Shota Azuma of the Department of Transportation and Environmental Systems, Graduate School of Engineering (first-year student in the master's course; Fluid Dynamics for Vehicle and Environmental Systems Laboratory) et al. were awarded the Best Poster Award (first prize) at the Second World NAOE Forum, organized by the Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers (JASNAOE), held on October 29, 2012.

Their paper was selected from among all papers presented in oral and poster sessions, as the most outstanding paper that deserves the World NAOE Forum 2012 Best Poster Award. The Award was presented at the Second World NAOE Forum.

• [Research Title]
  
  Elastic Floating Unit with Flexible Piezoelectric Device for Wave Energy Harvesting
• Authors:
  
  Shota Azuma, first-year student in the master's course in the Department of Transportation and Environmental Systems, Graduate School of Engineering
  
  Ryuta Watanabe, second-year student in the master's course in the Department of Transportation and Environmental Systems, Graduate School of Engineering
  
  Hidemi Mutsuda, Associate Professor,Energy and Environmental Engineering