Chiba Institute of Technology

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.

History

December 8, 1941(Asia Independence Day and Day of the world peace)

Photograph of the first entrance ceremony (June 8, 1942)

Chiba Institute of Technology began as Kōa Institute of Technology (興亜工業大学, Kōa kōgyō daigaku). The meaning of Kōa means that Asia wakes up. Japanese government issued a permission of the establishment on December 7, 1941(December 8th Asia time). Kōa Institute of Technology was founded by Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Osami Nagano, Kuniyoshi Obara, Minoru Tōgō, Kotaro Honda, Hidetsugu Yagi, Shigenao Konishi, Yuzuru Hiraga, Nobuteru Mori(Mori Konzern founder･See also Shōwa Denkō), Satoru Mori(Son Nobuteru Mori), Kitaro Nishida, Shunpei Honma, Tokutomi Sohō, Saneatsu Mushanokōji in 1942.

The college was founded as a national policy for the rise of Asia tech. The purpose of the construction of the college was a contribution to the world culture and dissemination of engineering education to the people of Asia.

Kōa Institute of Technology 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. Department of Industrial Engineering and materials management courses,aeronautical engineering, mechanical engineering has been installed at the university.

The next person was the goal of Kōa Institute of Technology.

• Kotaro Honda, Thomas Alva Edison, Hideyo Noguchi, Albert Einstein, Hidetsugu Yagi, Willy Messerschmitt, Kitaro Nishida, Immanuel Kant etc.

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  Kotaro Honda

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  Thomas Edison

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  Noguchi Hideyo

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  Albert Einstein

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  Hidetsugu Yagi

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  Willy Messerschmitt

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  Kitaro Nishida

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  Immanuel Kant

In 1944, the headquarters of the University was moved 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(CIT)" in 1946 and moved to the Kimitu campus. Four years later, it was moved to the present location.

Campuses

1942～

• Machida,Tokyo Campus (1942–46)
• Chiyoda, Tokyo Campus (1943–45)
• Kawasaki,Kanagawa Campus (1943–45)
• Kimitu,Chiba Campus (1946–50)

1950～

• Tsudanuma,Chiba Campus (1950-)

Tsudanuma Campus (English)

• Chigusa,Chiba Campus (1967-)
• Sibazono,Chiba Campus (1986-)

Sibazono Campus (English)

Schools and laboratories

Undergraduate schools

• School of Engineering
• Department of information science
• Department of social system science

Graduate schools

Research laboratories

• future robot research center(furo)

future robot research center(English)

• planetary probe research center

planetary probe research center（Japanese）

Alumni

• Masayuki Uemura,a game engineer
• Kazuki Akane, a Japanese director of Japanese animation.
• Hiroshi Tachi, an actor (dropout)
• Mook (author),an illustrator

Interchange

China

• Harbin Institute of Technology
• Jilin University
• Beijing Institute of Technology

Sweden

• Royal Institute of Technology

Canada

• University of Toronto
• The University of British Columbia

France

• University of Technology of Compiègne

Poland

• Warsaw University of Technology

Singapore

• Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology

UK

• King's College London

United States

• University of Missouri-Rolla
• Tennessee Technological University
• The University of Alabama in Huntsville
• The Pennsylvania State University
• University of Colorado at Boulder

Japan

• Chiba University
• Chiba University of Commerce
• Chiba Keizai University
• Chuo Gakuin University
• Kanda University of International Studies
• Meikai University
• Open University of Japan
• Seitoku University
• Shukutoku University
• Tokyo University of Information Sciences
• Wayo Women's University
• Reitaku University

etc.

An item concerned

• Oh My Goddess!（A model of "Nekomi Institute of Technnology"）
• Digipara（A model of "Keiyō Institute of Technnology"）

External links

• Official website (Japanese)

See also

• Shōka Sonjuku - Kaigien - École Polytechnique^[2]
• Tansō Hirose - Katsu Kaishū - Motoori Norinaga - Sakamoto Ryōma - Yoshida Shōin - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi - Masatarō Sawayanagi - Isoroku Yamamoto^[3]
• Yamato-damashii - Eastern philosophy - Western philosophy^[4]
• Samsāra - Reincarnation - Perpetual peace^[5]
• Perry Expedition - Meiji Restoration - Asia Revolution

References

1. ↑ Tamagawa Gakuen webpage-Japanese-Tamagawa Gakuen is one of the important headwaters of the founding of Chiba Institute of Technology.
2. ↑ Schools that have a significant impact on the establishment of CIT.
3. ↑ People who had a significant impact on the establishment of the CIT.
4. ↑ Those that have an important impact on the founding spirit of CIT.
5. ↑ CIT was founded hope that all those who died in the war is Reincarnation. This university was conceived as a school to train the apostles to bring world peace.

Coordinates: 35°41′21.15″N 140°01′16.81″E / 35.6892083°N 140.0213361°E / 35.6892083; 140.0213361