The Educational Program for Engineers
The industrial circles today are forced to strengthen their international competitiveness by combining, merging and upgrading themselves in various fields in the middle of the great wave of globalization. This fact has caused companies to want engineers who have interest and knowledge in the interdisciplinary fields as well as their own areas, and also have abilities to create, identify and resolve problems, and work practically. In addition to this, engineers are expected to involve themselves closely in the local community, and contribute the local society as well as the society as a whole, with a strong sense of ethics and in harmony and cooperation with the local society.
In this situations, 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
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.