Aichi Institute of Technology, Yakusa Campus

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The Aichi Institute of Technology has its beginnings in the founding of the Nagoya Training School of Electricity in 1912 by Professor Takasaburou Goto, who saw that Japan was on the road to modernization and electricity would be the power source needed to drive it forward. AIT eventually opened in 1959 as the first college of technology in the Chubu region. Since then, it has provided a professional education not for a handful of elites but for the technicians and engineers that work on the corporate frontlines. Along the way, the university has undergone striking developments to keep pace with our changing times—adding to and enhancing its departments, faculties, research institutions, graduate school, and more.
Since the Aichi Institute of Technology first opened its doors, we have offered students profound scholarship and sound technical skills based on our founding spirit of Freedom, Love, and Justice and our educational motto, Creation, and Humanity. We are committed to doing everything we can to push our academics and research forward to turn out competent professionals who also have character depth. Aichi Prefecture has become a teeming hub of monozukuri or Japanese craftsmanship. In recent years, and AIT is fulfilling its role as a comprehensive technical university in the region by enhancing the practical educational offerings that will develop human resources to make their mark on the world stage. As part of this endeavor, we offer language training programs in the US, New Zealand, and various other countries while promoting academic exchange programs with partner schools in China and elsewhere. We want to support technical education in Japan and Southeast Asia, and other parts of the world.
AIT celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2009, while the Nagoya Electrical Educational Foundation marked one hundred years in 2012. Over the decades, the world we live in has undergone intense globalization and an increasing reliance on information and data. People’s values and daily lives have also changed significantly as science and technology have advanced at the same time; we are facing climate change and other environmental shifts, growing economic disparities, fewer children and an aging society, and a host of other challenges that cannot be solved with outdated systems or old ways of thinking.
AIT is also working on setting up educational and research facilities that spark students’ curiosity and passion for learning. In April 2015, we built the New Building #2, complete with a Robot Museum. AIT faculty and staff are called upon to have the courage to press ahead and push our students forward, always encouraging them to take up the next challenge without fear of failure. We put our heart and soul into supporting students from every angle.

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