Faculty of Science and Engineering : Department of Life Science
Train the engineers and researchers of tomorrow to be on the forefront of medicine and environmental fields to improve the future humanity.
Knowledge and technologies from the rapidly-growing field of bioscience have a large impact on various fields such as medicine, engineering and agriculture. This department’s bioscience focuses on the aging society and the environmental issues that will both become more serious issues in the near future, and our students are expected to acquire related skills to contribute to the wellness of people in harmony with nature.
Through thorough basic research involving bioscience, students are expected to acquire knowledge of leading-edge technology including analytical technology, in order to prepare them for a wide range of fields such as medicine, environment and food.
Our goal is to have students acquire expert knowledge through the curriculum.
After freshman year, where students learn overall bioscience, sophomores choose a course of their interest depending on their future career goals.
They will be split into two courses, which are the Bio Course, focusing on the elucidation of life mechanisms, the development of new medicine and drug discovery research, and the Environment Course focusing on research in environmental fields such as pollution control. They strengthen their expertise in each course.
A long-term off-campus hands-on program to get to know the actual workplace
Students acquire knowledge of cutting edge technologies in of all kinds of disciplines.
Aiming to help them smoothly acquire expertise, we have incorporated applied technologies used in the field, including Genetic manipulation, Protein X-ray Crystallographic Analysis and Environmental Polluting Factor Analysis, into practices.
In their junior year, they will take part in a one-month off-campus practice as a requisite. They will learn nuts-and-bolts technologies and the ways of thinking at a company or research institution in industries such as pharmaceuticals, environmental measuring, food analysis and so on.