Group13: Introduction of Our School
School name:National Institute of Technology, Wakayama College（国立和歌山工業高等専門学校）

School77 Noshima, Nada, Gobo, Wakayama, Japan

address:（和歌山県御坊市名田町野島 77）

School URL:

http://www.wakayama-nct.ac.jp/

PR message:

College of Technology besides the Pacific’s wave．

“National Institute of Technology, Wakayama College” is in Gobo city,Wakayama prefecture. It’s located in the countryside. It takes about five andhalf hours from Tokyo by train and bus. Since it faces the Pacific Ocean, thestudents are able to study in the rich natural environment.
Our college provides a consistent engineering education program of fiveyears for graduates of junior high schools. The students in the first year start
studying the specialized knowledge and techniques of engineering. Theemployment rate and the university-entry rate of our college graduates are
100% every year. In addition, after graduation of the five years program, it’salso possible to continue studies in advanced engineering faculty, whereadvanced education program of two years is provided. Because the advanced
courses accept about 8 students for each course, classes, experiments, andseminars are carried out “face to face" with the professors. This means thatstudents of our college have more opportunities to be instructed about
studies and career plans from the professors and staffs in comparison withother universities.
Most of the students enjoy not only study courses but also club activities.
Among them, ”ROBOCON” is the most active club. They aim to win the"Technical College Robot Contest" that is held every year, and all thenational institutes of technology in Japan participate it. The theme and therule of the contest is different every year. Therefore, development of newrobots is required every year based on the competition’s theme. So far, ourcollege had won the second place three times in the national convention.
(Figure2 shows the robot that won the Technology Award)

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Figure2 Ro
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Figuree3 Training factory

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Research comppetition2