It is the only program of its kind in the country. Students take classes in their engineering specialty and in advanced Japanese. They spend summer quarter after their first year in Japan doing a required Internship in a Japanese company or research lab.
Some internships are longer.
Students graduate with an Inter-Engineering MSE or MS degree. To be admitted, students need to have at least two years of college-level Japanese languge study or the equivalent. The Japanese Proficiency Test is required for all applicants and should be taken no later than two weeks before the application deadline. If applicants are unable to make arrangements to take the test before the application deadline, they need to contact the program coordinator. The application deadline is February 28.