Introduction of Our School
School name:National Institute of Technology, Wakayama College（独立行政法人 国立高等専門学校機構 和歌山工業高等専門学校）

School77 Noshima, Nada, Gobo, Wakayama, JAPANaddress:（和歌山県御坊市名田町野島 77）

School URL:

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

PR message:

N.I.T. Wakayama College with g reat education for future engineer.
（未来のエンジニアを育てる和歌山高専．
）“National Institute of Technology, Wakayama College” is located in Gobo city,Wakayama Prefecture, Japan (Fig.1). Our college, a fusion of a high school and auniversity, provides a continuous curriculum for five years. Our college has four
specialized departments, and they provide specialized subjects for the students
through lectures and research activities. In addition, the advanced program of
two years is also provided in this college. To become future engineers, we canexperience a lot of experiments and practical courses, as various facilities andequipment for experiments and practical trainings are prepared (Fig.2). Students
have two options for their career after graduation; one is getting a job, and theother is to enter the advanced course, a university or a graduate school. In fact,
the employment rate and the university-entry rate of our graduates has been
100%.
“Kinokuni Robot Festival” is held in every December in Gobo city where ourcollege locates (Fig.3). This festival consists of the robot contests for students
from primary schools to high schools, the demonstration of the latest robots bycompanies, etc. The purpose of this festival is to deepen the youth’s
understanding of the technologies and to develop Japan’s manufacturing andinnovations. Our college supports this festival as one of the organizers.
Besides, our college also has various students’ club activities. One of the most major
activity groups is the Robot Contest Club. They participate in the National College
Robot Contest every year. In the contest, the students make full use of their own
ideas to develop the robots to compete the given tasks. Therefore, the students needa lot of imagination, creativity and techniques. In this event, our college team has
won the second prize for three times. Furthermore, our college team had also been
awarded various prizes every year.

School name: National Institute of Technology, Wakayama CollegeThen, our college students join local science lectures as instructors, and they teachprimary school and secondary school students about robotics. We also carry out
public classes about robotics in our college to introduce the attractiveness of robotics
to children. For example, participants can learn and experience how to make aprogram for a robot in the classes. We also present the magnificent result of ourstudies and researches in this college. We hope that participants who are interested
in robots will enter our college and become active engineers in the future.
Finally, our college is attaching importance to international exchange. Our college
accepts international students in the 3rd grade. Currently, there are 8 international
students from various countries for studying in our college. In addition, our college holds
the academic exchange agreement with “Shanghai Dianji University” in China, “AtmaJaya Catholic University of Indonesia” in Indonesia, etc. In particular, the short-term
student exchange program with “Shanghai Dianji University” is held every year (Fig.4).
Through the international exchange program, we can learn the technologies and culturesfrom various countries.
As described in this document, our college is aiming to become the internationally open
college with a good local communities. We are learning the leading edge of science andtechnologies every day to become active engineers in the future.

Fig.1 National InstituteFig.2 Facilities and equipmentof Technology, Wakayama College

Fig.3 Kinokuni Robot Festival

Fig.4 Students exchange program