Interdisciplinary Graduate Schoolof Science & Engineering
Innovative and Engineered Materials
Electronic Chemistry
Materials Science and Engineering
Environmental Science and Technology
Built Environment
Energy Sciences
Environmental Chemistry and Engineering

Interdisciplinary Graduate Schoolof Science & Engineering

Electronics and Applied Physics
Mechano-Micro Engineering
Computational Intelligence and Systems Science4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503 JAPANtel : +81-45-924-5950
http : //www.igs.titech.ac.jp/

Information Processing

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TOKYO INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGYInterdisciplinary Graduate Schoolof Science & Engineering

H istory

Self-transformation of the Interdisciplinary
Graduate School

Establishment of the Interdisciplinary
Graduate School
The Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Scienceand Engineering was founded at the Nagatsuta

Campus (currently Suzukakedai Campus) in April

1975, as a pioneering example of increasing the emphasis on graduate schools. When it was founded,
the Interdisciplinary Graduate School consisted of
72 Chairs (Koza): 25 Fundamental Chairs (Kikan

Koza) and 47 Cooperative Chairs (Kyoryoku Koza).
The School had 10 departments; Information
Processing, Electronic Chemistry, Social

Development, Precision Machinery Systems,

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Materials Science Engineering, Applied Electronics,
Chemical Environment Engineering, Biochemistry,
Energy Science, and Systems Science.

Innovative andEngineered Materilas
Electronic Chemistry
Materials Scienceand Engineering

Chemistry and Materials Science Engineering, andadded. With the foundation of the Dept. of Bioscience

Dept. of Electronic Chemistry and the Dept. of Materials(Fundamental Chairs and Cooperative Chairs) were

Environment
and Energy

and Biotechnology, the Dept. of Biochemistry was

Environmental Scienceand Technology
Built Environment

renamed the Dept. of Intelligence Science in April 1991.
The department shifted its educational and research
focus to intelligence, a phenomenon of life processes,

Energy Sciences

Environmental Chemistry
and Engineeringand relocated instructors, setting a precedent for selftransformation in the Interdisciplinary Graduate School.

Departments
Materials

From the foundation of the school until 1987, 10 Chairs

From 1993 to 1996, the Dept. of Environmental

Innovative Platformfor
EducationandResearchEngineering was established, and the Dept. of Social

Informationand Systems
Electronics andApplied Physics

Mechano-Micro Engineering
Computational Intelligenceand Systems Science
Information Processing

Development and the Dept. of Energy Science werereorganized to form the Dept. of Built Environment andthe Dept. of Energy Sciences. The Dept. of System

Science and the Dept. of Intelligence Science were also
reorganized to form the Dept. of Computational

Intelligence and Systems Science. In April 1997, theDept. of Innovative and Engineered Materials wasestablished from the two departments of Electronic

History

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Features of the Interdisciplinary
Graduate School of Science and Engineering

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Introduction of 11Departments
・Innovative and Engineered Materials
・Electronic Chemistry・Materials Science and Engineering

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・Environmental Science and Technology
・Built Environment
・Energy Sciences
・Environmental Chemistry and Engineering

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・Electronics and Applied Physics
・Mechano-Micro Engineering
・Computational Intelligence and Systems Science
・Information Processing

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these two departments were reorganized to form the

Science and Engineering. Because of these changes,

all the Fundamental Chairs of these departments havebecome Macro Chairs (Daikoza) and the departments

have also established positions for collaborative profes-

sors and associate professors, introducing new styles oforganization. To respond to social changes anddemands, many departments were reorganized from1998 to 2005 to form the following departments;
Environmental Chemistry and Engineering,

Environmental Science and Technology, MechanoMicroEngineering, Electronics and Applied Physics, andInformation Processing. Since its foundation, our

Graduate School has been constantly transforming. As

of December 2013, it provides education and researchthrough 81 Chairs (24 Fundamental Chairs and 57
Cooperative Chairs) and 11 departments.

Innovative Platform for Education and Research・Innovative Platform for Education and Research Doctoral Course
・Electrochemical Energy Devices Core Unit
・Urban Earthquake Disaster Reduction Core Unit・Nanoelectronics Research Frontier Core Unit
・Synthetic Biology Core Unit
・Medical Engineering Core Unit・Atmospheric Plasma Processing Core Unit

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Number of Faculty Staff
Number of Students / Percentage of internal students

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Suzukakedai Campus Map
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INDEX

Features of the Interdisciplinary Graduate
School of Science and Engineering

The Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGS) primarily consists of two types of chairs,
fundamental chairs and cooperative chairs. Fundamental chairs are operated by IGS faculty members, while cooperative
chairs are run by non-IGS faculty members who are associated with research laboratories and research centers at theInstitute. IGS also offers afﬁliated chairs by collaborative faculty members with high-level research backgrounds invitedfrom government agencies, research laboratories, companies, and other organizations outside the Institute. Afﬁliatedchairs are designed to provide students with education and research guidance from multilateral perspectives.

Breaking academic boundaries through cross-sectional learning in three types of chairs to create

Affiliated Chairs
41 Affiliated Chairs
87 Faculty Staffs

Ministry of Education,
Culture,Sports,
Science andTechnology

Ministryof Health,Labourand Welfare

Japan Aerospace
eXploration Agency

Cooperative Chairs
57 Cooperative Chairs
116 Faculty Staffs

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National Instituteof Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology

Nippon Telegraphand Telephone Corporation
Central ResearchInstitute of ElectricPower Industry

Imaging Science and Engineering Laboratory

Precision and Intelligence Laboratory

Electronic Chemistry

Fundamental Chairs
24 Fundamental Chairs
133 Faculty Staffs

Same as undergraduate

NIPPON STEEL& SUMITOMOMETAL CORPORATION
othersChemical Resources Laboratory

othersResearch Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors

Electronics and Applied Physics
Environmental
Scienceand Technology

Energy Sciences

Built Environment

Environmental
Chemistryand Engineering

Materials Scienceand Engineering
Mat e r ia ls

HITACHIMaterials Research Center for Element Strategy

Frontier Research Center

Innovative andEngineered Materials

National Instituteof Informatics

IBM Japan, Ltd.

TOSHIBA

Materials and Structures Laboratory

Departments

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National Institutefor Environmental
Studies

Japan International
Cooperation Agency

National Institutesof Natural Sciences

RIKEN

a synergy with industry

Mechano-Micro Engineering
Computational Intelligenceand Systems Science
Information Processing

E nvi r o n m e n t

As an independent graduate school with no undergraduate departments,
the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering accepts
students from a variety of backgrounds, not only from national, public, andprivate universities in Japan but also from advanced courses in technicalcolleges and overseas universities.

a n d En e r g y

Publicuniversity

In fo r m a ti o n a n d Syste m

Privateuniversity

Overseas
university

Technical
collegeTOKYO
INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGYThe number of Chairs and Teaching Staff is the current complement as of August 1st 2013.

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The major courses of the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering canbe categorized into 3 large groups. These categories are referred to as Materials, Environment
and Energy, and Information and Systems. Also, each of these major courses and the various
related ﬁelds has been displayed as a matrix in the following chart. The school covers a wide
range of academic ﬁelds in this manner.

DEPARTMENTS

Mathematicalscience

Information

Society,economySoftwaresystems

Hardwaresystems

Medical care,biology

Electronic andoptical devices

Physics

Machinery

EnergyEarthquake,disaster

Environment

Chemistry

Nanotechnology

Materials

The Areas of ResearchInnovative nad Engineered Materials
Materials

Electronic Chemistry
Materials Science and Technology

Environmental and Energy

Environmental Science and Technology
Built Environment
Energy Sciences
Environmental Chemistry
and Engineering

Information and System

Electronics and Applied Physics
Mechano-Micro Engineering
Computational Intelligence andSystems Science
Information Processing

Pioneering science from the electrons' perspective

Electronic Chemistry
The Department of Electronic Chemistry wasestablished in April 1997 with the goal of creating new ﬁelds of study by expanding its predecessor, which was established at the time ofthe opening of the Interdisciplinary Graduate
School of Science and Engineering. This
department covers both the fundamental principles and applications of chemistry, and promotes education and research that represent
the 21st century. The department’ s major goal
is to understand chemical phenomena in a
uniﬁed way from the electrons’ perspective,
based on the idea that chemical reactions takeplace by means of electron transfer process.
Speciﬁcally, the department consists of laboratories covering a broad range of ﬁelds, including organic synthetic chemistry, organic electrochemistry, green chemistry, organic functional chemistry, polymer chemistry, lithium
cells, fuel cells, bio cells, electroanalyticalchemistry, inorganic solid-state chemistry,
nanotechnology, complex chemistry, catalytic
chemistry, organometallic chemistry, laser
spectroscopy and biochemistry. The depart-

ment has a fullystaffed research organizationthat consists of 8 chairs and employs 14 professors and 13 associate professors, including
collaborative faculty members. In the Department of Electronic Chemistry, which has faculty
members from a wide range of ﬁelds as mentioned above, students can thoroughly absorb
the cutting-edge knowledge of chemistry andrelevant ﬁelds through lectures and practicalwork as well. The curriculum consists oflectures so that students can acquire the ability
to conduct activities in the future in the purechemistry ﬁeld, and diverse ﬁelds related tochemistry, such as material science, biochemistry, and energy conversion. Graduates fromthe department have been very active in a wide
range of ﬁelds and organizations, including theindustrial world, research institutes and universities.

Fundamental Chairs• Molecular Process• Material and Energy Conversion

Cooperative Chairs• Complex and Electrochemistry• Bioelectronic Chemistry• Organoelectronic Chemistry• Spectroscopic Chemistry• Catalytic Chemistry• Solid State Chemical Physics

Materials

Materials Innovation for Brighter Future of our Earth and Society

Pioneering the future of materials science

Innovative and Engineered Materials

Materials Science and Engineering

There are high expectations for the development and application of new processes andmaterials in the substance and materials ﬁelds
in the hope that they will bring safety to society,such as the sustainable maintenance of the
global environment, the realization of an energy
saving-oriented society, and the creation of
new industry. The Department of Innovativeand Engineered Materials provides education
and research that enable its students toacquire an advanced and practical ability tolead Japan and the world in astonishing technological progress. Departmental researchcovers interdisciplinary ﬁelds that include
physics, chemistry, biotechnology, materials
science and energy. Departmental research
themes are intended to maximize the characteristics of substances and materials, and they
include electronic functions, superconducting,
dynamic functions, energy conversion, spacetechnology and science, medical technology, ecological technology, and semiconducting technology. In order tosystemize these things, the05

department actively adopts nanoscience andnanotechnology, and engages in front-line
research. Departmental faculty staff comesfrom 24 laboratories, and consists of principal
faculty members in charge of Fundamental
Chairs, faculty members from three associatedresearch laboratories who take charge of
Cooperative Chairs, and faculty members whocome from external organizations and takecharge of Cooperative Chairs. In order to train
capable students to acquire advanced planning capabilities, and cultivate open minds andhumanity in harmony with the global environment and technology, the department implements project-oriented educational researchfor doctoral courses, including uniﬁed doctoral
educational programs, advanced personaltraining programs, and Materials G-COE. In
addition, the department also works actively on
doctoral programs for corporate researchers
so that they can work and study in a balancedmanner.

Fundamental Chairs• Environmental Materials Engineering and Science
Environmental Materials Production,
Substitutional Functional Materials, Natural
Environmental Characteristics, Materials
Frontiers, Material Cycle Evaluation,
Extreme Materials science (collaborative),and Materials Science for Expanding Environmental
Limitations (collaborative)

Cooperative Chairs• Highly Functional Materials Engineering and Science
Highly Functional Thin Films, Physical
Functional Correlations in Materials, andHighly Functional Material Design• Transient Phase Materials Science and Engineering
Extreme Processing and Surface Functionalityfaculty

Materials are the key to innovative development of science and technology. The Department of Materials Science and Engineering
was established in April 1997 by expanding its
predecessor established at the time of opening
the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of
Science and Engineering, the Department ofMaterials Science and Engineering, in order toexplore new materials science of the 21st century. The department promotes education andresearch as a department where students canstudy a wide range of ﬁelds from the basic
principles to application of materials science,physics and chemistry in the academic ﬁeldthat represents the 21st century. The department is made up of a productive researchorganization with 11 chairs. The speciﬁc characteristics of the department are: (1) It consistsof staff members and students from various
professional ﬁelds not limited to physics, chemistry and materials science. (2) It works closelywith the University’s Research Laboratories,
and is equipped with the world’s ﬁnest facilities
with the world’ s ﬁnest teaching staffs. The

department has a unique education system
including Academy for Co-creative Educationof Environment and Energy science. (3) It
actively encourages students to go abroad,provides well-developed basic coursework,and offers classes for students to make presentations in English and enhance their ability
to express themselves in English. Our students
willingly write journal papers in English bythemselves (about 60 papers on average peryear), participate in international conferences,and present their papers (about 40 papers on
average per year). (4) A scholarship system isprovided, and the department holds Career
Development lectures, which help students
choose career paths and get jobs. (5) About
250 persons have completed master’ s degrees
and about 50 persons have completed doctoral degrees over the past ﬁve years, and they
have been active in various kinds of business,
including research projects in science andengineering.

Fundamental Chairs• Materials Structure and Functions
Composite Physical Properties, Mesoscopics,
Structural Function Characteristics,
and Material Response• Quantum and Surface Materials Science
Surface Materials, Nonequilibrium Phases,
and Quantum Materials

Cooperative Chairs• Design of Environmentally Beneficial
Materials• Materials Processing with Low
Environmental Loads• Structure and Diffraction Physics• Electro Active Materials• Synergistic Materials• Materials Evaluation• Materials Structure Design• Frontier Materials Science• Functional Materials Analysis
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Environmental and Energy

Creation of environmental world leaders for a sustainable society

Pursuit of energy science that is ahead of the times

Environmental Science and Technology
Environmental problems become conspicuouswhen they cross international borders and may
have complex and serious implications. The resolution of such problems requires the developmentof policies based on the power of science andtechnology. Moreover, international mutual
collaboration is indispensable for the realization ofa sustainable society, something that cannot berealized in one country alone. The Department ofEnvironmental Science and Technology is aiming
to make a further leap forward on the basis of a
new educational and research policy: “The training of comprehensive environmental specialists
who will play leading roles in international society.”
This department admits not only Japanesescience students who have an interest in environmental issues, but also actively recruits international students and humanities students who havea strong sense of internationalism. Fieldwork isincorporated into the coursework, and a heuristic
problem-solving approach for education andresearch on actual environments is emphasized.
The lecture courses, a large number of which areoffered in English, form a program of study

through which students can acquire knowledge and skills in environmental science fromthe basic to the specialist level. For thisreason, in addition to the fundamental andcooperative chairs shown on the right, external
lecturers from collaborative organizations suchas the Japan International Cooperation
Agency (JICA), National Institute for Environmental Studies, National Institute for Land andInfrastructure Management, Central ResearchInstitute of Electric Power Industry are also
invited to lecture in order to provide a diverse
approach to the study of the environment,
including international ﬁelds. Graduates of thisdepartment are actively involved in a wide
range of careers in public agencies, local governments, universities, government andprivate research institutes, and internationalorganizations, as well as in various private
sectors.

Energy Sciences

Fundamental Chairs• Natural Environment
Environmental Hydraulics and Hydrology
Geoenvironmental Exploration
Atmosphere Transport Analysis
Material Cycles Analysis• Social Environment
Urban Environment
Urban Atmospheric Environment
Environmental Planning and Policy Making

Cooperative Chairs• International Environmental Cooperation• Frontier of Environmental Science andTechnology• Environment and Material Engineering• Environment and Structural Engineering• Environment and Safety Engineering• Process System Engineering• Environment and Energy Engineering

Human and Environment. Creating a secure and comfortable society

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nments from three principles,: “Venustas, Utilitas, and Firmitas,” namely aesthetics, utility,
and stability. The efforts made by the Department of Built Environment since its establishment in 1995 have been recognized, and theDepartment was selected in 2008 as an international base for urban seismic engineering
for the reduction of “mega risks” with regard tonatural disasters under the GCOE Program.
The Department has been striving to improvestill further as a research and educational institute. As we are faced with recent criticalthreats to the global environment, we think thatthe interdisciplinary research and education
efforts the Department of Built Environment
have created academic ﬁelds which areessential to our future society.

The department also aims to create aleading-edge academic ﬁeld which canaddress energy issues from many directions.
The department promotes education andresearch activities with other organizations of
the Tokyo Institute of Technology, such as the
Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, theGraduate School of Science and Engineering,and external research organizations, such as
the Central Research Institute of ElectricPower Industry, National Institute of Advanced
Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency, High Energy
Accelerator Research Organization andToshiba Corporation’ s Power and Industrial
Systems Research and Development Centerso that students can acquire the abilities
needed for solving problems from the viewpoint of science and engineering.

Fundamental Chairs• Energy Environment Science• Energy Conversion Engineering• High Energy Density Science

Cooperative Chairs• Energy Environment System• Energy Conversion System• High Energy Density System

Science and engineering in pursuit of a new environmental chemistry.

Built Environment
With the arrival of the 21st century, human activities have been expanding to a previously unimaginable extent. A crisis regarding long-establishedliving environments caused by these activities has
gradually come to the surface. In order to overcome this crisis, engineers and researchers who
can facilitate interdisciplinary approaches to longestablished academic ﬁelds and that have a commprehensive viewpoint are being sought by society
for the creation of a desirable living environment
for human beings, and the establishment of a newenvironmental framework for the environments. In
response to this social need, the Department of
Built Environment was established as an academic ﬁeld that combines architecture, civil andspace engineering, and environmental psychology
in order to train and send out into the world
students as individuals who can meet both Japanese society ’s and global needs. In order to help
solve the various problems our society is currently
facing and will face in the future, the Department of Built Environment is composed ofvarious ﬁelds of research listed belowthat study human living enviro-

There have been discussions on the recent rapid
increase in energy consumption due to humanactivities since it is suspected of causing abruptchanges in the global environment, such as global
warming. Thus, reﬂecting on our disorderly massconsumption of energy, we need to develop clean
energy sources including renewable energy, andtechniques for using energy in an environmentallyfriendly way. In order to make international contributions to energy issues, such as diversifying
energy sources, improving the efﬁciency of energyuse, and using energy in an environmentallyfriendly way, it should be natural that dealing withissues solely through the current compartmentalized study is unfruitful. We need to take an interdisciplinary approach encompassing many academic ﬁelds in promoting research and development from the fundamentals right through to applications. The Department of Energy Sciences aims
to cultivate creative researchers and engineers
with advanced knowledge and wide-ranging
insight so that they can survey the global environment and social systems from the viewpoint ofenergy science and tackle various energy issues.

Environmental Chemistry and Engineering

Fundamental Chairs•Built Environment Evaluation
Architectural Design and Design Theory;
Architectural History and City History;
Streetscape Renewal and Conservation;
Environmental Perception and Cognition;
Visual Environment and Environmental Psychology;
and Psychoacoustics and Architectural Acoustics•Human Environment and Urban Planning
National Land and City Planning;
Transportation Planning and Environmental Planning;
Energy System Analysis; Global Warming Measures;and City planning with Citizen Participation•New Frontier Infrastructure
Earthquake Engineering; Prevention of Urban
Earthquake Disasters; Fire Protection Safety
Engineering; Probabilistic Earthquake Engineering;Anti-seismic Structure Design; Analysis and Design ofArchitectural Structures; Space Structures Engineering;
Deployable Structures; and Morphology

Cooperative Chairs• Landscape Engineering

The Department of Environmental Chemistry andEngineering was established in April 1998 with theaim of creating a new academic ﬁeld for the 21st
century. Its formation comes from the expansion of
the long-standing predecessors and stuff members working at the time of the opening of theInterdisciplinary Graduate School of Science andEngineering, Department of Chemical Environment
Engineering. The department’ s purpose is theestablishment of a new academic ﬁeld for tacklingenvironmental problems from every angle withchemistry as its base. Research based on chemistry provides the development of new molecules,
materials, and devices which provide the new
insight required for the solutions for environmental
problems. There are a wide range of environmental problems ranging from the local to the globa
environments. Just focusing on one small ﬁeld will
not lead to a fundamental solution to environmental problems. Students and faculty members working in cooperative research have discovered anddeveloped new cutting-edge world leading technologies and a sustainable society. The department has a wide range of laboratories specialized

synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry,
biochemistry, analytic chemistry, physicalchemistry, geochemistry, catalytic chemistry
and chemical engineering. The department
holds a productive research organization
offering nine Chairs with ten professors, nine
associate professors, and two lecturers,
including cooperative faculty members. The
students engaged in this program tackle amyriad of environmental problems by studying
within a wide range of ﬁelds. At present graduate students are employed in a various ﬁelds,
the knowledge and skills acquired at the
department becomes important throughout
their professional lives.

Affluent environmental society isrealized through chemistry.

Fundamental Chairs• Environmental Analysis and Engineering
Chemical Ecology System Analysis
Sustainable Systems• Catalysis and Green Chemistry
Solid Catalysis and Biocatalysis
Environmentally-friendly Chemistry

Cooperative Chairs• Environmental Molecular Arrangement• Chemical Process Design• Polymer Processes• Chemical Environmental Process Synthesis• Environmentally Benign Molecular Design• Environmental Biotechnology• Environmental Material Science08

Information and System

Innovative nanodevices and materials for the new generation of ICT

The ability to function as a system.

Electronics and Applied Physics
The Department of Electronics and Applied
Physics provides education and research on
advanced materials, nanotechnology, opticaldevices, silicon integrated circuits, and otherleading-edge materials and devices that support the ﬁeld of information and communication
technology (ICT). The creation of nextgeneration ICT requires a deep understandingof physics regarding the properties and precise control of new materials as well as a technological foundation at the highest level. It
requires that these be employed as the basis
for new concepts to be used in the creation ofphotonic and electronic devices, and furthermore, in the creation of human-inspired
devices. Moreover, it is necessary to mutuallylink and integrate the functions of individual
devices to realize the functions they possess
as a system. The department functionally integrates materials and devices that are seemingly incompatible, by creating new materials
in the ICT ﬁeld, by searching for new solidstate properties, and by conducting researchh on new device systems that involve photonics

Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, electronics, and the human-inspired devices. In doing so, the department aims to promot
e the creation of the ﬁeld of advanced information device systems, and to promote education and research in this ﬁeld. The department consists of two Fundamental Chairs (Advanced Devices and New Functional Devices) and ﬁv
e Cooperative Chairs. The department has faculty members in a wide range of specialize
d ﬁelds based on electronics and physics, and maintains a mutually and closely cooperative system. The department also invites visitin
g collaborative faculty members in cooperatio
n with external research organizations for impro
ing doctoral programs. Graduates from thedepartment have been active in the ICT ﬁeld
and other ﬁelds in Japan and overseas, including industries, public research institutes anduniversities.

Fundamental Chairs• Advanced Devices
Integrated Functional Devices,Intelligent System Devices,
Creative Functional Materials Engineering• New Functional Devices
Functional Quantum Fields,
Evolutional Functional Devices,
Functional Nanodevices,
Creative Information Devices

Cooperative Chairs• Imaging Materials• Frontier Materials and Devices• Photonic Devices and Systems• Intelligent Electron Devices and Systems• Integrated Photonics

Mechano-Micro Engineering

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Science, researchers who are leaders in theﬁelds mentioned above form a knowledge hub,and carry out cutting-edge research in collaboration with foreign and domestic education andresearch institutions and business corporations. The department’ s objective for education
is to create creative leaders who can take theleadership in cutting-edge ﬁelds. Because ofthis, the department has been actively working
on education in relation to creativity and planning ability in doctoral programs, and guidance
for research activities concerning doctoral
theses. In addition, it helps the students
acquire basic knowledge through lectures andpractice and offers guidance to help them produce master theses under master’ s programs.
Furthermore, students can take a variety ofoptional courses, such as lectures with
cutting-edge themes, and research education
offered by faculty members from external
corporations and research institutes.

Cooperative Chairs• Computational Perception and Recognition• Neural Information Processing• Brain Science

Fundamental Chairs• Fundamental Intelligent System
Theoretical Intelligent Systems
Language Informatics
Cognitive Informatics
Intelligence Informatics
Statistical Mathematics Frontier(collaborative) Informatics Frontier(collaborative) Industrial Science andTechnology Frontier (collaborative)
Basic Science Frontier (collaborative)• Complex System Analysis
Theoretical Complex Systems
Adaptive Learning Systems
Autonomous Decentralized Control
Behavioral Control of Sensory Adaptive
Systems (collaborative)• Emergent System
Emergent Function Formation
Emergent Computation
Evolutionary Systems
Multi-agent Systems (collaborative)
Emergent Social Systems (collaborative)

Pursuit of human-oriented information integration systems

Creation of a user-friendly and green advanced machinery system

Conventional engineering ﬁelds mainly basedon mechanical engineering are now being
recognized as a new interdisciplinary academic ﬁeld covering electronics, control engineering, production engineering and information engineering. This department aims tocreate an advanced machinery system andestablish a methodology for it that will become
very important for establishing a new type ofindustry and society in the near future. The
faculty members of Fundamental Chairs andfaculty members from the Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, who specialize in mechanical engineering and take charge of Cooperative Chairs, participate together in the education and research of the Department of
Mechano-Micro Engineering. They provide athorough fundamental education for all new
students so that each one can acquire a deep
understanding of and knowledge in ﬁelds otherthan their specialized ﬁelds. They also provide attentive guidance and help thestudents to develop practical skills
that will become useful after

Systems that can transform their structures
through interaction with the environment likeliving organisms and produce new functions inreal-time are called complex adaptive systems.
Evolution, learning and development are typical examples of the emergent behavior of complex adaptive systems. The Department ofComputational Intelligence and Systems
Science was established in 1996 with theobjective of scientiﬁcally understanding the
emergent principles of these complex adaptive
systems, and establishing design principles forintelligent functions based on the ﬁndings. In
2000, the department set forth a basic framework composed of four principles with complex
adaptive systems as the foundation, as follows:(1) experimental and mathematical approachto design principles of life and brain, (2)system science for analyzing and understanding humans and society, (3) engineering realization of autonomous intelligence, and (4)strategy to create an emergent society for generating diverse functions. In the Department ofComputational Intelligence and Systems

Information Processing

graduation. Major research ﬁelds cover interdisciplinary studies including advanced
mechatronics, extremely ﬁne devices, robotics
and biotechnology. Research results in thedepartment have contributed to the establishment and development of new academic ﬁelds
in engineering and science related to production, security and safety. In addition, both
departmental research and educational curricula cover new and large interdisciplinaryﬁelds, like the biomedical engineering ﬁeld,
and the research is conducted in cooperation
with Tokyo Medical & Dental University.

Fundamental Chairs• Functional Creation

Cooperative Chairs• Extremely Fine Devices• Advanced Mechatronics• Advanced Mechanics andEngineering Design

The Department of Information Processing wasestablished for the purpose of investigating
and teaching science and technology aimed
toward human-oriented information integration
systems. The basic goals of the department
are the integration of problems between different ﬁelds of study, the integration of problemsolving methods, and the integration of thevalues at which science, technology, people
and society aim. The department promotes: (1)comprehensive research and education which
apprehend human functions and engineering
technology in terms of human science, information technology, infrastructure systems, andmeasurement and control technology, and (2)creative research and education for thecreation of people-friendly (and easy to use)
advanced information systems in a nearfuturesociety. To be speciﬁc, the department has anexpert teaching staff in the ﬁelds of humanscience, sensory information processing systems, brain information, human communication,
image processing, ambience communication,
telemedicine technology, network interfaces,

parallel computer technology, multidimensional signal processing, security, microroprocessors, ultrasonic measurement, actuators, and biometrics. The department provide
s integrated education and research with the help of the teaching staff. The Department of Information Processing opens a gate for graduates from diverse ﬁelds, including mathematics and physics, electricity and information, measurement and control, mechanics, and chemistry, and helps them to acquire specialize
d knowledge and tackle advanced researc
h through the department’s education programs provided from its own unique viewpoint. Th
e department also emphasizes the provision of curricula and a support system to cultivat
e researchers who can play an active role in each professional arena. Many of those who have completed the courses are active in various ﬁelds including academic societies and the industrial worl

Fundamental Chairs• Future-oriented Information Systems
Human Information Systems,
Future-oriented Information Media andInformationEnvironments• New Functional Information Systems
High Functionality Information Systems,
Information Linkage Systems,
and Intelligent Information Systems

Cooperative Chairs• Perceptual Image Processing• Advanced Image Science• Advanced Wave Application Systems• Bio-Information Systems• Sensory Information Systems• Discrete Structures and Systems

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Innovative Platform for Education and Research Doctoral Course

INNOVATIVE PLATFORM for
EDUCATION and RESEARCH

Features of the Innovative Platform for Education and Research Doctoral Course

In the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGS), the Innovative Platform for Education andResearch (IPER) was established in April 2010. The Platform consists of the Education and Research Core Groupand the IPER Doctoral Course. The overall management of the Platform is conducted by the Steering andManagement Committee. The Education and Research Core Group consists of core units led by professors of
IGS. The core units actively engage in research projects in advanced research fields. The Core Groupaims to facilitate awareness of core unit research activities by prospective IGS applicants from bothStudents can acquire extensive hands-on experience,
which would otherwise be difficult to obtain in conventional
doctoral programs, through a curriculum designed to instilla global perspective.
Students are eligible for financial aid in theforms of employment as research assistants(RA) and in short-term overseas seminars
during summer vacation.

Students can improve their ability to communicate in English through daily interactions with international lecturers.

A credit completion certificate is issued to the students when
all requirements of the course are satisfied. In addition,
when they earn their doctoral degrees they receive a
diploma and a course completion certificate.

inside and outside the Institute. The Core Group also supports all aspects of core unit activities onbehalf of IGS. As shown in the figure, six core units are currently in operation. Please see theLeading Scientist Training Sub-Course

following page for more details. The IPER Doctoral Course was formulated for the advancement
and enrichment of doctoral education at the Institute. This new course aims to foster
creative minds to meet the needs of society, where various opportunities await our
graduates. The course consists of three sub-courses, described on page 11-12.

TransdisciplinaryTechnologist Training
Sub-Course

This sub-course is designed to train students to integrate
humanities, sciences, and other disciplines with their own
areas of expertise to become leaders able to utilize theirextensive knowledge in a variety of social arenas.

This sub-course is designed to grow capable researchers
ready to take on tomorrow’ s challenges. Students of thissub-course can earn a doctoral degree while participatingin research projects, enabling them to acquire the knowlThis sub-course is designed to cultivate highly creative entrepreneurs. Based on theedge and experience necessary to lead in internationally
Institute’ s longstanding traditions of Monotsukuri, or technical ingenuity, and “collaboration
organized endeavors.
with industry in engineering,” students are taught to create new value through integration ofscientific technologies related to their doctoral work with those of other fields. The subcourse aims to foster entrepreneurs able to seed research with commercial feasibility.

Creative Pioneer Training Sub-Course

Admissions capacity for each sub-course is approximately 10 students. The Transdisciplinary Technologist Training Sub-Course is open not only
to students of the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, but to all graduate students of the Institute.

Education and Research Core Group

Innovative
Platform for
Education
and Research
Doctoral Course

Development of innovative
next-generation batteries

Basic

Material synthesis
Structure

Electrochemical
Energy Devices
Core Unit

Education
and ResearchCore Group
Steering and Management Comittee

The Education and Research Core Group consists of core units
selected from research units conducting noteworthy research inleading fields. The Group provides information on research
activities of each research unit to prospective candidates fromboth inside and outside the Institute. The six core units of theGroup are as follows.

Materials science

Properties
Interface

Polymer chemistry
Crystal chemistryElectrochemistry

Solid-state chemistry

Solid oxide fuel cell
Metal-air battery

Fuel cell

Application

Wet (laboratory experiments):
Production of proteins withenhanced characteristics

d [ RA ]1= 1
d1[ RA ]n1dt
1 + ([ RB ] K1 )d [ RB ]1= 2
d 2 [ RB ]n2dt
1 + ([ RA ] K 2 )Versatile system

Advanced medical and healthcare
engineering for a comfortable and rich life

Urban Earthquake
Disaster Reduction
Core Unit

Medical Engineering
Core Unit
Insertion equipment of the remotenessof the small radiation source for oralcavity cancer therapies

Seismic response control building

Nanoelectronics
Research FrontierCore Unit

Produce world-leading scientists and engineers
contribute to manufacturing technology
Education

Industrial world
universities/independentadministrative
institutions
overseas universites(such as Asian countries)

International

Collaboration

nanoelectronic
devices education
and research center
Research

Atmospheric plasma system fordevelopment of innovative processing

Atmospheric
Plasma Processing
Core Unit

World-leading researchultralow power consumption, ultralow voltage operation, and ult

Energy saving, prevention of global warming
and realization of a safe and secure society

11

Dry (computer simulation):

Synthesis of biomolecular system
based on mathematical models

Lithium battery

Development of advanced technologies for reducing
urban seismic mega risk

For the prevention of global
warming and safe
and secure society

Database ofgenetic information

Synthetic Biology
Core Unit

Capacitor

Solid polymer fuel cellSupercapacitor

Battery

Assembling parts from variousorganisms to create versatilebiological systems

Atmospheric plasma generation with wide variety of plasmagases characteristics of these atmospheric plasmas provide
innovative nano-material synthesis, surface modiﬁcation,
medical applications and waste treatment.

12Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Scienceand Engineering as seen in numbers

Suzukakedai

Number of Faculty Staff（ unit : people ）Professor

Associate
Professor

Lecturer

Assistant
Professor

Coordinate
Professor

Coordinate
Associate
Professor

Innovative and Engineered Materials

8

9

0

4

7

0

0

Electronic Chemistr

8

9

2

4

5

5

0

Materials Science and Engineering

9

12

0

3

5

1

0

Environmental Science and Technology

9

12

0

4

6

4

0

Built Environment

7

5

0

5

5

4

0

Department

Visiting
Associate
Professor

Energy Sciences

7

8

1

5

5

1

0

Environmental Chemistry and Engineering

10

6

3

3

6

1

0

Electronics and Applied Physics

10

7

0

2

7

0

0

8

Mechano-Micro Engineering

6

1

2

1

0

2
1
2
Okabe Gate

P
P
P

13

10

1

8

11

6

1

Information Processing

9

5

0

2

4

2

0

98

89

8

42

62

24

1

to Shibuya

3

Number of Students

to Shibuya St.

9

24

6

1st year

2nd year

3rd year

M

F

M

F

M

F

M

F

95

14

6

12

4

17

3

43

13

56

151

18 106

13

5

12

3

20

3

45

11

56

162

2nd year

Total

M

F

M

F

M

F

Innovative and Engineered Materials

44

4

43

4

87

8

Electronic Chemistr

43

9

45

9

88

Total

Total

Total Total

41

6

40

4

81

10

91

3

0

6

1

15

1

24

2

26

117

Environmental Science and Technology

39

6

37

13

76

19

95

10

8

7

2

14

10

31

20

51

146

Built Environment

32

11

42

17

74

28 102

5

0

6

4

14

8

25

12

37

139

Energy Sciences

40

3

44

3

84

6

90

9

0

8

0

11

2

28

2

30

120

Environmental Chemistry and Engineering

40

4

34

6

74

10

84

12

2

7

1

16

5

35

8

43

127

Electronics and Applied Physics

44

5

48

1

92

6

98

7

1

10

2

18

1

35

4

39

137

Mechano-Micro Engineering

37

1

38

2

75

3

78

8

0

4

3

3

0

15

3

18

96

Computational Intelligence and Systems Science

73

10

79

5

152 15 167

25

7

23

3

42

7

90

17 107 274

Information Processing

50

2

55

4

105

15

2

12

2

26

3

53

7

111

60

171

483 61 505 68 988 129 1117 121 31 107 25 196 43 424 99 523 1640

10

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6

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7

R2 - An n e x C

8R3 M a in Bld g .

9R3 - An n e x A

1

4

P

G AreaG 1 Bld g .
G 2 Bld g .
G 3 Bld g .
G 4 Bld g .

5

G 5 Bld g .

6

M HD

1

H1 Bld g .

Suzukakedai St.
Ticket Gate2

to Chuo-Rinkan St.

H AreaH2 Bld g .

1

to Atsugi

2

J AreaJ 1 Bld g .

J 2・J 3 Bld g .

New Tokyo International Airport(Narita)
MachidaOdakyu Line

[ Ookayama Campus ]Shinjuku

Ookayama Station on the Tokyu Oimachi andTokyu Meguro Lines
About 45 minutes from Haneda Airport,
About 100 minutes from Narita Airport,
About 30 minutes from Tokyo Station

Nagatsuta

Suzukakedai

Den’entoshi Line

ine

oL

Suzukakedai Station on the Tokyu Den’entoshi Line
About 70 minutes from Haneda Airport,
About 130 minutes from Narita Airport,
About 55 minutes from Tokyo Station

YokohamaLine[ Tamachi Campus ]Tamachi Station on the JR Yamanote andKeihin-Tohoku Lines
About 25 minutes from Haneda Airport,
About 90 minutes from Narita Airport,
About 10 minutes from Tokyo Station

Futako-tamagawa

Den’enchofu
Tamagawa

Jiyugaoka

Ookayama
Shinkansen Line

Narita Line/
Sobu Line

Hamamatsucho

Hatanodai

Tamachi

ShinagawaOimachiTamagawa
Line
Keihin-Tohoku Line

KamataKeikyuKamata

Tokyo

ShibuyaMeguroHiyoshi

HigashiKanagawa

Ueno

YamanoteLine

Meguro LineMusashi-kosugi

KikunaYokohamaok
ToyKeiseiLineeinJapanese
Students

R2 Bld g .

5

3

L
hi

66.0 %

R1 - An n e x B

4

2

ac

Japanese
Students

34.0 %

R1 - An n e x A

11 R3 - An n e x C

im89.3 %

Doctorcoursestudents

International
Students

R AreaR1 Bld g .

3

1

O

10.7 %

International
StudentsP

11[ Suzukakedai Campus ]Percentage ofInternational students

5

Suzukake Gate

Materials Science and Engineering

6

1

8

12

te

S2 Bld g .

12 R3 - An n e x D

25

Doctoral Course

1st year

Mastercoursestudents

6

2

S AreaS1 Bld g .

10 R3 - An n e x B

14（ unit : people ）Master's Course

Total

7

P
ou

6

2

P

3

4

1

2

R

Department

1

Nagatsuta Gate0

Computational Intelligence and Systems Science

Total

1

Tokyo
Monorail

Keikyu Airport Line

Tokyo International Airport(Haneda)( May 2013 )13

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