Kanazawa Technical College

Decision of Institutional Certified Evaluation and Accreditation
Kanazawa Technical College complies with the Standards for the Establishment ofColleges of Technology and other relevant laws and regulations, and meets theStandards for Evaluation and Accreditation of Colleges of Technology set by NIAD-UE.
Good practices identified by the review committee include:● The principal’s evaluation of all teaching staff based on the initiatives they submit
for better education and their goals and subsequent achievement reports for therelevant fiscal year as well as various survey results. The principal provides specificand constructive responses in writing or through guidance in order to improveeducational activities, while also collecting various information on improving
education, placing matters before the KTC Education Evaluation Committee andacademic affairs meetings, and using the results to effectively review the wholeteaching staff organization as necessary,● Systematic organization of the curriculum with monozukuri manufacturing
education at the center. The Electrical and Electronic Engineering/Global
Information Technology departments have Creative Lab courses, and theMechanical Engineering Department has Creative Design courses, with general andtechnical subjects arranged around the Creative Experiment/Creative Design courses
for each year, enabling students to diversify their abilities acquired by attending thesubjects at the core of the curriculum and achieve their educational goals. The
college has managed to systematically organize the curriculum and achieve resultsby effectively translating the college’s objectives into the curriculum and eachcourse,● The “Collaborative Learning in Engineering and English in a Five-Year Program
Supported by Faculty Development Activities” initiative, selected for MEXT’s GPprogram. Since FY2009, two foreign teachers have been assigned to teach eachtechnical course, Collaborative Learning in Engineering and English (CLE2) has
been provided for students in all courses and all years, and an environment enabling
fourth-year students and above to continue learning technical subjects in English has
been created. In FY2010, in order to build an educational foundation to address
globalization, the college became a member of the CDIO Initiative, gaining
opportunities to learn the practices of engineering education worldwide on acontinuous basis and give presentations of the college’s educational examples. Thisinitiative won the 16th Engineering Education Award in FY2012 from the Japanese-1-Kanazawa Technical College

Society for Engineering Education,● The “Development and Implementation of the Educational Program to Train Future
Factory Managers from Age 16” initiative, selected for MEXT’s GP program. With
the objective of equipping students with the basic skills to become important
engineers or factory managers capable of supervising design/production processes
and managing/innovating factory floors, including the aspects of schedules and cost,
the college has developed and placed at the core of the curriculum a creative design
education program to foster comprehensive skills as an engineer, using the seveneducational methods of portfolio, role playing, engineering design, guidance byveteran engineers, lectures by professional engineers, skill evaluation byprofessional engineers, and machining skills. This excellent initiative has achieved
results and received many prizes, including the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun 3rd Annual
Monozukuri Grand Prize Special Award,● An extremely high employment rate (number of students employed/number ofstudents seeking employment after graduation), with students employed in the
manufacturingindustry,
serviceindustry,constructionindustry,logistics/communications industry, and other employment befitting of the engineers
the college aims to educate; and an extremely high rate of students advancing tohigher education (number of students advancing to higher education/number ofstudents wishing to advance to higher education), with students advancing toengineering universities that are related to the students’ departments, and● The “Career Design Education Through Cooperation and Co-creation” initiative,
establishing a college-wide career guidance system centered on career guidance
supervisors, course supervisors, and class supervisors, and selected for MEXT’s GP
program. The system provides student guidance, hosts briefings for guardians, andcultivates new employment by visiting companies and collecting information, while
also providing students with many effective opportunities to experience actual work,
enabling them to gradually develop their own views regarding careers from the firstyear and integrate the knowledge or experience gained through lectures orextracurricular activities with their career plans. Students also logically assess theknowledge or experience gained through these opportunities, recording what they
have learned in a career design notebook, talking to teachers in interviews todevelop their character, and building their confidence and sense of independence.
This initiative has achieved results.

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This document has been translated by NIAD-UE with consent from the college oftechnology for the reader’s information only.

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