Our university, Tokyo University of Science Suwa (TUSS), was founded in 2002 as a daughter branch of Tokyo University of Science (TUS), the largest science-oriented university in Japan with a long history of more than 130 years. We are located on the foot of the mount Yatsugatake, whose broad, the beautiful view we can enjoy season to season from our campus.
Education and research of TUSS possess three features. The first is that TUSS is a "small" university belonging to a family of a "large" one TUS. Accordingly, our education and research are conducted on a firm basis of the mother university TUS. In contrast, face to face education can be given with the advantage of its small size.
The second feature is "synergy education" of technology and management. This Suwa district is a focal area of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for precision manufacturing. Accordingly, our education is so designed to provide students of technology with a management background and management with that of technology.
The third one is pioneering research works reflecting the high research activity of the mother university TUS. Our research covers areas directly concerned with industries in this district, such as environment and renewable energy, robotics, digital media, communication technology, and business management.
In addition to producing individuals with a high level of expertise, we aim to nurture our students' drive to attain the knowledge, methodology, and skills needed to respond to societal changes and the challenges for tomorrow. With a firm understanding of the technology and ethical viewpoints involved in information and communication technologies and the importance of environmental conservation, we train people to create solutions to today's information society's challenges and innovate products in the 21st century. Graduates from this university acquire a high level of excellent and practical skills that make them sought-after by companies and businesses.
Rather than treating the fields of engineering and management as separate, we endeavor to understand the relationships, views, and knowledge of both fields. To be specific, we encourage this through functions where faculty and students from four departments Yes mixed at freshman seminars, engineering and management course, and synergetic active learning seminar and associated particular subjects from different faculties.
To cultivate a synthesis of knowledge, skills, and ethics, studies in information literacy and environmental awareness are included as a basis for general and specialized education.
It is essential to provide students with broad yet high-level abilities, attitudes, and habits that form the basis of their major. These aptitudes will serve them in the post-graduate world to acquire further skills and knowledge on one's own.
Abilities such as clear communication, self-expression, problem identification and solution, and a desire for learning are enhanced and reinforced by refining knowledge and skill. These abilities also form the foundation of self-determined effort after graduation.
As students' paths lead them to attend talks, seminars, experiments, and thesis research, their study tends to evolve from memorization towards a thinking type of education where they can appreciate the 'joy of knowledge and creation' and the 'joy of creation' in their learning. We emphasize small class sizes and interactive learning to develop their ability to respond to the times' challenges and changes.
