Curriculum Policy of School of Engineering
School of Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering provides a systematic curriculum consisting of general education subjects and specialized education subjects to foster talented people with the skills listed in our Faculty Diploma Policy: knowledge and ability to think multidimensionally, ethics for engineers, basic logical knowledge and application capability, technical expertise and problem solving skills, design ability to respond to the needs of society, communication skills, the ability to plan, carry out and synthesize projects, and an independent and lifelong learning ability. General education subjects are taken by all undergraduates. The purposes of these subjects are to deepen student insight into humanity and society, and to provide knowledge and skills for students to build a broad perspective of life and the ability to judge. In addition, the major course subjects are divided into major foundation courses, departmental foundational courses, and specialized courses. The major foundation courses are taken by all students in the Faculty of Engineering, that is, as common core subjects. These courses are offered to broaden basic skills necessary for students' academic research in engineering. In the departmental foundation courses, students acquire knowledge and skills in their specialized field. They also acquire the knowledge to become a specialized technician. The course subjects are set up for students to acquire diverse knowledge and skills in specialized areas of the course.
Department of Mechanical and Systems Engineering
In the Department of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, we train students to become engineers, who are superior in task exploration and design ability, and who can work internationally with high ethical standards. Also, they will be able to develop technologies to create environmentally friendly and human-friendly machines. Students will design, manage and operate mechanical systems, and create and develop services using these machines and systems. For this reason, we have developed a curriculum for discipline-specific courses, in which students can study from a wide range of topics such as principles of machinery, principles of systematization, mechanical elements, machinery equipment, robots, systems, as well as the products and services in use. In addition, students will learn about the basic knowledge and techniques of mechanical engineering and system engineering.
In the Department of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, students in their first year will enhance their basic academic skills related to mathematics, physics, and information processing through general education courses and major foundation courses. In their second year, students will acquire the foundation of mechanical engineering and system engineering, in addition to enhancing the basic foundation necessary for the classes offered in the course. They will also continue their general education courses and major foundation courses. Students are divided into two courses, the Mechanical Engineering Course and the Systems Engineering Course, in the latter part of their second year to make it possible for them to systematically acquire professional skills in a wide range of fields according to their interests. In the Mechanical Engineering Course, students in their third year apply the knowledge they acquired in the basic subjects to study material engineering, design engineering, precision machining, and heat transfer engineering. In the Systems Engineering Course, students apply their knowledge to study courses such as production system engineering, management engineering, safety engineering, robotics, and automatic control engineering. In their fourth year, students join a laboratory for each course and tackle the latest research in the fields of the mechanical engineering and system engineering. Students are trained to think like an engineer by planning experiments and analyzing their results critically. Therefore, students improve their problem solving and design skills, acquiring the knowledge base required to become engineers.
Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering
The fields of electrical engineering, electronics engineering, communication engineering, network engineering in the Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering, are used in various industries such as home appliances, computers, the Internet, telecommunications and broadcasting, automobiles, energy, and medicine. It is an evolving field as it is closely intertwined with technology in today's highly advanced information society. For this reason, students will gain discipline-specific knowledge of electrical engineering, electronics engineering, communication engineering, and network engineering as well as more expertise in each course. From an international perspective, we are developing human resources with the ability to solve problems creatively, a true sense of humanity, and a sensibility suited to the times. Students will be able to precisely and quickly organize and grasp various problems related to electricity, electronics, communication, and networks.
In their first year, in addition to general education courses, students will learn about engineering in general and the subjects related to computer and network literacy, which will motivate them to study electrical and communication engineering. In the first half of the second year, students will acquire basic knowledge through the major foundation courses. From the second half of the second year to the first half of their fourth year, students will be assigned to a specific course of study to gain specialized knowledge and deepen the necessary expertise for each course. In each course, in addition to the compulsory subjects, students learn the basic knowledge and techniques of their specialized field, while choosing subjects according to their interests and future career desires. In the fourth year, students focus on their graduation research in their field of study, while nurturing their originality and problem-solving skills. In this way, we wish to train our students to be active researchers and engineers in the field of electrical and communication engineering. The study provided in the yearly curriculum has been formulated to align with each Diploma Policy (DP) of the Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering based on the curriculum policy.
Department of Information Technology
In today's highly networked information society, the Department of Information Technology trains engineers and researchers essential for maintaining the society's infrastructure. For that purpose, the department systematically educates students with a balanced mix of theory classes and practical training programs about information processing, in order to gain knowledge about computer software and hardware, artificial intelligence, information and computing science, and technologies that apply these to intelligence and social information systems. These technologies are essential for industrial and social development as well as the underlying technologies for all information services reaching into every corner of society. To respond to the demands of academia and society, the department trains technical experts in information processing, engineers of information systems and researchers of information technology. The department offers two courses - Computer Engineering and Intelligent Software. Students will select one of the courses based on their interests in the latter half of their second year. Since both courses have many common lecture and seminars, students can choose their courses within the department. In the first year of both courses, students will take the general education courses and major foundational courses and broaden their knowledge beyond their specialized field and the fundamental academic skills of engineering. In the second year, students will study information engineering through fundamental subjects on programming language, information processing system and information processing infrastructure. In addition, in the seminar courses, we aim to increase students' ability of structured programming. In the third year, students will apply their skills by studying department-specific subjects, as well as learn basic engineering skills through experiments. Students will learn through self-directed tasks of problem solving, collaborative work and report writing. In the fourth year, each student is assigned to a laboratory and is not restricted by the course assigned in the second year. In the laboratory, students will work on cutting-edge research in each field and apply the knowledge acquired thus far to solve specific problems. In this way, the department hopes to nurture their students to be an expert in the field of information processing.
Department of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology
The field of chemistry supports the basis of present industrial society by contributing to a wide range of industries such as pharmaceutical, agrochemical, precision instrumental, and electronic and information industries, by synthesizing molecules, and creating and producing functional materials. It is essential to integrate chemistry and bio-science into education today as they play important roles in addressing serious problems such as world hunger, health and medicine, energy depletion, and global environmental issues.
Through cutting-edge research and our educational course of study that integrate chemistry, bioscience, and engineering, we will develop researchers and engineers who are capable of adapting to change and meeting the needs of the times. We want our students to be eager to take on new challenges in order to solve the problems of the world.