School of Science and Technology
pursuing international exchange on our own terms
Internationalization at the School of Science and Technology has been cultivated by the steady efforts of our teachers, especially in recent years, with links set up with universities in South Korea and Malaysia. Our links with universities in South Korea have centered on research exchanges at the postgraduate and staff level. International exchange with Malaysia has been proceeding with the opening of a transfer system for students from a school in Malaysia known as JAD. In 2008, Meiji University opened its first satellite office at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), and from there, we are proactively showcasing the type of research we do at this school to attract local Asian study abroad students with efforts such as the MIMS showcase and the MEIJI–UTM Academic Forum. In addition, the School of Science and Technology supported undergraduate students from Malaysia’s Petronas University of Technology and UTM when they visited Japan on the Japan Training Program. We have also offered assistance for IT education at the National University of Laos in Southeast Asia and set up exchanges in education and research with India and Vietnam.
We are also developing staff research exchanges with Britain, France, Germany, and Finland, in addition to continuing exchanges already in place with the USA, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2009, we also welcomed a group of seven science and technology instructors from Linköping University, one of Sweden’s national universities, who exchanged information across all departments at the School of Science and Technology. These exchanges, which have built up close ties between the researchers, have the potential to lead to greater things as we go into the future.
The Global 30 project, which we entered last year, has given us the opportunity to put in place a board for the promotion of international collaboration within the school, and thanks to consensus across all departments in the school, we will be able to make major advances in the results that we have achieved so far.
