Hello FromAobayama
No.2

School of Engineering

Nov. 28, 2014

Tohoku University

New building of Department of Information and Intelligent Systems (2014. 10.)

Message from the Editors

Who are We in IEED

Greetings from Aobayama! We, the members of IEED (Division of International Education & Exchange), arepleased to introduce ourselves to our dear alumni, colleagues at our partner universities, teachers in highschools, and friends. We are an international team consisting of Prof. Keisuke Asai, Prof. Qiang Chen(Chinese), Prof. Ying Chen (Chinese), Prof. Mikiko Nakajima, Assoc. Prof. Hirokazu Moriya, Assoc. Prof.
Philippe Gaubert (French), Assoc. Prof. Vinicius Aguiar de Souza (Brazilian), and Res. Assoc. Ai Funayama.
See us on our webpage!

Research Highlight

The gateway to space

The School of Engineering (SoE) of Tohoku University has successfully
endeavored to develop space technologies. Space engineering at SoE has always
been greatly served by leading professors, such as Professor Yoshida, who isconducting research on space robotics at the Department of Aerospace
Engineering. You can see what he has to say in a special issue of “Driving Force” atSoE homepage (http://www.eng.tohoku.ac.jp/driving̲force/english/vol1-1.html).
Three other luminaries, Professor Ando from the Department of ElectricalEngineering, and Professor Asai and Associate Professor Makihara from theDepartment of Aerospace Engineering have also been invited to launch the ﬁrst
issue of the SoE periodical Research News of Engineering “Tune”(http://www.eng.tohoku.ac.jp/media/ﬁles/pdf/english/intro/tune01.pdf) with afocus on space engineering.

Tohoku University (TU) Alumni Aboard

TU Chinese Alumni AssociationThe Tohoku University Chinese Alumni Association, which was established in2006, will celebrate its 8th anniversary at the end of this year. Having more than
500 members all over China, it is proud of being the largest foreign university
alumni association in China, as well as the largest TU overseas alumni community
in the world. There are more than 60 members who graduated from SoE or hadroots in SoE. The “big members” and advisers of the association are the former
President of Tsinghua University, Prof. Binlin Gu, and the current President ofPeking University, Prof. Enge Wang, both of whom worked at IMR (Institute forMaterials Research), TU in the 1990s. The current chair of the association isProf. Qikun Xue, a famous physicist in the Department of Physics and Vice
President of Tsinghua University, as well as a professor in AIMR (AdvancedInstitute for Materials Research) of TU.

Completion of New Research Facilities

New building of Dept. Civil Eng.
and Architecture (2014. 10.)Campus News

Three new buildings now in use

The Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11,2011 severely damaged some buildings on
campus, three of which were declared unsafe by
the authorities and had to be demolished. The
professors and students had to move into
temporary buildings for the duration of thereconstruction. The long wait of over 3 years fortheir new facilities and research equipment has
ﬁnally come to an end with the completion of all
three buildings! After a busy period of relocationin Sep. and Oct., all aﬀected personnel have now
returned to their research activities and havestarted to enjoy their new environments.

Sports Day

This year, the event took place on
May23,

2014

andwasparticipated in by all departmentsof the School of Engineering. All
students joined the event, either
to compete or support theirteams. Even the professors wereinvited to compete! Finally, theDepartment of Applied Chemistrybecame the overall winner.

Open Campus

One of the most importantannual Aobayama events is theOpen Campus at the end ofJuly. For two days, the campus
is visited by many high school
students.

Thisisaunique

opportunity for public to accessall laboratories and to look into
the research being conducted.
We had a total 7,000 visitors
during the two days this year.

With Robots in Sendai

Tohoku University Engineering
Summer Program (TESP) on

Robotics was created in 2010 tooﬀer international students aunique

opportunitytobeinvolved in cutting edge andpioneeringresearch.

The

program is divided into a seriesof English lectures conductedbyinternationallyrenowned

specialists and hands-on work inNew building of Dept. Materials
Sci. and Eng. (2014. 9.)

Detailed web version: http://newsletter.eng.tohoku.ac.jp/
Editor: Division of International Education and Exchange, School of Engineering, Tohoku University
Publisher: Yasushi Uematsu, Associate Dean, School of Engineering
Contact: oﬃce@ied.eng.tohoku.ac.jp
6-6-0４ Aramaki-aza-aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, 980-8579, Japan. Tel / Fax: +81-22-795-3452

leading laboratories on various
research

topicssuchasnano-robots and space rovers.

Hello FromAobayama

Study in Japan! Study in Tohoku University!
Realize your dream in Aobayama

Exchange Programsfor International Students in Partner
Universities Overseas
General Information of Exchange Programs
and Double Degree Programs

Short Summer Program (TESP, TSSP, TUPE,TUSE, etc.)

Exchange
Programs
1-2
Semesters
DoubleDegreePrograms

JYPE(Junior Year Program in English)
IPLA(International Program in Liberal Arts)
DEEP(Direct Enrollment Education Programs)
COLABS(Cooperative Laboratory Study Program)
Double Degree Program

Academic Exchange
Agreements with Foreign
Institutions

Eligibility

Field

Language

Undergraduate

GraduateEng., Sci.,
CultureEnglishAll(TSSP, TUPE)

All(TSSD)

Eng., Sci.,
Arg.
Liberal Arts,
Social Sci.

English3rd,4th year--English

2nd,3rd year--

AllJapanese

All

All

Eng., Sci.,
etc.

English--All

English/Japanese

3 ,4 year(Ecole CentraleGroup)

1st year MS
1st,2nd year PhD

Eng., Sci.,
etc.

rdthInformation about Each Program
Exchange Programs
JYPE (Junior Year Program in English)
https://www.ceﬁx.insc.tohoku.ac.jp/ASEP/JYPE/index.html
Junior (or senior) year students can enroll in exchange programs for one year/fall semester ofstudy at Tohoku University. Courses are provided in ﬁelds of science, engineering andagriculture. All lectures are given in English.
IPLA (International Program in Liberal Arts)
http://www.insc.tohoku.ac.jp/cms/ipla/
Students can study in a variety of Liberal Arts classes taught in English, including Economics,Management, Education, Law, and Literature at Tohoku University.
DEEP (Direct Enrollment Education Program)
http://www.insc.tohoku.ac.jp/cms/index-e.cgi?pg=100915122927=p#DeepSpecial Auditing Students [Undergraduate & Graduate]: Students can take regular courses,almost all of which are conducted in Japanese.
Special Research Students [Graduate]: Students can do research under the supervision ofacademic advisors at Tohoku University.
COLABS (Cooperative Laboratory Study Program)
https://www.ceﬁx.insc.tohoku.ac.jp/ASEP/COLABS/index.html
Students can join research training in assigned research laboratories based on collaboration ofprofessors at Tohoku University and its partner universities.

Tohoku University Level
Foreign Institutions with Academic
Exchange Agreements: 190

http://www.bureau.tohoku.ac.jp/kokusai/exchangei/scientiﬁcj/en/university-en.
html

School of Engineering Level
Foreign Institutions with Academic
Exchange Agreements: 67
http://www.bureau.tohoku.ac.jp/kokusai/exchangej/scientiﬁcj/en/department-en.html

Admission Informationfor International Degree
programs
・International Doctoral Program in
Engineering, Information Sciences,Environmental Studies and Biomedical
Engineering:

http://www.eng.tohoku.ac.jp/english/adm
ission/procedure/doctoral.html

・International Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering Course (IMAC-G, IMAC-U)
Bachelor, Master, Doctoral course:
http://g30.eng.tohoku.ac.jp/imac/
・International Materials Science andEngineering Master course (IMSE):
http://g30.eng.tohoku.ac.jp/imse/

Double Degree Programs
http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/academics/double̲degree̲program.html
Students can acquire graduate degrees at both Tohoku University and its partner universities.
We have Double Degree Programs now with institutions in France and Sweden: Ecole Centrale
Group (France) , INSA de Lyon (France), KTH (Sweden).

Joint Education Program
http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/academics/double̲degree̲program.html
Tohoku University students can acquire two degrees at Tohoku Unviersity and Tsinghua
University (China)

Detailed web version: http://newsletter.eng.tohoku.ac.jp/
Editor: Division of International Education and Exchange, School of Engineering, Tohoku University
Publisher: Yasushi Uematsu, Associate Dean, School of Engineering
Contact: oﬃce@ied.eng.tohoku.ac.jp
6-6-0４ Aramaki-aza-aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, 980-8579, Japan. Tel / Fax: +81-22-795-3452