University of the Ryukyus

Dean TAKARA Tomio

Universities are different from the other educational organizations because of research activity. Universities provide education until the ends of human knowledge, and research over these ends. The research needs the freedom to think freely which is called the academic freedom. Therefore, it is the most important for university members to think freely, in the other word, to be able to act by their own intentions.

Engineering treats all the artificial things around us for the research object. So I think the engineering (Kogaku) is the short term of the artificial science (Jinko kagaku) in Japanese. This is the companion concept to the natural science. Engineering breaks through the ends of the human knowledge by researching rigidly the artificial objects with the scientific method.

Faculty of Engineering at University of the Ryukyus educates, on a world level, the students who have high technical knowledge and both wealthy creativity and activity in each area of mechanical, systems, environmental, civil, electrical, electronic, and informationalengineering.

Of course, they perform high level research for the purpose of the education.

The educational goals of the Faculty of Engineering at University of the Ryukyus are “to educate the students who have wide knowledge of the liberal arts and engineer’s moral, high level technical knowledge, to be able to contribute the society, conservation of regional environment, and to have both wealthy creativity and activity”. We break down the goals into parts and distribute these parts in all the classes of the Faculty and the fundamental education.

Therefore, the educational system will make you such a person if you study hard according to the curriculum of each department.