Educational Philosophy, Policies and Objectives
National Institute of Technology, Kushiro College, as a technological institution of higher education located in East Hokkaido, has a duty, such as bringing up engineers who can contribute to the development of the local industries, nurturing the technology that can play an active part at home and abroad, technological support to the industrial world, career enhancement education for engineers and the support for the lifetime education and the social activities of local residents. To fulfill the duty, we established an educational philosophy as follows: National Institute of Technology, Kushiro College will bring up practical engineers with creativity, problem-finding-solving abilities, meet the social and technological demands from the community, promote closer ties with the community and contribute to the regional development.
Our educational targets are:
(1) To educate students to be self-restricted individuals with a cultivated character.
(2) To train students to be creative engineers with a perspective.
(3) To encourage students to develop a progressive spirit.
Our study targets in Associate Course are:
Study target
(A) (In order to contribute to the society as an engineer)
to learn fundamental skills 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 community and society)
to learn fundamental skills to solve the problems of local industries.
(C) (In order to solve technical problems)
to learn to acquire a wide range of fundamental engineering knowledge (mathematics, natural science, information technology, fundamental engineering), and the skills to apply them.
(D) To learn to acquire the specialty knowledge engineers should be based on, and the skills to apply them.
(E) To learn fundamental skills of building plans to analyze, generalize and solve technical problems and carrying out the plans to resolve such problems, and to learn fundamental skills to work effectively in teams.
(F) To learn fundamental skills 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.
Our study targets in Advanced Course are:
Study target
(A) (In order to contribute to the society as an engineer)
to learn applied skills 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, and to learn an ethical view as an engineer.
(B) (In order to contribute to the community and society)
to learn applied skills to solve the problems of local industries.
(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 concerning design and system, information and theory, material and biotechnology, dynamics, and social skills), and the skills to apply them.
(D) To learn to acquire the specialty knowledge (concerning application, experimentation, solving problems and meeting practical matters) engineers should be based on, and the skills to apply them.
(E) To learn the designing skills 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 applied skills 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 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, through English as well as Japanese.