Educational Aims and Learning Goals of Kushiro Kosen

Educational Aims

• To educate students to be self-restricted individuals with a cultivated character.
• To train students to be creative engineers with a perspective.
• To encourage students to develop a progressive spirit.

Learning Goals

• A (In order to contribute to the society as an engineer) to learn to understand the historical background and diverse cultures and values, to consider the social and environmental problems in a global view, to appreciate how technology affect the society and environment, and to comprehend the responsibilities engineers bear to the society.
• B (In order to contribute to the local community) to learn to solve the problems of local industries through practical experiences.
• C (In order to solve diverse technical problems) to learn to acquire a wide range of fundamental engineering knowledge (mathematics, natural science, information technology, fundamental engineering etc.) , and the ability to apply them.
• D To learn to acquire the specialty knowledge engineers should be based on, and the ability to apply them.
• E To learn the designing skill of building plans to analyze, generalize and solve diverse technical problems and carrying out the plans to resolve such problems, and to learn to work effectively in teams.
• F To learn to communicate effectively in written, oral, graphical, and visual forms. That is, to learn to give logical descriptions and lively debates in Japanese, and to acquire the basic knowledge of writing simple and logical descriptions and conducting simple conversation in English.
• G (In order to meet the progress of technology or the changes of society) to establish a custom to keep on studying for the professional knowledge of specialty and related areas.