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The event was held between the President
/ Director and tenure-track faculty members on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021, with
the participation of President Masaaki Oka, five directors, and eight
tenure-track faculty members.
At the beginning, President Oka
expressed his expectations for young faculty members.
After
that, two tenure-track faculty members who have been newly appointed to
Yamaguchi University after the last event (August 6th, 2020) introduced
themselves and their research content using PPT.
Assistant Professor Rina Hasuike, Department of Construction and Environmental Engineering, Graduate
School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, is a second-term faculty
member of the HIRAKU-Global program. She is studying "corrosion evaluation,"
which causes deterioration of steel bridges and leads to infrastructure
destruction.
At event, the effects of changing the
antifreeze agent, which is one of the causes of corrosion, inspection by
robots, corrosion evaluation by image data, research using stainless steel that
is resistant to corrosion for the girder end, etc. were introduced.
In
response, there was an introduction questions of the project to support AI
research at the Diversity Office in Yamaguchi University, and the question of
the response to infrastructure durability from the Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism’s.
In the subsequent free discussion, the
faculty members, who exhibited the poster at the on-campus research exchange
event "Introducing my research" held last year, reported on the
situation of the venue and the reactions of the visitors.
On the other hand, there was also a
proposal that a place for exchange might be necessary for companies outside the
university.
In addition, There was an opinion that
manpower was insufficient in daily research activities. In response to this
opinion, it was suggested that getting acquainted with faculty members who are
doing similar research would lead to a cooperative relationship.
In addition to this, there were topics
such as the importance of the classes in order for students to come to the
laboratory.
And
then, the event ended with a great success.
President Oka (4th from the left in the
front row), Assistant Professor Hasuike (3rd
from the right in the front row).
State of the The social gathering
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