Electrical Engineering

Students learn about the basic concepts of electric circuits including; circuit elements, Kirchhoff’s law, basic RLC circuits, circuit theorems, Op Amp, sinusoidal steady-state analysis, frequency response and Laplace transform. Topics include Electric circuit variables, Circuit Elements, Simple Resistive Circuits, Techniques of Circuit Analysis, The Operational Amplifier, Inductance, Capacitance, and Mutual Inductance, Response of First-Order RL and RC Circuits, Natural and Step Responses of RLC Circuits, Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis, and Sinusoidal Steady-State Power Calculations.

Prerequisites: Engineering mathematics, Differential Equations

The course is practically oriented, and students work in project groups with the different concepts/change management methods before seminars and with a major project work together with a company (or other organization) during the course. A significant part of the course is made up of literature seminars, where the students actively discuss and analyze research articles in the field.

The course gives a thorough understanding of digital integrated circuit design. Increasing complexity and high requirements on performance in the form of throughput and low power consumption increase the expectations from the hardware designer. Understanding both the possibilities and the limitations is important for both full custom designers and high-level designers. The course focuses on CMOS design.

The course outline is as follows:

Lecture 1 - Introduction
Lecture 2 - Formulation of Circuit Equations
Lecture 3 - Direct Methods for Linear Systems
Lecture 4 - Direct Methods for Sparse Linear Systems
Lecture 5 - Iterative Methods and QR Factorization
Lecture 6 - Krylov-Subspace Methods - I
Lecture 7 - Krylov-Subspace Methods - II
Lecture 8 - Solutions for Nonlinear Equations
Lecture 9 - Modified Newton Methods
Lecture 10 - Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations
Lecture 11 - Multistep Methods
Lecture 12 - Large Timestep Issues
Lecture 13 - Digital Systems Verification
 

This course provides an introduction to medical robotics and its applications. It covers recent developments in robotics for medical applications, position and orientation (POSE) of a robotic system, the kinematics of arm-type and vehicle-type robots, the trajectory of an arm-type robot end effector, and the different biomedical system controls.

This course provides individual research training for students in the Junior Year Engineering Program through the experience of belonging to a specific laboratory at Tohoku University. Students are assigned to a laboratory with the consent of the faculty member in charge. They participate in various group activities, including seminars, for the purposes of training in research methods and developing teamwork skills. The specific topic studied depends on the instructor in charge of the laboratory to which each student is assigned. The methods of assessment vary with the student's project and laboratory instructor. Students submit an abstract concerning the results of their individual research each semester and present the results near the end of this program.

This course offers an introduction to analog electronics. Topics include: transistor circuits and ASICs; current sources, basic amplifiers, and differential amplifiers; frequency response of amplifier circuits; feedback circuits; operational amplifiers, voltage regulators, and power amplifiers; active first and second order filters; oscillators, VCO, and PLL; pulse circuits.

This course covers basic concepts of robotics while exposing students to state-of-the-art robots. The course also discusses the basic theory for robotic manipulator operation and provides opportunities to design robots through two class projects. 

This course examines basic technical knowledge on electronic commerce and financial technology. It introduces different e-commerce models: B2C and B2B model and overview different enabling technologies e-Commerce and FinTech such as the location base technology, RFID, GPS, e-payment, server-side and channel security, Near Field Communication, QR Code, augmented reality and other latest technologies deploying in the industry. By the end of the course, the latest trend and the way forward of e-commerce and Fintech in Hong Kong and overseas will be discussed.

The Individual Research Training Senior (IRT Senior) Course is an advanced course of the Individual Research Training A (IRT A) course in the Tohoku University Junior Year Program in English (JYPE) in the fall semester. Though short-term international exchange students are not degree candidates at Tohoku University, a similar experience is offered by special arrangement. Students are required to submit: an abstract concerning the results of their IRT Senior project, a paper (A4, 20-30 pages) on their research at the end of the exchange term, and an oral presentation on the results of their IRT Senior project near the end of the term.