*We will announce the "ICT Vision 2023" as soon as it is decided.
ICT 2025 In Sight
In April 2018, our school changed its name from Kanazawa Technical College to International College of Technology, Kanazawa (ICT). The Department of Science and Technology, which was created by combining the Departments of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Global Information Technology, started on the new Hakusanroku Campus. For the 1st and 2nd years, we provide a fully-residential program with most courses conducted in English on the Hakusanroku Campus in a rich natural setting and students work on various projects that contribute to regional revitalization. For the 3rd year, all students study at our affiliated school in New Zealand. For the 4th and 5th years, students conduct research and carry out projects in collaboration with students from Kanazawa Institution of Technology (KIT), which is located next to our Kanazawa Campus.
We have set the objectives of this "ICT 2025 In Sight" in order to move steadily toward leadership in science and engineering education in Japan and achieve further development based on the KIT School System.
<ICT Educational Mission> Fostering Leaders of Global Innovation
1. To enhance leadership competencies
A global innovator is a person who can create new value using creative solutions with the latest scientific engineering knowledge and insight. In addition, a global innovator is a professional who can effectively cooperate with experts from various fields, accept the diversity of cultures and values, and have skills to bring innovative changes in order to realize a better world.
We define these abilities in our diploma policy (9 leadership competencies) and advance the following education aiming to enhance these competencies:
1）We will pursue education that enhances students' personal qualities as a leader who contributes to society.
- Students will set their tasks from a social perspective based on a personal "mission" and form personal qualities as a leader who aims for success without fearing risks or difficulties.
2）We will pursue education that fosters students' communication skills for acting on a global scale.
- While being informed about Japan and the world, students will acquire communication skills for recognizing and exercising one's own values within diversity.
3）We will pursue education that fosters students' superior scientific and technological capabilities worthy of an innovator.
- With a strong foundation from an early stage and a broad investigation of academic disciplines in coordination with KIT, students will acquire superior academic skills for creating value from a multilateral perspective.
9 Leadership Competencies
- Courage to innovate
Operate with a strong conviction (motive, tenacity) and continue to strive without fearing failure to lead oneself or a team towards success
- Sense of duty to society
Maintain a sense of duty to resolve social issues with concern for regional communities and natural environments
- Integrity as a leader
Be a responsible collaborator treating others with kindness and respect through modesty while exhibiting leadership in a global environment
- Collaboration
Actively contribute to accomplishing a goal as a team, understanding one's own role and input
- Diversity and identity
Maintain a clear sense of identity while possessing a fundamental understanding of various cultures and value systems
- Impressing upon others
Having organized one's thoughts logically, effectively convey them in a way that takes into consideration the position and emotions of others
- Creating value
Be able to create new value through the practice of design thinking and broad investigations of academic disciplines
- Scientific thinking that combines industry, society, and nature
Be able to express one's own thoughts having understood and analyzed science and technology from the aspects of industry, society, and nature
- Attitude for continuous learning
With sound learning as a foundation, maintain an attitude for continuously acquiring new knowledge and skills
2. To instill the "liberal arts of science and technology"
As we're living in a world of uncertainty, the core of education should not be for students to acquire knowledge only, but to acquire the ability to think for themselves, and knowledge of and skills for the processes of identifying and solving problems.
The core of the ICT curriculum is Engineering Design, in which students study design thinking, IT, and manufacturing and conduct creative team activities of problem-finding and problem-solving. Based on the Engineering Design curriculum, we instill the "liberal arts of science and technology" that combines English STEM, which fosters scientific and engineering thinking skills in English, with extracurricular activities, which foster character building and generic skills through various activities such as creative regional revitalization.
1）We will foster students' thinking and design skills.
- We will foster students' insight and capability to understand problems from multiple points of view to find opportunities for innovation.
- Students will polish critical and analytical thinking and find solutions for open-ended problems.
- Students will welcome failures caused by taking on challenges and gain insight through the trial-and-error process.
2）We will provide a wide range of scientific and engineering knowledge and skills through STEM education.
- Through their research and project activities, students will learn processes for generating the knowledge needed to solve problems.
- We will foster students' capability to integrate and apply what they learn.
3）We will tackle various social issues keeping in mind the 17 SDGs.
- We will foster students' skills to think from many sides in terms of SDGs, such as engineering ethics, resources and environment, and the life cycle of objects.
- We will encourage students to find a sense of mission by connecting familiar local issues to global issues.
- Students will participate in efforts to protect the local natural environment and contribute to regional revitalization as stake holders in the Hakusanroku community, their "second home."
4）We will carry out education based on social-implementation, incorporating the world-standard CDIO engineering education initiative.
- Students will acquire creative knowledge and skills through experience-based learning aligned with actual practice in industry (Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate).
3. To advance our globally-oriented education
We are frontrunners in education for a globally interconnected society. Building on our educational system and our international network, we will strategically advance our globally-oriented education for the entire school as established in the Policies on Promotion of Internationalization.
1）We will cultivate students' fundamental skills to be a global innovator.
- Students will understand their own culture and form their identity.
- Students will gain understanding and respect for different cultures through international experiences.
- Students will experience creating new value in collaboration with people all around the world.
2）We will strengthen the connections between students, teachers, and overseas partners.
- We will promote project-type overseas programs such as Learning Express and service learning programs.
- We will promote long-term programs such as overseas internships and COOP education.
- We will enhance and develop educational research by making full use of our international exchange network.
4. To establish the KIT School System
With the nine years of integrated education consisting of five years at ICT and four years at KIT and the KIT Graduate School, we established the "KIT School System", a potent force for fostering global innovators, and began its operation in April 2018. The KIT School System enables students to work on more complicated tasks as they move up to each next grade and move through different educational environments.
Our school strives to provide education that uses the best settings to generate the best outcomes.
1st Stage: 1st and 2nd year students study at the Hakusanroku Campus boarding school surrounded by rich nature.
2nd Stage: All 3rd year students study in New Zealand for one year while living with a homestay family.
3rd Stage: 4th and 5th year students collaborate with KIT students, transcending the boundaries of generations, academic fields, and cultures.
4th Stage: After transferring to KIT, students participate in state-of-the-art innovation projects in an advanced research environment.
1）We will establish a system that supports wide and rich career building.
- We will create and implement the curriculum of the KIT School System and continuously improve it.
- We will build a foundation of broad science and engineering, and establish finely tuned educational guidance and career support that deepens expertise based on the needs of individual students.
2）We will conduct classes that are effectively integrated according to educational objective.
- We will conduct classes that foster general skills such as cooperation and creativity, and develop characters such as leadership and ethical awareness, along with academic knowledge.
- We will conduct classes that integrate liberal arts and various specialized fields according to educational objectives and goals.
- We will conduct classes that effectively integrate lecture, research, discussion, creation, presentation, and review.
3）We will pursue joint education with KIT.
- We will create courses that include long-term internships and study abroad.
- We will promote collaboration with industry to foster global innovators.
- We will conduct co-creation projects in mixed teams of students, adults of various abilities, backgrounds, and nationalities.
- We will establish an attractive learning environment for students from overseas.
4）We will streamline educational and learning support systems of the KIT School System.
- Academic advisers will give guidance and advice for taking courses and learning tailored for each student.
- We will prepare and operate the integrated 9-year academic system according to growth of individual students.
- We will prepare and operate systems for registration and record-keeping and for evaluation of student achievements and activities that are appropriate to our new educational program.
5）We will continuously improve the operation of the school and the KIT School System.
- We will establish an IR Committee to assess and evaluate the effectiveness of education and learning in order to continuously improve our system.
5. To create the best learning community
In a learning community students, faculty and staff take charge of their learning while supporting each other in their learning and support each other to realize their full potential. Taking the "KIT-IDEALS" as our code of conduct, we will respect the individuality and diversity of the students, faculty and staff, and create a rich and colorful school experience.
1）We will create a school rich in diversity.
- We will aim to attract students from across the country.
- We will increase the number of international students and Japanese students who have lived abroad in order to promote diversity.
- We will show that the fields of science and engineering can be interesting and attractive to young women as well as men.
- We will recruit globally to ensure an international faculty and staff.
2）We will institute systems to fully support students from admission to graduation.
- We will utilize a portfolio system for full-coverage student advising.
- Career advisers will support career development for students.
3）We will create a school where students, faculty and staff learn together.
- Not only students, but faculty and staff as well, will be motivated for ongoing learning.
- We will promote active learning in all courses.
- We will actively look for innovative teaching methods and tools to continuously improve the effectiveness of our educational programs.
- We will encourage faculty and staff who are eager to innovate and take on challenges.
4）We will promote education in collaboration with the local community and industry.
- We will promote education in collaboration with the local community and industry, and carry out creative and practical educational programs.
Aiming to accomplish the goals set forth here, we will educate global innovators and strive to make our school indispensable for the future.