Tokyo Institute of Technology Global COE Program



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Outline of the plan for establishing the COE

Members of the team, that is proposing the current Global Center of Excellence Program (hereafter abbreviated as G-COE), have been for the past five years involved in a predecessor program known as 21st Century COE. The 21st COE Program has been receiving very favorable evaluation, and the currently proposed G-COE will be built on the successful foundations of the previous program.

From an education standpoint, we will attract excellent students from Japan as well as from top-rated educational institutions in other Asian countries. We will foster human resources with doctor's degrees in materials science who can become true leaders in industrial technology and science. To achieve this goal, the students will actively participate in top-level scientific research at research laboratories of the members. Also, a new doctoral course that combines the strong points of our current “Project Management Course” and “Nanomaterial Initiative Course” will be provided. Students will study basic and advanced nanomaterials science through a wide range of cross-disciplinary lectures. Furthermore, through lectures based on the Project Management Course established for the 21st Century COE Program, students will learn about the processes required for commercializing their research achievements. In addition, small-group English speech classes for acquiring communication skills, international and domestic internship programs, and overseas study programs will be provided. Through such programs, individuals with cross-disciplinary knowledge covering a wide range of basic nanomaterials science, with excellent international communication skills (including Japanese-language skills possessed by overseas students) will be fostered. In other words, the ultimate goal is to bring up engineers and researchers who will be capable of making breakthroughs in science and technology and thus become international leaders in the field of materials science. To offer cross-disciplinary education in nanomaterials science, we will compile a new systematic textbook while this program is being implemented.

From a research standpoint, we are oriented toward high-impact research, toward challenging technological limits and toward creating a new concept of materials science through an interdisciplinary approach. Nano-level materials research centered on areas of “information and electronics”, “environment and energy”, and “material characterization” will be emphasized and will be conducted in cooperation with research institutions in the Tsukuba region and top-rated universities in other Asian countries. In addition, we will establish a new academic journal on materials science (tentatively titled Asian Journal of Materials) centered on Asian countries and will work to advance the status of the journal. Through the above described research activities we will aim to become the world's leading center of materials science research located in Asia.