24. Toyohashi University of Technology (National) Study Area: Engineering

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1. Basic Information Fields of Study Specific Research Fields 2. Urban Planning 1. Urban and 4. Architecture Transportation Planning 6. Road 8. Construction 3. Civil Engineering Material 11. Civil Engineering 6. Computer Science 16. Computer Science 20. Mechanical Engineering 8. Others 25. Chemical Technology 1-1. Graduate School Graduate School of Engineering (URL of Graduate School) http://www.tut.ac.jp/english/schools/ 1) Department of Mechanical Engineering 2) Department of Computer Science & Engineering 1-2. Program Name 3) Department of Environmental & Life Sciences 4) Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering 1-3. Degrees Master of Engineering Graduate School Student or Research Student (12 months) 1-4. Status *It will be decided after the selection 1-5. Credits and years needed 30 credits, for graduation 2 years Class: Name of Division at graduate Classes in English School / All classes 1) Department of Mechanical 30/30 Engineering 2) Department of Computer 1-6. Classes taught in English 27/27 Science & Engineering 3) Department of Environmental 33/33 & Life Sciences 4) Department of Architecture & 35/35 Civil Engineering Text: All English 1-7. Required English Level TOEFL PBT:500 iBT:61 IELTS:5.5 1-8. Prior Inquiry From Must/Ideal/Not mandatory/Unnecessary Applicants Contact: Taeko KURITA (Ms.), [email protected] (Before submission of AF)

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Please see Annex 1, attached article of NATUREJOBS 8 October 1-9. Message for Applicants 2008, “Master technology, Create Technology”. Please see Annex 2, message from the President Availability 1-10.Additional Information Note /Number Japanese Language Level: Beginner’s level Recommended attendance of Japanese class: （1） Necessity of Japanese Less than two times a week Necessary language for study ※No prior knowledge of Japanese is required, but participants are expected to study Japanese after coming to Japan. （2） Availability of Japanese Available Free Japanese lessons available language class Foreign Students （1） Number of foreign students in 298 Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and China and etc. past 3years （2） Number of PEACE 5 1st batch(2), 2nd batch(2), 3rd batch(1) participants （3） Number of female/male at the F35/

Graduate School M93 Facility Information （1） Dormitory available for PEACE Available Single room, Couple room, Family room participants （2） Prayers room or Mosque Available You can use prayers room in International house （3） Halal food available in Available Halal food is served at cafeteria in TUT cafeteria Others (1) Tutor system Available Student tutor is available for one year

2．Features of University Founded in 1976, Toyohashi University of Technology (Toyohashi Tech, or often called “TUT”) is a vibrant and modern national university with research activities reflecting the modern era of advanced electronics and engineering in which it was established.

Our Campus The University's education is focused on its Graduate School of Engineering, and the university aims at educating students in science and technology in areas that better help the society. We offer a multi-disciplinary research environment for advancement of knowledge. The academic system of our university was widely reorganized in April 2010, and the English course was

Toyohashi University of Technology reformed in October 2010, too. The university's enrolment includes approximately 2,200 students studying in 5 new departments, such as Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Environmental and Life Sciences and Architecture and Civil Engineering. International students from all over the world are up about 10 percent of the Toyohashi Tech student population, and currently (as of November 1st 2013), we accept 194. Toyohashi Tech is one of the unique and very international universities in Japan. Toyohashi Tech offers a range of degree programs with many interdisciplinary and study opportunities. The university confers degrees at the undergraduate, masters and doctoral levels. Most of the students continue their studies in the graduate programs for the further development of their interdisciplinary understanding of technology. Toyohashi Tech graduates, both Japanese and international, have been making great contributions as scholars, researchers and engineers.

Toyohashi Tech has 210 full time faculty members. Most members of the faculty hold the highest degree attainable in their respective fields. The students-faculty ratio is 9:1, which makes it possible to manage small, engaging classes to benefit students.

Academic programs provide students the opportunity to develop their creativity, skills and tools necessary to function in modern society as researchers and engineers. The program’s aim is to empower students with the necessary knowledge to help human societies develop in harmony with the earth's environment. These programs educate students to become key engineers and researchers with creative and practical capabilities. Laboratory As a result, they can contribute to actualizing symbiosis with the nature and establishing an international collaborative society, and eventually provide practical and reliable support to the human resource development for both developing and developed countries.

Toyohashi Tech has eight research centers focusing on areas including intelligent sensing, robotics, agrotechnology and photonic information storage. And, in spite of our relatively short history, Toyohashi Tech has been internationally recognized for the development of innovative and cutting-edge technology, and major contributions to industry.

Toyohashi Tech located at the heart of Toyohashi, a city in eastern Aichi Prefecture, with a population of 380,000. The Pacific Ocean is only a short bicycle ride away from the campus, and with the spectacular sights of the surrounding mountains, Toyohashi has a mild climate, low cost of living and is within easy reach of Nagoya, Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto by Shinkansen.

3．Features of Graduate School The mission of our university is to foster engineers and researchers who will be future leaders of society in the field of technological science in both creative and practical ways for the realization of enriched humanity, symbiosis with nature, and an internationally cooperative society. We place emphasis on our graduate programs, promoting an education that will foster lucid of insight, a fine and considerate sensitivity, adaptable intelligence and a global perspective. Looking ahead to further human development, we also conduct research with the aim of developing new standards in technological science. We have five departments, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Electrical and

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Electronic Information Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Environmental and Life Sciences and Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering. Four departments except Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering are available for PEACE participants. The following is details about them.

4．Features of the Program and Curriculum in each Field of Study

【Department of Mechanical Engineering】(20.Mechanical Engineering) Introduction In the Department of Mechanical Engineering, we are conscious of the importance of the role that mechanical engineering must play in areas such as energy and environmental systems, materials, transportation, robotics, manufacturing, information technology, biomechanics, health care, many of which are national priorities. The Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Production Systems Engineering have been recently merged to better respond to the needs of the society. The integration produced a rich portfolio of research and academic activities in areas ranging from nano-scale processing to health-care robotics to supply chain management. As a result, the new department offers a diverse range of academic programs in 4 basic areas of specialization: Mechanical Systems Design, Materials and Manufacturing, Systems Control and Robotics, and Energy and Environment. The mission of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in TUT is to prepare students with the knowledge and abilities to improve, evaluate, design and control safe, sustainable, and cost-effective technologies in order to make innovative and useful contributions to humanity. With this in mind, we seek to enhance both research and education and inspire new generations to create breakthrough solutions to serve all people.

Courses ＜Mechanical Systems Design Course＞ This course is composed of Material and Structural Mechanics Laboratory, Machine Dynamics Laboratory, Frontier Forming System Laboratory, MEMS/NEMS Processing Laboratory and OSG Nano Micro Machining Laboratory, and deals with strength of materials, solid mechanics, machine dynamics, machine design, manufacturing processes, biomechanics, etc. ＜Materials and Manufacturing Course＞ This course is composed of Materials Function Control Laboratory, Laboratory for Material Strength & Characterization in 3D/4D, Thin Film Laboratory and Interface and Surface Fabrication Laboratory, and deals with metallic materials, non-metallic materials, evaluation and failure prevention of materials, joining processes, etc. ＜System Control and Robotics Course＞ This course is composed of Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory, Instrumentation System Laboratory, System and Control Engineering Laboratory and Industrial Systems Engineering Laboratory, and deals with control engineering, measurement and instrumentation engineering, production systems engineering, mechatronics engineering, robotics engineering, etc. ＜Environment and Energy Course＞ This course is composed of Energy Conversion Engineering Laboratory, Thermo-Fluid Engineering Laboratory, Natural Energy Conversion Science Laboratory and Energy Conservation Engineering Laboratory and deals with thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, hydraulic power systems, conversion engineering, etc.

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【Department of Computer Science & Engineering】(16.Computer Science) Introduction The Department of Computer Science and Engineering provides education and research to train leading engineers and researchers acquainted with technologies for future large-scale integrated information systems, new information science based on knowledge of life, nature, and society, and their applications. Courses ＜Computer and Information Science Course＞ This course provides students who learn technologies regarding calculation mechanisms to develop novel calculation method/structure and network mechanisms to construct internet society, and who have practical, creative, and leadership capabilities. ＜Information and Systems Science Course＞ This course provides students who learn technologies regarding software construction mechanisms to development advanced information systems and intelligent information mechanisms to analysis life science and biological information, and who have a scientific and systematic thinking.

【Department of Environmental & Life Sciences】(25.Chemical Technology) Introduction We educate traditional subjects, biology, chemistry, and electronics, and also recent fashionable subjects, ecology, nano-technology, molecular biology, and social sciences, to make students to act internationally. This Department of Environmental and Life Sciences is made of two Courses, one for biology and material science which handle the basic knowledge of the nature, and the other for ecology and social science which handle the global knowledge of human activities. Our Program is aimed to obtain both basic and applied knowledge through combination of education of basic terms and technical training, and is aimed to cultivate engineers who can solve their technical problems in the future.

Courses ＜Sustainable Development Course＞ In this course, students are cultivated of talents who can internationally actively work in the field of engineering concerned with ecology and economy through the educations and technical trainings. ＜Life and Materials Science Course＞ Students are cultivated of talents who can internationally actively work in the field of biological sciences, chemistry, and material-concerned engineering through our educations and technical trainings through this course.

【Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering】 (2.Urban Planning, 4.Architecture, 6.Road, 8.Construction, 11.Civil Engineering) Introduction The department of Architecture and Civil Engineering is committed to educate the students with professional skills to design and manage buildings and infrastructure with their surroundings in cities and rural areas, to maintain safe and high-quality living environments. The undergraduate program prepares students to pursue both basic and professional knowledge and application ability needed to engineers. The program offers a practical education based on architecture and civil engineering. In the freshman and sophomore years, students in a small number class are expected to acquire not only basic knowledge of liberal arts, architecture, and civil engineering but also professional skills through the subjects of

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Introduction to Engineering, Practice of Architectural Design, and Project Study and so on. In the junior and senior years, students will be required to take compulsory course either from Architecture and Building Science course or Civil and Environmental Engineering course which are made up of specialized subjects, respectively. The graduate program serves students an education that will enable an individual to set the research issues and find their possible solutions in their research work.

Courses ＜Architecture and Building Science course＞ The Architecture and Building Science course aims to educate students to become practical engineers by acquiring the skills of primary professional fields associated with architecture, including architectural design, urban and regional planning, architectural history, building equipment, architectural environment, and architectural structure plus basic knowledge and skills related to the field of civil and environmental engineering. The Architecture and Building Science course is mainly made up of six specialties. ＜Civil and Environmental Engineering course＞ The Civil and Environmental Engineering course aims to educate students to become practical engineers by acquiring the skills of primary professional fields associated with civil and environmental engineering, including structural engineering, hydraulics, geotechnical engineering, urban and traffic planning, and environmental system plus basic knowledge and skills related to the fields of architecture. The Civil and Environmental Engineering course is mainly made up of four specialties. For your reference, please refer to Annex 3 “Course Requirement Guide Book 2013”for the curricula.

【Research Students】 Research students do research and study under their supervisors in order to enter Master course.

5．Academic Schedule [Fall Semester] Entrance Ceremony: October 2 Orientation: October 2 Class starts: October 3 Winter vacation: December 25-January 7 Semester-end Examination: February 26-March 5 Spring vacation: March 25-April 3

[Spring Semester] (Reference) Class begins: April 8 Semester-end examinations: July 31-August 7 Summer vacation: August 10-September 30

[Admission Examination for Master’s Program] Submission of Application Documents: May 30 Examination: Depending on the Supervisor Announcement of Acceptance: End of July-Beginning of August

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6．Facilities 【International House】 Toyohashi Tech may provide single, couple and family room for the International students which is located on the campus. Provision of rooms depends upon vacancies.

Room Furniture Single Room: desk, chair, bed, bookshelf, refrigerator, wardrobe and air conditioner Couple Room: desk, chair, bed, bookshelf, refrigerator, wardrobe, air conditioner, sofa set and table set Family Room: desk, chair, bed, bookshelf, refrigerator, wardrobe, air conditioner, sofa set, table set and child's bed Two Japanese tutors are living in International House to help the international students for their living.

【University library】 University Library with 180,000 books offers 24 hours, 7days a week services for all students, and it also provides accesses to most major database and bibliography with own searching systems, as well as online access to Japanese governmental papers and other major databases.

【Other Services】 Student Canteen: Japanese daily meals and Halal food with reasonable price Café: lunch, tea and coffee Hibari lounge: Room for relaxing, chatting, party etc. Commissary store: daily items, foods, stationeries Book store: books and magazines

Banking machine: Mitsui-Sumitomo Banking Co.

7．List of faculty members (supervisors) capable of guiding Afghan participants in English

Please see Annex 4 for the faculty members and Admission Policy for each department. Annex 4-1 Department of Mechanical Engineering Annex 4-2 Department of Computer Science & Engineering Annex 4-3 Department of Environmental & Life Sciences Annex 4-4 Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering

In addition, you can search for academic staff using ”Key Word Search for Academic Staff” on homepage of Toyohashi Tech.< http://www.tut.ac.jp/english/research/key_words_search.html>

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8. Message from PEACE participants

This is a massage from Hamadard Sahar who study as a second year master student in Toyohashi University of Technology, Department of Civil and Architecture Engineering. According to me, studying abroad in developed countries is a key toward success, improvement and sustainability for every individual especially in the country like japan, not only for receiving knowledge but also for cultural, social and other positive modern issue’s exchange, additionally, we can get a snap shot about the rout of industrialization and development of these countries, furthermore, studying and experimental staff ,facilities ,environment are available in advance, there for, I would encourage my colleagues to look after full scholarship of JICA-PEACE (Promotion and Enhancement of the Afghan Capacity for Effective Development) which is one of the most vital and useful project for afghan capacity building in short term and good establishment in long term. Toyohashi University of Technology where I am studying is one the best technology university here in japan. According to me technology studies and researches are somehow function of experimental work, which can be strongly considered. For me whom I study in the civil and architecture department, theoretical studies based on experimental results have immense useful impact. As a whole our laboratory work on urban planning field, but every student topic is different, although I and my colleagues in lab work to gather for making, spacemen, testing and other experimental works, it also laterally could assist our identified topics. My study topic is about Feasibility study of Kabul City Master Plans, and specific goal is to specify the characteristic points between the Master plans, and What is the need of having a Master Plan, especially in this period which Kabul city spend a critical situation that day by day population are going to increase but the facilities are going to decrease and it make a big problem and challenge for Kabul city urban planning and urban design so lack of existence Master Plan make this challenge for Kabul city which I am going to basically focus on those two recently Master Plan (JICA and ICT) which haven't approved by government until this time.