials that would lead to future energy technologies. My wish is to see students learn about the energy conversion at work behind all mechanisms and then use their knowledge towards future manufacturing. I also hope that students will think about the future of energy so that together we can create technologies for a more sustainable future.
Academic Staff
Next-Generation Infrastructure Energy field
- ATSUMI Hisao
- Studying the behaviour of hydrogen in order to develop materials that can store hydrogen.
- ARITOMO Yoshihiro
- Working on the synthesis of new elements, following nihonium.
- OTSUKA Teppei
- Developing materials for safe, airtight storage of hydrogen, radioactive material, and other substances.
- TAKEMURA Yuichiro
- Conducting a range of applied research using plasma.
- NOGAMI Masanobu
- Developing new materials for separating metal ions in aqueous solutions.
Life Device Energy field
- IKEDA Atsutoshi
- Conducting research in measuring human movement and modelling.
- TANAKA Senku
- Conducting applied research in organic materials and organic-inorganic hybrid materials.
- FUCHIHATA Manabu
- Conducting research in carbon neutral energy.
- KONNO Daijiro
- Developing methods for detecting molecular groups that form cells and tissue.
- NAKAZAWA Naotaka
- Conducting research on the role of mechanical strength in brain development and cancer suppression.
Material Creation field
- OKUBO Takashi
- Synthesizing new pigments and applying them to next-generation solar cells.
- KAWASHITA Norihito
- Designing medicines and discovering the mechanisms of diseases.
- SUDO Atsushi
- Making highly strong plastics from plant materials.
- NAKAI Hidetaka
- Making molecules that have the ability to convert energy.
- KITOH Hirotaka
- Using computers to conduct experiments in research on molecules that can be used as materials.
Facilities
- Energy and Materials Lab, 4th Floor, Building 38
Students in the first to third years take the Energy and Materials Experiments class in which they get both theory and practice in physics, chemistry, and life sciences, and in various energy technologies. This gives them the foundations for understanding advanced manufacturing.
Department Overview, Curriculum
Department Overview
Name | Department of Energy and Materials |
---|---|
Start | April 2022 |
Location | Higashiosaka Campus, Kindai University |
No. of entrants | 120 |
Faculty dean | YAMAGUCHI Yoshihiro |
Department dean | SUDO Atsushi |
No. of instructors | 15 |
Degree | Bachelor’s degree (science) |
Curriculum (Excerpt)
1st year | 2nd year | 3rd year | 4th year | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Lectures and Exercises |
Introduction to Energy and Materials Introduction to Physics for Energy and Materials Introduction to Chemistry for Energy and Materials Experiments in Fundamental Physics Experiments in Fundamental Chemistry Exercises for Mathematics in Chemistry Exercises for Mathematics in Physics |
Introduction to Future Energy Infrastructure Chemistry of Energy and Materials 1 Life Device Energy Physics Fundamentals of Biophysics Experiments in Physics for Energy and Materials 1 Exercises for Mathematical Analysis Fundamentals of Chemical Information Processing |
Hydrogen Energy Engineering Electric Energy Generation and Transport Quantum Physics and Engineering Molecular Devices Engineering Molecular Functional Chemistry Introduction to Biological Sensors Bioinformatics Engineering Experiments in Biology for Energy and Materials |
Individual Study for Bachelor Thesis |
Small-Group Instruction |
Basic Seminar 1 Basic Seminar 2 |
Seminar on Energy and Materials 1 Seminar on Energy and Materials 2 |
Seminar on Energy and Materials 3 Seminar on Energy and Materials 4 Seminar for Bachelor Thesis |
Qualifications, Certification Tests
Qualifications obtainable with predefined credits
- Type 1 senior high school teaching licence (science)
- Type 1 junior high school teaching licence (science)
- Librarian
All departments in Faculty of Science and Engineering
- IT passport
- Fundamental information technology engineer
Closely related qualifications, certification tests
- Certified energy manager
- Radiation protection supervisor (first class, second class)
- Radiology technologist