The aim of the Master’s Program is to foster science and engineering professionals who can collaborate with researchers and engineers around the world and contribute to solving various problems in society.
Today, it is impossible to build a sustainable, advanced, and prosperous social system without electrical technologies for energy, environment, space, nano-properties, devices, information, and communication. In order to meet the demands of society for these electrical, electronic, information, and communication technologies, which are also the foundations of industrial technology, the major's main educational objectives are to (1) acquire advanced specialized knowledge and cultivate the ability to apply it, (2) develop and cultivate the ability to find and solve problems, (3) cultivate presentation and communication skills, and (4) cultivate a sense of cooperation and ethics. In order to achieve the above goals, the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Course covers a wide range of academic and technical fields in the electrical and information sciences and is equipped to deal with most of the issues and problems in these fields. The course is also ready to respond immediately to novel and original research themes that are expected to develop in the future. Specifically, the course is united to form majors, realizing graduate education that transcends faculties and departments. Furthermore, education and research guidance are divided into eight specialized fields: (1) Materials and Devices, (2) Circuits and Control, (3) Power and Energy, (4) Communication, (5) Information, (6) Informational Science, (7) Robotics and Mechatronics, and (8) Biotechnology and Biological Systems.
The objective of the Materials Science and Engineering Course is to train engineers and researchers who can contribute to the realization of a sustainable society with advanced knowledge of materials and substances, the ability to find and solve problems in order to play an active role in materials manufacturing and development, and a wide range of internationally accepted insights.
Development of science and technology has been brought about not only prosperity of material civilization but also serious environmental problems such as global warming, environmental pollutions. In chemical industry, materials of high function and environment-friendly in the processes of production, usage, disposal, technology enabling the removal of contaminants and the recovery of rare resource have been required to be developed. In addition, the development of technology for the production and usage of renewable energy alternative to fossil fuel has become significant. The Applied Chemistry Course aims to foster researchers and engineers having not only extensive chemistry knowledge and skills, but also a broad culture and flexible and appropriate problem-solving skill, and to provide them to the international society as deserving human resources.
Mechanical Engineering is a field of engineering, which is the foundation for building a society that can maintain human life and the global environment surrounding it forever, through “manufacturing.” The Mechanical Engineering Course has set a goal, which is to develop the ability to make a judgment in relation to the social needs regarding the environment, energy,safety, security, and convenience to realize such a society, by flexibly applying a variety of specialized knowledge as well as based on complex examinations drawn by seeing things from a global perspective and considering various effects. Furthermore, the Course also aims that its students will acquire the determination to open up new fields and develop practical abilities. The Mechanical Engineering Course offers a research guidance course divided into six sections. In each section, a wide range of research education is practiced, ranging from research concerning micro technology in fundamental field to the field of macro technology regarding complex applied technology and system technology. In addition, research and education in the department covers a wide range of fields, from basic mechanical engineering, such as materials and structural mechanics, fluids, heat and energy to robotics, automobiles, new energy systems, and welfare engineering, as well as system technologies related to complex manufacturing, such as biotechnology, medical engineering, and design engineering. Through this research, the major goal is to nurture engineers who can not only learn specialized knowledge but also contribute to society from a global perspective, who are aware of engineering ethics, can set their own problems, and can practice engineering to solve them. The course also have an educational program that allows students to constantly challenge new things through the problem-solving process of specific themes.
Problems in modern society do not fall only into a single specialized field. Under the prospects for the future, methods to solve these problems are formed comprehensively by linking them with various technologies and scientific elements, whilst placing harmony to limit the environmental problems and resource problems, and with traditional culture and values at its base. The System Engineering and Science Course aims to train researchers and engineers with the ability to identify problems across multiple disciplines and to solve them in a comprehensive manner, based on their background knowledge and systems thinking, which they have acquired through (1) compulsory courses, (2) research guidance courses, (3) elective courses, and (4) common courses.
Globalization of society and national economies has increased the demand for educating engineers who use their knowledge for the benefits of both their local region and global society as a whole. The Global Course of Engineering and Science is a Master’s Degree course in Engineering and Science with English language as the teaching and learning medium. It offers cross‐departmental education in a multinational environment. This course is the embodiment of SIT university’s educational mission in a global perspective. The mission of the course is to nurture engineers and scientists who learn from the world and contribute to global sustainability. The educational aim of the course is to develop the next generation of engineers and scientists who have specialized knowledge and practical skills in the field of their supervisors’ expertise and who can communicate in English with professionals around the world to resolve engineering and socio‐economic problems. To achieve this educational aim, our program offers specialized subjects and research guidance in major fields of engineering including Electrical Engineering, Electronic and Information Engineering, Materials Engineering, Applied Chemistry, as well common subjects and sub‐major subjects including Business Development Specialty.
The Civil Engineering Course aims to develop human resources who can contribute to the construction of a sustainable society by equipping them with knowledge and problem-solving skills related to technologies and systems for the construction and management of social infrastructures essential to community’s lives, as well as technologies and systems for disaster prevention and environmental issues.
The Architecture and Architectural Engineering Course aims to contribute to the development of human culture and the realization of a sustainable society through the creation of rich architectural and urban spaces, and to nurture human resources who are capable of working in a modern international society where major changes in the environment and diverse values coexist, with interdisciplinary perspectives ranging from natural sciences to humanities and social sciences, and with solutions based on architectural science. The purpose of this course is to nurture human resources who can play an active role in modern international society with solutions based on architectural science, while maintaining an interdisciplinary perspective that spans natural science, humanities and social science.
The Doctoral Program aims to cultivate science and engineering professionals who can collaborate with researchers and engineers around the world to solve various problems and independently conduct creative research.
In limited areas such as urban cities, the social and cultural activities of human beings are likely to negatively affect the living environment in the area. For sustainable community development, harmony between the activation of community activities and conservation of the living environment is inevitable. In addition, to realize this, there is a necessity to work on the issues spreading across a range of fields including electrical engineering and computer science, materials science, chemistry, mechanical engineering, architecture and civil engineering. Doctoral candidates in the Regional Environment System Course will deepen research in their own specialized field. At the same time, it is also aimed that they will contribute to forming the foundation of a better society, culture and life in the regional environment by having an insight into the influence and effect of technology on society and nature, and through exchanging information among researchers from different specialized fields. The educational goal of this course is to nurture talents who have a broad view regarding the regional environment and can achieve this aim, by making use of their highly specialized knowledge.
Japan in the 20th century placed an emphasis on efficiency and convenience, and strived towards manufacturing things, seeking to increase profitability. As a result, this approach put Japan in a situation where it faced contradictions such as the destruction of environment. Currently, Japan possesses technologies, which lead the world in such fields as automobiles, robotics, electronics and telecommunications, whilst resolving such contradictions. These technologies are becoming increasingly more complex. In order to contribute to the world as a leader of science and technology in the global society going forward, Japan will be required to exercise high-level design capabilities and technology management skills, which will enable Japan to grasp the overall picture of increasingly complex technologies and promote harmony within the overall system, in addition to the ability to deeply analyze and comprehend objects.
For example, the nuclear power plant accident that occurred immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake reaffirmed the importance of systematization technology regarding the management of technology in society and the use of technology in society, including implementation and operation, and the time has come to reconsider practical education again. In addition, in 2015, the achievement of 17 goals for sustainable development (SDGs) was adopted by all UN member states. This also means that there is a need to nurture researchers and engineers who have global values and can be active internationally. Based on such a background, the Functional Control Systems Course aims to provide education and to conduct research to nurture outstanding researchers and engineers who have global values and the ability to fully grasp the truth of science and make use of it in practical education. This course consists of a number of different education and research fields, such as communication function control, functional device control, system control, and biosystems and biomolecule control, and operates interdisciplinary education and research. Taking this approach ensures that the course is not specialized in education and research being exclusively relevant to the areas of its academic staff’s expertise. The course also aims to nurture researchers and engineers with basic skills for technology management and proficiency in English for engineers as well as shared values and ethics, while the course as a whole is aware of the relevance based on the diversity in the course and actively promotes collaboration with each other.
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In the Master's Program of the Graduate School of Engineering and Science, the curriculum is organized based on the following policies in order to train engineers as stated in the Diploma Policy. In order to foster engineers, the curriculum is organized based on the following policies.
Based on the educational goal of this university (philosophy for the foundation of the school), “Nurturing engineers who learn from society and contribute to society,” this course has set its educational goal as “Nurturing engineers who have comprehensive problem-solving skills and contribute to the world.” For the systematic curriculum and the PDCA in the organization to achieve this educational goal, this course implements a systematic and organizational active learning reform for the duration of two years, visualization of learning outcomes and a guarantee of study hours by the PDCA cycle, strengthening of the promotion system for educational reform, and guaranteed learning through collaboration between teaching staff, administrative staff and students. The talents the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Course seeks are engineers who will be involved in electrical-, electronic-, information-, communications- and design-related research and development as well as production. The ideal candidates to be trained are engineers who will engage in the construction of sophisticated electrical-, electronic-, information- and communications-systems. In order to achieve the goal, the course is divided into eight main areas - namely, (1) Materials and Devices, (2) Circuit and Control, (3) Power and Energy, (4) Communication, (5) Information, (6) Informational Science, (7) Robotics and Mechatronics, and (8) Bioengineering - and course models for each area are provided. The course models will enable students to prepare and conduct their research by obtaining 30 units required for the completion of the course by taking subjects and research guidance (exercises and experiments). The academic achievements of the students aiming at the educational goal are evaluated as follows; Achievements in 1) advanced specialized knowledge and application skills are evaluated based on the reports and tests. 2) development of skills to find and solve problems, 3)skills for presentation and communication, and 4)development of cooperative personality and sense of ethics are evaluated mainly based on the results due to the research guidance(exercises and experiments). In addition, in order to evaluate total ability, candidates of the master’s degree are required that they have presented more than one paper at an academic conference.
The curriculum in the Materials Science and Engineering Course is positioned as an extension of the curriculum in the undergraduate education and has been specifically created to enable students on this course to acquire knowledge and experiences regarding more advanced materials science and engineering. Students in the Materials Science and Engineering Course will be able to deepen the knowledge relevant to their own research area by selecting and taking lectures, which explain basic perspectives regarding the physics and chemistry of materials, and theories etc., related to the application of materials science and engineering, as well as the ones based mainly on seminars and presentations. For the research for a Master’s or Doctoral thesis, the students will be able to acquire experiences and obtain a wide view as engineers and researchers in engineering by inventing and implementing their research as well as by presenting research results.
In order to deepen students' understanding of the chemical field in which they specialize, and to cultivate their ability to understand the fundamentals and advanced technologies in a wide range of related chemical fields, we offer lecture courses (including lectures in English) based on the following policies. (1) Lecture courses are offered in a wide range of fields, and the curriculum is designed to enable students to acquire knowledge in interdisciplinary fields such as life science and chemical engineering, in addition to core expertise in organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and analytical chemistry, by acquiring 18 credits or more from these lecture courses. (2) Research guidance courses such as special exercises and special experiments are provided to cultivate practical problem finding and solving skills. In the second half of the program, after earning credits, students can concentrate on developing their specialized skills and complete their master's thesis. (3) Students are instructed to actively disseminate the results of their research (conference presentations and paper presentations).
The Mechanical Engineering Course provides education in line with the following policy:
Students will acquire: (1) Skills to accurately grasp social needs and to identify and establish problems. (2) Skills, which enable them to precisely use specialized knowledge in solving problems. (3) An attitude towards considering things from a variety of angles and to examine them in a multifaceted way. (4) An attitude and communication skills to solve problems from a global perspective (5) A willingness to take on challenges in new fields, a rich culture, and a high sense of ethics. (6) An attitude of problem solving with an awareness of a sustainable society. (7) Will continue to review and improve so that all students in the course can receive high-quality education based on the above.
In order to achieve the educational and research objectives, the following education and research will be conducted.
(1) By completing the compulsary courses, students will learn through synthesis-led, cross-disciplinary education and research. By this, students will acquire "systems thinking" for comprehensive problem solving, "systems methods" for designing functions to achieve objectives and "systems management" for integrating people, knowledge and technology for problem solving. In addition, this course is accompanied by special exercises based on mixed-field projects. Through these exercises, students acquire communication and leadership skills. (2) Students will determine research guidance, which will be the core of their specialized knowledge, from the five areas of machinery and control, electronics and information, society and the environment, life science, and mathematical science, and will acquire the skills to solve specialized problems in the area that they have selected. (3) Students will acquire the skills to clarify the theme set by themselves and to draw comprehensive solutions using the works for research guidance subjects, while they will also acquire skills to systematize the knowledge gained through writing their Master’s thesis. (4) The course allows students to take elective courses to acquire the knowledge they need in all areas. As a result, students will gain background knowledge that transcends disciplines. (5) Students will acquire communication skills through taking common subjects, and at the same time, they will also acquire human competence, which is necessary to solve problems by bringing individual science and technologies together as well as acquiring ethics in engineering practice as engineers who will contribute to society.
The Global Course of Engineering and Science has adopted an education and research curriculum with the following objectives to help students acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes embodied in the Program’s graduation criteria.
Students shall: (1) Acquire specialized knowledge in their field of expertise and basic cross-disciplinary knowledge through the required courses. (2) Acquire English communication and technical skills for speaking and writing through courses taught in English. (3) Be provided with guidance for researching the specialized knowledge needed to discover and elucidate problems and derive solutions. (4) Experience the importance of diversity and adaptability in intercultural environments through international exchange, study abroad or internships. (5) Acquire high ethical standards by working with experienced professional researchers. (6) Acquire the ability to formulate their research results systematically and logically in English by writing science and engineering articles as well as a master's thesis. (7) Acquire the ability to both communicate information and contribute to society by participating in academic activities such as presentations at academic conferences.
In the Civil Engineering Course, the curriculum is structured with the goal of enabling students to acquire the following abilities in accordance with the Diploma Policy and the objectives of education and research. (1) Be able to deal with integrated systems consisting of structures, nature, and society, which are the subject of social infrastructure studies, based on natural and social sciences. (2) Based on a correct understanding of the relationship between people and the environment, students will be able to accurately analyze various environmental factors surrounding society and contribute to the creation of a sustainable society and the realization of new environmental systems. (3) Systematically acquire specialized knowledge in the field of social infrastructure and apply it to problem solving. (4) Identify, organize, and analyze issues in the field of social infrastructure, and present rational solutions. (5) Communicate their own opinions logically to others and engage in advanced discussions on matters related to social infrastructure. (6) Be able to communicate in a basic manner in the field of social infrastructure in a global society. (7) Be able to consider the impact of social infrastructure on society and the environment, understand the responsibilities and roles of engineers, and comply with engineering ethics.
In line with the diploma policy and educational and research objectives, the curriculum of the Architecture and Architectural Engineering Course has been designed with the aim of enabling students to acquire the following abilities
Furthermore, in each class subject, rather than one-way transmission of knowledge, students are encouraged to deepen their professional knowledge and skills through intensive discussions among themselves and with faculty members. In addition, in each class subject, evaluation methods and standards are strictly set, and academic achievements appropriate to a master's degree are evaluated from multiple perspectives to achieve the prescribed academic and educational achievement goals.
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In the Doctoral Program of the Graduate School of Engineering and Science, the curriculum is organized based on the following policies to cultivate researchers and engineers as stated in the Diploma Policy, so that students can study their expertise from a comprehensive perspective in terms of both software and hardware.
The Regional Environment Systems Course aims to cultivate researchers and highly skilled professionals with advanced expertise in the fields of regional environmental planning, environmental materials engineering, energy and environmental engineering, environmental disaster prevention engineering, and advanced management engineering. These individuals are expected to be able to harmonize entire systems from a comprehensive perspective on regional and environmental issues, possess strong creativity and excellent research and development capabilities, and collaborate with researchers and engineers worldwide to address global challenges for the realization of a sustainable society, guided by a high level of ethical awareness. To this end, the curriculum is organized based on the following policies so that students can develop their expertise from a comprehensive perspective encompassing both software and hardware.
Doctor of Philosophy
The Functional Control Systems Course aims to nurture researchers and professionals with advanced expertise who have excellent research promotion and research and development skills with rich creativity in the fields of communication function control, functional device control, system control, and life function control, and who can solve various global problems for the realization of a sustainable society in cooperation with researchers and engineers around the world. The purpose is to train researchers and highly-skilled professionals who have a high degree of specialization that can solve various problems in the world for the realization of a sustainable society. The curriculum is organized based on the following policies so that students can develop their expertise from a comprehensive perspective in both software and hardware.