New Graduate Courses

Concepts

Past graduate courses for doctorate in science and engineering in Japan has been so designed as to guide students into carry out an original research without little requirement on course works. The education therefore has highly relied solely on supervisor, and their qualification for the degree has been made basically by the quality of the research established. In the globally and highly competitive society of 21st century, however, it is anticipated that doctoral graduates should have additional abilities such as knowledge on technology management and skills of global presentation and communication.

The new graduate courses, Project Managing (PM) and Nanomaterial Initiative(NI) Courses, are the consequences of those established in the 21st Century COE program but have been modified for improvement on fostering doctoral graduates meeting with the demand by our society. It is an Integrated Graduate Courses in which students enroll the course during their Master course, proceeding to their Doctoral course to earn the doctorate in average of 4years in total.

The PM course put an emphasis on course work on business and MOT(Management of Technology) related classes, while the NI course on a series of classes related to the science and the design strategy of nanomaterials. Students of both courses are required to study classes on global communication skills

Eligibility

1. Those students who belong to four Departments composing G-COE in materials science at Tokyo Tech. and are qualified by the selection described in are the following section (6-4) are eligible for PM and NI Courses. The course is an Integrated Graduate Course at Tokyo Tech. through master’s and doctorate courses and student may receive doctorate in as short as three years, average four years, after they start master’s course.
2. Students admitted to PM and NI courses will be granted RA of the annual amount ca. \1,000,000. Those who succeed in showing excellent performances both in course work and their own research may be upgraded to receive as high as \2,000,000 annual RA afterwards.
3. It is necessary for a student in both PM and NI courses to fulfill the unit requirement on the course works in each curriculum besides completing and being qualified doctor’s thesis in the Department and Graduate School he/she belongs to.