Kyushu Technical University

Kyushu Technical University
founding	1907/1949
Sponsorship	state
place	Kitakyushu , Fukuoka Prefecture
country	Japan
management	Manabu Matsunaga
Students	6,051 (May 2011)
Employee	552 (May 2011)
Website	www.kyutech.ac.jp

Main gate to the Tobata campus

Model of the former main building of the Kyutech (removed in 1970); a work by Kingo Tatsuno

The Technical University of Kyūshū ( Japanese 九州 工業 大学 , Kyūshū kōgyō daigaku , English Kyushu Institute of Technology , short: Kyūkōdai ( 九 工 大 ), KIT or Kyutech ) is a state university in Japan . The main campus is located in Tobata-ku , Kitakyūshū in Fukuoka Prefecture , on the island of Kyūshū .

history

In 1907 ( Meiji year 40) the Meiji Technical School ( 明治 専 門 学校 , Meiji semmon gakkō ) was founded, a private technical college. The founders were the coal entrepreneur Keiichirō Yasukawa ( 安川 敬 一郎 , 1849-1934) and his son Kenjirō Matsumoto ( 松本 健 次郎 , 1870-1963). The technical college was opened in 1909 with three departments: mining, metallurgy and mechanical engineering. In 1921 it became a state university of applied sciences. Over the years she added departments: Applied chemistry (1911), electrical engineering (1911), and explosives technology (1943). In 1944 it was renamed the Meiji Technical Center ( 明治 工業 専 門 学校 , Meiji kōgyō semmon gakkō ).

In 1949 the Meiji Technical Center was elevated to the Kyushu Technical University. In 1965 she founded the Graduate School (master’s courses), then in 1988 the doctoral courses. The university was opened with only the technical faculty; In 1986 she added the second faculty (computer science) in the new Iizuka campus. In 2000 she opened the third campus in Wakamatsu, Kitakyūshū (Japanese 大 学院 生命 体 工 学 研究 科 , English Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering . 33 ° 53 ′ 20.2 ″  N , 130 ° 42 ′ 36.2 ″  E ).

Faculties

• Tobata-Campus (in Tobata-ku, Kitakyūshū, 33 ° 53 ′ 38.9 "  N , 130 ° 50 ′ 21.4"  E Coordinates: 33 ° 53 ′ 38.9 "  N , 130 ° 50 ′ 21.4"  O )
  • Faculty of Engineering
    • Mechanical engineering and control engineering
    • Civil engineering and architecture
    • Electrical engineering and electronics
    • applied Chemistry
    • Materials science
    • Integrated system engineering
• Iizuka Campus (in Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture, 33 ° 39 ′ 12.7 ″  N , 130 ° 40 ′ 21.6 ″  E )
  • Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Computer science and electronics
    • Systems design and computer science
    • Mechanical information science and technology
    • Life Sciences and Computing

Graduates

(Selection)

• Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (1920–1998; graduated 1943), storm researcher

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.kyutech.ac.jp/english/about/university-guide/history.html
2. ↑ About Kyutech: Numbers of Students : Undergraduate 4,323, Post-Graduate 1,728. Retrieved June 18, 2012.
3. ↑ About Kyutech: Number of Staff ( Memento June 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), in English, accessed June 18, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Kyushu University of Technology  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Official website (Japanese and English)

Footnotes