Message to students hoping to study in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences As part of the so-called 'Era of the IT Revolution', the academic field of information & computer sciences will play an ever bigger everywhere in the 21st Century. The areas of study within this field are constantly widening in scope. The courses conducted by our Department of Information and Computer Sciences are designed to provide a deeper understanding of all the related fields of study in order to nurture the next generation of leading IT engineers. The courses range from computer sciences - the basis of the whole information field - to information processing and information communication, as well as other directly related subjects. Based on our principle of developing an integrated education system through our Master's programs, we aim to foster pioneer researchers full of creative ideas in our Doctoral programs. One of our Electronic & Information Engineering research groups was selected to carry out important research during the next five years as a 2002 COE (Center of Excellence) by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. That is just one indication that the TUT Department of Information and Computer Sciences is operating at a very high level of research from both domestic and international standpoints. Professor Mitsuo Yokoyama, Head of the Department

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The academic field of information and computer sciences has grown rapidly along with the development of computers, and it now serves as the basis for the Information Society. At TUT, we have been carrying out various education and research activities in order to establish a new field of technological sciences. In addition to computation and information processing, we have positioned communication engineering and control engineering science as part of the field of information and computer sciences. Based on these principles, we begin with education in basic subjects with a well-balanced focus on both software and hardware, and then proceed to more specialized subjects later. In the Information Engineering Experiment No.1, 'Project Experiment', which is held in the 3rd Term of the 3rd Year, students select a theme they are particularly interested in and form teams to master the specialized basic technology in the field. In the 'Big Experiment', carried out in the 1st Term of the 4th Year, students form teams for the systematic study of practical technologies. In the 'Special Experiment', held in the 2nd Term of the 4th Year, students work in a research laboratory to carry out graduation research and participate in industrial in-service training during the 3rd Term of the 4th Year. Our Graduate School makes it a principle to carry out an integrated system of education through to the Master's programs. We instruct the latest learning and technology in various fields, and through research, foster leading engineers with a sense of originality.

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