Message from the President

Dr. Matsui Nobuyuki President, Nagoya Institute of Technology

Nagoya Institute of Technology (NIT) was founded in 1905 as Nagoya Higher Technical School, a pioneering academic institute dedicated to industrial education. Since then, it has been renamed twice, first as Nagoya College of Technology in 1944, and then in 1949 its name changed to Nagoya Institute of Technology. The second name change came about through merging with Aichi Prefectural College of Technology, which was founded in 1943. In 2004, Nagoya Institute of Technology was reincorporated under a new educational and National University Corporation system. Since 1905, more than 50,000 engineering students have graduated from our Institute. They have demonstrated outstanding achievements in professional fields as well as academic areas.

I was greatly honored to be appointed as the President of Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2004. As an alumnus of NIT, I feel a deep sense of responsibility to make NIT an internationally renowned and technologically innovative academic institution of higher learning and research in engineering. The aim of our Institute is to seek a glorious future by training talented engineers and researchers focused on manufacturing. Traditionally, our Institute has expanded in pace with the economic growth of Japan. Now, we are confronting new situations. In order to seek a glorious future through engineering, we have been trying to combine technologies with different fields which have been considered unrelated to conventional engineering. Some representative examples of new research areas are environmental safeguards, medical science, pharmacy, agriculture, the five senses of human beings, design and entertainment. New research projects and educational systems designed to reach goals in these areas have already begun.

Nagoya Institute of Technology is located in the central part of Japan, Aichi prefecture. This area is traditionally famous for industrial manufacturing. Making the most of this geographical opportunity, we are developing new and innovative educational and research activities through collaboration with the world-renowned manufacturers around us. We have prepared unique, new schemes for collaboration such as our Project Institutes and Techno-Innovation Center. Nagoya Institute of Technology has been recognized as a top-class engineering institute and will continue its research and educational activities to seek a glorious future by training talented engineers and continuing research focused on manufacturing.