Research Organization for Next Generation VehiclesWaseda University

Practice focusing on three pillars of research

The Research Organization for Next Generation Vehicles (next GV) primarily focuses on the following three projects.

NextGV

The laboratory of internal combustion engines and engine systems in Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University, belongs to Energy and Environmental Engineering Group (former Thermionic Engineering Group). Since its establishment in 1918, many outstanding specialists were produced with the direction by the late Professor Watanabe Torajiro, the late professor Emeritus Seki Toshiro, the late Professor Nanba Masato, the late Professor Emeritus Saito Takeshi and Professor Emeritus Daisho Yasuhiro. The laboratory has always been adopting practical and demonstrative approach dealing with actual engine and related equipment and in particular, it has focused on the environmental protection and energy conversion. 　With these historical and traditional backgrounds, The Research Organization for Next Generation Vehicles was established at Waseda University on October 1, 2014, with the aim to establish a research site for maintaining and increasing international competitiveness in the field of vehicle technology such as the cutting edge internal combustion engines that form the heart of automobiles, while handling a smooth transition to next generation automobiles. Currently, four projects focusing on 1.fluid and combustion, 2.calalyst, 3.electric power system 4. ingredients were created and the organization develops vehicle related research in the field of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Science.

As a research center

This organization was consigned by the Research Association of Automotive Internal Combustion Engines (AICE; established by nine Japanese automakers in April 1, 2014) to carry out various projects related to the clean diesel engine project (“Research and Development Project for the Advancement of Clean Diesel Engine Technology”) and over the past 3 years, it has carried out the researches related to Diesel Particulate Filter, Ash, Urea SCR, Diesel Oxidation catalyst. The organization continues to develop the research projects in cooperation with AICE. This green diesel engine has been garnering attention in major markets, such as Europe, since 2014, and is promoted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The organization was also chosen as a cluster institute and a research center for the “Innovative Combustion Technology”, which is one of the challenges of the Cabinet Office – JST Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) and it conducts the related researches.

Made possible by the close relationship with industry cultivated by Waseda University

These research projects are carried out in parallel through a formation of cooperation between industry and academia. Specifically, in addition to the leading researchers of this university, guest professors, invited researchers, and researchers from the various industries will cooperate to ensure the research projects are carried out smoothly to use the automobile engine as an example to propose a model for renewing the systems for collaboration between engineering based academic and industrial research and research and development in mechanical engineering. Further, we aim to train capable personnel able to play a role in industry and academia through the practical research, the results of which will be put into practice in the systems of society, both in industry and government. Projects that achieve this level of innovation are made possible due to the close relationship of cooperation between industry and academia cultivated by Waseda University.