National Institute of Technology, Suzuka College

Decision of Institutional Certified Evaluation and Accreditation
The National Institute of Technology, Suzuka College complies with the Standards for theEstablishment of Colleges of Technology and other relevant laws and regulations, and meets theStandards for Evaluation and Accreditation of Colleges of Technology set by NIAD-QE.
It fulfills all requirements defined as the Priority Evaluation Items in Viewpoint 1-1.
Good practices identified by the review committee include:
Participation in the Book Review and Essay Contest required for all first-to-third year students
as a step to realize “basic knowledge of humanity and society and a broad range of educationalsubjects” as one of the diploma policies, thereby producing successful outcomes;
Promotion of academic and cultural exchanges to cultivate globally active human resources byutilizing external educational resources to sign exchange agreements with overseas educational
institutions and organize various programs that include exchange programs and the “GlobalEngineering Program” using the college’s partner schools and other institutions, through which
39 students in FY2016 and 53 students in FY2017 participated in studying abroad, overseasinternships, international internships, and other programs, and the college also regularly accepts
around ten international students to promote exchanges and organizes exchange visits with its
partner schools’ students and other activities, with these active student exchange initiatives
contributing to successful outcomes in international education;“Creative Engineering” (required: 2 credits), a project-based learning (PBL) course of lessons
designed to develop creativity, introduced in the fourth-year first term of all departments, wherestudents take advantage of their acquired knowledge and skills to conceive, design, and produce
their own works for presentation at the college festival, with outstanding works receiving anaward from the National Institute of Technology, Suzuka College Techno-Plaza comprised of thecollege’s partner corporations, thereby demonstrating successful performance in the Idea
Competition/National Institute of Technology Robot Contest, the College of Technology
Programming Contest, the Solar Car Race Suzuka, and other competitions;Internships viewed as a valuable opportunity for students to acquire practical skills through work
experience at internship providers by applying their basic technical knowledge learned in eachdepartment, and designed by selecting institutions capable of offering effective internshipprograms for students while requiring students to write daily reports and internship final reports
and deliver presentations at briefing sessions with a view to steadily developing practical skills,
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with these efforts leading to approximately 90 percent of the associate course students earning
the course credit;
Overseas training programs in countries proficient at speaking English, such as Malaysia andSingapore, with the aim of cultivating globally active human resources, which are attended by all
second-year students every year who spend a long period of time on preparations and study
mindsets toward overseas training, English communication skills, and attitudinal differences
between Japan and foreign countries in special activities to develop a sense of internationalmindedness, with students’ motivation to study English improved and other positive outcomesseen after this overseas training.
An extremely high employment rate (the number of students employed divided by the number ofstudents seeking employment after graduation) for both the associate and diploma courses, withstudents employed in the manufacturing industry, information and communications businesses,
electricity/gas/heat/water supply companies, academic research and specialized engineering
services companies, and other employment befitting of the engineers the college hopes to produce,
and an extremely high rate of students advancing to higher education (the number of students
advancing to higher education divided by the number of students wishing to advance to highereducation) for both the associate and diploma courses, with students advancing to the diploma
courses at colleges of technology or engineering technology and other faculties/units atuniversities that are related to the students’ associate/diploma courses.

This document has been translated by NIAD-QE with consent from the college of technology for thereader’s information only.

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