The Toyohashi University of Technology will celebrate its 40th anniversary in October of this year. We thank the local community people for their generous support in helping start our university and their continuing support after that.
Along with producing many engineers and researchers among our graduates, we have striven to contribute positively to society through a range of activities such as industry-academia collaboration and social collaboration. Based on our strengths, unique characteristics, and 40 years of experience, we have decided upon the following new projects, which are currently planned as part of our National Universities' Third Medium-Term Objective/Medium-Term Plan under the theme of "Technology Open to the World.
Since its opening, one of Toyohashi University of Technology's missions is to form a base for industry-academia collaboration through joint research with corporations. TUT's successful cooperation with the Japanese government and the local business sector can be seen in the high ratio of patent applications to academic staff and the income derived from patent rights.
TUT promotes projects to tackle problems faced by Aichi Prefecture and the surrounding region using the collective intellect of the entire university, as well as projects where working people return to school to take advantage of the successes of programs such as the "Integrated Circuit (LSI) Technology Lectures" and the "Advanced Plant Factory Management Training Program."
The Research Institute for Science and Technology Innovation will be created to promote useful interdisciplinary research through an open application method between research institutes and businesses, both domestic and overseas; the Institute will conduct research that will strengthen social implementation industry-academia cooperation. Our university faculty and researchers from domestic and foreign research institutes that conduct high-level research will cooperate in setting up cutting-edge joint research laboratories, conducting continuous research, and working to advance and diversify such research.
Further, collaboration with municipalities and businesses will be facilitated through the University-Community Partnership Promotion Center.
Share-house style student housing will be provided where international students and Japanese students, who are motivated to work in a global society, live together to cultivate international awareness, social skills, cultural manners, and leadership. With the support of a housemaster, resident assistants, and faculty, a borderless zone of cross-cultural mutual understanding will be created.
We actively participated in various university reform programs promoted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, and were selected to participate in the 2014 Top Global University Project. As part of our vision to realize a global, multicultural campus, we will endeavor to assist the students who join our new Global Technology Architect program in honing advanced technical capabilities based on a firm scientific grounding to prepare them to tackle technological challenges worldwide. Further, in 2012 and 2013, we were selected for the National University Reform Plan, the Program for Leading Graduate Schools, and the Program for Promoting the Enhancement of Research Universities. All of these projects are active and ongoing.
The universities of this country, particularly national universities, face multiple challenges, such as the declining birth rate and basic budget cuts, to name but a few. We will stay true to the mission that was decided at our founding, strive to bring vitality to the region, and aim to be a world-class engineering university.
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