The group led by Prof. Fusahito YOSHIDA, along with Assist. Prof. Hiroshi HAMASAKI of Materials and Production Engineering and Shohei TAMURA and Satoshi SUMIKAWA, master's course graduates in Mechanical Systems Engineering won the Paper Prize from the Chu-Shikoku Branch of the Japan Institute of Light Metals.

The award was granted in recognition of the outstanding excellence and significant contribution to progress in light metals and other industrial technologies of the paper that was published in the the Journal of Japan Institute of Light Metals"KEIKINZOKU".

• Paper title:
  
  Experimental observation of elasto-plasticity behavior of type 5000 and 6000 aluminum alloy sheets
• Authors:
  
  Shouhei Tamura, master's course completion student in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering
  
  Satoshi Sumikawa, master's course completion student in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering
  
  Takeshi Uemori, Assoc. Prof. ,Kinki University Faculty of Enginieering,Department of Mechanical Engineering
  
  Assist. Prof. Hiroshi Hamasaki, Division of Materials and Production Engineering
  
  Prof. Fusahito Yoshida, Division of Materials and Production Engineering