06 About Our FacultyI assume that those of you who picked up this Guide are leading busy lives with club activities, school events, and studies. ■is may also be the time for you to start thinking little by little about what your future path might be, deliberating your decisions, and seeking advice. While imagining all of you as prospective students and contemplating with you what it means to study at university and graduate school further down the line, we will introduce the academic experiences and features of the Faculty and the Graduate School of Science and Technology of Sophia University.Studying at university means learning an area of specialization in depth and systematizing it into universal and general knowledge. ■e Faculty of Science and Technology has three departments that feature putting the idea of “interdisciplinary knowledge” into practice. Speci■cally, students learn a broad range of subjects without having to pick a ■eld of specialization at the time of entry, and as the years advance, they will narrow down their focus of study to a speci■c area of expertise (eight divisions of the Graduate School: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Applied Chemistry, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Biological Science, and Informatics). Our educational system is designed to accommodate the interdisciplinary nature of science and technology, which is expected to become increasingly more diverse in the future.In addition, intending to foster individuals who can contribute to solving problems occurring on a global scale, such as environmental destruction, from a global perspective on the global stage, both undergraduate and graduate programs o■er English courses in which students can acquire the necessary credits in English classes and graduate/complete their degrees. Because students from both the Japanese course and the English course conduct research in the same laboratory, they will naturally acquire English communication skills and diverse values through seminars, experiments, and day-to-day activities. When students from the Japanese course have to make a presentation at an international conference, English course students can help as coaches in preparation for the presentation; thus, an environment is in place for students to become active participants on the global stage.Next, regarding the graduate program, while the main focus of learning up to the third year of the undergraduate program, as in high school, is to “learn the achievements of academic ■elds in the past” and “be able to have the same basic knowledge as other have,” the focus shifts to “tackling unknown issues” and “being able to express ideas di■erent from those of other people” as students advance from undergraduate thesis research to graduate school. Our university has a variety of research projects rooted in social contribution, including the sustainable development goals (SDGs). ■e university campus, located in the center of Tokyo, attracts researchers in Japan as well as overseas and serves as a “place for knowledge exchange” among the industry, government, and academia. It is also an inspiring environment for students as they can absorb the results of cutting-edge research right there on campus.For almost 60 years, the Faculty and the Graduate School of Science and Technology have been passing down the “baton of knowledge” that they had inherited from their predecessors to future generations, with students and faculty members working together to impart new wisdom unique to Sophia University, toward the goal of making the world a better place, even if only slightly. We look forward to working with you, who will pave the way to the future as leaders on the global stage, to pass the baton down to the next generation. Kenichi Takai Dean, Graduate School of Science and Technology Professor, Department of Engineering and Applied SciencesMessage from the Dean of the Graduate School of Science and Technology
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