Office for Planning and Management, Annual Review 2004, The University of Aizu

Annual Review 2004 > Office for Plannning and Management

Office for Plannning and Management


Tetsuhiko Ikegami Professor	Tsuyoshi Ishikawa Assistant Professor	Yuko Kesen Assistant Professor	Takao Maeda Assistant Professor

Kazuaki Yamauchi Assistant Professor

The University of Aizu started with a goal to become a front-line university providing the greatest range of the most up-to-date educational and research activities in the field of computer science and engineering internationally. It is a unique institution unparalleled by any other existing Japanese university, which can be seen from its policy of internationally open and competitive faculty positions. In fact, approximately 40 percent of the positions is filled by foreign faculty. The Office for Planning and Management, headed by the University President, was established as an internal research organization for the purpose of performing comprehensive investigative research concerning university functions, along withperforming general program planningand design regarding university education and research, international exchange, public relations and publications, legal affairs, local arrangement of conference and other necessary matters concerning administrative management.

Two Primary Tasks:

Bridge Function between the University and Outside

The Office makes studies and plans for collaborative research activities inside and outside the university. We seek cooperation between the University, Japanese industry, and government. Such cooperation would include technology transfer and joint university-industry ventures. Government funding are sought for promising projects.
Planning and Management of Education

The University of Aizu was the first Japanese university offering systematically organized curricula tailored to the essentials of computer science and engineering. Since computer science and engineering is a field of rapid progress and development, it is necessary to constantly improve the curricula to provide the appropriate educational experience for students.

Other Major Tasks:

International exchange and international legal affairs
Public relations, international recruitment, and human resource development
Planning and management of educational and research technologies and facilities
Development and publication of motivating teaching methods, materials and top-down interactive educational software
Development and publication of research software
Studies for the development of international industries in the local region

Referred Proceeding Papers

[yamauchi-01:2004]	K. Yamauchi, W. Chen, and D. Wei. A Study on Japanese Mobile Phone Market and its Applications. In Z. Peng A. Kara Y. He D. Wei, H. Wang, editor, The Fourth International Conferernce on Computer And Information Texhnology (CIT2004), pages 875-878, Los Alamitos, California, Sept. 2004. IEEE, IEEE Computer Society.
	We studied Japanese mobile phone market and its applications.