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Organic and Polymeric Materials,
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
S8-42, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550 JAPAN
Tel : +81-3-5734-2436

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e-mail : gcoe@op.titech.ac.jp

Graduate School of Engineering

• Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials
• Department of Metallurgy and Ceramics Science

Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering

• Department of Materials Science and Engineering (in Japanese)
• Department of Innovative and Engineered Materials

• Project Managing Course

Independent Administrative Institution National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)

• NIMS Photocatalytic Center

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

• AIST Nanotechnology Research Institute (NRI)

• Global COE Program - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

• 21^st Century Tokyo Tech COE Nanomaterial Frontier Cultivation for Industrial Collaboration

Curriculum

Students, both PM and NI course, need to fulfill the unit requirement on the following lectures. The requirements will be announced later.

List of Lectures

Project Managing #1: General Introduction to Business, 2 units, first semester
  Professor Takeshi Kadota

Learn the basics of business administration and commercialization of technology.
Learn the key factors such as;

• Management Theory, Macro Economics,
• Finance (Venture Capital, M&A Fund),
• Industrialization and Intellectual Property Rights.

Project Managing #2: Practical Business Strategy I, 2 units, first semester
  Professor Shigeru Miki and Professor Masahiko Tano

Learn the management of a company and the mechanism of free market economy.

• Experience the process of corporate development from starting up a new company to properly structuring a growing corporation through case studies.
• Examine the policy implications in expanding business.
• Study the funding and resource requirements at different stages of corporate
  development as well as balancing the interests of various stakeholders.

Project Managing #4: General Introduction to Technology Management, 2 units, second semester
  Professor Kenji Furuta

Whole aspects of technology management such as technology strategy, various technology management processes, management resources such as human and financial resources and R&D organization.

Students also learn about new business strategy, IP management, R&D productivity etc having strong relationships with R&D. Expected final target is to develop business strategies by every student based on his/her own research theme at his/her doctor course programs.

Project Managing #5: Practical Business Strategy II, 2units, second semester
  Professor Shigeru Miki, Professor Masahiko Tano and Professor Takeshi Kadota

Lean to evaluate and choose business seeds.

• learn the process of basic research in evaluating and choosing business seeds and formulation of their business visions.
• then choose business seeds that are under development in Tokyo Tech, and formulate business strategies on them, which include market entry, corporate organization, and human resources.

Nanomaterials I: Design Criteria for Nanomaterials, first semester, 2 units

Lecturer and the syllabus will be announce later.

Nanomaterials II: Structure of Nanomaterials, first semester, 2 units

Professor Hiroyuki Hirayama, Professor Takaaki Tsurumi, Professor Martin Vacha, and Professor Tomoyasu Taniyama
Syllabus will be announced later.

Nanomaterials III: Characterization of Nanomaterials, second semester, 2 units

Lecturer and the syllabus will be announce later.

Global Communication Skills I, 1 unit, first semester
Global Communication Skills II, 1 unit, second semester
  Professor Takagi and Professor Yoshinao Mishima

Learn the communication skills in English, which will be necessary in running business on a global scale.
First learn the basics of communication theory in Japanese by actually making presentations on assigned topics, students will be able to express themselves more clearly and cogently, first in Japanese and then in English. Efforts will be made to improve the students’ proficiency in English through lectures and homework.

Concepts/ Eligibility

Concepts

Past graduate courses for doctorate in science and engineering in Japan has been so designed as to guide students into carry out an original research without little requirement on course works. The education therefore has highly relied solely on supervisor, and their qualification for the degree has been made basically by the quality of the research established. In the globally and highly competitive society of 21st century, however, it is anticipated that doctoral graduates should have additional abilities such as knowledge on technology management and skills of global presentation and communication.

The new graduate courses, Project Managing (PM) and Nanomaterial Initiative(NI) Courses, are the consequences of those established in the 21st Century COE program but have been modified for improvement on fostering doctoral graduates meeting with the demand by our society. It is an Integrated Graduate Courses in which students enroll the course during their Master course, proceeding to their Doctoral course to earn the doctorate in average of 4years in total.

The PM course put an emphasis on course work on business and MOT(Management of Technology) related classes, while the NI course on a series of classes related to the science and the design strategy of nanomaterials. Students of both courses are required to study classes on global communication skills

Eligibility

1. Those students who belong to four Departments composing G-COE in materials science at Tokyo Tech. and are qualified by the selection described in are the following section (6-4) are eligible for PM and NI Courses. The course is an Integrated Graduate Course at Tokyo Tech. through master’s and doctorate courses and student may receive doctorate in as short as three years, average four years, after they start master’s course.
2. Students admitted to PM and NI courses will be granted RA of the annual amount ca. \1,000,000. Those who succeed in showing excellent performances both in course work and their own research may be upgraded to receive as high as \2,000,000 annual RA afterwards.
3. It is necessary for a student in both PM and NI courses to fulfill the unit requirement on the course works in each curriculum besides completing and being qualified doctor’s thesis in the Department and Graduate School he/she belongs to.

Activity in Asian countries in recent years is remarkable in the field of material science. There are two members each from National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and National Institute of Materials science in our G-COE. One of the important objectives of these institutes is to industrialize materials researches. They also contribute Asia Nanotech Forum (ANF), which accomplishes research and education programs with 13 core institutes in Asia. We can invite Ph.D students though this program and promote the opportunity of communication with our Ph.D students. Taking this advantage, we aim to establish a center of materials research in Tokyo Tech. In addition to the existing programs to China (Tsinghua Univ.) and Korea (KAIST), we will establish collaboration with other countries such as Singapore, Taiwan, Honkong, Thailand, India, and so on.

Reasons for the collaboration with Asian countries

• Shift to Asia of centers of materials researches and materials production technologies

Share of numbers of scientific papers (USA : EU : Asia = 1 : 1 : 1)
High growing rate particularly in nanotech field

• Center of development in the world is Asia in this coming 100 years.
• Geographical merit

Our efforts so far made:

• Dual Degree Program between Tokyo Tech and Tsinghua Univ. since 2005
• Student exchange based on TIT-KAIST Program (JSPS) since 2000
• ANF since 2004

Research

Plan for research activities

1. Goals for Achievement in Research

The G-COE will be centered on research related to “information and electronics”, in which Japan and other Asian countries are the main production bases, “environment and energy”, which requires global participation, and “nanoscale property measurement and nanoscale structure control”, which forms the basis of nanotechnology. The core of the research carried out at the G-COE is expected to have a major impact on the industrial world.

Based on the actual achievements that have contributed to Japanese industry, and with the advantage of having faculty members specializing in all fields and phases of materials science, we aim to implement research that goes beyond existing limits and that has a great impact both in academic and technological senses. We also aim to establish an original concept of materials science by gathering the abilities of the faculty members and their knowledge in the three fields mentioned above and by collecting opinions and requests from the industrial world. The achievements will be put to use in the industrial world through patents.

Through this Program, we will establish a new academic journal on materials science (tentatively named the Asian Journal of Materials) centered on research in Asian countries and will work to advance the status of the journal. Through the above described research activities, we will work to make the G-COE into a world-leading center of materials science research located in Asia.

2. The Plan and its Objectives

With the objective to build international networks and actively spread and exchange information about the research activities within Japan and to overseas, an international forum will be held at the G-COE at least once a year. To support young researchers, we plan to assign a post-doctoral fellow to each of a certain number of assistant professors to conduct research together. For this purpose, foreign post-doctoral researchers who have experience at Japanese and foreign institutions will be actively recruited. In this way, solid international networks that will attract excellent foreign researchers can be effectively built. Apart from holding an international forum, the research activities of the G-COE will be presented on the Internet.

We plan to invite top-ranked researchers from around the world to participate in the international forum. Network building with Western countries and research involving doctoral students will be actively pursued. In addition, the G-COE will strongly promote cooperative research with researchers from other Asian countries. In particular, active personnel exchange will be carried out with such institutions in China, Korea, and Singapore that are known for their world-leading research and that already have a history of cooperative research programs with the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Furthermore, we will actively pursue excellent students from these institutions to enroll into our doctoral course. Among these students, those who make outstanding accomplishments will be actively recruited by academic research institutes in Japan after they receive their doctor's degree. Asian researchers who have received education in Japan and who are known for their good performance in the field of materials science will be invited to join the steering committee to provide opinions on how to build networks in Asian countries and how to internationalize Japanese academic research institutions (for example, Dr. Jinhua Ye of NIMS has been teaching students majoring in materials engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology for four years).

The G-COE will form a steering committee including members from the Japanese industrial world and will hold regular meetings. At the meetings, research activities will be reported and discussed to point out issues concerning the industrial aspects of the research and feedback will be given to the researchers. This method is already well established in the 21st Century COE Program. In addition, the G-COE will consider the opportunity of placing excellent overseas students enrolled in doctoral courses in Japanese industry with the objective of internationalizing the Japanese industrial world.

In the research on nano-level materials, the relevant keywords include electrons, optics, surfaces, domains, self-organization, and thin films; dividing materials science into traditional disciplines such as organic, inorganic, and metallurgical materials does not have much significance. The departments involved in materials science employ a system in which professors and associate professors carry out their research independently. Thus, many young faculty members work on developing new research fields and on integrating the existing ones without being bounded by conventional disciplines. The steering committee of the G-COE is constituted of mostly young faculty members. Many of the members have experience from the industrial world and from studying overseas and have various backgrounds. The members will be divided into three cross-disciplinary groups (i.e., an optoelectronics function development group, an eco-material group, and a nano-probing and nanostructure control group) to hold scheduled meetings and seminars. Under the instructions of the G-COE leader, members of all groups will cooperate and exchange information with each other while reflecting their expertise and experience. In this way, all members will contribute to the working of the G-COE.

Objectives

About our Global COE program

Our G-COE group is built on the wealth of world-class research in nanomaterials, soft materials, opto-electronic materials and environmental materials at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The G-COE aims to establish a world-class center in Asia for materials science and engineering under new concepts in education and research.

Our mission is as follows:

1. Education program
   • Create a new graduate education program providing basic concepts common in all the traditional and cutting-edge aspects of materials science and engineering;
   • Cultivate a viewpoint to grasp both technological and economic factors of new materials;
   • Train the ability to find the key problem for a breakthrough;
   • Promote English presentation and communication skills;
   • Provide global top-level educational classes with graduate students selected both from Japan and overseas (mainly Asian) countries.
2. Supporting young talented students and researchers
   • Provide scholarships for the Japanese and overseas students admitted to our G-COE graduate education program;
   • Establish financial support for the students to join international conferences and to study abroad;
   • Support young talented researchers financially.
3. World center for the education and research in materials science and engineering
   • Publish a new standard textbook under the concepts described above for materials science and engineering in English;
   • Establish the publication of a new, top-level Asian journal for materials science and engineering;
   • Hold regular world-class symposia for materials science and engineering in Asia;
   • Promote global exchanges between students and researchers in materials science and engineering.

Objectives, needs/importance and prospective impacts of the COE establishment

1. Disciplines of the Proposed COE

Innovation in materials technology is indispensable not only to solving worldwide problems concerning the environment and energy, but also to continuous development of Japan's industry by preventing hollowing-out due to a shift of production bases to other Asian countries. In order to truly contribute to solving global problems in the 21st century from the standpoint of “material innovation,” our G-COE will cover a wide range of research fields. Our contributions will include the following:

1) Material processing innovation for reducing the energy and environmental load
2) Material production innovation for producing basic functional materials
3) Nanomaterials design innovation based on nanotechnology
4) Molecular and liquid crystal based optoelectronics innovation
5) Transparent oxide electronics innovation aimed at establishing a new industry
6) Energy conversion materials innovation
7) Management of intellectual properties relating to material innovations with industries

2. Concepts and Objectives of the COE plan

(1) Concept of the G-COE establishment plan

From a global perspective, the materials group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology has produced excellent research achievements in the field of materials science, such as the discovery of inorganic electrides, functional development of banana-shaped liquid crystals, rubber production process from natural sulfur resources, and development of bioethanol. Such high-impact achievements in research and education, as well as top-level facilities and equipment owned by the Institute, compare favorably with leading universities in the United States and Europe. We will establish a G-COE founded on the existing research infrastructure for the fields of nanomaterials, soft materials, photo-functional and electro-functional materials, and environment-responsive materials. The G-COE will provide world-leading, cutting-edge materials science and technology through the G-COE doctoral course, through support systems for young assistant professors and post-doctoral fellows, through education and research carried out with an international perspective together with Asian countries to encourage material industries, and through interactive exchange of human resources.

(2) Objective of establishing the G-COE

As part of the 21st Century COE Program, the materials group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology has successfully fostered doctoral graduates with good business sense in materials engineering. This has been achieved by launching two doctoral courses known as the Project Management (PM) course and the Nanomaterial Initiative (NI) course. Based on these achievements, our G-COE will further aim to strengthen the advantages of these two courses.

i) We will establish a new G-COE educational doctoral course by combining parts of the two existing courses. In this way, we will be able to achieve the following:

• By expanding the business-sense education provided as part of the 21st Century COE Program, we will provide education that allows one to define problems in an original manner based on marketing research skills and to accurately comprehend current needs in technological and economical issues. In this way, we will be able to foster individuals capable of making breakthroughs in technology and developing innovative materials that are promising and highly valuable.
• We will establish a cross-disciplinary educational curriculum to develop students' knowledge and academic abilities, which are the essence of a solid understanding and further advancement at the cutting-edge of materials science.
• We will provide education to develop an international perspective and international communication skills required for human resources that are capable of truly leading the world in materials science.

ii) We will encourage students to develop international awareness, build a network of personal connections, and improve their communication skills. We will do so by accepting overseas students from world-leading universities and research institutions in other Asian countries, such as China and Korea, which are geographically close to Japan, so that a substantial number of the students enrolled in the G-COE doctoral course will be from overseas. In this way, the students entering our doctoral course in materials science will be able to study in an international environment for four years.

iii) The research results on nanomaterials, soft materials, optoelectronic materials, and environment-responsive materials achieved by students enrolled in the G-COE doctoral course will be further developed into industrial technologies with the cooperation of the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).

Outline

Outline of the plan for establishing the COE

Members of the team, that is proposing the current Global Center of Excellence Program (hereafter abbreviated as G-COE), have been for the past five years involved in a predecessor program known as 21st Century COE. The 21st COE Program has been receiving very favorable evaluation, and the currently proposed G-COE will be built on the successful foundations of the previous program.

From an education standpoint, we will attract excellent students from Japan as well as from top-rated educational institutions in other Asian countries. We will foster human resources with doctor's degrees in materials science who can become true leaders in industrial technology and science. To achieve this goal, the students will actively participate in top-level scientific research at research laboratories of the members. Also, a new doctoral course that combines the strong points of our current “Project Management Course” and “Nanomaterial Initiative Course” will be provided. Students will study basic and advanced nanomaterials science through a wide range of cross-disciplinary lectures. Furthermore, through lectures based on the Project Management Course established for the 21st Century COE Program, students will learn about the processes required for commercializing their research achievements. In addition, small-group English speech classes for acquiring communication skills, international and domestic internship programs, and overseas study programs will be provided. Through such programs, individuals with cross-disciplinary knowledge covering a wide range of basic nanomaterials science, with excellent international communication skills (including Japanese-language skills possessed by overseas students) will be fostered. In other words, the ultimate goal is to bring up engineers and researchers who will be capable of making breakthroughs in science and technology and thus become international leaders in the field of materials science. To offer cross-disciplinary education in nanomaterials science, we will compile a new systematic textbook while this program is being implemented.

From a research standpoint, we are oriented toward high-impact research, toward challenging technological limits and toward creating a new concept of materials science through an interdisciplinary approach. Nano-level materials research centered on areas of “information and electronics”, “environment and energy”, and “material characterization” will be emphasized and will be conducted in cooperation with research institutions in the Tsukuba region and top-rated universities in other Asian countries. In addition, we will establish a new academic journal on materials science (tentatively titled Asian Journal of Materials) centered on Asian countries and will work to advance the status of the journal. Through the above described research activities we will aim to become the world's leading center of materials science research located in Asia.

Program Summary

There is an enormous amount of different kinds of materials around us, and new materials continue emerging on daily basis. We call an organic or inorganic matter a “material” when it has a function in human society. Technical development is often achieved through materials innovation. In order to challenge the existing technological problems, such as natural resources, environment and energy, we aim for materials innovation which has “nanostructure” as a common platform.

If graduate students in materials science should contribute to society in their future, it is important for them to acquire the research capability to create innovative materials, and at the same time to have a basic knowledge on how to develop their successful research into business. Communication skills in English, as well as in their own native languages are also necessary. One of the objectives of the global COE is to further develop such oriented programs for young students; these programs were already implemented as part of the 21-COE program. We intend to collaborate with core universities/institutes of education and research in Asian countries, where materials research is rapidly growing. Through this collaboration, we aim to promote the research activity of the materials science group in Tokyo Tech to the world-level and to establish a center of education and research in Asia, which would be on or above the level of those in the USA and EU.

Outline of Activities in 21-COE and Project Plans of G-COE

In past and present, Tokyo Tech has been greatly contributing to industries through materials innovations. Examples of such innovations are ferrites discovered by Dr. Yogoro Kato and Dr. Takeshi Takei, and conducting polymers discovered by Dr. Hideki Shirakawa who was later awarded a Nobel prize. In our 21-COE program, we not only established novel educational programs but also continued with extensive materials research the results of which have been published in top-rank international journals.

The plans for the G-COE on the part of education include extending the Project Management (PM) and Nanomaterials Initiative (NI) courses, which have been successfully established in the 21-COE, into a new G-COE continuous PhD course. Through this course, we will create a comprehensive educational program in fundamental materials science. The program will produce human resources with global viewpoints, communication skills and abilities to grasp scientific, engineering as well as economical importance.

On the part of research, we will establish three groups: (1) nanoprobing and nanostructure control group, (2) photo-electronics functional development group, and (3) eco-materials group. Each of these groups has as its members scientists representing all kinds of materials, such as metals, organic materials and inorganic materials. We will continue our research based on our original ideas with the main aim to bring about materials innovation.

Project Leader, Hideo Takezoe
Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials

• 拠点リーダー挨拶
• 事業推進担当者
• 拠点概要
  • 21COE活動実績
  • 拠点形成概要
• アジア各国との連携
• 人材育成
• 新博士コース概要
  • 目標と理念／コースの流れ
  • カリキュラム
  • 海外出張報告書
  • 研究成果報告書
  • 卒業生の進路
• イベント・公募情報
• 研究成果ハイライト・トピックス
• 共同研究募集
• Activity Report

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大学院理工学研究科　有機・高分子物質専攻
〒152-8552 東京都目黒区大岡山2-12-1　S8-42
Tel：03-5734-2436
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東京工業大学

理工学研究科

• 有機・高分子物質専攻
• 材料工学専攻

総合理工学研究科

• 材料物理科学専攻
• 物質科学創造専攻

材料系GCOE

プロジェクトマネージングコース(PMコース)

ナノマテリアルイニシアティブコース（NIコース）

新たな分子化学創発をめざす教育研究拠点（化学材料科学GCOE）

21世紀COEプログラム　産業化を目指したナノ材料開拓と人材育成

連携先機関

独立行政法人　物質・材料研究機構

• 光触媒材料センター

独立行政法人　産業技術総合研究所

• ナノテクノロジー研究部門

その他のGCOE拠点

東工大のその他のGCOE拠点

東京大学GCOE 「理工連携による化学イノベーション」

大阪大学GCOE 「生命環境化学グローバル教育研究拠点」

その他

日本学術振興会　グローバルCOEプログラム

文部科学省　グローバルCOEプログラム