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2Foreword

Departments

Tokyo Institute of Technology (TokyoTech) is Japan's premier university
focused on science and engineering
education through coursework andadvanced research. Tokyo Tech has six
graduate and three undergraduate
schools with approximately 10,000
students enrolled, equally divided
between undergraduate and graduateprograms. All students undertake
research as part of their education.
Most of the students and faculty areJapanese, since the undergraduate

courses are taught in the Japanese
language. At the graduate level, whichcurrently has 25% international
students from approximately 80
countries, courses are taught in either
English or Japanese.
The Graduate School of Engineering(ENG) has 320 faculty members and 16
departments (see the box at right). In
addition, there are 4 leading doctoral
programs that educate specifically onenergy, nuclear safety, bioinformatics
and global leadership.

Research Student Exchange Motivation
In today’s global economy, an engineer
needs not only advanced knowledge intheir fields of study, but also global
competencies, international experienceand communication skills. As a result,Tokyo Tech ENG has establishedresearch exchange programs (seePAGES    WITH OVERSEAS UNIV
partners to allow its students to attainthese skills. Tokyo Tech students who
participate in overseas researchexchanges return to campus exhibiting
greater maturity, higher self-confidence
and improved communication skills. To
internationalize students who do nottravel overseas, ENG hosts talented
international research exchange
students in its professors’ laboratories.
The professor serves as both mentor
and advisor, thus the laboratory
research experience is similar toon-the-job-training.

Why apply for a research exchange at Tokyo Tech?
A research exchange allows students
to directly experience an excellent
academic environment with high techresearch facilities and work withrenowned faculty. It also allows one toexperience life in Tokyo: explore its
museums, festivals, parks, temples and2014 / 2015

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experience Japanese traditional/pop
culture, martial arts, and enjoy
Japanese cuisine. Tokyo is also
conveniently located for weekend trips
to world heritage sites, mountainhiking, bathing in hot springs, sailing, orspending time at the beach.

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About
This brochure outlines
science and engineeringresearch exchangeprograms, often calledinternships, in which theGraduate School ofEngineering participates ororganizes.

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Research Student Exchange ModelStudents

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Tokyo TechEngineering

Summer activities

Overseas ResearchUniversity Partner

Undergraduates and/or Graduate Students
The research exchange model is shown
above: Tokyo Tech Engineering(graduate) students are dispatched withpartial financial support for several
months to do research overseas, and

AOTULE welcome reception

undergraduates and/or graduate
students are accepted in exchange.
The summer schedule is shown below
and photos of participants in various
activities are shown on pages 2-4.
Faculty research discussion

Tokyo Tech Summer Research Exchange Program
ActivityJuneJulyAugust★

Arrival & orientation
Survival Japanese class
Factory Tours

Research Lab

Laboratory research, 10 weeks
Workshop (MISW) & departure
Inbound exchange students join aprofessor’s laboratory and conduct
research projects under faculty
supervision. Students can also joinindustrial factory tours (High TechJapan class) and are eligible to attend
special lectures and participate inactivities relating to Japanese culture1★
(tea ceremony). In August, the annual
Multi-disciplinary International StudentWorkshop (MISW) is held, in which
students present their summer
research results (see photos on p. 4).
Awards are given for the best oral andposter presentations at this workshop.

Summer Exchange Research
Program (SERP)The SERP began in 2005, and is anoverseas summer exchange programfor stays of several months with EU andUS partner universities. Participants
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the right and apply through their home
university SERP coordinator. Fundingfor the exchange is provided by thedispatching university or by theparticipant.

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2 Engineering (AOTULE) Student Exchange Programs
The AOTULE was founded in 2007,
consisting of engineering programs atresearch universities in Asia andOceania. A graduate student
workshop, Administration staff and

Dean’s Meeting are held annually aswell as student exchange programs. A
brief outline of programs are below.
For further information on the AOTULE,
see the website.

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their research results.

Tokyo Tech ENG sponsors a dozen ofsummer graduate student researchers
annually. The summer program
activities are shown on page 2.

Tokyo Tech engineering partially
supports participant travel, living andhousing expenses.

In this program, graduate students
from AOTULE partners are selectedbased upon nominations from theirhome univ. engineering Dean’s office.
The students undertake research
projects on topics of their choice in ahost professor’s laboratory and attend
a student workshop (MISW) at the endof the summer, where they present

B Overseas Partner Programs
AOTULE partner universities (e.g.
Bandung Institute of Technology inIndonesia) host AOTULE univ. students
on their campuses to participate intheir summer programs. In addition,
several other AOTULE universities
organize university-wide summer
programs on their campuses.

3 Externally funded exchange programs
To further promote student mobility,
Tokyo Tech receives external funding
from overseas and Japanese governmental organizations for specificprograms, such as the EU’s Erasmus
Mundus program. For example, until
2017 Tokyo Tech is part of a
12-university Japan-Korea-EU Consortium called EASED that supports
energy based research exchanges forfaculty, post-docs, and Ph.D. students(www.ecp.fr/em_eased). In addition,
Tokyo Tech has received a JSPS grantto promote student internships andresearch exchanges overseas under
the Tokyo Institute of Technology
Research Opportunity Program(TiROP) until 2015.
See the website below for details.

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Searching for ENG Faculty and Their Research Areas
Faculty members’ research areas canbe identified by a keyword search in theTokyo Tech Research Repository (seebelow) or by Googling a research topic
keyword and "titech.ac.jp", and thencross-checking with the ENG dept. list.

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Location of Tokyo Tech’s Ookayama campus

NagoyaTokyo Tech’s school of engineering is located on the Ookayama campus, shown
below in relation to Tokyo’s two international airports and rail network. The
Ookayama campus is situated in front of the Ookayama train station. Anothercampus is located in Yokohama, near Suzukakedai train station.

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Furtherinformationand contactroOokayama

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Keikyu Kawasaki

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Address: Tokyo Tech Engineering International Cooperation Office,2-12-1-H-106 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552 Japane-mail: ko.intl@jim.titech.ac.jp Tel. +81 (0)3-5734-3859
web: http://www.eng.titech.ac.jp/english/international/index.html