Recent Update

13.03.2008 - Student reports(2005-2006) :Updated
12.11.2007 - Student reports(2006-2007) :Updated
15.10.2007 - Student reports(2006-2007) :Updated
01.10.2007 - Student reports(2006-2007) :Updated
24.08.2007 - Mr. Stier (One of exchange students from TU Berlin) received "Excellent Research Paper Award" from the 12th Symposium on Sensing via Image Information (SSII 06).


A conference paper in English "Tracking-Oriented Feature Extraction based on Texture Richness Analysis" related to the award paper, is available.

23.07.2007 - Student reports(2005-2006) :Updated
12.04.2007 - Student reports(2006-2007) :Updated
02.03.2007 - Student reports(2006-2007) :Updated
16.02.2007 - Student reports(2005-2006) :Updated

General information

Design and manufacturing are without doubt critical for advanced industrial societies.

With production itself moving away from many EU countries and Japan, talents of bringing innovations in design and manufacture are highly demanded.

Responding to these new developments, a pilot student exchange program, called DeMaMech (Design and Manufacture in Mechatronics), in the strategically important areas of design engineering, manufacturing engineering and mechatronics started in 2004 (to end in 2006) participated by four EU universities (TU Delft, TU Berlin, KU Leuven and DTU) and four Japanese Universities (Tokyo, Osaka, Hokkaido, and Keio).

Japan is known for design and manufacture of high quality and low cost mechatronic products. A period of study in Japan not only gives you the possibility to improve your engineering knowledge, but also gives you the possibility to have a very valuable experience of staying abroad. On the other hand, EU countries are known for their design of high quality products, cutting edge technologies in mechatronics, and environmental conscious design and manufacture.

When and for whom?

This exchange program are meant for Master's course students who will participate in lectures and/or research work to finish their studies, for either a five-months (one semester) or ten-months (two semesters) stay. They must be students of a participating university and at the time of exchange must be in the Master's course of the relevant studies.

European students will participate in a two-week workshop to be held at TU Berlin in September 2005 and subsequently will leave for Japan. Japanese students will leave Japan in September 2005 and should stay at two participating European Universities. However, the exact period of exchange depends on the host universities.

In 2004-2005, DeMaMech exchanged 16 Japanese students and 16 European students. In 2005-2006, a similar number of students will be exchanged.

Participating Universities

Four European universities and four Japanese universities participate in DeMaMech

In Europa

• Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands)
• Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
• Technische Universitaet Berlin (Germany)
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

In Japan

• The University of Tokyo
• Keio University
• Osaka University
• Hokkaido University

Please refer to following link for the detailed information and contacts concerning the program in specific university.