202511Month22Held online on theAltairGraduate student Ishikawa Saito and undergraduate student Matsubara Kentaro won the top prize in the Team Activity Support Fund Project.

【Winner】
Keito Ishikawa (Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, master's course)2(Major in Marine Systems Engineering)
Kentaro Matsubara (Faculty of Marine Engineering, Department of Logistics and Information Engineering)　2Year)

[Outline of Awards]
　We participated in the Njord Challenge, an international competition in which participants design and build small autonomous vessels, called Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs), and compete against each other. During the development process, we applied for a team activity support project from CAE vendor Altail, and received an award from Altail for being the best example of use within the project. Our team consisted of six members from the University of Tokyo (one person), Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (two people), and Osaka Public University (three people). We were responsible for designing and manufacturing the electrical components. Although we placed third in the preliminary safety screening for the actual competition, we were unable to complete the race due to insufficient preparation and issues. However, our student-led team, which developed the aircraft from scratch and used multiple Altail tools in the process, was highly evaluated, leading to our award.

Made by the Japanese teamASV

Electrical box (part made by students of our university)

Group photo of all participating teams

From left in the photo: Mr. Ishikawa and Mr. Matsubara

<Related links>
Njord Challenge Management Site
AltailStudent Support Project Site