The Educational Program for Engineers

Kushiro National College of Technology has set up a continuous educational program (Industrial and Information Systems Engineering), which is comprised of subjects and laboratories built in the process of four years from the fourth year of the general courses (some third year subjects included) to the second year of the advanced courses. This Industrial and Information Systems Engineering program is designed to train engineers engaged in industrial production. The program, considering Information Technology as a common educational field, aims to nurture engineers who can collaborate with the local society, and acquire engineering knowledge of the interdisciplinary fields as well as their own specialty fields of Mechanics, Electronics, Electrics, Information, or Architecture. The program also expects them to become able to resolve problems, design in Engineering, have communicative competence, and learn ethics as engineers and work internationally.

This program is so made that it satisfies the criteria for accreditation by Japan Accreditation Board of Engineering Education (JABEE hereafter), and it has been officially recognized by JABEE as an accredited program in “the General Engineering” discipline in May, 2007.

Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education; JABEE for short is an nongovernmental organization which examines and accredits programs in engineering education implemented by institutions of higher education such as universities and technical colleges on whether those programs satisfy the levels that society expects them to be.

In addition, JABEE is signatory to the International Washington Accord which consists of accreditation system organizations for engineering education in U.S., England and Canada. This verifies that educational programs accredited by JABEE are on the international levels equal to the member signatories in the world.

The completion of our college's educational program exempts the program finishers from the preliminary screening test for becoming a consulting engineer, and allows them to call themselves as training consulting engineers, who are granted a nationally qualified title, “assistant consulting engineer” by registering in Japan Consulting Engineers Association.