[Educational & Academic Purposes of the Graduate School of Engineering]

The Graduate School of Engineering offers education and research opportunities to enhance the fundamental abilities of engineering acquired through undergraduate education. The school’s master’s programs are designed to produce engineers and researchers with an advanced level of engineering expertise who can enable the flexible and creative practice of engineering in industrial circles. The doctoral program is designed to produce researchers who have the most advanced level of engineering expertise, a broad perspective and excellent integrated judgment, and are able to be leaders in the pursuit of fundamental and pioneering research and other various fields of activity associated with engineering.

 

Master’s Program

Master’s Program in Mechanical Science and Engineering

This Master’s Program consists of eight research fields: Energy Systems; Dynamic Control; Nano Micromechanics, Nano Micro-processing; Production Science and Machining Systems; Specialty Highly Functional Materials Creation and Evaluation Systems; Material Processes and Material Science.
The program supports graduate school students wishing to master and improve basic expertise and cutting-edge technologies. The program aims to produce creative engineers and researchers who work in diverse high-technology manufacturing fields.

 

Master’s Program in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering

This Master’s Program consists of six research fields: Electrical and Electronic Basic Engineering; Electrical System Engineering; Metering and Control Engineering; Information Media Engineering; Information Communication Engineering; and Electrical and Electronic Applied Engineering, all of which include a wide-ranging academic content. They encompass fundamental technologies of many industries and IT-based societies, which are of critical importance in our daily lives. The program aims to develop specialists having broad general knowledge and expertise by offering both basic and advanced subjects in each field.

 

Master’s Program in Life and Environmental Sciences

An important theme in recent years has been studying vital areas of biological and ecological systems and structures, and applying them to create new engineering technology and solve environmental problems. This Master’s Program aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of various events involved in life and environmental issues, based on fundamental disciplines such as chemistry, physics, and biology. The program aims to develop engineers and researchers having broad expertise and technological capabilities, with an underlying perspective and ideas that are friendly to the Earth and life.

 

Master’s Program in Architecture and Civil Engineering

This Master’s Program encourages broad-ranging and practical studies of architecture, local communities, cities, natural environment, and the global environment from humanitarian and social viewpoints. Reflecting this, the program encourages graduate school students to engage in practical research and obtain education related to diverse contemporary issues such as proposals on aesthetic and comfortable architectural spaces and urban environments. One of its major targets is to produce highly professional experts and researchers who can fully exert their abilities in the fields of architecture, regional development, and environmental conservation.

 

Master’s Program in Design

In response to changes in contemporary society such as the development of information and communication technologies, diversifying needs, declining birthrate, and aging population, as well as emerging environmental problems, this Master’s Program has five research fields: Environmental Design Science, Universal Design Science, Information Design Science, Material Design Science, and Product Design Science. The program covers education and research in modern design fields in which use is emphasized more than manufacturing.

 

Master’s Program in Advanced Robotics

The Advanced Robotics Master’s Course covers the fields of engineering on which robotics is based, including mechanical, electrical, electronic and information engineering, and is intended for students who have acquired basic knowledge and skills in engineering through undergraduate studies. The course offers interdisciplinary education and research opportunities to develop highly specialized knowledge and application and research abilities for robot development, thereby aiming to contribute to promoting the interdisciplinary and integrated development of engineering studies.
This course offers specialized education and research opportunities in four fields of study: 1) Motion Intelligence Robotics, 2) Intelligence Creation Robotics, 3) Biofunction Robotics and 4) Sense/Sensibility Robotics.
Students who acquire advanced knowledge and skills in robot development are expected to be actively involved in creative efforts for the research and development of robots in an extensive range of industries.

 

Doctoral Program

Doctoral Program in Engineering

This Doctoral Program consists of 12 research fields, which cover a broad range of subjects in view of the needs of the times and future potential: Energy and Intellectual Systems, Specialty Creation Engineering, Material Science, Electrical and Electronic Systems, Information and Communication Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Applied Engineering, Gene and Biological Engineering, Resources, Energy and Environmental Science, Architecture and Urban Planning, Architecture and Urban Environmental Engineering, Structural and Disaster Prevention Engineering, and Design Science. In each of these fields, the program aims to produce industrial engineers and researchers equipped with the ability to identify and solve diverse problems through their advanced expertise and broad perspectives.