The Engineering Course is cross-discipline: faculty from a number of different fields work in an integrated environment to give multidisciplinary instruction and direction in comprehensive research to doctoral students who wish to obtain a doctorate through full-time attendance.

The knowledge based society needs core human resources who have new knowledge aligned with abundant scholarship, who can create value and who can take active roles in various arenas in society. The Entrepreneur Engineering Course aims at the cultivation of mid-career individuals who can establish themselves actively in such an era. In particular, this course focuses on fostering dynamic human resources who can play active roles in industry by identifying issues, offering solutions to those issues, creating projects, and engaging in practice based on their own experience. Taking as a base the knowledge obtained by the students in the master's course, and having the students conduct joint research with professors on the process of creating new businesses both within and outside of their companies, this course promotes the materialization of knowledge.

NOTE 1. Lectures in the Entrepreneur Engineering Course are given on Saturdays and Sundays via remote TV broadcast. Students take the lectures in classrooms located on the KUT (Kami city) and Eikokuji campus (Kochi City) and in Tokyo. 2. Meeting seminars are held twice a year. One of the seminars (sleepover seminar from Saturday to Sunday) is held in the spring at the KUT campus in Kochi.

The Special Course for Mid-career Professionals is designed for individuals who are already established in their careers and who have some level of achievement in industrial or academic research. This degree program has a minimum one-year study requirement, as opposed to the usual three.

For the continuing advancement of mankind, we should establish materials cycles and energy flows that harmonize with nature. In this course, students study the design, synthesis, and practical use of environment-conscious materials which require less energy for production and which can safely enter the earth's ecosystem. Aiming at fostering distinguished researchers and engineers to create and manage the next generation fundamental material technology, this course provides education for the creation of new materials and the methods and technologies required to assess such new materials' characteristics.

In the field of mechanical engineering, there is now a need for innovative technological development which harmonizes with issues such as globalization, informatization, the aging society and environmental problems. This course focuses on education and research/development of technology whose importance will increase in the future, and that will lead change in the social structure. Such technology includes robotics and mechatronics, intelligent information technology, and human-related technology. We foster engineers who can value the interface among research fields, and are not confined to the single field of ordinary mechanical engineering.

Electronic-photonic technology is the most important technology for the infrastructure of modern society and it has even been said that the degree of development of this technology could control the fate of a nation. With the objective of the realization of new systems using the world's most advanced electronic and photonic technology, this course pursues research in areas such as properties, materials, device fabrication processes, and their application, as well as fostering futuristic leading professionals who have advanced knowledge and understanding of this field, and abundant creativity.

In accordance with the explosive increase in the number of information system users in this information-oriented age, there is a pressing need to construct environments where people can securely enjoy the benefit of informatization. In order to create such a system, it is necessary to develop the concept of a flexible and human-friendly information system, based on an innovative perspective beyond the usual concept of information system. This course focuses on fostering human resources who can take flexible and daring approaches and who will play leading roles in new information systems.

For planning, management and control of the maintenance of social infrastructure (such as roads, bridges, water supply, sewer systems, transport systems, information communications, energy, public buildings, and parks) in the future, it is essential to have a view of facilities as organic systems related to each other and to reconstruct them in harmony with the environment so that people can feel morally and materially content. This course focuses on advanced education and research related to technology for realizing a spiritually rich society and to the construction management necessary for Japan with the aging society.

In recent times, there have been an increasing number of students with specific goals for their future and a desire to acquire the high-level, broad range expert knowledge and skills required to achieve those goals. The Frontier Engineering Course provides such students with a wide variety of research and development opportunities in a cross-disciplinary program which does not recognize borders between disciplines, and in a real world context which has a close relationship with the business world. Through this program, we aim to produce more practical, self-directed engineers.

The knowledge based society needs core human resources who have new knowledge aligned with abundant scholarship, who can create value and who can take active roles in various arenas in society. The Entrepreneur Engineering Course aims at the cultivation of mid-career individuals who can establish themselves actively in such an era. This course is provided for
- mid-career professionals such as engineers who are taking leadership in enterprises;
- mainstay employees who are aspiring to work in management;
- management executives who intend to create or establish new companies; and
- human resources who are contributing to regional activation and to regional management and administration.
We offer these people management related knowledge in a global perspective that ensures its usefulness in the real world.

NOTE 1. Lectures in the Entrepreneur Engineering Course are given on Saturdays and Sundays via remote TV broadcast. Students take the lectures in classrooms located on the KUT (Kami city) and Eikokuji campus (Kochi City) and in Tokyo. 2. Meeting seminars are held twice a year. One of the seminars (sleepover seminar from Saturday to Sunday) is held in the spring at the KUT campus in Kochi.

The central concept of this course is the promotion of infrastructure development through integrated management technology, which is the coordination of úVhard infrastructures,úV úVsoft infrastructures,úV and úVnatural infrastructures.úV Based on this concept, the Social System Management Course provides programs for those who are working in organizations such as provincial construction companies, major construction companies, construction consulting companies, public bodies including the national government and local governments that commission construction, and educational institutions. This curriculum conveys the practical logic and management technology necessary for promoting internationalization and gaining entry to the international market. The course accepts people not only coming from engineering but also administrative field. A group of highly competent instructors with abundant experience are in charge of lectures. The lectures in specialized subjects are in principle conducted one weekend every month (7.5 hours on Saturday and 7.5 hours on Sunday), 12 times a year. As for common specialized subjects, discussion, survey and research for a project or paper assigned by the instructor are done individually.