Special Program of Engineering Science 21 st Century. for Master s and Doctoral Courses in English

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1 Special Program of Engineering Science 21 st Century for Master s and Doctoral Courses in English Graduate School of Engineering Science, OSAKA UNIVERSITY Enrollment in April 2014 Application Guide for Foreign Students 1.Admission Capacity Master s Course 15 students in total for 3 departments below Doctoral Course a few students at each department below Department of Materials Engineering Science Department of Mechanical Science and Bioengineering Department of Systems Innovation Research areas and topics are found at the website: 2. Application Requirements (1) Eligible applicants must belong to one of the following categories: (a) Non-Japanese who hold a resident visa (College Student Visa), the status of which permits enrollment in a Graduate School under the Immigration-Control and Refugee-Recognition Act. (b) Non-Japanese who are expected to obtain the above status upon enrollment in the Graduate School, under the Immigration-Control and Refugee-Recognition Act. (2) Applicants must have fulfilled at least one of the following: Master s Course applicants must (a) have graduated from a university or college or are expected to graduate prior to the date of enrollment to the course; (b) have completed 16 years of formal school education in countries other than Japan or be expected to complete it prior to the date of enrollment to the course; (c) have completed 15 years of formal school education in countries other than Japan or be expected to complete it prior to the date of enrollment to the course, and be approved as having outstanding academic records by the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University; (d) have completed 15 years of formal education program in Japan that is administered by foreign schools and is approved by the Minister of The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese Government or are expected to complete it prior to the date of enrollment to the course, and be approved as having outstanding academic records by the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University; or (e) be approved as an equivalent academically to a university graduate by the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University and be at least 22 years of age prior to the date of enrollment to the course.

2 Doctoral Course applicants must (a) have completed a master s course at a graduate school of university/college or be expected to complete prior to the date of enrollment to the course; (b) have either graduated from a Japanese university, or completed 16 years of formal school education in countries other than Japan followed by at least 2 years of research experience at universities/ research institutes, and be approved having research ability by referring their research achievement as equivalent to master s degree level by the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University; or (c) be approved as an equivalent academically to a master s course graduate by the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University and be at least 24 years of age prior to the date of enrollment to the course. (3) Language ability Required English proficiency is above 79 for TOEFL-IBT, 213 for TOEFL-CBT, 550 for TOEFL-PBT, 6.0 for IELTS or equivalent. (4) Health Applicants must be in good health and free of infectious diseases. (5) Attendance availability Applicants should arrive in Japan immediately prior to the date of enrollment and start the course on the date of enrollment. (6) Notes on ineligible applicants: (a) Members of the armed forces are not eligible to apply. (b) Admission will be revoked, if a new student is not able to arrive in Japan by the designated date. 3. Application Procedure (1) Application Period: Monday, December 2, 2013 to Friday, December 13, 2013 Note: Every applicant must find, well in advance, a supervisor suitable for the research field in which the applicant is interested, and contact him/her by to confirm whether the field is adequately fitting to his/her laboratory. The research topics of faculty members of the Graduate School of Engineering Science are in the attached list and also available at the website: (2) Application Procedure: Application documents should be submitted by a registered postal mail such as Express Mail Service (EMS) so that they should arrive within the application period to the address: Graduate Students Section Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka JAPAN Fax: No application will be accepted, if the documents are incomplete. Contents submitted cannot be changed, once the application procedure is completed. If any of application documents are false, admission will be cancelled even after enrollment. (3) Application documents: All the application documents (a)-(j) must be carefully completed in English with typed/printed or written in block letters on A4- or US letter-sized white papers. Official English translation must be attached for every formal document given in other languages. No application documents are returnable. (a) Form Application for Admission in Special Program of Engineering Science 21 st Century for Master s and Doctoral Courses in English completed and signed (b) Details of Proposed Study completed in about 2,000 words on the prescribed form (c) Abstract of applicant s Bachelor s thesis for Master s Course application or that of Master s thesis for Doctoral Course application, written in English within 2,000 words on the prescribed form (d) Application fee: 30,000 yen. *Contact the Graduate Students Section well in advance to ask how to pay it.

3 *The application fee must be paid into the university bank account during the application period. * Students who will graduate the Master s Course of Osaka University do not have to pay the application fee. (e) Official document certifying the date or expected date of applicant s graduation issued and signed by officials of the university and/or graduate school. (f) Academic records, which also indicate the GPA or its equivalent and its full score, issued and signed by officials of the university and/or graduate school. (g) Certificate of citizenship or a copy of the applicant s passport on an A4- or US letter-sized paper. (h) Score report (original copy) of the TOEFL test or equivalent as a certificate of English proficiency. (i) Recommendation letter from the Dean of the faculty or school, the Head of the department, or the applicant s academic supervisor in the institution from which the applicant has graduated. When the applicant is an employee, a recommendation letter from the employer/executives will also be accepted. (j) Two (2) photos of 4.5 by 3.5 cm in size and Two (2) photos of 3.2 by 2.6 cm in size: In color Printed on photo quality paper Taken within the last 6 months prior to the application date to reflect the current appearance Taken clearly in front of a plain background Taken in full-face view directly facing the camera including upper body With a neutral facial expression and both eyes open without hat/cap Write your name and nationality in block letters on the back of all photos Clip the photos on the form Application for Admission in Special Program of Engineering Science 21 st Century for Master s and Doctoral Courses in English (Do not paste.) 4. Screening (1) Overseas applicants: screening will be made on the basis of the application documents. (2) Applicants in Japan: screening will be made on the basis of an oral/paper examination, and the application documents. Date and Place of Oral Examination: Date: in the middle of February, 2014 (The date will be notified by the Graduate Students Section, Graduate School of Engineering Science.) Place: Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University 5. Notification of Results (1) Overseas applicants: The results of screening will be mailed to the applicants by the middle of February (2) Applicants in Japan: The results of screening will be mailed to the applicants by the 3 rd of March Inquiry about the results by telephone etc. is strictly prohibited. 6. Enrollment Formalities (1) Documents to be submitted: Graduation certificate, certified academic records, and statement of financial responsibility (2) Payment of fees: Admission fees: 282,000 yen (fiscal year 2013) Tuition fees: 535,800 yen per year (fiscal year 2013)

4 Note: (a) Students supported by a Japanese Government Scholarship (Monbukagakusho Scholarship) are exempt from both admission fees and tuition fees. (b) Financial aid scheme is made available to students by waiving either half or all of the admission fees and/or tuition fees. Eligibility for financial aid scheme is based on financial need and academic achievement, or in the case of suffering from natural disasters. (c) If admission fees and tuition fees are revised by the University, the students must pay the revised amount. 7. Date of Enrollment to the Course April 1 st, Financial Support from our Graduate School If students enrolled in this special program have no scholarship, we employ them as part-time assistants and pay them about 20,000 Japanese Yen per month by our specialized regulations. 9. Policy on Handling Personal Information (1) Names, addresses, and other personal information will be used in the entrance examination process, in the publication of the list of successful applicants, and in the admission procedures. For those admitted to Osaka University, personal information will also be used for academic-related matters (keeping academic and registration records), for student support matters (health care management, school fee exemptions and applications for scholarships, career support, etc.), and for school fee management. (2) The information obtained from the entrance examination such as grade statistics and analysis will be used for research on admission methods. 10. Note Applicants are recommended to become well acquainted with the Japanese language, culture, customs, and so on. Knowledge of Japanese is useful for daily life. 11. Requests for Application Forms Application forms will be downloaded from the website: Those hardcopies via regular postal mail can be requested by ing to ki-daigakuin@office.osaka-u.ac.jp For any matters concerning admission, please contact the Graduate Students Section by Graduate Students Section Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University 1-3, Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka JAPAN Fax: ki-daigakuin@office.osaka-u.ac.jp

5 Application for Admission in Special Program of Engineering Science 21 st Century for Master s and Doctoral Courses in English Enrollment in April 2014 Graduate School of Engineering Science, OSAKA UNIVERSITY I. Applicant Applicants must type or write clearly in English block letters. Numbers must be written in Arabic numerals. Years must be written in the A.D. system. Proper nouns must be written in full and not be abbreviated. Full Name, Family name First name Middle name Date of Birth Year Month Day Nationality Sex Male Female Postal Code and Mailing Address Fax number +( ) Phone Number +( ) (1) Where is your place of birth? Include both the city and country in which you were born. City: Country: (2) Have you been to Japan before? If yes, how many times did you come to Japan? Yes Time(s) No (3) Do you have a passport? Yes No a) Number b) Date of issue (yyyy/mm/dd) / / c) Date of expiration (yyyy/mm/dd) / / d) Issuing authority (4) Do you have family (father, mother, spouse, son, daughter, etc.) in Japan? Yes No

6 (5) Are you a scholarship holder? Yes No If yes, write the name and terms of the scholarship. (attach a copy of the certificate) Name of the scholarship: Terms (yyyy/mm/dd): from / / to / / II. Preferred course/department, and language proficiency (1) Course (check one) Master s Course Doctoral Course (2) Department (check one) Department of Materials Engineering Science Department of Mechanical Science and Bioengineering Department of Systems Innovation (3) Supervisor and Division (specify) Professor Division of (4) Language proficiency (a) English TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) TOEFL-IBT TOEFL-CBT TOEFL-PBT Score: Date of Examination: If you have a score of other test, please specify. Test name: Score: Date of Examination: (b) Japanese Excellent Good Fair Poor Attach a copy of a certificate of Japanese, if you have. III. Education and employment records (1) Educational Background: (State in detail your academic background) Elementary Education Elementary School Name of school (City, Country) Required years Year and month (yyyy/mm) of entrance and completion from Degree to Secondary Education Junior High School from to Senior High School From to

7 Higher Education Undergraduate Level (GPA:. ) Graduate Level from to from to For Higher Education, school/ graduate school as well as university must be specified. Total years of education as listed above: years months (2) Record of Employment: (Begin with the most recent one.) Name of Employer Period of Employment Position Type of Work IV. Application for Admission To the President of Osaka University I understand and accept all the matters stated in the Application Guide, and hereby submit my application to apply for the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University as an international student of Graduate Courses for April Date of application (yyyy/mm/dd): / / Applicant s signature: Applicant s name in English block capital:

8 Details of Proposed Study State the details of your major field of study and study plan in about 2,000 words. This item will be used as one of the most important references for selection. Instructions 1. Applicant must type or write clearly in English block letters. 2. Numbers must be written in Arabic numerals. 3. Years must be written in the A.D. system. 4. Proper nouns must be written in full and not be abbreviated. Name of Applicant:

9 Abstract of Bachelor s/master s Thesis State the abstract of applicant s Bachelor s/master s thesis or equivalent in less than 2,000 words. Name of Applicant:

10 Special Program of Engineering Science 21 st Century Master s/doctoral Courses in English Contents of Study The Graduate School of Engineering Science aims to acquire a good international reputation through increased involvement in the exchange of students and/or researchers and in joint research projects. For this objective, the Graduate School of Engineering Science has decided to offer a new interdisciplinary program in which all lectures, as well as all instructions and supervision in research-related activities and seminars are given in English. The students are not required to learn Japanese to join this program. In the program, globally recognized and highly qualified graduates are expected to be educated under the guiding principle of the Graduate School of Engineering Science which strives to integrate science and technology. Outline and Features of the Program 1) The aim of this program is to develop human resources with high level, creative and flexible problem-solving ability. These are achieved through multi- and interdisciplinary research training, seminars, and lectures, given by prominent professors in their respective fields. 2) Students are guided and supervised in English. 3) Students can select one of the eleven Divisions of the Graduate School of Engineering Science (see Table 1), for their research study for a Master s or Doctoral Degree. Students will be requested to choose one professor or associate professor as their supervisor. 4) The opportunity for an internship at a prominent Japanese company or research organization will be provided in order to increase the knowledge and experience of cutting edge technologies. This internship will allow international students to become discerning and well-balanced scientists, with a deeper understanding of the Japanese society. The internship will also meet the requirements of the international students who wish to have practical experience in industry. 5) The program also opens the door to Japanese students for enhancing interaction between Japanese and international students. The program will improve international awareness of Japanese students, as well as to deepen international students understanding of the Japanese society. This will also meet with the demand of some Japanese students who want to work in the global environment. Course Requirements 1) Master s Course students are requested to obtain 30 credits, as given in Table 2. The list of courses given in English is shown in Table 3. Students can also have internship training at a Japanese company or research organization. 2) Doctoral Course students are requested to take Research Training for Doctor's Thesis and Advanced Research Work for Doctor's Thesis as well as to obtain 12 credits, as in Table 4.

11 Table 1. Organization of the Graduate School of Engineering Science Department of Materials Engineering Science Division of Materials Physics Area of Electron Correlation Physics Area of Quantum Physics of Nanoscale Materials Area of Quantum Materials Physics Division of Chemistry Area of Synthetic Chemistry Area of Molecular Organization Chemistry Area of Solar Energy Chemistry Division of Chemical Engineering Area of Chemical Reaction Engineering Area of Environment and Energy System Area of Bioprocess Engineering Area of Solar Energy Chemistry Division of Frontier Materials Science Area of Frontier Materials Area of Dynamics of Nanoscale Materials Area of Quantum Science in Extreme Conditions Department of Mechanical Science and Bioengineering Division of Nonlinear Mechanics Area of Mechanics of Fluids and Thermo-fluids Area of Mechanics of Solid Materials Division of Mechanical Engineering Area of Propulsion Engineering Area of Mechano-informatics Division of Bioengineering Area of Biomechanical Science Area of Biophysical Engineering Area of Biomedical and Biophysical Measurements Department of Systems Innovation Division of Advanced Electronics and Optical Science Area of Solid State Electronics Area of Advanced Quantum Devices and Electronics Area of Optical Electronics Division of Systems Science and Applied Informatics Area of System Theory Area of Intelligent Systems Division of Mathematical Science Area of Mathematical Modelling Area of Statistical Science Division of Mathematical Science for Social Systems Area of Mathematical and Statistical Finance Area of Theoretical Systems Science

12 Table 2. Requirements for Master s Course Category Number of Credits Lecture course 18 Seminar Ⅰ~Ⅳ 4 Special Study (Master Thesis) Ⅰ~Ⅳ 8 Table 3. List of lectures of Master s Course =Annual classes * =Biennial classes Lecture courses Credits Introduction to Engineering Science Solid State Spectroscopy Nano-materials and spins Molecular Nanotechnology Properties of Materials Advanced Physical Chemistry Advanced Organic Chemistry Advanced Chemistry for Material Science Biofunctional Material Design Science and Engineering of Correlated Electron Materials Theoretical Materials Science Photophysics of Nanoscale Materials Frontier of Nano-scale Materials Material Process Engineering 2(*) Engineering Science Research Internship Turbulence Dynamics 2(*) Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics 2(*) Viscous Fluid Mechanics 2(*) Strength of Structure 2(*) Ultrasonic Techniques 2(*) Topics in Fluids Engineering for Space Machinery 2(*) Topics on Robotics 2(*) Stability Analysis of Dynamical Systems 2(*) Advanced Theoretical Solid Mechanics 2(*) Advanced Computational Mechanics 2(*) Theory of Optimum Design and Synthesis 2(*) Biological System Engineering 2(*) Electronic Device Engineering 2(*)

13 Lectures Credits Quantum Information Science 2(*) Advanced Optoelectronics Optimal Systems Theory 2(*) Signal Analysis Theory 2(*) Theory of Systems Analysis 2(*) Applied Robotics 2(*) Intelligent Robotics 2(*) Mixed Reality Systems 2(*) Advanced Robot Systems 2(*) Imaging Systems 2(*) Advanced Human Interfaces 2(*) Communication Robot 2(*) Database Systems 2(*) Topics in Mathematical Sciences Ⅰ 2(*) Topics in Mathematical Sciences Ⅱ 2(*) Nonlinear System Theory Systems Optimization and Analysis 2(*) Intelligent Mathematical Programming System 2(*) Topics in Mathematical Statistics Ⅰ 2(*) Topics in Mathematical Statistics Ⅱ 2(*) Bioreaction Engineering 2(*) Biomechanical Engineering 2(*) Biomedical Simulation and Measurement 2(*) Medical Information Technology 2(*) Solid State Devices Opto- and Quantum Electronics Advanced Mathematical Science A Advanced Mathematical Science B Advanced Mathematical Science C Table 4. Requirements for Doctoral Course Category Number of Credits Research Training for Doctor's Thesis Nil Advanced Research Work for Doctor's Thesis Advanced/Special ResearchⅠ~Ⅵ 12

14 Engineering Science 21 st Century Graduate School of Engineering Science OSAKA UNIVERSITY 1. Osaka University and the School/Graduate School of Engineering Science Osaka University was established as a national university in 1931, as Osaka Imperial University. Although founded relatively late among the seven other Imperial Universities, Osaka University draws upon an academic tradition which arose between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries when Osaka was the economic center of Japan. The University has grown rapidly in these 83 years, not only in size but also in terms of its contribution to the scholarly community. It now encompasses, in addition to its 11 undergraduate schools (Letters, Human Sciences, Foreign Studies, Law, Economics, Science, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Engineering, and Engineering Science), 16 graduate schools, and 5 research institutions. It has three major campuses in Suita, Toyonaka, and Minoh, and the University has an enrollment of some 23,550 students and 5,990 staff. The School of Engineering Science was established in 1961 to develop scientists and engineers with a keen interest in practical technology, and who have a firm grasp of the basic sciences. These graduates will use this expertise to develop new technology. At present the Graduate School of Engineering Science contains 188 teaching staff, 52 technical and administrative staff, about 1,962 undergraduate students, 597 Master course students and 158 Doctor students. There are 10 undergraduate courses in four departments, and 11 postgraduate divisions in three departments. 2. Engineering Science - Past and Present Because the School of Engineering Science was established with mixed teaching staff from the School of Engineering and the School of Science, it has a special feature in the educational and research activities: providing all the students with scientific approaches for solving practical engineering problem and carrying out research in the multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary areas. This school created new research areas and eventually established the departments of information technology and bioengineering. The concept of Engineering Science was first proposed in the USA soon after the launch of Sputnik, to catch up with the Soviet space technology program by modernizing engineering education. The engineering education at the time was carried out in each small department separately without any connection to other departments. For this reason many small departments, such as the department for aeronautics, ship building, textile and mining machines, machine tools, etc., were teaching precise technologies related with each area of engineering work. This teaching system functioned well as long as each technology was concerned, but the system could hardly cope with new technologies such as space engineering. In the education of engineering science, the basic scientific knowledge from many departments, such as hydrodynamics and solid mechanics, electronics, chemistry, and material science are taught. For example, it is expected that, for example, if students study hydrodynamics, they should be able to handle air flow in designing the wings of airplanes, know the optimum shape of ships in order to reduce wave resistance, and understand water flow in the pipes of a power generator, etc. Since the results of scientific research had already been the essential subjects of engineering education at the time, this new method of teaching was smoothly implemented in United States universities from the beginning of the 1960 s, and spread very quickly.

15 Around this time (i.e. at the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960 s), the Japanese industry was just recovering from its collapse after World War II, and the government was trying to increase the number of engineers for future industrialization of the country. The number of students in the engineering departments was increasing rapidly. Instead of increasing the number of the students in engineering departments, Osaka University decided to launch the School of Engineering Science. The School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, teaches mainly common areas in engineering. The students are recommended to attend many lectures in other departments in order to expand their views, and comparatively large amounts of teaching time are allocated to mathematics. The idea of engineering science, in which common engineering subjects are taught mainly with scientific methodology, fit well with the Japanese situation at the time of rapid economic growth when many new engineering areas were being introduced, and the areas of engineering work were expanding. Unlike Osaka University, many Japanese universities employed the teaching method of engineering science, but they did not establish any special school for it. 3. Globalization and Engineering Education Around 1990, when the cold war suddenly ended, the U.S. industry began desiring to manufacture consumer products more seriously, and the military funding going to university research was reduced. While the U.S. industry lagged in production of consumer goods, the Japanese industry and universities had already begun to concentrate on consumer goods such as automobiles, electronic products, and computers. The reason that the U.S. manufacturing industry was not functioning as well as the Japanese industry was attributed to the quality of engineering education: the U.S. lacked practical engineering ability and teamwork. Engineering education in America was subjected to criticism from the industry because many of the university graduates could not cope with their technological field and lacked the methodology for solving practical problems. Some U.S. universities adopted the Design First method, in which the students are first given practical problems such as designing a machine with a prescribed function. Through practice, they are expected to recognize the necessary subjects by themselves with the aid of computer software such as CAD. At the same time they are taught engineering ethics, teamwork, presentation, etc., which are important skills for leading engineers. This movement was accelerated by the development of accreditation systems of engineering education, in which mainly education aimed at enhancing ability and skill for practical activities of engineers is evaluated. The accreditation system, which has a long history in the European engineers societies, was employed as ABET in the USA. The Design First movement was accelerated still more by the Washington Accord, in which the accreditation systems of member countries are recognized by each other. This is especially important in the environment of international joint cooperation. This change of engineering education had an impact to the Japanese universities. Major universities, including Osaka University, began to study the new teaching method from the middle of the 1990s, and reviewed their educational systems. In 1999, an accreditation system of engineering education, JABEE, was introduced and began to evaluate the educational systems in engineering schools. 4. Review of Engineering Science Since the new educational method, Design First, was introduced to change the trend of engineering science education, the School of Engineering Science, more than anyone, stood to lose a great deal, if the concept of engineering science was denied. In 1999, the School of Engineering Science created the Committee of Engineering Education Program, and began to study the policy of the educational scheme. The following represents the major results:

16 1) Demands from industry: The unique educational policy of the School of Engineering Science has been welcomed by the Japanese industries and the academic societies, and many graduates from this school occupy important positions in Japanese industries. It is concluded that the concept of engineering science has not lost its value. However, around 1990, the globally extended economy and its new demands forced companies to rapidly adjust their established practices. These demands will inevitably bring about some changes in education in the School of Engineering Science. Japanese industries are becoming more R/D oriented and the demands for graduates with higher ability of research and development are increasing. Thus the graduate school should be ready to educate high level engineers who will be in charge of the development of new products in their industries, instead of just research in academic institutions. English has been taught as the first non-native language in Japan for a long time. When Japan was introducing western technologies, it was natural to give an emphasis to reading of foreign literature in engineering education. In the global circumstances, however, engineers and researchers are requested to present their own results to the world. Thus, skills in English conversation and writing should be taught more intensively in the undergraduate courses. These changes will also benefit the international students who have the same demands from their industries, which are now becoming more R/D oriented. 2) Students awareness about engineering subjects: In some countries, like Germany, new students entering the technical universities have some knowledge of industry because they have already experienced training in the industry for some months, and understand the outline engineering work. However, in many other countries, including Japan, students are not taught enough about the future jobs, mainly because high school teachers do not have such knowledge. Thus the students tend to choose the universities and departments by name value, which is often related to the age and the tradition of the university. Due to this background, Japanese students are not well aware of the importance of each subject that they are going to study, and they are often blamed by people who have worked in industries for lacking awareness of their study. This may be true, but blaming the students will not change the situation. It is the role of a university to give the students enough opportunity to know about the jobs and the relationship between the subjects and real engineer s work. Accordingly, the Committee of Engineering Education Program decided to open a new subject, PBL = Problem Based Learning, and introduced it in the early stages of each undergraduate course. 3) Effects of development of information technology The changes caused by the rapid development of information technology are having great impact on the Japanese society and university education. Since the School of Engineering Science has contained a department of information science from its early stage, education of information technology has been carried out in all undergraduate courses. It is important to provide the students with sufficient facilities for using computers and the Internet. Although offering courses online is not being seriously considered at the moment, it may be an option presented for the convenience of international students in the near future. 5. Engineering Science -Future- In the year 2000, Osaka University established new graduate schools for Information Science and Technology, and Frontier Bioscience without undergraduate courses. About a quarter of the faculty members moved to the new graduate schools from the Graduate School of Engineering Science. The faculty members of the Graduate School of Engineering Science and those of the new graduate schools cooperate to teach students in the undergraduate courses of Engineering Science. The Graduate School of Engineering Science began to make a Grand Plan for the school to establish a new identity of the School of Engineering Science. The grand plan was then used to make a concrete plan

17 to form the new schools. The essential directions of the schools are as follows: 1) Undergraduate courses: The undergraduate courses have not changed very much because the idea of engineering science will continue to be valid in the future. To include the education for engineering skill and to improve the motivation of the new students, the PBL subjects will be presented in the early stages of undergraduate courses. To meet with globalization, some subjects on English writing and presentation will be included by employing teachers whose native tongue is English. The skill of presentation and teamwork will be enforced in the graduate thesis study during the final year. 2) Postgraduate courses: The new Graduate School of Engineering Science has three departments: a department dealing with physical and chemical materials from a unified viewpoint of materials science, a department dealing with mechanical science and bioengineering from the viewpoint of applied mechanics, and a department dealing with electronics, systems and mathematics from the viewpoint of systems innovation. In the graduate school, a new program is planned in which all the lectures are to be given in English and all students are to have practical experience in the industry to meet the request of the Japanese students and international students who want to work in the global environment. 3) Research activity: The new target of the Graduate School of Engineering Science is to create new research fields in multi- and inter-disciplinary areas. To help facilitate this, the school includes faculty members from various backgrounds. Also, the Multidisciplinary Research Laboratory System was established to ensure the gathering of researchers from different fields. 6. New English Program with Internship in Industry Complying with the newly settled plan, the School of Engineering Science aims to acquire a good international reputation through increased involvement in the exchange of students and/or researchers, and in joint research projects. For this objective, the Graduate School of Engineering Science decided to offer a new Interdisciplinary Program, in which all the lectures are given in English so that the students are not required to learn Japanese to join this program. In this program, globally recognized and highly qualified graduates are educated under the guiding principle the Graduate School of Engineering and Science, which is the integration of science and technology. An overview of this program is shown in the figure below. The dominant features of this program are as follows: 1) The aim of this program is to develop high-level human resources and flexible problem-solving ability, which is achieved through the multi- and inter-disciplinary lectures given by prominent professors in their fields. Students can choose one of 3 departments; (1) Dept. of Materials Engineering Science dealing with physical and chemical materials from a viewpoint of material science. (2) Dept. of Mechanical Science and Bioengineering dealing with mechanical science and bioengineering from the viewpoint of applied mechanics. (3) Dept. of Systems Innovation dealing with electronics, systems and mathematics from the viewpoint of systems innovation. Students can also select one of 11 Divisions for their research study for a Master s or a Doctoral degree. 2) An opportunity for internship training at a prominent Japanese company will be provided in order to increase the student s knowledge and experience of cutting-edge technologies, allowing them to become discerning and well-balanced scientists or technologists, with a deeper understanding of Japanese society. This will also meet the requirements of the international students who wish to have practical experience in industry. 3) The program also opens the door to Japanese students for enhancing interaction between themselves and international students. The program will improve their international awareness, as well as deepening

18 international students understanding of Japanese society. This will also meet the demands of some Japanese students who want to work in the global environment. 4) Students are guided and supervised in English so that they can achieve an academic degree within a given period; two years for a Master s degree and three years for a Doctoral degree. It will be conferred on outstanding students in less than the given period.