Program Overview

Engineering Sciences and Design Graduate Major

The Engineering Sciences and Design Graduate Major aims to produce individuals with engineering design abilities, enabling them to solve various problems in society and contribute to the creation of new technologies, values, and concepts. This program cultivates individuals with comprehensive understanding of science and technology, who can work persistently to push back existing constraints.

Objectives

The objectives of the Engineering Sciences and Design Graduate Major are:

• To become an innovator who contributes to society by merging technology with value creation
• To cultivate individuals who have the basic abilities necessary to identify and formulate problems in complex situations in the real world
• To develop individuals who can create new values for society through research and application of engineering design

Ideal Candidates

The ideal candidates for the Master's Degree Program are:

• Those who accept and flexibly accommodate diverse societies and cultures
• Those who are interested in comprehensively understanding and integrating established engineering concepts through engineering design
• Those who have basic knowledge and skills in a particular academic field, not limited to engineering
• Those who have basic language abilities

The ideal candidates for the Doctoral Degree Program are:

• Those who accept and flexibly accommodate diverse societies and cultures
• Those who are interested in comprehensively understanding and integrating established engineering concepts through engineering design
• Those who have knowledge of and ability in engineering design or a specialized field of engineering
• Those who are capable of communicating in foreign languages

Competencies Developed

The competencies developed in the Master's Degree Program are:

• Knowledge, understanding, and logical thinking ability to flourish as an expert in science and technology
• Basic expression ability required for engineering design
• Ability to continuously self-improve by expanding specialist knowledge necessary for research and engineering development
• Communication skills necessary to conduct research and engineering development
• Ability to identify with both the research and development and the design aspects of engineering while having the perspective of an engineer with an appreciation for design

The competencies developed in the Doctoral Degree Program are:

• Awareness and ability to understand the significance of the various impacts science and technology can have, and with this in mind, take on unsolved problems with a sense of ethics
• Ability to accommodate differences in cultures and values, and work together as a team with people from diverse backgrounds
• Communication and management skills necessary to advance research and engineering development at an international level
• Creativity and innovativeness to discover new directions after a comprehensive examination of the situation
• Ability to make engineering design a more established field of study through its research and application

Potential Career Paths

The potential career paths for graduates of the Engineering Sciences and Design Graduate Major are:

• Business designers who use engineering design
• Innovators who combine their deep insight into citizens and consumers with engineering to reform society
• Researchers and engineers at business enterprises, etc.
• Researchers and academics at universities, etc.

Potential Employers for Graduates

The potential employers for graduates of the Engineering Sciences and Design Graduate Major include:

• Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
• Tokyo Metropolitan Government
• JAXA
• National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
• Electronic Navigation Research Institute
• Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Université catholique de Louvain (post doctor)
• IHI
• IBM
• Accenture
• Asahi Kasei
• Itokuro
• Intelligence
• NTT East
• NTT Comware
• Oracle
• Kajima
• Calsonic Kansei
• Environment Design Institute
• KDDI
• Komatsu
• SYGMAXYZ
• Shimano
• Shimizu Jyukankyo Research Institute
• Schlunmberger Limited
• Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal
• Sekisui Chemical
• National Maritime Research Institute
• Sony
• Sony Mobile
• SoftBank Mobile
• Takasago Thermal Engineering
• Takenaka
• TerraSky
• Tokyo Gas
• Toshiba
• Toshiba Machine
• Toray
• Toyota Motor
• Nikon
• NISSAN
• Nisshin Steel
• Japan Airlines
• Nomura Real Estate Development
• Fujitsu
• Future Architect
• Marubeni
• Sumitomo Mitsui Banking
• Mitsubishi Electric
• Mitsubishi Materials
• Morinaga Milk Industry
• Yamaha
• Land Brains
• Recruit
• Ricoh

Degree Offered

The degrees offered by the Department of Mechanical Engineering are:

• Master's Degree Program: Master of Science, Master of Engineering, Master of Arts
• Doctoral Degree Program: Doctor of Science, Doctor of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy

The degrees offered by the Department of Systems and Control Engineering are:

• Master's Degree Program: Master of Science, Master of Engineering, Master of Arts
• Doctoral Degree Program: Doctor of Science, Doctor of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy

The degrees offered by the Department of Information and Communications Engineering are:

• Master's Degree Program: Master of Science, Master of Engineering, Master of Arts
• Doctoral Degree Program: Doctor of Science, Doctor of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy

The degrees offered by the Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics are:

• Master's Degree Program: Master of Science, Master of Engineering, Master of Arts
• Doctoral Degree Program: Doctor of Science, Doctor of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy

The degrees offered by the Department of Architecture and Building Engineering are:

• Master's Degree Program: Master of Engineering, Master of Arts
• Doctoral Degree Program: Doctor of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy

The degrees offered by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are:

• Master's Degree Program: Master of Engineering, Master of Arts
• Doctoral Degree Program: Doctor of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy

The degrees offered by the Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering are:

• Master's Degree Program: Master of Science, Master of Engineering, Master of Arts
• Doctoral Degree Program: Doctor of Science, Doctor of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy

Education Policy

The education policy for the Graduate Major in Engineering Sciences and Design (Master's Program) and the education policy for the Graduate Major in Engineering Sciences and Design (Doctoral Program) are available in Japanese only.

Departments with Graduate Major in Engineering Sciences and Design

The departments with the Graduate Major in Engineering Sciences and Design are:

• Mechanical Engineering
• Systems and Control Engineering
• Information and Communications Engineering
• Industrial Engineering and Economics
• Architecture and Building Engineering
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering