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Graduate School of Engineering : Mechanical Engineering

Master’s Program

1. Objective of Education and Research
   Mechanical engineering is an important technology in the design and development of machinery and equipment in a diversity of industrial fields, and at the same time is regarded as being able to contribute to solving the environmental and energy problems typified by global warming. For that reason, mechanical engineers are required to have both basic knowledge of mechanical engineering and the ability to apply it, and also the ability to respond flexibly to problems associated broadly with the progress of science and technology and society’s changing expectations. The objective of this course is to develop engineers and researchers to acquire a high level of mechanical engineering knowledge that they can adapt to circumstances in the real world. Specifically, in this course the laboratories are set up to cover the broad spectrum of learning fields that form the basis of mechanical engineering: material strength, material science, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, mechanical systems, machine elements and manufacturing systems. The Program seeks not only to delve deep into specialist fields, but also to improve the basic and overall mechanical engineering abilities of students. In accordance with the spirit in which Doshisha University was founded, the educational objective is to develop individuals who are broadly able to contribute to society - irrespective of whether domestic or international - by exercising their individual expertise in mechanical engineering, and who are able to contribute to people’s happiness by dealing with and developing diverse science and technology from a mechanical engineering base.

2. Guidelines for Human Resource Development
   The Program objective is to develop individuals with the following abilities:
   
   1. Ability to apply a high level of specialist knowledge founded in individual conscience in many mechanical engineering fields and domains.
   2. Thorough grounding in mechanical engineering and abilities commensurate with researchers capable of sophisticated R&D.
   3. Broad international sensibility and communication ability, with strong practical abilities, able to respond flexibly to rapidly changing society and its needs.
   4. Ability to contribute to the development of public society through the individual knowledge of mechanical engineering.

Doctoral Program

1. Objective of Education and Research
   The objective of education in the doctoral program, as in the master’s program, is to develop researchers with a high level of mechanical engineering knowledge that they can adapt to circumstances in the real world. A further aim of the education is the pursuit of study as an independent researcher at high levels of initiative, autonomy and ethics. Another objective of the education is to develop individuals able to serve broader society by contributing to development in the mechanical engineering field, and individuals able to promote people’s happiness by contributing, not only to their own affiliated fields of specialty, but from the basis of the high level of professionalism they have, to the progress of science and technology in a variety of fields. A further aim is to develop a high level of communication ability with a view to being able to assume leadership in a variety of fields, including their own specialties, and making international contributions.

2. Guidelines for Human Resource Development
   The Program objective, as in the master’s program, is to develop individuals with the following abilities:
   
   1. Ability to apply a high level of specialist knowledge founded in individual conscience in many mechanical engineering fields and domains.
   2. Thorough grounding in mechanical engineering and abilities commensurate with researchers capable of sophisticated R&D.
   3. Broad international sensibility and communication ability, with strong practical abilities, able to respond flexibly to rapidly changing society and its needs.
   4. Ability to contribute to the development of public society through individual knowledge of mechanical engineering.
      

      Furthermore, the doctoral program fosters the following abilities:

   5. Ability to take a lead role in undertaking research, to write a research thesis, and to demonstrate the capacity to direct R&D in all fields.
   6. Practical ability to personally formulate research guidelines and to undertake creative research, based on a high degree of expertise and sense of ethics.

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