Unique Engineering Education Program
System building for ongoing education improvement and third-party evaluation by JABEE
The Faculty of Engineering has the following three educational goals:
(1) Cultivate human resources with dignity and a sense of duty
(2) Develop practical expertise as an engineer
(3) Cultivate indispensable abilities for survival in the era of globalization
To achieve those goals, the School is working on a high-quality engineer education program which requires improvement of the PDCA education program consisting of the cycle: Plan, Do, Check and Action. Lessons of each subject are continuously improved by the PDCA cycle as follows: (Plan) Make a good-quality lesson plan; (Do) Carry out the lesson and evaluate its results according to the plan; (Check) Check if the results have reached the learning and educational goals, and if the class was conducted as planned; and (Action) Find out which goal is unattainable to improve the lesson.
In addition, the total education system of the Faculty of Engineering is also undergoing the same procedure to establish a higher-quality engineer education program with the PDCA cycle system applied to the following items:
- Encourage students to fill out questionnaires, class evaluation and offer opinions.
- Survey student attitudes toward learning.
- Introduce evaluation by an outside evaluation committee.
*JABEE is a professional accreditation system whereby an outside organization can fairly evaluate whether the programs in engineering education conducted by institutions of higher education such as universities reach the levels expected by society and accredit those programs that reach such levels. For further information, see http://www.jabee.org/.

Such improvement in education will need outside evaluation. All the departments of the Faculty of Engineering are planning to be reviewed by the Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education (JABEE) to assure the quality and further improvement of education.
(Examined in 2006)
- Biochemistry Course, Department of Biotechnology and Chemistry
- Mechanical Design Course, Department of Mechanical Engineering
(Examined in 2007)
- Department of Architecture
(Planned to be examined in 2011)
- Department of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
(Planned to be examined in 2013)
- Department of Information and Systems Engineering
(Planned to be examined in 2015)
- Department of Intelligent Mechanical Engineering

