This page provides examples of how the tank facilities have been used for educational purposes in recent years.

Classes held at the tank facilities

• Frontiers in Oceanic Research I (Academic Frontier Lecture Series)
• Fundamental Project (E&E course, Department of Systems Innovation, Faculty of Engineering)
  • Experiments on Measuring the Resistance Acting on a Floating Body
  • Experiments on Measuring the Underwater Resistance Acting on a Sphere (-2021, 2024-)
• Advanced Project (E&E and PSI courses, Department of Systems Innovation, Faculty of Engineering)
  • E&E course
    • The topic changes every year. (See the examples below.)
  • PSI course
    • Design of Crew Transfer Vessels to Offshore Wind Turbines and Their Autonomous Control (2021-2024)
    • Design and Production of Marine Propellers (2022-)
• Observation of Flows Around a Cylinder (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Faculty of Engineering)
• Solar Boat Challenge (Department of Systems Innovation, School of Engineering/Department of Ocean Technology, Policy, and Environment, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences)
• Experimental Methodology of Ocean Technology and Environment (Department of Systems Innovation, School of Engineering/Department of Ocean Technology, Policy, and Environment, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences)

An example of the classes

Advanced Project (E&E and courses, Department of Systems Innovation, Faculty of Engineering)

The Advanced Project Class is a project-based course designed to help students acquire practical application skills and problem-solving abilities. Students engage in manufacturing activities targeting marine development systems using the Towing Tank and Circulating Water Channel. Project topics vary annually and may include remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), autonomous ships, floating offshore wind turbines, and underwater towed bodies. Students learn foundational knowledge in ocean engineering, such as ship stability and fluid mechanics. Building on these fundamentals, students are challenged to design and produce ships, floating bodies, and towed vehicles using CAD and 3D printers. They then use these productions to undertake missions involving monitoring and control with microcontrollers and sensors.

*We would like to thank Global Center in Engineering Education Institute for Innovation in International Engineering Education, Graduate School of Engineering for their support and cooperation in providing the CAD lectures and 3D printing services.

Instructors: Ryota Wada, Tsubasa Kodaira, Hideyuki Suzuki, Hidetaka Houtani, Toshihiro Maki, Shinichiro Hirabayashi, Yoshihiro Konno, and others.

• (2024) Wave Powered Ships
• (2023) Underwater Towed Vehicles
• (2022) Floating Offshore Wind Turbine
• (2021) Crew Transfer Vessels to Offshore Wind Turbines
• (2020) Autonomous Ships and their remote operation
• (2019) Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles

A Model Test of an Underwater Towed Vehicle in the Circulating Water Channel	Competition for Power Generation Using a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Model
A 3D-Printed Autonomous Ship Model	3D-Printed Wind Turbine Blades