Education

The School of Engineering at Tohoku University assigns students in their junior year to a research lab with the aim of getting them in direct contact with research as early as possible. Our educational program for the two juniors and three master's students at Samukawa Lab consists of two weekly seminars and a technical discussion meeting once every two weeks.
One weekly seminar is based on Lieberman's Principles of Plasma Discharges and Materials Processing ; the other focuses on the basics of spectroscopy. At our technical discussions, participants introduce their research themes and papers, and we focus on how to make presentations and how to build up discussions and research strategies. Each participant is also required to submit weekly reports with the aim of nurturing their ability to sum up and record their work. From time to time, we also organize special lectures given by outside researchers so that the students have contact with the very latest research being done.

(List of Special Lectures)

  1. Determination of Concentrations and Temperature of Charged and Neutral Species in Plasmas (Presented by Dr. Vincent M. Donnelly of Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories in November 2000)
  2. Theory and Practice for Nanomaterials and Molecular Nanotechnology: A Proposal for New Developments in Laser Abrasion and Molecular Machines (Presented by Dr. Shojiro Komatsu of NIMS in May 2001)
  3. Surface Reaction Modeling (To be presented by Professor Satoshi Hamaguchi of Kyoto University in June 2001)
  4. Carbon Nanotubes (To be presented by Professor Tetsu Mieno of Shizuoka University in June 2001)

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