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Kyushu Institute of Technology (hereafter, “Kyutech”), an institute of higher education with “national-university status”, was founded in the Year 1909 in the city of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Kyutech launched a new post-graduate program, the Space Engineering International Course (SEIC), in April of 2013. The primary purpose of the program is to graduate engineers who have well-honed inter-cultural communication skills and a keen sense of viewing problem-solving and solution-creation with a broad, global systems engineering perspective.
The program offers: [1] Research under supervision of a faculty member toward a Master or Doctoral degree, [2] a series of lectures (all in English) on space engineering by faculty members, [3] Project Based Learning (PBL) through concept development in collaboration with Japanese students, and [4] “hands-on” training on space environment testing using state-of-the-art engineering facilities. The program provides the on-the-job experience necessary to acquire basic capabilities in space technology (such as satellite design). In particular, SEIC graduates will have the know-how to develop satellite-development infrastructure in their own countries through the actual testing of nano-satellites. Although you would spend a lot of time in a classroom to acquire basic knowledge of space engineering, as much as possible we try to provide a lot of time in the lab for "hands-on" experience. There are many opportunities at SEIC for such "hands-on" experience. Also, the SEIC experience is extremely international. In SEIC, there are more students from overseas than from Japan. (As of April 2024, there are 11 Japanese students enrolled in SEIC while 40 foreign students from 25 countries are enrolled in SEIC.)
