| Chiba Institute of Technology | |
|---|---|
| 千葉工業大学 | |
| Motto | 師弟同行 自学自律 |
| Established | 1942(Origins 1929[1]) |
| Type | Private |
| Endowment | N/A |
| Chancellor | Prof. Seiichi Okamoto |
| Students | 9,935 |
| Location | Narashino, Chiba, Japan |
| Campus | Urban |
| Nickname | CIT, etc. |
| Website | CIT(English) CIT(Japanese) |
Chiba Institute of Technology (千葉工業大学 Chiba kōgyō daigaku) is a private university in Narashino, Chiba, Japan. abbreviated as Chiba kōdai (千葉工大 Chiba kōdai),Chiba kō (千葉工 Chiba kō),kōdai (工大 kōdai),sen kōdai (千工大 sen kōdai).
The school was founded in 1942 in Machida, Tokyo. In 1946 it was relocated to Kimitsu, Chiba, adopted the present name at the same time. Four years later, it was moved to the present location. It is the oldest private technical university in Japan.
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Chiba Institute of Technology began as Kōa Institute of Technology (興亞工業大学 Kōa kōgyō daigaku) and as founded by Higashikuni Naruhiko, Kuniyoshi Ohara (Tamagawa school head teacher), Kotaro Honda (Tohoku University head teacher), Hidetsugu Yagi (Tokyo Institute of Technology head teacher), Shigenao Konishi (Kyoto University Previous head teacher), Yuzuru Hiraga (Tokyo Imperial University head teacher), Nobuteru Mori (Mori Konzern founder･See also Shōwa Denkō), Satoru Mori (Son Nobuteru Mori) in 1942. The college was built at what is now the site of Tamagawa University in Machida, Tokyo by the Ministry of Education.
The college was established that on the occasion of a national crisis within Japan that it may be used as national policy College. The purpose of the college's construction was to be "Dissemination of engineering education to the Asian people".
The college took full-scale support from Tokyo University, Tohoku University, Tokyo Institute of Technology as an educational institution to bring up the engineers who would lead a nation. Materials engineering courses, a mechanical engineering course, and an aeronautical engineering course were implemented.
In 1944, a preparatory course and the foundation headquarters move to Sophia University in Kōjimachi from Tamagawa school. The metallurgy course work was relocated to the Kawasaki Heavy Industries factory yard in Kawasaki, Kanagawa in September.
The Kōjimachi and Kawasaki campus were destroyed during the April 13, 1945 and May 25 Tokyo air raids in World War II. The college was consigned to a class in the Tokyo Institute of Technology until 1946.
The college changed its name into "Chiba Institute of Technology" in 1946 and moved to the Kimitu campus. Four years later, it was moved to the present location.
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