Newsletter  2021.1  Index

Theme : "Mechanical Engineering Congress, 2020 Japan (MECJ-20)” Preface Masaaki MOTOZAWA, Hideo MORI Pending Issues in Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flows Takeo KAJISHIMA (Osaka University) Unsteady Flows in Turbomachines (What We Should Know and How We Can Apply to Designing) Ken-ichi FUNAZAKI (Iwate University) Modeling of a Two-Phase Flow Simulation with the Evaporation of the Gas Diffusion Layer in a Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Ryuya NAGAYAMA, Satoshi SAKAIDA, Kotaro TANAKA, Mitsuru KONNO (Ibaraki University) Statistical Mechanical Analysis of Nanoparticle Behavior for Measurement of Flow Velocity Distribution in Nanochannels by Particle Tracking Velocimetry Minori TANAKA (Keio University), Itsuo HANASAKI (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology), Yutaka KAZOE (Keio University) Memorandum Record of the 2020 JSME Annual Meeting -as a committee member of the web conference- Yasumasa ITO (Nagoya University)

 

Memorandum Record of the 2020 JSME Annual Meeting -as a committee member of the web conference-

Yasumasa ITO Nagoya University

Abstract

This is a memorandum record of my experience as a committee member of the 2020 JSME annual meeting, which employed the web conference system because of the COVID-19. Although many web conferences would have held and many researchers and engineers have participated/organized meetings by the time this newsletter is issued, I believe the size of the annual meeting (more than 1000 presentations, more than 2000 participants, and 25 parallel sessions) is still exceptional. I hope that this article helps future organizers of web conferences employing the same system, which is a combination of Zoom and Youtube.

Regarding the broadcasting system for Youtube from Zoom, we employed the direct Zoom system, i.e., we broadcasted using an add-on of the Zoom (please see Fig.1). The alternative option was to use an encoder (please see Fig.2) and in fact this is more functional, but it also means that the system becomes more complex and more settings are required. In other words, when something unexpected happened, we have to check more places and we thought it may take longer time to solve the problem. Considering the nature of “live meeting,” we wanted to minimize a potential risk of stopping the meeting, and therefore, we employed the direct Zoom system.

After training service persons assigned to each Zoom room, who are mostly graduate students, the conference was held on 9/13-9/16. Although there were a number of minor problems, the conference was very successful, and we are happy and proud of that. We appreciate everyone participated in the conference.

Key words

Web conference, Zoom, Youtube

Figures

Fig.1 Screenshot of Youtube broadcasted by direct Zoom system.

Fig.2 Screenshot of Youtube broadcasted by the encoder system.