National Institute of Technology, Kochi College President
Tadaomi EGUCHI
National Institute of Technology (Kosen) Kochi College just observed 60th anniversary, and is moving ahead as an educational institution as needed by society.The five features of National Institute of Technology are: an engineering education that emphasizes experimentation and practical training, specialized education that can cope with changes in industrial structures, education that enriches individual learners, education that forms diverse career paths, and education that fosters future leadership qualities based on society. In addition, we've established advanced courses meant to cultivate practical and complex problem-solving skills.
Today, as the importance of fostering scientific and technological human resource increases, we recognize that the role of the National Institute of Technolgy (Kosen) is becoming more important than ever.Based on the quality assurance of learner-oriented education, we would like to produce specialists who can create engineering elements based on the needs of society and its people. Responding to the change of society and needs of the times, the National Institute of Technology (Kosen) Kochi College has reorganized its regular courses into the departments of Social Design Engineering, which has 5 courses: Energy and Enviroment Robotics, Information Security, Civil Engineering Architecture and Disaster Prevention and Material and Biotechnology in 2016. In 2021, Advanced course(Social Design Engineering) was established.We are aiming to cultivate complex and integrated human resources who can utilize broad knowledge/techniques to identify problems that have already emerged or are hidden by society and design solutions for them.Another major feature is the educational program that connected to the community with social implementation in mind.Both students and faculty members are working to become vital sources of energy for the community.
There are high expectations for the students of the National Institute of Technology, and we have also received high evaluations for cases where they start their own businesses by making use of their "high technical skills", "motivation to contribute to society ", and "free creative power". In order to accelerate development of such human resources, we've started to develop a learning environment that supports their activities.
We would like to produce graduates who support the world by raising educational and research abilities, and we expect that they will play an active role in Japan and in the world as the engineers with practical and creative skills in the future