DeMaMech Exchange Project is a program where European students go to Japan and Japanese students go to Europe for study purpose. All students are studying in the field of Design and Manufacturer in Mechatronics. Students can apply for a period of five or ten months to do a small research or master thesis. | TU Delft DeMaMech Exchange Project Report Sander Pastoor TU Delft The Netherlands 1 Personal Data Student Sander T. Pastoor sanderpastoor@ Home University Delft University of Technology Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology Life Cycle Engineering Mekelweg 2 2628 CD Delft The Netherlands Supervisor Professor Dr. T. Tomiyama Host University Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering Dept. of Computer-Controlled Mechanical Systems Yamadaoka 2-1 Suita Osaka 560-0871 JAPAN Supervisor Professor Dr. Y. Takeuchi takeuchi@ Chapter O Executive Summary DeMaMech Exchange Project is a program where European students go to Japan and Japanese students go to Europe for study purpose. All students are studying in the field of Design and Manufacturer in Mechatronics. Students can apply for a period of five or ten months to do a small research or master thesis. I had the opportunity to go to Osaka Japan for ten month from September 2004. I found my Master thesis project at Takeuchi s Labaratory Japanese Labaratory where they offered me a challenging project. In this Labaratory they study and develop CAM System for Multi-Axis Control Machining. My project was about improving the accuracy of a parallel kinematics machine tool. In Japan I experienced immediately the differences between Japanese Asian and Dutch European culture. The language was difficult and studying at a Japanese University is totally different. Group mentality is strong in Japan where Europeans are more used to induvidual approach. I also expected a more high-tech Japan but streets don t look like that and I experienced a lot of paperwork at public offices. Japanese are hard working good motivated people and little shy but many with a warm heart. So it was very nice to live there. Research was done during the entire ten month and besides that I attend succesfully the first level of Japanese at the university. Many Japanese people don t
