Separation of educational and research organizations
Since April 2006, Saitama University has significantly changed its organization in the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Engineering, and the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, separating the educational and research organizations to focus more on graduate schools. Before the reorganization, all teachers belonged to individual faculties, but they now belong to the Research Department, the Graduate School of Science and Engineering. Postgraduate students belong to the Education Department, Graduate School of Science and Engineering. Each teacher comes from the Research Department to the Education Department or each faculty to educate students in the master’s program, the doctoral program, or under-graduate programs. Programs for the master’s course were reconstructed into a transdisciplinary science and engineering system. Because a six-year integrated education from the undergraduate course through the master’s course is desirable for standard students, appropriate courses are provided under each program to ensure the continuity between each department of a faculty and the program. On the other hand, programs for the doctoral course were unified into the Science and Engineering Program, in which six courses are available to strike a balance between specialties, interdisciplinarity, and science and engineering transdisciplinarity.
Special Education Program
Special Education Program
Science and Technology has become more advanced and complicated in recent years, researchers and advanced engineers with practical skills are desired in companies as well. From this point of view, the following special education programs will be established as sub-programs.
Special Education Program(A)
- Education Program for the Development of Innovative Human Resources
- After acquiring specialized knowledge in each major/program, cultivate researchers and advanced engineers with leadership who can implement the results in society through interdisciplinary collaboration and realize scientific and technological innovation and who has an ability to analyze an understand social issues to be resolved, design methods to solve issues, integrate and systematize elemental technologies, and build solutions.
Special Education Program(B)
- Education Program for the Development of Professional Scientists and Engineers with Data Science Skills
- Cultivate researchers and advanced engineers who extract a useful information from huge amounts of data, identifying the essential structure inherent in the data, judge correctly the data through analysis based on mathematical thinking, and create new value by combining expertise in their respective fields, with deep specialized knowledge of each major/program.
Special Education Program(C)
- Education Program for the Development of High-Grade Scientists
- Develop human resources of “researcher buds” who have a particularly high motivation for research in the field of science and mathematics and possessing basic academic skills. Specifically, develop human resources who can acquire a wide range of knowledge related to science and engineering, possesses excellent research execution skills such as planning, implementing, and analysis of results in research activities, and who has ability to publicize the results obtained through conference presentations, paper presentations, etc. In addition, aiming to advance to the Doctoral Course through study in the program, develop human resources who has qualifications as a basic researcher to lead Japan’s science technology by cultivating specialty and originality in research, and who can fulfill their responsibilities as a researcher that compliance in research ethics.
Innovation Talent Development Division
By enhancing practical education through advanced interdisciplinary educational programs, we aim to produce a science and engineering advanced human resources into society who leads the science technology innovation and strengthening the industrial base of Saitama Prefecture and Japan.
PBL type classes, “Project-based exercise” which is the subject of Master’s program and Doctoral course, are taught by practitioner faculty members who have wealth of experience in company. Through the PBL type classes conducted by practitioner faculty members, we promote science and engineering Master’s human resources with practical ability who can contribute for creation of science technology innovation, and also working to develop Doctoral human resources who aim to become corporate researchers by showing the image of Doctoral human resources in companies.