Message from AJK2011-FED Chairperson

I appreciate your participation to the ASME-JSME-KSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference 2011 (AJK2011-FED) at ACT City Congress Center in Hamamatsu Japan from July 24 to 29, 2011. AJK2011-FED has grown out of the ASME-JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference that was first held in Portland in 1991. From a global perspective, the world faces a number of daunting challenges including global climate change, finite energy resources, and economic crises. These problems are wide-ranging and extremely complex. Mechanical engineering and mechanical engineers have the potential to overcome these problems. Three mechanical engineers societies, JSME, ASME and KSME, have been addressing these problems both individually and collaboratively. The ASME-JSME Joint Conference on Fluids Engineering had played a major role in addressing these challenges; however, the problems are too complex to solve only through bilateral collaboration. We need global and industry-government-academia collaboration to find the solutions. On this basis, the three societies have decided to hold the ASME-JSME-KSME Joint Conference on Fluids Engineering 2011 (AJK2011-FED) in Hamamatsu, Japan.

AJK2011-FED invites the six distinguished plenary speakers from ASME, JSME and KSME. The first three plenary speakers give talks on the main topics of AJK which are Industry - Academia – Government, Global collaboration in advanced fluids engineering, innovation for sustainability, environment and energy. They are Dr. Ayao Tsuge, President of Shibaura Institute of Technology, Mr. Jayden Harman, President and CEO of PAX Scientific and Dr. Kil-Choo Moon, President of Korea Institute of Science and Technology. Furthermore, the other three plenary speakers are Prof. James Riley from ASME, Prof. Jung Yul Yoo from KSME, and Prof. Kozo Fujii from JSME who talk on their own major topics.

Hamamatsu City is located between Tokyo and Nagoya, which is surrounded by picturesque sceneries among sea, rivers, mountains, and lakes. Also, Hamamatsu is an industrial area where the number one and the only one products are manufactured applying their advanced technologies. One of them is the musical instruments. The city is evolving music cultures such as Hamamatsu International Piano Contest and Hamamatsu World Young People Chorus Feast Day as the symbol of music city.

Finally, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all participants, the plenary speakers, the session organizers, the session chairs and the committee members.

AJK2011 Chairperson
Professor and Vice President, the University of Tokyo
Yoichiro MATSUMOTO