The Faculty of Engineering fosters highly specialized learning and the thoroughly studying a field of specialty is a large goal, however, we believe an extensive basic education is critically important before ascending this high peak.

The center has been organized to tend to students; to ensure they reliably receive a basic education for the purposes of cultivating well-rounded people with a broad outlook that are able to make appropriate decisions from large amounts of information, and are healthy in body and mind.

Many subjects also exist within the large headings of basic science, foreign languages, human sciences, health and physical education, and teacher-training curriculum. There are also courses with a wealth of variety deployed in an omnibus format which can be studied without regard to course, department or school year.

This will surely lead to careful learning of further specialized topics within studies at the department. Lessons at General Education and Research Center cover extensive learning and various encounters among teaching staff and students. From this, perhaps new interests will be born and the breadth of learning extended.

Given that the three subjects of mathematics, physics and chemistry are the foundation subjects for the study of engineering, these subjects are studied in combined forms of proficiency-based lectures, practice lectures, and experiment lectures.

With proficiency-based lectures, a placement test is held prior to subject registration and if so desired by students, it is possible to commence with a review of senior high-school studies. There are teaching staff at the Learning Support Center within the campus which have senior high-school teacher experience.

Beginning with essential English, it is also possible to take classes in German, French and Chinese. The classes of all subjects are further divided, with lectures conducted in small groups. In conversation classes where communication between teaching staff and students is particularly important, lessons are conducted with the reliable participation of each and every student.

Furthermore, two “CALL (computer aided language learning)” classrooms have been set aside for self-study use after school hours.

Fitness exercises are conducted in health and physical education subjects that enables learning fundamental knowledge of health and exercise whilst regulating individual physical activity.

For students which harbor specialized interests within their studies, the General Education and Research Center offers guidance to further deepen interests and supports newly created approaches.

We think we play a thankless but vital role.
We are constantly considering how learning can be done in a forward facing manner and how to make this happen for students that have entered university.

Within the long, yet short, precious period of four years, our hope at the General Education and Research Center is that amidst their university lives, students feel good about having studied hard for the first two years, and are able to experience a transformation in themselves over that two year period.