KONAN UNIVERSITY

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCE

Basic Educational Policies for the Konan University Graduate School of Natural Science’s Environment and Energy engineering Program

There are many approaches to solving environmental and energy problems. The aim of this program is to come up with engineering solutions by working on the properties of materials from the perspectives of chemistry, physics, and earth science.

1. Purpose of Human Resource Development in the Environment and Energy Engineering Program at Konan University Graduate School of Natural Science

Master’s Program

Based on our founding principles, we teach specialized knowledge and high ethical standards in the field of environment and energy engineering on a foundation of fundamental natural science in response to the demands of modern society. Through these efforts, we aim to cultivate highly specialized professional who have acquired that knowledge and those standards, and develop researchers who will contribute to the development of environment and energy engineering.

Doctoral Program

Based on our founding principles, we teach deeply specialized knowledge and high ethical standards in the field of environment and energy engineering. Through these efforts, we aim to develop researchers who have the ability to be able to independently conduct research and development in each area of specialization in the field of environment and energy engineering, and highly specialized professionals who have the outstanding abilities necessary to engage in highly specialized work related to environment and energy engineering.

2. Curriculum Map for the Environment and Energy Engineering Program at Konan University Graduate School of Natural Science (Master’s and Doctoral Programs)

Completion Certification and Degree Conferment Policy
Konan University Graduate School provides teaching and research on academic theory and application with the foundations to this being our general and specialized education cultivated based on Konan University’s educational philosophy as stipulated in Article 1 of the Graduate School Regulations. We then foster deep scholarship and outstanding abilities to master the depths of that academic theory and application or to assume a position that requires a high level of expertise. In this way, we aim to contribute to the advancement and development of human culture, and the promotion of social welfare.

Master’s Program

The environment and energy program in the Graduate School of Natural Science develops individuals who possess broad knowledge in the field of natural science and specialized knowledge in the field of environment and energy, who have acquired the abilities necessary to engage in specialized work or highly original and excellent research and development abilities, and who have high ethical standards.

We confer a master’s (science and engineering) degree to those who have enrolled for the period specified by this department, who have taken the class courses specified in accordance with this program’s curriculum composition and implementation policy, who have earned at least the prescribed number of credits (a total of at least 30 credits consisting of 18 credits from required specialized subjects, at least 6 credits from required elective foundation subjects and at least 6 credits from required elective specialized courses), and who, upon having received research guidance, have passed the master’s thesis defense and final examination conducted by this program within the prescribed term.

Specialized skills:

Possess broad knowledge in natural science, and specialized knowledge in the field of environment and energy, and possess the abilities necessary as highly specialized professionals or independent researchers.

Integration skills:

Possess highly original and excellent research and development abilities.

Practical skills:

Possess the abilities necessary to engaged in specialized work and high ethical standards.

Doctoral Program

The environment and energy program in the Graduate School of Natural Science develops individuals who possess in-depth specialized knowledge in the field of environment and energy engineering, who have acquired the ability to conduct independent and original research to pioneer and deepen the field of environment and energy engineering, and the outstanding abilities necessary to engage in highly specialized work related to those fields, who have high ethical standards, and who are capable of playing an active role in international society.

We confer a doctoral (science and engineering) degree to those who have enrolled for the period specified by this department, who have taken the class courses specified in accordance with this program’s curriculum composition and implementation policy, who have earned at least the prescribed number of credits (a total of at least 10 credits consisting of 6 credits from required subjects, at least 2 credits from required elective subjects A and at least 2 credits from required elective subjects B), and who, upon having received research guidance, have passed the doctoral thesis defense and final examination conducted by this program within the prescribed term.

Specialized skills:

Possess in-depth specialized knowledge in the field of environment and energy.

Integration skills:

Possess the ability to be able to independently conduct excellent and original research and development.

Practical skills:

Possess the outstanding abilities necessary to engage in highly specialized work related to natural science and high ethical standards.

Curriculum Composition and Implementation Policy

Master’s Program
1. Educational Content
  1. We systematically provide a curriculum to ensure the acquisition of broad knowledge in the field of natural science and specialized knowledge in the field of environment and energy engineering.
  2. We provide practice in environment and energy engineering that explains and teaches the advanced specialized knowledge and technical foundational knowledge necessary for highly specialized professionals.
  3. We provide research experiments in environment and energy engineering that fosters the ability to be able to conduct highly original and excellent research and development as a highly specialized professional or researcher in the field of environment and energy engineering, and high ethical standards, and that also forms the foundations for a master’s thesis.
  4. We provide foundation subjects to acquire a broad perspective in the fields of natural science, and environment and energy engineering, specialized subjects to acquire specialized knowledge related to the field of environment and energy engineering, and general subjects to acquire the abilities and techniques necessary for independent engineers and researchers.
  5. We conduct research progress presentations and thesis defenses based on our systematic research guidance structure to lead to the conferral of a master’s (science and engineering) degree.
2. Educational Methods
  1. We give the educational content listed in (i) through classes and research guidance.
  2. We give classes in the form of lectures, practice, experiments or practical training, or a combination of these.
  3. We give research guidance with an awareness of the research PDCA cycle (plan-do-check-act cycle) through research-related discussions, paper readings, round-table discussions, theoretical calculations or experiments, analysis and discussion of theoretical calculations or experimental results, research results presentations, master’s thesis writing, master’s thesis presentations, and other methods.
3. Evaluation
  1. We evaluate the authorization of credits at the end or the semester or academic year through written examinations, oral examinations, reports and other methods specified in the syllabus of each subject based on Article 9 of the Graduate School Regulations.
  2. We conduct the master’s thesis defense and final examination based on the defense standards specified by this program. We then make the pass/fail judgment based on those results.
Doctoral Program
1. Educational Content
  1. We systematically provide a curriculum to ensure the acquisition of in-depth specialized knowledge in the field of environment and energy engineering.
  2. We provide subjects that foster the ability to be able to conduct original and excellent research and development as researcher in regards to the field of environment and energy engineering.
  3. We provide subjects that foster the outstanding abilities and high ethical standards to engage in highly specialized work related to the field of environment and energy engineering.
  4. We conduct thesis defenses based on our systematic research guidance structure to lead to the conferral of a doctoral (science and engineering) degree.
2. Educational Methods
  1. We give the educational content listed in (i) through classes and research guidance.
  2. We give classes in the form of lectures, practice, experiments or practical training, or a combination of these.
  3. We give research guidance with an awareness of the research PDCA cycle (plan-do-check-act cycle) through research-related discussions, paper readings, round-table discussions, theoretical calculations or experiments, analysis and discussion of theoretical calculations or experimental results, research results presentations at academic conferences, in papers or elsewhere, doctoral thesis writing, and other methods.
3. Evaluation
  1. We evaluate the authorization of credits at the end or the semester or academic year through written examinations, oral examinations, reports and other methods specified in the syllabus of each subject based on Article 9 of the Graduate School Regulations.
  2. We conduct the doctoral thesis defense and final examination based on the defense standards specified by this program. We then make the pass/fail judgment based on those results.