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Science Education for a New
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Believing in the "Age of Electricity"
The Nagoya Electrical Educational Foundation has as its beginnings the foundation
of the Nagoya Training School of Electricity in 1912. At that time, as Japan was
advancing quickly along the road to modernization, our founder, Professor Takasaburou
Goto, having predicted the coming industrialization early on, was driven by its
power and knew that "the age of electrification" was certainly on its
way. With "the education of the engineers active at the forefront of business"
as the primary objective, classes were begun in Nagoya City.
Soon thereafter the school was renamed "Nagoya Electricity School" and
a regular three-year school was established. The founder's prediction proved to
be right on the mark, and soon Japan was progressing rapidly towards industrialization.
Alongside outstanding post-war technological advances, Japan approached the advanced
status of a modern nation.
Comprehensive
Education to Meet the Times
As our school developed in stride with the great developments of this age, the
Nagoya Electricity School became the Nagoya High School of Electricity, and with
the creation of Nagoya Junior College of Electricity, the Chubu region's first
college of technology was established. Along with the renaming of the university
to Aichi Institute of Technology and an increase in the number of departments,
development was begun at a new campus in the Yagusa district of Toyota city, a
location blessed with green hills and open spaces.
Today Nagoya High School of Electricity is called Aichi Institute of Technology
Meiden High School, and the coeducational school offers a regular curriculum as
well as specialist courses to fulfill the needs of students preparing for further
education or for employment. In addition to this, Aichi Institute of Technology
Junior High School and Aichi Institute of Technology Communications and Electronics,
established in 1992 at the request of Toyota City, have been added to form a comprehensive
educational foundation comprising a university, a senior high school, a junior
high school and a technical vocational college.
More
Than 100,000 Graduates
In the 90 years that have passed, more than 100,000 graduates have been sent off
to contribute to "manufacturing" and "technological innovation"
in keeping with the foundation spirit founding spirit of our school. As a country
without resources, Japan's trade and industry oriented national policy should
be considered predestined, and while our foundation's mission to educate highly
trained engineers and researchers to respond to the ever more rapid changes of
digitization, internationalization, technological innovation, etc, grows weightier,
our responsibility has become even greater.
The surroundings in the vicinity of our Yagusa campus location have been undergoing
a vast transformation within the scope of the 2005 World Exposition, Aichi, Japan.
In recalling the origins of the entire Educational Foundation's establishment,
the entire teaching staff are doing their utmost to educate skilled workers according
to our educational motto of "Creativity and Humankind". |
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