Message from the President
Kinoshita Takatoshi
President,
Nagoya Institute of Technology
—In Accordance with Our Motto “Engineering with Heart and Mind for Humanity”—
Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) has advanced together with industries in the Chukyo region of Japan for more than a century. Alongside the development of the regional industrial community, NITech has grown into one of the largest engineering institutions in Japan, covering almost all fields of engineering.
We are now working in closer cooperation with the regional industrial community—we are not only collaborating to conduct research as part of our social co-creation initiative but also promoting educational reforms in response to requests from the community. As a result, in March 2022, in addition to graduates from the Advanced Engineering Program, who are expected to play a central role in inheriting and improving skills and techniques in the industrial community, we turned out the first group of 85 graduates (job placement rate: 100 percent) from the Creative Engineering Program, a six-year, integrated undergraduate and master’s degree program. I hope that they will play active roles in their workplaces as engineers or researchers who will be able to see things from a bird’s-eye view in the field of engineering. In April of the same year, we launched the Fundamental Engineering Program (evening program), which accepted 21 students from high schools and technical high schools across Japan. Balancing their work and study, the students aim to become engineers who will be able to play important roles in the country’s key industries. I hope that graduates from those three programs will collaborate with one another in a complementary manner with their own perspectives and become key players in bringing Japan back to a nation of technology in the near future.
In the Doctoral Course, we have integrated our conventional engineering fields of research into one major to enable students to be taught by faculty members from different research areas and researchers and engineering professionals from companies and other organizations both in Japan and abroad, thereby developing them into leaders of innovation with interdisciplinary insight.
NITech focuses not only on engineering education but also on liberal arts education for all students that is designed to refine their sensibility and logical thinking. In an educational environment on our Artful Campus, which is now in the process of being adorned with works of art, we strive to help our students grow into engineering elites capable of acting in accordance with our motto “Engineering with heart and mind for humanity.