In order to create an education and research system that effectively addresses the needs of society while accommodating structural changes in industry, as of 2016 we have reorganized and integrated the existing specialized departments of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronics and Control Engineering, and Computer and Information Engineering, and adding the basic research fields of biology and chemistry to form the Department of Integrated Science and Technology. At this department, students have the opportunity both to take an interdisciplinary approach and to study the basic science underpinning such an approach.

Our goal is to train and educate highly compassionate individuals with a global perspective on people and the environment. In addition to gaining highly specialized knowledge rooted in basic science, these individuals also gain the ability to integrate multidisciplinary studies, and to devise specific solutions by investigating issues in the rapidly diversifying and increasingly complex fields of science and technology.

A total of 160 new students are admitted to the Department of Integrated Science and Technology five-year program each year. At our two-year Advanced Engineering Program, students choose between the two specializations of Advanced Mechanical and Control System Engineering and Advanced Electronics and Information System Engineering. Eight students are accepted for each of these two specialized programs. Graduates of the five-year regular and two-year advanced programs are awarded the Associate Degree and Bachelor Degree (equivalent to a university degree) respectively.

Many of our faculty are researchers holding doctorate degrees, who train our students-through research projects?to be skilled engineers capable of working in the real world and who are creative at the same time. Our school philosophy at Tsuyama is "Autonomy, Creation, Collaboration." Through day-to-day research and activities, we educate our students not only in sophisticated engineering knowledge, but also to be socially responsible, to take an international viewpoint, and to work for humanity. To meet these goals, we structure our classes appropriately, keep our classes small, and provide superior educational and research equipment. In addition, our staff offer the fine-tuned guidance that our students need.

Tsuyama College implements international exchange programs at National Institutes of Technology in the Chugoku and Shikoku regions of Japan. As such we offer international training and global education through international exchange agreements with universities in other countries, by which we both send students abroad from Japan and accept international students at our school. Additionally, we work with corporations and institutions to take an active role in industry-academiagovernment collaborative initiatives, offer extracurricular educational activities, participate in the Robot Contest and other competitions, present research at academic conferences in Japan and other countries, and more.

Tsuyama's education and research system, in place for over 50 years with a view to training engineering personnel armed with proactive skills, has been acknowledged in academic as well as industry circles as a successful model for a technical school. In recognition of the effectiveness of our industrial training internationally, a number of other countries have adopted our system.

In the future, scientific research and the technology to apply it to real-life situations will take on increasing importance if we are to achieve the goals of the highspeed information communication society and the decarbonized society, and further to integrate these concepts with national strategy. The key concept is "Society 5.0." We have high expectations of our students that they will do their part for the future of our society, and we look forward to training junior high school students with ambitions to became engineers and researchers who wish to contribute to their home regions but at the same time are capable of working on the world stage. In closing, we would like to extend our deepest appreciation to everyone who appreciates and supports our educational and research projects.

Autonomy・Creation・Cooperation

On the basis of a solid science and technology foundation, interdisciplinary knowledge in applied technologies and problem solving ability, and acquisition of global perspectives, the program will cultivate human creative talent, rich in technological knowhow and ability.

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