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I & E Technologies Realize the Advanced Information Society …………… 1
Overview …………………………………………………………………… 2
Department of Informatics ………………………………………………… 4

CONTENTS

Department of Advanced Information Technology ………………………… 5
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering ……………………… 6
Department of I&E Visionaries …………………………………………… 7
Courses and Subjects of ISEE ……………………………………………… 8
Admissions for International Students ………………………………… 10﻿I & E Technologies Realize the Advanced Information Society
The Graduate School of Information Science and ElectricalEngineering (ISEE) was established in 1996 offering both information
science (I) and electrical/electronics (E) technology as the basis for amodern advanced information society. In 2000, the graduate school
was reorganized and divided into the Graduate School (the educationbody) and the Faculty (the research body). This new two-body systemprovides flexibility in adaptation to new demands.
ISEE has been working in collaboration and cooperation with othernew graduate schools such as the Graduate School of Systems Life
Sciences and the Graduate School of Integrated Frontier Sciences.
ISEE also provides leadership over a broad range of innovative
research areas and maintains various research institutes and centerssuch as the Education and Research Center for Mathematical andData Science, the Research and Development Center for Five-Sense
Devices, the System LSI Research Center, the Research Institute ofSuperconductor Science and Systems, the Center of Plasma NanoInterface Engineering.
ISEE has a double degree program with E-JUST (Egypt-Japan
University of Science and Technology) involving close and active
exchange and collaboration between students and researchers.
ISEE has many other international education and research partners
such as University of Toulouse, the German Research Center for
Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institutes of Technology, and so on.
ISEE encourages graduate students to study abroad under the global
course and support programs.
The Graduate School and Faculty of ISEE aim to contribute to therealization of a safe and secure society by utilizing I & E technologies,
and to cultivate high expertise, superior research and development
ability, and international outlook in the next generation of researchersand engineers.

Distinguished Professor
Dean of Faculty and Graduate School ofInformation Science and Electrical Engineering

Masaharu Shiratani, Dr. Eng.

I & E Technologies Realize the Advanced Information Society

1Overview
The Aims of the Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering
Information science as an academic discipline has
become as important as physics and mathematics
to the basic methodologies of science. The
progress of information science, especiallythe increased applicability of Information andCommunications Technology (ICT), has not only
raised the productivity of the entire industrial
field but has also brought great changes to our
economy, society, and culture.
The discipline of electrical engineering has along history and embraces a wide variety ofindustrial fields. It has produced highly functional,

complicated, and large-scale electrical andelectronic systems which provide the basis formany kinds of information and social systems.
Therefore, it is expected that the fields of electricaland electronic engineering will develop in close
cooperation with information science. In order
to meet this expectation, the Graduate School ofInformation Science and Electrical Engineering
cultivates researchers and engineers of thenext generation in the field of information andelectricity-electronics ( i & e ), who have advanced
research ability and a broad range of expertise.

The Structure of the Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering
The Graduate School of Information Science andElectrical Engineering (ISEE) consists of thefollowing three departments joined for the purposeof achieving the goal mentioned above:● The Department of Informatics facilitates
the study of Information Science from theperspective of the theoretical foundations of thesciences and the tools of science to provide us
with a deeper understanding of “information.”● The Department of Advanced Information
Technology aims to create sophisticatedsystems designed to support a variety of humansocial activities by combining computerengineering, communications technology andreal-world information processing. To provide
effective education for acquisition of expertisein this field, the department offers two separate
courses of study: the Social Information
Systems Engineering Course and the Intelligent
Information Systems Engineering Course.
● The Department of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering aims to construct the bases of theindustrial and social systems for the advanced
information society by combining electrical,
electronic and communications engineering.

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Overview

The department offers two courses of study:
the Information Electronics Course and theElectrical Engineering Course.
These three departments cooperate with one
another to conduct comprehensive educational
programs ranging from the fundamentals to theapplications of our new academic discipline,
Information Science and Electrical Engineering.
Following Kyushu University’s strategic schemefor University Reform and Activation, the ISEE
founded the following two independent
Departments: Department of Giga Photon Next
GLP in 2011 and Department of I & E Visionaries
in 2012.

Dept. of Informatics

ISEE
Dept. of
Advanced Information
Technology

Dept. of Electricaland Electronic
EngineeringDepartments and Their Quota of Students

Departments

Courses

Informatics

Advanced Information
Technology

Intelligent Information Systems
EngineeringSocial Information Systems
Engineering

Electrical and Electronic
Engineering

Information Electronics

Electrical Engineering

Quota of Students
Departments

Doctoral Course

Master’s Course

Department of Informatics

1440

Department of Advanced Information Technology

15(Intelligent Information Systems Engineering Course)（20）(Social Information Systems Engineering Course)
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

16(Information Electronics Course)

55

（27）
（28）

(Electrical Engineering Course)
Total

45

（25）

45

140

Overview

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Department of Informatics
Department
ofInformatics“Information” is the foundation of the human intellect and sensibilities andplays a central role in natural and artificial systems. Informatics is the studyof “information” from the viewpoint of the foundations of sciences. Throughsystematic education and research in this new fundamental science and by
supporting not only science and engineering but also the humanities fromthe viewpoint of informatics, the Department of Informatics aims to nurture
researchers and engineers who have advanced expertise and are capable ofcontributing to the information society.
For the achievement of this goal, the department comprises three divisions:
The Division of Mathematical Informatics, the Division of Intelligence Science,and the Division of Computational Science. The Division of Mathematical
Informatics offers studies in the field of Informatics, especially regarding theconstruction and analysis of mathematical models related to information. The
Division of Intelligence Science offers studies in cognitive science as well as thefundamental theories of information theory and their applications to intelligent
systems, with an aim to exploring the principles of human intellectual
information processing. The Division of Computational Science (operating incooperation with the Research Institute for Information Technology at Kyushu
University) offers studies of the foundations of computational science that span
the field of simulation.
Informatics is an emerging synthetic
science concerning information which
encompasses traditional information
science and those fields of the humanities
with foundations in information science.
Within these divisions, the department
aims to explore new methodologies andperspectives in informatics and establish
the basis for creative development of
informatics.

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Department of Informatics

Department of Advanced
Information Technology
Departmentof Advanced
Information
Technology

The Department of Advanced Information Technology investigates computer
technology, information and communications technology, and real-time
information processing technology for the realization of an advanced
information society.
The divisions in this department are: Advanced Information andCommunications Technology, Advanced Software Engineering, RealWorld Robotics, Advanced Distributed Processing Systems, Information
Communication Engineering (E-JUST), and Practical Embedded Software
Development Engineering.
The Department of Advanced Information Technology offers two courses withdifferent curriculum policies: The Intelligent Information Systems Engineering
Course and the Social Information Systems Engineering Course.
(1) Intelligent Information Systems Engineering Course
The aim of the Intelligent Information Systems Engineering Course is to provide
graduates who can research and develop frontier technologies for the advanced
information society. To this purpose, the course covers a broad spectrumof knowledge and skills relating to hardware, software, communications
technology, and real-time information processing.
(2) Social Information Systems Engineering Course
The aim of the Social Information Systems Engineering Course is to provide
graduates who can carry out practical projects for developing (namely,
planning, designing, building, and managing) various advanced information
systems. To this goal, the course fully utilizes project-based learning (PBL).

Department of Advanced Information Technology

5Department of Electrical andElectronic Engineering
Department
of Electricaland Electronic
Engineering

The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering offers education
programs which help students to systematically understand the basics andacquire advanced knowledge of electrical engineering, electronics andcommunications technology. The purpose of this department is to provide
education aimed at enabling research engineers to create new values for the
future based on the certain knowledge of information and communications
technology and electrical systems. These would be, for example, an engineer
who creates a low energy consuming electrical system that contributes toa solution to the global warming issue or an engineer who creates new
information technology-based social systems that provide safety and comfort
for human life. To enhance this goal, the department offers the following two
educational courses:(1) Information Electronics Course
This course is designed to prepare the researchers and highly skilled engineers
who will create the next generation electronics and new applications andthose who will contribute to sustainable growth of the electronics relatedindustry through research and development of advanced electronic devices andintegrated electronics. This program is managed by thefaculty members of the Department of Electronics and I&E Visionaries, Facultyof Information Science and Electrical Engineering.
(2) Electrical Engineering Course
The field of electrical and electronic systems based on electromagnetic
phenomena is the key technology fundamental to the support of our society
and its infrastructure. Nowadays, the field is rapidly advancing and diversifying
its applications by merging with splendid high technologies including
superconductivity, information and control technologies based on a newparadigm, and digital technologies focused on advanced intelligent systems.
The department is composed of four divisions: Measurement and Control
Engineering, Applied Energy Engineering, Superconductive Systems
Engineering, and Energy and Environment. With reference to the above, thedepartment offers advanced education and research programs in each division,
not only for Master’s and Doctoral course students but also for professional
engineering trainees entrusted by industries and foreign countries.

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Department of Electrical and Electronic EngineeringDepartment of I&E Visionaries
I&E Quantum Computer Science and Technology GroupWe make the theoretical study on the physical, engineering problems arising from the control of qubits inquantum computing and quantum sensing. Regarding quantum computation: we study the mathematicalstructure of several quantum information devices. For
instance, the (artificial) 2-level atom controlled withlight or microwave is among them. We also make thetheoretical research on the modeling of the system of
the part from the low phases of quantum compiler tothe quantum architecture. Regarding quantum sensing:
we study on the computer-control technology such as
the control technology of the NVC sensor and the noisefiltering technology to detect faint quantum information
buried in several noises. We uphold this theme inthe development of the measurement device with thequantum sensor. We aim for implementation of thecomputer-control technology in the measurement device.
I&E Analog LSI & System Group
Demand of a reliable high speed wireless technology thattransfers the data/information economically at low powerhas been increasing faster than ever. This is inherent not onlyof next generation smart phones/iPhones but also to realize
the Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of things (IoT))
where semiconductor or LSI technology plays a vital role in
the hardware design for the interface between physical andcyber layers. To counter this scenario, we have been investigating the possibility of a paradigm shift froma battery-inherent to a battery-free wireless and embedded sensor system. The fundamental techniques
include the development of the ultra-low power and low voltage analog/high frequency integrated circuitsin CMOS technology, and on the other hand, efforts are going to apply the carrier frequency (of a cell
phone) to transfer not only the signal/data but also the power to realize a wire/battery-free and selfpowered system to replace the conventional batteries in the future wireless and embedded sensor systems.
I&E Excitonics Research GroupWe are developing a new class of transistor “exciton transistor (EXOT)” with a new semiconducting
material, (ZnO)x(InN)1-x. Exciton - an electrically neutral quasiparticle- is a bound state of an electron-hole
pair attracted by the electrostatic Coulomb force. The most interesting feature of an exciton is that it can begenerated by and converted back into a photon within a short time. Thus, EXOTs bring great improvements
to the speed of electronic–optical (E/O) conversion along with significant miniaturizations of E/O
converters. They will replace electric wiring on computer chips with optics, and lead to high-performanceand low-power-consuming data processors!

Department of I&E Visionaries

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Courses and Subjects of ISEEThe Curriculum Outline of the Graduate School of Information
Science and Electrical Engineering
The social and industrial communities point
to the scarcity of information and hardware
engineers supporting information systems. The
primary objective of the present curriculum
revision is to cope with this shortage. Social
demands for the educational programs of ISEE
can be summarized as follows:
1. Requirements‌for advanced informatics
education to cope with the rapid
advancement of science related to
information technology due to worldwide
networking.
○ ‌Education of researchers and engineers
who support technological schemes
concerned with contents structuralizing
from information.
○ E‌ ducation of researchers and engineers
who support the theoretical backbone of
information technology.
2. Requirements‌for ICT specialists,
particularly leading researchers andengineers, triggered by infiltration of thesocial information foundation.
○ E‌ ducation of researchers and engineers
who support the infrastructure basis of
the advanced information system.
○ E‌ ducation of researchers and engineers
who support an advanced information

foundation to enhance awarenessof interference with the real world,
including real-world information
processing.
3. ‌Requirements for educationaccommodating to technological revolution
and extending interdisciplinary research in
the field of electrical engineering.
○ ‌Education of researchers and engineers
who support the physical layer of
information and energy.
○ ‌Education of researchers and engineers
who support the interdisciplinary area
between the information system and theelectrical system.
Education in the graduate school of ISEE isconducted by three departments corresponding
to the above subjects. Additional courses,
according to the field specialty and theeducational method, are established in thedepartment to clarify the details of educational
contents. Establishment of the courses enables
us to educate a wide variety of engineers
to satisfy future industrial needs without
reorganization of the department. Fundamental
ideas of the curriculum for the Master’s andDoctoral courses are as follows:

Characteristic Education Methods(a) An‌ advisory committee is organized toprovide each student with close personalized
guidance (Doctoral Program).
(b) Real‌PBL (Project-Based Learning) is
introduced for practical education.
(c) Collaboration‌with industries is establishedfor nurturing leading ICT engineers andintroducing leading-edge technologies to the
Master’s Program.
(d) Practical‌
English education is provided
through lectures in English and international

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Courses and Subjects of ISEE

PBL.
(e) ‌A long-term Internship program is introducedin collaboration with industries.
( f ) Lectures‌and guidance in PBL are given byengineers who are active at the forefront ofIndustry.
(g) Subjects‌
on intellectual property
management, entrepreneurship, andengineering ethics are available as graduate
school common subjects.
(h) Practical‌
education on safety and ethics is

provided through exercises and experiments.
( i ) Collaboration‌with the Graduate School of
Systems Life Sciences is established.
( j ) Collaboration‌with the Graduate Schoolof Mathematics is established to enhance

education in mathematics.
(k) ‌Collaboration with the Graduate School ofIntegrated Frontier Sciences is established to
explore new interdisciplinary fields.

Curriculum for Doctoral Course Students
ISEE will organize an advisory committee foreach doctoral course student. The advisorycommittee is composed of several
faculty members of ISEE and specialists
from companies, universities, and otherorganizations. The committee first designs an
individual curriculum according to the research

Research frontier

theme of the student, then checks his/her
progress periodically and suggests appropriate
direction. The committee will also offer advice
on possible career paths. The curriculum offers
opportunities to learn intellectual property andteaching skills and to serve in authorized longterm internships.

Innovative engineer
Advisory committee

Examination for
doctoral thesis

Long-terminternship

Project-basedlearning

Skill acquisition
on intellectual
property,presentation,and teaching

Support for doctoral
dissertation and career

Acquisition ofadvanced
technologies

Surveys andprogress
reports

Social interaction andcareer development

Progress check on
doctoral dissertation

Check on research
theme and curriculum

Research theme planand individual
curriculum design

Curriculum for doctoral course students

Courses and Subjects of ISEE

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Admissions forInternational Students
Graduate Programs:

Job Opportunities:
There are many job offers for the graduates

Master’s Programof ISEE from companies across a wide

The practical education system establishedrange of industries in Japan. Ph. D. students

for the Master’s Program emphasizes

can find research positions not only inexperiments, exercises, discussion, andcompanies but also in national institutes andcourse work. To develop interdisciplinary

universities. The following is a partial list ofintellectual power, each student shouldorganizations where foreign students haveselect one extended area and take classes

found jobs over the last four years: Asahi

from the designated extended subjects in

Kasei, Buffalo, Daikin, Denso, DNP, Fujitsu,

addition to those for his/her major field.

Hitachi, Ibiden, KDDI, Kubota, Kyocera,

Minimum required credits are 45.

Mitsubishi, NEC, Nichicon, Nifty, Nikon,

The completion of a thesis is also required.

Nissan, NTT, Omron, Renesas, SEI, TMEIC,A two-year program is standard.

Toshiba Solutions, Ulvac, Yahoo, and others.

Ph. D. Program

Admission:

Students enrolled in the doctoral course
can concentrate on their own research. To

Master’s Programsupport the progress of their research, ISEEThe time of entrance is April and October.

will organize an advisory committee for

Entrance examinations for foreign students

each student composed of several faculty

are scheduled for August of the previous

members and specialists from companies,

year and late January. Those who wish touniversities, and other organizations. The

enter should pass either one.

curriculum offers opportunities to learn
intellectual property and teaching skills andto serve in authorized long-term internships.
It typically takes three years to complete
the program though students can shorten
the period depending on their researchachievements.

The Global Course:
ISEE opens the Global Course to master’s anddoctoral students. Students who select thiscourse at the time of entrance can complete
their course in English.

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Admissions for International Students

Ph. D. Program
The program begins in April and Octoberwith selection scheduled for late February
and late July, respectively. Visit website fordetails.

Students Enrollment (As of April 2018)
Departments
Quota
General Selection
Special Selection (Grade-skipping)Special Selection for International Students
Total

Department of
Department ofAdvanced Information Electrical and Electronic Total
Technology
Engineering
40
45
55
140
44(1)
50(5)
71(1) 165(7)
1
0
0
1
10
9
13
32
55(11)
59(14)
84(14) 198(39)Department ofInformatics( ) Shows the number of international students included in the totals

Doctoral Program (October 2017 Enrollment, April 2018 Enrollment)
Departments

Department ofInformatics

Quota
General Selection
October
Enrollment Special Selection for Working
AdultsGeneral Selection
April
Enrollment Special Selection for Working
Adults
Total

14
3(2)

Department of
Department ofAdvanced Information Electrical and Electronic
Technology
Engineering
15
16
3(3)
5(5)

Total
45
11(10)

1

1

0

2

4(3)

6(5)

2(2)

12(10)

2

0

1

3

10(5)

10(8)

8(7)

28(20)( ) shows the number of international students included in the totals

International Student Enrollment (As of May 1, 2018)
Country
India
Indonesia
Egypt
Australia
Korea
Kenya
Zimbabwe
ThailandTaiwanChina
Germany
Tunisia
Nepal
Palestine
Bangladesh
Philippines
BrazilMalaysia
MyanmarMongolia
Laos
Total

Department ofAdvanced Information
Technology

Department ofInformatics
2

3

1
23
1

Department ofElectrical and Electronic
Engineering
1
2
2
1
3
1
3
2
1
1
1
1
24
39
2
2

1

1
4

1
1

1
1
2

33

1
1
42

55

Total
1
6
4
1
8
1
1
1
2
86
1
2
2
1
6
1
1
1
2
1
1
130

Admissions for International Students

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Kyushu University
http://www.isee.kyushu-u.ac.jp/
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Ito Campus: 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395

Office of the Department of Informatics
Tel: +81-92-802-3801
Office of the Department of Advanced Information Technology
Tel: +81-92-802-3601
Office of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Tel: +81-92-802-3701
Graduate School / Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering
Fax: +81-92-802-3600
Educational office of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Tel: +81-92-802-3711 Fax: +81-92-802-3710

Momochi Satellite Campus: Fukuoka Institute of System LSI Design Industry
3F, 3-8-33 Momochihama, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka 814-0001
Satellite OfficeTel: +81-92-847-5190

Itoshima Satellite Campus: Experimental Center for Social System
Technologies, 1963-4 Higashi, Itoshima, Fukuoka 819-1122
Satellite Office of the System LSI Research Center
Tel: +81-92-332-8006