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President Takashi Onishi delivers inauguration address

President Takashi Onishi delivered his inauguration address on 1^st April 2014 to an audience of the university’s faculty and students.

• His address included his philosophy for university management, education and research. President Onishi stated the following five objectives:
• 1. Further promotion of globalization of the entire university.
• 2. Deepening cooperation between the university and the local community.
• 3. Strengthening the university’s research activities.
• 4. Promotion of global human resources development in education.
• 5. Reform of the university’s management system.

Global visibility advertisement on new research program published in Science Magazine

Toyohashi Tech was one of 22 institutions chosen for the MEXT Program for Promoting the Enhancement of Research Universities in autumn 2013. The background, goals, and challenges of the Program are described in a special advertisement-article published on 28 March 2014 in AAAS Science Magazine.

A PDF of the lead Editorial summary and the Toyohashi Tech pages of the advertisement-article can be found here:
https://www.tut.ac.jp/english/news/201404/3951.html

International Student Workshop: Towards Success as Global Engineers

What is a successful international student? And what kind of efforts should they make? An international student workshop was held at Toyohashi Tech 18^th April 2014 to answer these and other related questions about international students. The workshop attracted more than 60 international and Japanese students, and academic staff.

The Indonesian Student Association of Toyohashi invited Khoirul Anwar, an assistant professor at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, to give a talk at the workshop. Dr Anwar is an expert in telecommunications. His talk was entitled,“Learn the Signs: How to Be a Great Scientist”. During his powerful presentation, he described his life and his unique theory on how to be successful.

There was a panel discussion after the talk moderated by associate professor Nobumasa Sekishita from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The panelists were Khoirul Anwar, Roy Reyna, a doctoral student at Toyohashi Tech from Peru, and project assistant professor Hirotsugu Kamahara from the Toyohashi Tech Center for International Relations. The panelists and audience shared their dreams and experiences of carrying out research in their own countries and Japan. It was a truly fruitful workshop for everyone.