Department of Mathematical and Systems Engineering
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The Department of Mathematical and Systems Engineering aims to develop independent-minded engineers who contribute to the development of human and environment-friendly systems. Due to the fast growth of information systems, the demand for systems engineers is rapidly growing in many fields including the manufacturing, service, and communications industry. In addition, we are facing the problems of protecting the global environment and realizing the safety and security of our society. So, computer systems designed to be responsible for the environment and human society are strongly needed.
This department offers an educational program formed by three academic fields that provide a base for the development of professional human and environment-friendly systems engineers in various engineering fields. The first is methods of mathematical sciences such as mathematical modeling, simulation and optimization. The second is information sciences such as computer programming and algorithms. The last is environmental sciences such as risk management.
Education in the Department of Mathematical and Systems Engineering
The Department of Mathematical and Systems Engineering offers a systematic educational program consisting of subjects from mathematical science and information science. These two form the base of systems engineering. This base is joined with environmental science and engineering to help develop students’ skills needed to make them independent-minded systems engineers with the ability to create optimal systems which are both human and environment-friendly. From mathematical science, students study modeling, simulation methods, numerical calculation, mathematical optimization, etc. From computer science, they study programming, algorithms, computer networks, computer architecture, etc. Students also study subjects from environmental science such as environmental systems engineering and environmental design. The educational program includes subjects based on group based learning such as the applied practice of systems engineering and programming contests aimed at developing presentation skills, communications skills, learning ability, creativity, and research ability.
After graduation
More than half of the students graduating from the Department of Systems Engineering, which is the antecedent to the Department of Mathematical and Systems Engineering, go on to master’s courses. After completing their master’s degrees, a number of them go on to complete doctoral degrees.
The graduates with a bachelor’s or master’s degree from this department are expected to find jobs in system design working with the development of various industries including information technology, manufacturing, construction, public utility, services, etc. in the same way as the graduates of the Department of Systems Engineering. They have been hired by well-known leading companies in the following industries: transport machinery, transportation, manufacturing industry, communication industry, service, etc.
Transport machinery and transportation
Toyota Motor, Honda Motor, Mazda Motor, Denso, Aisin AW, Toyota Auto Body, Toyota Boshoku, Suzuki Motor, Isuzu Motors, Yamaha Motor, and Central Japan Railway
Manufacturing
Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Canon Inc., Seiko Epson, Yamaha, Kyocera, Toshiba, Hitachi, IBM Japan, Kyoritsu Electric, Koito Manufacturing, Hamamatsu Photonics, Olympus, Dai Nippon Printing,
Communication
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp., NTT Facilities, KDDI,
Service
Suruga Bank Ltd., Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd., Japan Finance Corp.,
Faculty
| Professor | |
|---|---|
| Takafumi Akahori | Partial Differential Equations |
| Shinji Adachi | Variational Methods |
| Akira Hoshiga | Nonlinear Wave Equation |
| Susumu Ishihara | Computer Networks |
| Koji Kikuchi | Partial Differential Equations |
| Takashi Miyahara | Environmental Engineering |
| Rinko Miyazaki | Theory and Applications of Differential Equations |
| Satoru Morita | Nonlinear Dynamics |
| Associate Professor | |
| Kazutoshi Ando | Discrete Optimization |
| Yohei Fujishima | Nonlinear partial differential equations |
| Genki Ichinose | Evolutionary Games, Evolutionary Computation |
| Makoto Okabe | Computer Graphics |
| Atsuhiko Kai | Spoken Language Processing |
| Toru Nakajima | Variational Method, Geometrical Analysis |
| Kazunori Sato | Mathematical Ecology |
| Yoshihiro Sekine | Operator Algebras |
| Satoshi Yokojima | Environmental Fluid Mechanics |
| Miho Murata | Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations |
| Guo-jie Jason Gao | Physics of Granular Materials, Molecular Dynamics |
| Lecturer | |
| Tomohiko Mizutani | Mathematical Optimization, Data Mining, Operations Research |
| Assistant Professor | |
| Wei Wu | Combinatorial Optimization, Scheduling |