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Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) 東京農工大学. Introduction to. Masaki NAKAGAWA Associate Dean, Faculty of Technology Professor, Department of Computer & Information Sciences. TUAT.
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Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT)東京農工大学 Introductionto Masaki NAKAGAWA Associate Dean, Faculty of Technology Professor, Department of Computer & Information Sciences
TUAT Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering (BASE) • 400 Faculty members • 4,300 Undergraduate students, 2,000 Graduate Students Fuchu campus (Faculty of Agriculture) Koganei campus (Faculty of Engineering, BASE) 2
Where are we from? Narita Shinjuku 30minutes Tokyo High Quality of Life 3
TUAT was ranked within top 400 by Times Higher Education in 2011-2012 ・ TUAT was ranked within top 81by QS University Rankings: Asia 2013and the research level was evaluated VH (VERY HIGH) ・TUAT ranked number 1 in Japan for income earned from its registered patents (*2011 MEXT) ・TUAT ranked number 1 in Japan for amount of collaborative research with industry partnerships per faculty member(*2010 MEXT) Ranking 4
Reputation and Evaluation of TUAT Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. (stands for “Japan Economic Newspaper”) conducted a survey on engineering faculties’ R & D capabilities at universities/graduate schools of Japan’s leading public and private universities and reported the results in February 2004. TUAT finished First in passing the fruits of research on to the world. TUAT has the most patent applications, with 0.58 per professor. Total ranking of TUAT is the Fifth according to the academic credentials by NIKKEI (Source: THE NIKKEI WEEKLY February 23, 2004) 5
Number of Staffs and Students Student/Staff=4.8 Student/Faculty=7.3 Student/Faculty (ft)=13.5 6
Outstanding Research Activities (a few examples) Enhancing Handwriting Interfaces (Dept. Comp. Info. Sci.) Power Assist Suits (Dept. Mech. Sys. Eng.) Driving simulator study for active safety device assessment (Dept. Mech. Sys. Eng.) Application of Magnetic Bacteria (Dept. Bio. Life Sci.) Parallel Computing (Dept. Comp. Info. Sci.) (b) 10mm (a) Reacting hydrodynamics (Dept. Chem. Eng. ) 7
Educational Organization • Faculty of Engineering • Department of Biotechnology and Life Science • Department of Applied Chemistry • Department of Organic and Polymer Materials Chemistry • Department of Chemical Engineering • Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering • Department of Applied Physics • Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Department of Computer and Information Sciences 8
Supporting International Students On campus accommodation Courses for International Students Field Trip 10
TUAT Alumni • IN OTHER COUNTRIES • Indonesia: Member of Indonesian Presidential Advisory Council • China: Professor of Tsinghua University • China: Vice President of Sodick Amoy • Czech: Vice President of Czech Denso • and more … • IN JAPAN • Fujitsu: manager (from Vietnam) • JR Soken Engineering: manager (from China) • Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi: researcher (from Tunisia) • TUAT: associate professor (from Thailand) • Riken: researcher (from China) • and more … 11
Scenes of Campus East Gate Center for Innovation and Intellectual Property Building 13 – International Center Sakuranamiki 140th Anniversary Memorial Hall (Ellipse) International Center Instrumentation Analysis Center Advanced Capacitor Research Center 12 Machining Workshop
Spectrum of Globalization Foreign students to come! • More Int’l Collaboration • More Int’l Faculty Japanese to study abroad! fly! (Ph.D. or Post Dr.) jump! (Regular Programs: 2 years or more) step! (Short Term Exchange: 1 year) hop! (Short Stay: 2 weeks to 3 months) 13