Functional Control Systems

Objectives in Education and Research

Japan in the 20th century placed an emphasis on efficiency and convenience, and strived towards manufacturing things, seeking to increase profitability. As a result, this approach put Japan in a situation where it faced contradictions such as the destruction of environment. Currently, Japan possesses technologies, which lead the world in such fields as automobiles, robotics, electronics and telecommunications, whilst resolving such contradictions. These technologies are becoming increasingly more complex. In order to contribute to the world as a leader of science and technology in the global society going forward, Japan will be required to exercise high-level design capabilities and technology management skills, which will enable Japan to grasp the overall picture of increasingly complex technologies and promote harmony within the overall system, in addition to the ability to deeply analyze and comprehend objects. 
For example, at the nuclear accident, which occurred immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the importance of systemized technology regarding the use of technology in a society including its implementation and operation was reaffirmed. This suggests that it is time for us to reconsider practical education. At the same time, this also means that nurturing researchers and engineers who will acquire the global values and capabilities required to work internationally.

Based on such a background, the Functional Control Systems Course aims to provide education and to conduct research to nurture outstanding researchers and engineers who have global values and the ability to fully grasp the truth of science and make use of it in practical education. This course consists of a number of different education and research fields, such as communication function control, functional device control, system control, and biosystems and biomolecule control, and operates interdisciplinary education and research. Taking this approach ensures that the course is not specialized in education and research being exclusively relevant to the areas of its academic staff’s expertise. The course also aims to nurture researchers and engineers with basic skills for technology management and proficiency in English for engineers as well as shared values and ethics, while the course as a whole is aware of the relevance based on the diversity in the course and actively promotes collaboration with each other.

Fields


Field Research Guidance Subject Supervisor
Communication Function Control EngineeringAdvanced Research on Telecommunication Function Control
(Research Guidance)
WATANABE Eiji
MIYATA Sumiko 
TAKAHASHI Masanobu 
SAITOH Atsushi 
MIYOSHI Takumi 
YOSHIDA Kenji 
KAMIOKA Eiji 
HIROSE Kazuhide 
KANZAWA Yuuchi 
TANAKA Naohiko 
TANAKA Shinichi 
MUTO Kenji 
KUBOTA Aya 
MORINO Hiroaki 
GYODA Koichi 
YASUMURA Yoshiaki  
YAMAZAKI Kenichi 
MATSUDA Haruhide 
MANO Kazunori 
HORIE Ryota
KIMURA Gen
Nicodimus Retdian
IOKA Eri
YAMAZAKI Taku 
OHASHI Yutaro
MAEDA Kengo
HISAZUMI Kenji
GOTO Yusuke
HOSAKA Ryosuke
MOCHINAGA Dai
Function Device EngineeringFunction Device EngineeringNAGAYAMA Katsuhisa
HOMMA Tetsuya
MUGURUMA Hitoshi
KOIKE Yoshikazu
YOKOI Hideki
YAMAGUCHI Masaki
Function Device EngineeringFunction Device EngineeringKYUNO Kentaro
MASAKI Tadahiko
UENO Kazuyoshi
AOKI Koushirou
ISHIKAWA Hiroyasu
SASAKI Masahiro
SHIMOJO Masayuki
YUMOTO Atsushi
ISHIZAKI Takahiro
HASHIDA Noriko
YOSHITAKE Ryoji
Wonseok Yang
SERIZAWA Ai
MATSUO Shigeki
MAEDA Tadashi
TOMITA Yusuke
Premachandra Chinthaka
SHIGEMUNE Hiroki
ASHIZAWA Yusuke 
Gabriele Trovato
System Control EngineeringAdvanced Research Program on Systems Control Engineering
(Research Guidance )
MURAKAMI Kayoko
YOSHIHARA Shouichirou
KAWAKAMI Yukio 
USAMI Kimiyoshi 
Chen Xinkai  
YAMAMOTO Shinichirou 
SUGIMOTO Tooru 
ADACHI Yoshitaka 
TAKAMI Hiroshi 
HASEGAWA Hiroshi  
HASEGAWA Tadahiro 
SHIMADA Akira 
KASUGA Nobuyo 
SAEKI Masato 
ICHIKAWA Manabu
ITO Kazuhisa 
UCHIMURA Yutaka 
KIMURA Masaomi 
YOSHIMI Takashi 
FUKUDA Hiroaki  
ANDOU Yoshinobu  
HOSOYA Naoki 
MUTO Masayoshi 
KOYAMA Yusuke 
System Control EngineeringAdvanced Research Program on Systems Control Engineering
(Research Guidance )
FUKUDA Akiko 
KAMEKO Masaki 
Zhai Guisheng
SUZUKI Tatsuo
TAKEUCHI Shingo 
ISHIWATA Tetsuya 
YONEMURA Shunichi 
SUGAYA Midori 
ITO Toshio 
OZAKI Katsuhisa 
IJIRI Takashi
SHIMIZU Sota
NAGASAWA Sumito 
SAWA Takekazu
YAMAZAWA Hiroshi 
ABIKO Satoko
NAKAJIMA Tsuyoshi
NODA Natsuko
HIROSE Toshiya
IIZUKA Kojiro
MAKISHITA Hideyo 
SHIMIZU Kenichi 
SAKAKIBARA Nobuhisa
MATSUBARA Ryota 
ISHIZAKI Satoshi 
MANABE Hiroyuki
FUJITA Goro
SASANO Isao
TANABE Tadao
HIROSE Sampei
KAWASHIMA Rei
SHINKUMA Ryouichi
YOSHIDA Shinya
HAYABUSA Keisuke
SAKAI Yasunori
WATANABE DAi
Cetinkaya Ahamet
Life Function Control EngineeringAdvanced Research Program on Bio-function Control
(Research Guidance )
YOSHIMI Yasuo 
HAMASAKI Keita 
HANAFUSA Akihiko 
YAMAMOTO Sota 
OSAKABE Naomi 
FUKUI Koji 
FUSE Hiroyuki 
SUHARA Yoshitomo 
SATOU Hiroki
WATANABE Nobuo 
KANOH Shinichiro 
YOSHIMURA Kenjiro 
FUTAI Nobuyuki
AKAGI Ryota
HIROTA Yoshihisa
YATABE Kiyomi
YAJIMA Ichiro
NAKAMURA Naoko 
TOMA Koji
Azham Zulkharnain 
TAKAGI Motoki
Shahrol Bin Mohamaddan

Diploma Policy

The degree of Doctor of Philosophy will be conferred by fulfilling the following criteria.

Standard period of completing the Doctor’s Program is set to be three years. However, in the case where the candidates’ research achievement is exceptionally good, they will be allowed to complete the program on condition that they have been registered with the program for over one year.

Candidates will complete the program by completing at least one subject from within the area of advanced subjects, receiving guidance in a special study, publishing academic papers and presenting a paper at an academic conference, and passing the assessment of a doctoral thesis, and they will then be conferred the degree. However, candidates who work as well as study may be exempt from taking the advanced subjects upon their main supervisor’s approval.

Candidates will be allowed to register themselves beyond the standard period of completion in cases of temporary absence from the university, returning to the university, dropping out, and re-admission. This will increase the possibility of their conferment.

Degree Assessment Criteria

1. Degree Assessment Criteria for Candidates in the Doctor’s Program
(1) Registered period
Candidates must have been registered with the Doctor’s Program at this Graduate School and have received prescribed research guidance. However, for the candidates whose research achievement is exceptionally good, the period registered with the program can be reduced to just over one year.

(2) Research Achievement
(i) In principle, Candidates must have submitted and published two articles as the first author in academic journals involving an assessment by the Academic Society Home Village during the period in which they are registered with the program. However, one of these two journal articles can be replaced with two proceedings (as a first author) for an international conference involving an assessment. 
(ii) Candidates whose article has been accepted by an academic journal to be published or at an international conference to be presented must attach documents to prove these acceptances.

2. Degree Assessment Criteria for the Candidate of Doctoral Degree by Thesis Only
(i) Candidates must have more than five years of research and development experience following their graduation from university, and must have submitted and published at least five articles as the first author in academic journals involving an assessment by the Academic Society Home Village. However, when those who left the university upon completion of the program period applies for the conferment of the doctoral degree without re-entering the program, the assessment criteria for candidates in the Doctor’s Program will be applied to assess their research achievement only if the assessment is completed within two years following the date, which they left the university. 
(ii) Candidates whose article has been accepted by an academic journal to be published must attach documents to prove the acceptance.

Curriculum Policy

The Functional Control Systems Course aims to nurture researchers and professionals with advanced expertise who have excellent research promotion and research and development skills with rich creativity in the fields of communication function control, functional device control, system control, and life function control, and who can solve various global problems for the realization of a sustainable society in cooperation with researchers and engineers around the world. The purpose is to train researchers and highly-skilled professionals who have a high degree of specialization that can solve various problems in the world for the realization of a sustainable society.
The curriculum is organized based on the following policies so that students can develop their expertise from a comprehensive perspective in both software and hardware.
・In order to develop the advanced knowledge and experimental skills necessary to write a doctoral dissertation in the field of functional control systems, "specialized subjects" are arranged.
・In the "Research Guidance" of the Functional Control Systems field, under the research guidance of a faculty advisor, students will develop researchers and engineers who can play an active role in global society through the formulation of a research plan, research on research-related papers, discussions with the faculty advisor, presentations at domestic and international conferences, and publication of academic papers.
・In order to develop future autonomous researchers and educators, "Pre-FD subjects" are arranged.
・In addition, we encourage students to take the "Technology Management Sub-Major Program" as a part of the common subjects in the Master's Course in order to develop human resources with sigma-type integrated capabilities that combine multifaceted engineering capabilities, technology management capabilities, and metanational capabilities.

Admission Policy

In recent years, the globalization of science and technology has been progressing, and it is extremely important to aim for sustainable development not only in Japan but also in the world from a global perspective. For this purpose, it is necessary to train researchers and engineers who can acquire global values and play an active role internationally.The Department of Functional Control Systems aims to promote university research in the fields of communication function control, functional device control, system control, and life function control engineering, and to foster researchers who can solve global problems for the realization of a sustainable society in collaboration with researchers and engineers from around the world. This program aims to nurture researchers and highly specialized professionals with a broad international perspective and the ability to think flexibly. Therefore, we seek the following applicants.

(1) Those who strongly desire to study and research in this department and wish to achieve personal growth and self-realization in this department.
(2) Those who have completed a master's course or are active in the front line of society and have advanced research promotion ability related to functional control systems.
(3) Those who can creatively explore new fields related to functional control systems.
(4) Those who have communication skills including foreign languages, presentation skills, and management skills.