WISE Program in Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT)
Fostering Brilliant Leaders by Emphasizing Diversity and the Creation of New
Industries to Drive a Super Smart Society
Selected to participate in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Scienceand Technology’s FY2018 Doctoral Program for World-leading Innovative &Smart Education (WISE Program), TUAT is implementing the “Program toFoster Brilliant Leaders with Emphasis on Diversity and the Creation of New
Industries to Drive a Super Smart Society.”

Vision:The vision of the program is to foster brilliant leaders...
1. Who will leverage the collaboration of agriculture and engineering, and use high engineering technology to create
new industries that offer solutions for the social challenges presented by agriculture
2. Who belong to underrepresented groups, including female scientists, and will provide the diversity for promoting
innovation
3. Who have the capacity for big-picture thinking, creativity, an appreciation of diversity, internationally competitive
strengths and high-level expertise
The program objective is to foster brilliant leaders in partnership with industries and overseas research institutions.
These leaders will take on the creation of new industries through the collaboration of agriculture and engineering tosolve the social challenges presented by agriculture. The program will develop leaders, including female scientists, whounderstand the importance of diversity, and who also possess internationally competitive strengths and high-level
expertise.

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Agri-engineer collaboration

Creation of new industries

Diversity

Diversity Education Environment
TUAT has long been addressing diversity at the university, including improving theenvironment for female researchers, increasing the number of women hired asteaching staff, and executing activities to boost the population of women in thesciences. As a result, it has one of Japan’s highest ratios of female faculty
members. The ratio of female students in agriculture and engineering also
continues to rise. In fact, 22% of TUAT students in the faculty of engineering arewomen, which is the highest in Japan. As for the faculty of agriculture, 46% arewomen. Meanwhile, the Organization of Global Education are offering diversityrelated subjects available to students of all faculties. The university has acompetitive advantage in terms of diversity education, including its unique focus
on developing female scientists.

For inquiries, contact: Student Support Office, Educational Affairs DivisionTokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
E-mail: takua2@m2.tuat.ac.jp Phone: +81-42-367-5943

Educational curriculum (Integrated doctoral course – five years)
WISE Program in TUAT：Creation of “Super Smart Society”
by Agri - Engineer Collaboration for New Industries and Diversity
Doctor’s degree

Second semester of Ph.D.

QE2

Creation of New Industries by Industry-University Cooperation

P5

Lecture by Foreign Professor and Industry Mentor“Consortium for Creation of New Industries”
Collaborative Research by Industry - Government Academia Cooperation

P3

QE1First semester of Ph.D.

Study abroad
Double degree

International Collaborative Research, Internship

P4

P2
Laboratory
Rotation

P1“Smart Agriculture and Global
Education Research Center”
Agriculture, AI, Sensing, Energy,
Nutrition, Public policy, Business

Problem based learning (PBL)

P0

Into 2nd Semester
Recurrent
Education
Diversity
education

Overseas training English Shower

In Year One (the first phase of theintegrated doctoral program), problembased learning (PBL) is carried out incollaboration with cooperation company.
Students engage in group work to findsolutions to problems. Also implemented
during the first year is an English
immersion program intended to improve
English language skills as well as training
abroad at an overseas partner institution.
In addition to teaching staff from TUAT’s
faculties of agriculture and engineering,businesspersons
fromcooperationcompanies also givelectureson
specialized subjects for industry-academia
cooperation in the fostering of leaders.

Pre-education for undergraduate students (PBL, Seminar, Presentation in English)

From Year Two, project-based practical education begins with utilization of the Consortium for the Creation of New
Industries, cultivating the ability to innovate and find solutions to complex issues related to agriculture using highengineering technologies.
From Year Three, issue-proposal-type joint industry-academia research will begin, with the Consortium as the platform.
Students in the Program will negotiate with researchers at overseas partner institutions and promote international
collaborative research. From Year Four to Five, students will select activities such as study abroad for international
collaborative research, Internship in companies, and cooperative research with partner institution. They will summarize
their learning from lectures and exercises in a portfolio that will be continuously evaluated. Furthermore, the students
will carry out self-evaluations of their problem-setting capabilities, conceptual abilities, creativity, planning andimplementation capacities, integration competency, diversity comprehension, and communication skills. This will thenbe evaluated by doctoral advisors and collaborative teaching staff and serve as competency evaluations forencouraging self-growth. A new system to match the PhD students with various companies will be developed jointlywith the businesses to provide an appropriate place for PhDs who have completed the Program to play an active role.

Consortium for the Creation of New Industries
WISE Program in TUAT：Creation of “Super Smart Society”
by Agriculture-Engineering Collaboration for New Industries and Diversity
Creation of New Industries by Agri-Engineer Cooperation
Diversity including female scientists for promoting innovation
Overseas collaborative institutions

Smart Agriculture

Artificial Intelligence (AI)University of Oxford

Sensing Technology

Internet of Things (IoT)

University of Bonn

Water, Soil, Atmosphere

Food Supply Chain

Robot, Mobility

Forest Management

ZALF, Germany

Agriculture

Engineering

Cornell University
Univeristy of California（Davis）
Vietnam Forestry University

Gadjah Mada University

Infection
Capacitor
Soil Management Nutrition RobotSensingWild Animal Plant factory
Ionic Liquid Bio Materials
Smart Agriculture
IoTAI
Soil and Water
Energy Control
Forest Technology
BreedingImaging Technology
Functional Food Big data

As a growth industry, agriculture must
be provided with a stronger foundation
for innovation in the entire system forthe distribution of agricultural products.
This includes breeding and production
to processing and distribution as well ashouseholdconsumption andtherestaurant industry.
This Program not only leverages highengineering
technology
intheproduction of food but also introduces
artificial intelligence (AI), robots andself-driving smart mobility technology to
production and distribution to build a
new smart food supply chain as one
model for the creation of new industries.

An educational system with the commitment of the industrial circle is indispensable for the realization of this graduate
program. A Consortium for the Creation of New Industries will be formed with the participation of businesses and otherorganizations as partner institutions, and leaders will be developed through the cooperation of government, industryand academia. At present, there are nine partner institutions, universities and others participating in the Consortium.
Also we have seven overseas collaborative partner institutions for the program.