Tohoku University

(東北大学 (東北大學 prior to 1945), Tōhoku daigaku^?)located in the city of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture in the Tōhoku Region, Japan, is a Japanese national university. It is the third oldest Imperial University in Japan and is a member of the National Seven Universities.

The university has 10 faculties and 15 graduate schools with a total of 17,949 students (2009)^[1]. The spirits of its foundation are based on 3 core values “Research First(研究第一主義)”, “Open-door(門戸開放)”and “Practice-Oriented Research and Education(実学尊重)” principles.

In 2009, Tohoku University is ranked 5th in Japan and internationally is ranked 20th in the field of Engineering and Technology, and 39th in Natural science by ARWU. It is also ranked number 49 worldwide according to Global University Ranking in 2009.^[2] Another ranking system, HEEACT, put Tohoku 11th in engineering, 17th in natural science. As Tohoku University has been emphasizing on ‘practical’ research, Tohoku got the top place at the number of patents accepted during 2007 among Japanese Universities.( Wikipedia)

Laboratory

The MS&T (Department of Management Science and Technology ) was established in 2002 to provide a structured course within which experts from government, industry, universities, and other research organizations could meet to study important management issues of common technology interest.

MS&T studies emphasize important corporate decisions as well as technology development. The process identifies the important insights for management and research planning and policy that are learned from a comparison of alternative approaches. These insights are far more important than precise development based upon a single perspective or expert. This focus makes the MS&T’s conclusions relevant to policy makers who are not experts in technology management.

The overall planning, coordination, daily operations, and administration are handled by the Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University. The MS&T are aided by administrative and secretarial staff and Tohoku graduate students assigned to the various studies underway.

The MS&T staff assists in the recruiting and forming of the working groups, participates as working group members in the studies, aids in the preparation of the reports, and publishes the final reports. With observers and others who closely follow the working groups and rotations of the working groups as new issues are selected, well over 100 individuals have been involved in several studies to date.

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