Master's Program

Intelligent Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Course

【Intelligent Mechanical Engineering Area】

Contribute to society with the next generation of highly intelligent manufacturing technologies

As mechanical systems become increasingly intelligent and information-driven, there is growing demand for the development of systems that are human-centered and environmentally sustainable. The new era of mechanical engineering that is positioned to meet these needs places an emphasis on integrated technologies combining mechatronics and computing applications with mechanical technologies. In addition to education aimed at cultivating the next generation of engineers capable of contributing to society through their command of manufacturing technologies, we provide education to develop expertise in areas like mechatronics while fostering practical abilities to solve a variety of engineering problems. In the future, the work of mechanical engineers will span a broad range of fields. As well as solid expertise in the fundamentals of mechanical engineering, students will be able to demonstrate their abilities as engineers with the applied skills essential for making more intelligent systems. Students' capabilities of contributing to society with advanced mechanical technology will open up career prospects not only in the automotive, equipment, precision machinery, and other manufacturing industries but also in a wide array of fields throughout engineering.

【Aerospace Engineering Area】

Learn to design and develop aircraft and space equipment that require absolute safety and reliability

In recent years, with the growing involvement of Japanese airframe and engine manufacturers in the development of state-of-the-art aircraft, Japan has taken an increasingly important position in the global aviation industry. Moreover, Japan has garnered a great deal of interest with such efforts as the development of its new H3 main rocket, which raised Japan's profile in the space development world, and its asteroid probe-based investigation into the secrets of planetary formation and the origins of life. The Japanese aerospace engineering sector is thus continuing to push the limits of research and development while remaining at the global technological cutting edge. In this course, building on the foundation of the four dynamics (fluid dynamics, material dynamics, machinery dynamics, and thermodynamics) and control engineering, students will acquire deep specialized knowledge and skills in aerospace engineering fields such as aeronautics and space exploration engineering, topped with advanced, leading-edge expertise, and through research and scholarly activities, they will develop capabilities to identify challenges, solve problems, think logically, and the like. In the future, graduates can expect to find employment not only in technical or research positions carrying out development and design in relation to aircraft, rockets, and aerospace equipment but also in a wide range of positions in the machinery and electronics industries contributing to manufacturing through research, development, and design of systems and a variety of components.

Electronic and Photonic Engineering Course

【Energy Engineering Area】

Pioneer a broad range of energy technologies from a systems perspective

In order to address the challenges of long-term energy resource depletion, energy security for resource-poor Japan, the achievement of carbon neutrality, and the creation of a sound material-cycle society, we must train engineers with a high degree of energy literacy in every field of engineering. This course is designed to produce engineers with a broad education in energy engineering from environmental impact issues to energy technologies, capable of taking the global environment into account and ready to play active roles in the construction of next-generation energy systems and the field of energy management. The master's program is intended for those who will guide energy technology and industry research and development, those who will engage with technologies in a wide range of industrial fields, and those with a broad perspective on environmental technologies who will hold the management skills necessary to solve global energy issues. These students will learn about cutting-edge research and core technologies in next-generation energy and develop applied skills and the ability to drive projects through research activities. Moreover, creating a sustainable, sound material-cycle society for the future will involve a wide range of energy-related technological challenges such as carbon neutrality, renewable energy, electric vehicles, and smart mobility, crucial challenges shared by all of humanity, the solutions of which will require broad understanding and consideration across many areas including the global environment, economy, and policy as well as local communities and individual lifestyles. Hopes for these highly energy-literate engineers are growing by the day in every technical field, not the least manufacturing. We expect graduates to expand on the specialized knowledge and activities they built up here in relation to energy and environmental issues and play roles in a variety of sectors including infrastructure, plant, and the heavy electrical and power industries.


【Electronic and Photonic Engineering Area】

Develop the talent to forge the future for Japan and the world through electronics and optoelectronic technologies

The digital technologies such as IoT, AI, and 6G for achieving the Super Smart Society will be built on the world's most advanced semiconductor integrated circuits, so-called next-generation semiconductors, with nanotechnology, the integration of electrons and light, and low-dimensional materials among the ideas under consideration. In this specialization, aspiring engineers will gain mastery of semiconductor devices, circuits, communications, optoelectronics, computer technology, and more as well as advanced capabilities to take on problems from an interdisciplinary perspective. With the goal of realizing cutting-edge devices and systems to be applied in a variety of fields such as automobiles and space, students will proceed through nanomaterials, circuit design, optical measurement and control, and process technology, as well as applied research in these areas, developing advanced knowledge and understanding and fertile creativity while preparing to take future leadership positions and drive product research and development. Looking to the future, we aim to produce individuals capable of working on the front lines as engineers and researchers in semiconductor and digital industry sectors where Japan has an advantage in next-generation semiconductors such as materials, manufacturing equipment, electronic components, telecommunications, multimedia, and embedded systems. Further, technologies in the electronic and photonic engineering area are expanding rapidly across sectors from automotive and space to medical and agricultural, and graduates are likely to find employment in a broad range of industries from telecommunications, semiconductors, electronic components, consumer electronics, and power companies to automotive companies, advanced medical device makers, and multimedia companies.

Architecture and Infrastructure Design Course

Break down barriers between architecture and civil engineering and design a safe, secure, fulfilling society from both tangible and intangible perspectives

With the current emphasis on landscape design thinking in the civil engineering field as well as demand for architectural designs that harmonize with the surrounding landscape in the architectural field, the domain of overlap between civil engineering and architecture is expanding. In line with such circumstances, this specialization seeks to break down the barriers between architecture and civil engineering, traditionally seen as separate, and equip students to create a safe, secure, fulfilling future society from both tangible and intangible perspectives. In the master's program, students will learn about advanced constituent technologies and design while acquiring cross-disciplinary technical development and design skills for the planning, development, operation, and maintenance of social infrastructure and living environments. As for future careers, the course is intended to prepare students for such roles as planning, design, technical development, and research for the improvement, operation, and maintenance of living environments, social infrastructure, and everything in between. In addition to architectural and civil engineering companies, graduates can expect to find roles as civil servants or at nonprofits involved in urban planning and regional revitalization or utilize expertise in remote sensing and GIS (geographic information systems) in the field of disaster prevention. Students may also leverage their knowledge of project management to demonstrate their abilities as management staff in planning or business departments at ordinary companies.

Engineering Sciences Course

【Applied Physics Area】

Use experiments and simulations to probe the nature of matter and phenomena through the application of physics

Applied physics is a discipline that seeks to understand and explain everything from the microstructure of matter to macroscopic social phenomena by bringing together and applying foundational physics disciplines such as mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics along with solid-state physics, materials science, social physics, and more. It enables, for example, the creation of materials with properties once only dreamed of, such as lightness yet great strength or the ability to conduct electricity despite being transparent. It also lets us use simulations to understand the nature of complex phenomena and even make predictions about the unknown. This course will provide a grounding in applied physics based on extensive knowledge of the natural sciences. Students will acquire a variety of skills including mathematical analysis and future prediction based on computer simulations and precision measurements as well as synthesis, functional augmentation, characterization, and structural evaluation of materials Graduates will have opportunities in a variety of fields centered on the manufacturing industry including planning and development, manufacturing, and technical sales. Plus, armed with their deepened expertise and research capabilities, they will be able to engage in cutting-edge research and development.


【Functional Chemistry Area】

Design, assemble, and evaluate nanosized molecules and learn about the starting point for manufacturing

The materials around us carry out diverse functions: glowing, bending, warping, absorbing, adhering, and more. Producing these functions and also making them perform well enough to be of use in our lives requires design, synthesis, and evaluation at the atomic and molecular level. In this course, we focus on providing foundational education in the structure, properties, and reactions of materials while developing functional materials utilizing sophisticated chemistry. Additionally, through advanced, practical research activities, we foster the expertise to create and evaluate functional materials. Chemistry is a discipline that explores various phenomena and properties from the standpoint of materials. Students will gain a "chemical perspective" giving them a broader view of seemingly unrelated phenomena. Moreover, by engaging in research activities, students will gain experience in the process of ascertaining problems, investigating them through extensive discussions and experimentation, and summarizing and presenting the results, thereby acquiring globally applicable research capabilities We aim to cultivate individuals capable of utilizing the knowledge and experience thus obtained to flourish in a variety of fields including chemistry and beyond as researchers, engineers, educators, and more.


【Bioinformatics Area】

Understand and apply the mechanisms of biological systems constructed on the basis of diverse biological information

Organisms can be viewed as multi-layered systems in which diverse biological information is built up in stages. Within the framework of such a system, organisms are in a constant state of dynamic activity, undergoing various changes while maintaining homeostasis. Such a biological system contains a huge amount of information in each layer. Organisms use this information organically, regulating the behavior of cells through the functions of genes and proteins and even forming multicellular tissues and building diverse biological environments. In this course, students will learn the foundations and applications of the mechanisms underlying such biological information and biological systems. Understanding the complex yet efficient mechanisms of biological information and acquiring a wide array of techniques to analyze biological information will be of great use in bringing about a society where all life can thrive in the future. From the decoding and application of genomic information, editing of genetic information in live cells, and manipulation of genetic information through artificial gene transfer and gene knockouts to the analysis and human modification of protein enzyme and intracellular metabolite characteristics as well as live-cell fluorescence imaging, students will learn a variety of cutting-edge life science techniques. Students will acquire applied skills useful in a broad range of fields such as pharmaceutical and food development and environmental cleanup and conservation. Moreover, students will develop problem-solving capabilities from varied perspectives through the study of subjects offered in the fields of applied physics and functional chemistry. By going on to graduate school and acquiring a deep capacity for thought and inquiry, students are expected to grow into individuals capable of thriving in a variety of fields, including corporate research and development departments.

Informatics Course

【AI and Computer Science Area】

Pioneer the future information society through research into innovative computing technologies such as AI, cloud computing, and IoT

With the widespread adoption of conventional computer technology, new computing technologies like AI (artificial intelligence), cloud computing, and IoT will take on increasing importance in the time to come. This course, in addition to a solid understanding of the fundamental concepts of AI and computer science, is directed toward the creation of new computer technologies that will help build a human-centered information society of the future, transcending conventional ideas and architecture (design concepts). As computer technology becomes more commonplace and sophisticated in the modern world, it is important to have deep knowledge of both hardware and software and especially to understand their fundamental concepts. In this course, students will master the fundamental concepts of AI and computer science as well as acquire knowledge applicable not only to technologies currently in use but also technologies that will develop in the future. In this way, we expect to produce AI and IT engineers capable of opening up new possibilities for computers.

【Cyber Reality Area】

Explore living spaces inside computers, cyber reality space, and VR-based media technologies

Developments in VR (virtual reality) technology and advances in research into cyber-physical spaces aggregating large amounts of real-world information through sensor networks are bringing about the creation of a new area of informatics called "cyber reality space." In this course, we will conduct cutting-edge research on the network and security technologies that underpin cyberspace, media technologies based on VR and cyber-physical space, and the technologies for constructing cyber reality spaces. This course will enable students to learn about the various technologies that link information space with the real world, including information security and a variety of information network technologies, technologies for processing information media such as video and audio, computer graphics, VR, and sensor array-based technologies for measuring real space. This program of study is expected to develop students as leaders of the information society of the next generation with a high degree of technical competence, inventiveness, imagination, and insight into the nature of information.

【Neuroinformatics and Psychoinformatics Area】

Deepen our understanding of humanity by measuring brain activity and contribute to the design of human-centered information and communications technology

The emergence of AI surpassing the human capacity for judgement and perception, along with advancements in VR technology, has ushered in an era of change in the very nature of intelligence and perception of the real world, which until now has been the domain of humans. In such an era, informatics must engage more closely with human neural and psychological information, and a deeper understanding of the properties and possibilities of both is essential for further progress in the field. This course aims to deepen our understanding of humans through brain activity measurement, psychological experiments, and biometrics, thereby contributing to the development of human-centered information and communications technologies. With a view to the future, students will learn the fundamentals of computer science as well as deepen their understanding of humans through practical techniques such as brain activity measurement, psychological experiments, and biometrics, gaining mastery of neuroinformatics and psychoinformatics. It is anticipated that the acquisition of specialized knowledge and deep insight into humans as such and the connections between humans and information technology, built on a firm grounding in the fundamentals of information and communications technology, will enable students to become driving forces in the sophisticated, human-centered information and communications technology of the future.

Digital Innovation Course

Cultivate the talent to create value utilizing data science as a tool

This course will train individuals with the capacity to drive innovation in both the business world and the public sector. In order to prepare individuals capable of achieving value and business creation leveraging cutting-edge scholarship and sophisticated skills in short supply in the business world, we will equip them with a theoretical understanding of the academic fundamentals and cultivate their capacity to formulate complex solutions as well as recognize needs and create value by combining the ability to ascertain and analyze problems from multiple perspectives with a variety of fundamental academic principles. Moreover, we aim to foster foundational management capabilities and entrepreneurial skills to support these innovations. In view of future developments, we are cultivating individuals capable of driving innovation in both the business world and the public sector. In order to prepare individuals capable of achieving new value and business creation leveraging cutting-edge scholarship and sophisticated skills in short supply in the business world, we will equip them with a theoretical understanding of the academic fundamentals and cultivate their capacity to accurately identify challenges and needs dispersed across society and facilitate solutions as well as new value creation satisfying the needs on the basis of cutting-edge scholarship and sophisticated skills by synthesizing a variety of fundamental academic principles. We will also cultivate the capabilities to build as well as manage the new organizations or interorganizational relationships necessary to achieve these goals. Moreover, we aim to foster foundational management capabilities and entrepreneurial skills to support these innovations.

Entrepreneur Engineering Management Course

This course will train individuals to form the core of the next generation, who are able to work in diverse roles throughout our knowledge-based society in an increasingly complex business environment and are capable of creating new knowledge, value, and problem-solving methodologies backed up by extensive learning and comprehensive management skills. We will provide management knowledge from a global perspective in diverse fields such as practical entrepreneurship, business creation, organizational management, and public sector management while cultivating problem-solving capabilities utilizing lessons from various domains with a new cross-disciplinary approach.


◆Cultivated specialized skills

Ability to create new knowledge, value, and problem-solving methodologies

Ability to link management with scholarship, skills, and knowledge in diverse fields and to solve problems and meet other demands of changing times

Management abilities in relation to founding, business reinvention, business succession, and corporate management

Advanced Educational Practice Course

Aiming to cultivate individuals with a high degree of engineering knowledge and skill as well as practical ability and the potential for leadership in the educational field, this course will foster acquisition of advanced knowledge and skills in the science and engineering which both make up the curriculum and serve as a means of improving teaching methods, as well as comprehensive practical skills as a teacher through long-term teaching practice and the ability to systematically improve the educational process using scientific methods and expertise.


◆Cultivated specialized skills

Ability to systematically improve the educational process using scientific methods and expertise

Advanced knowledge and skills in science and engineering as a means to improve the curriculum and teaching methods

Comprehensive practical skills as a teacher

Long-term master's program

For those who wish to obtain a master's degree but have limited time due to work circumstances, we provide a long-term masters program which allows study over a longer period. Usually the master's program is two years in duration, but students who are admitted to the long-term program can study in the graduate school for up to 10 years (longer than two years and a half on a unit of six months). The tuition depends on number of credits studied. Students are required to pay a course registration fee of 33,000 yen per credit.