Tokyo Institute of Technology (東京工業大学 Tōkyō Kōgyō Daigaku), usually called Tokodai (東工大 Tōkōdai?) or Tokyo Tech, is the largest institution of higher learning in Japan dedicated to science and technology. Tokyo Institute of Technology is recognized as a leading university, especially in natural science and engineering field. The university was ranked the 61st in overall performance (4th best Japanese University), the 21st in technology, and the 57th in natural science among the world's best universities in 2008, according to the TIMES-QS World University Rankings.
The institute has three campuses, the Ookayama campus in Ookayama, Meguro being the main campus. The other two campuses are the Tamachi campus, located in Shibaura, Minato and the Suzukakedai campus, located in Nagatsuta-cho, Midori, Yokohama.
The university is a member of LAOTSE, an international network of leading universities in Europe and Asia exchanging students and senior scholars.
History
Tokyo Institute of Technology was founded as the Tokyo Vocational School on May 26, 1881, 14 years after the Meiji Restoration. To accomplish the quick catch-up to the West, Meiji government expected this school of the cultivating of new modernized craftmen or engineers. In early days, the school located in Kuramae, eastern area of Tokyo, where many craftmen's workshops were since the old Shogun's era. But its campus was ruined by the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. In 1929, moved to Ookayama, a south suburb of Tokyo, it was elevated to the status of national university. After the World War II, the new educational system was promulgated in 1949 and Tokyo Institute of Technology was reorganized. Throughout the post-war reconstruction of 1950s, high economic growth era of 1960s, and the aggressive economic animal's era marching to the Bubble Economy of 1980's, it kept providing the Japan's leading engineers, researchers, business persons. Since April 2004, it has been semi-privatized into the National University Incorporation of Tokyo Institute of Technology under a new law which applies to all national universities.
Library
The institute libraries, boasting the foremost collection in Japan of science and technological journals, have served as one of the government-appointed Naitonal Center for Overseas Periodical in these fields since 1977. The libraries annually collect in excess of 30,000 journals worldwide with e-journals and conference proceeding to support and facilitate users both on the off the campus. In addition, an electronic library service has been available since 1998 with the establishment of e-library sysytem (TDL).
Office of Industry Liaison (OIL)
Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) is one of the world's leading research universities in the pursuit of advanced science and technology. It encompasses a broad range of studies, consisting of six graduate schools, three undergraduate schools, four research laboratories, and many research/service centers.
Tokyo Tech aims to contribute to society by producing excellent research and people, and shares its research results with society. For this purpose, Tokyo Tech established the "Office of Industry Liaison (OIL)" in January 2004 to promote the utilization of knowledge generated on campus. The OIL has worked quite effectively and helped create new business and innovation bridging academia and industry.Consequently, the OIL is also required to implement the acquisition and protection of Intellectual Property Rights Having IPRs management as its primary charge, it promotes further collaboration in response to the growing demands of society.
The OIL, headed by the vice-president for research, is comprised of four sections: Planning & International Collaboration (PIC), Intellectual Property Managing (IPM), Technology Transfer (TT), and Contract & Management (CM). The PIC secion facilitates collaborations, both domestic and international, and establishes new collaborative schemes . The IPM section identifies, protects, and administers IRRs. Coordination of research alliances and IPRs licensing activities is conducted by the TT section, and conclusions of contracts and their implementations by the CM section.
Institute profile in 2008
July 2008 The Gender Equality Center was established. The Productive Leader Incubation Platform was established.
May 2008 The Inter-departmental Organization for Informatics was established. The Asia-Africa Biology Research Center was established.
April 2008 The Secure Device Research Center affiliated to the Precision and Intelligence Laboratory was established. The Photovoltaics Research Center was established.
Schools and laboratories
Undergraduate schools
School of Science
School of Engineering
School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Graduate schools
Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering
Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology
Graduate School of Innovation Management
Research laboratories
Chemical Resources Laboratory
Precision and Intelligence Laboratory
Materials and Structures Laboratory
Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors
Quantum Nano Electronics Research Center
Tokyo Institute of Technology was ranked 61 in the 2008 THES-QS World University Ranking.
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