The Control System Laboratory researches how to describe concrete engineering problems as mathematical systems and how to resolve them, based on system and control theory. The problems currently investigated include how switching circuits/converters, photovoltaic power generating or energy harvesting systems, and electric double layer capacitors should be suitably modeled and could be efficiently controlled.

Students assigned to our laboratory will achieve skills to become a system integrator or a total engineer: they must identify the problem by invoking textbooks of course subjects and realize their own experimental devices, such as electronic circuits wired by discrete devices and embedded micro-controllers. Moreover, they will learn to enslave computer-aided design tools (SPICE, mathematica, matlab; de facto standard engineering tools) for analysis and design, C language on micro-controllers to realize their own control law, and TeX typesetting software for publishing.

We will welcome overseas students who wish to enrich their experience in Japan to be a professional engineer with higher education or a professional researcher. We have currently an overseas student from Indonesia as a master student. Miyazaki here is one of the warmest area in Japan, and it seems comfortable even for people from Southeast Asia. Please do not hesitate to contact us, or visit the official website of the university:

http://www.of.miyazaki-u.ac.jp/~kokusai/englishpage/index.html

Dr. Ichijo Hodaka, Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering,
University of Miyazaki

1-1, Gakuen Kibanadai Nishi, Miyazaki, 889-2192, Japan

hijhodaka at cc.miyazaki-u.ac.jp