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About the "On-the-Job Training" (OJT) Education Program

Significance and objectives of the OJT Education Program at TUT

To meet the social demand for "fostering engineers with practical and creative abilities," since its opening in 1976, TUT has turned out many students who have acquired advanced and extensive knowledge through its unified undergraduate to graduate education program, a unique feature of TUT.

However, along with rapid technological development, global-scale social problems have begun to surface, and it is necessary to work on solving these complicated problems in the future.

To foster researchers and engineers with practical and creative abilities, TUT has given students the opportunity to experience and become accustomed to the actual sites where researchers and engineers are solving complicated problems in the real world. This is very effective in fostering researchers and engineers who are needed in the 21st century, and in cultivating humanity as working members of society.

As a part of these efforts, TUT has provided the OJT program as a compulsory subject for all 4th-year undergraduate students. This OJT program as a part of the curriculum is clearly distinguished from a traditional internship, which has been a means of job hunting or as a way to support career development, something many universities have started to conduct in recent years. The training in the OJT program is very important in that students can obtain practical business experience and acquire a clear sense of purpose in their education. This is the most important feature of our OJT program.

Students targeted

All 4th-year undergraduate students (about 450 students)

Time & period of implementation

Two months (7 weeks) from the beginning of January to the end of February in the 4th year of undergraduate school (before advancing to graduate school)

Locations

Handling of the OJT program in the curricula

1. Compulsory subjects (6 credits)
2. At the end of the OJT program, student course results will be evaluated by the supervisor for the student, which will be based on the reports below and reviewed through an accomplishment debriefing session held after returning to TUT:
   
   • Evaluation sheet for the OJT program (submitted by the accepting institution)
   • Investigation report for the OJT program (submitted by the supervisor)
   • Report on the OJT program (submitted by the student)

Annual schedule

Accident insurance

All students are obligated to enroll for the following insurance policies:

• "Personal accident insurance for students pursuing education and research" (enroll at the time of admission), maximum payment: 20,000,000 yen in the case of death
• "On-the-job Training Insurance (accident insurance)" (enroll at the time of starting the training), maximum payment: 100,000,000 yen as personal & property reparations, 6,400,000 yen in the case of death

Others

1. Completing training on campus
   Although the OJT should be done outside the university in principle, adult students, students who have difficulty in doing the training outside the university due to job hunting, and students under special circumstances are allowed to complete the OJT on campus.
2. OJT Committee
   To handle the necessary details and university-wide coordination of program implementation, TUT has established the OJT Committee, which is comprised of faculty members.