Activity report of Mechanical Engineering Center

On April 1997, National Laboratory for High Energy Physics (KEK), Institute of Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo (INS), and Meson Science Laboratory; Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo began to work newly as High Energy Accelerator Research Organization after reconstructing and converting their systems, under aiming at further development of a wide field of accelerator science using a high energy accelerator. Hitherto, the large scale research plans of accelerator at the KEK have been not only received their relation communities on learning importance, meanings and social factors from their stages, but also promoted carefully under opinions and evaluation of outer objective ones and received outer serious evaluations for established research results either. Mechanical Engineering Center belonging to Applied Research Laboratory in the new Organization, started under jointing some sections relating to KEK and INS. As separately operating at the old organization engineering center in Tsukuba area and at engineering room in Tanashi Laboratory for some years, the Center was intended to integrate after 2000 to use this evaluation results for future development. This report was prepared separately on actions at the old engineering center of KEK as its first section and the engineering room of INS as its second section. (G.K.)