Office for Planning and Management, Annual Review 2005, The University of Aizu

Annual Review 2005 > Office for Plannning and Management

Office for Plannning and Management


Tetsuhiko Ikegami President	Yuko Kesen Assistant Professor	Kazuaki Yamauchi Assistant Professor	Tsuyoshi Ishikawa Assistant Professor

Takao Maeda Assistant Professor

The University of Aizu aims 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. As described in the university regulations, the Office for Planning and Management, headed by the University President, was established as an internal research organization for the purpose of performing general investigative research concerning university functions, along with performing general program planning and 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.

Office for Planning and Management took the initiative in applying for the MEXT's "Strategic Fund for Establishing International Headquarters in Universities" Program. In April 2005, the University of Aizu was selected as one of 20 pilot universities, and in July 2005, Center for Strategy of International Programs(CSIP) was opened. Some of our tasks including international exchanges are now undertaken by CSIP.

Two Primary Tasks:

Bridge Function between the University of Aizu 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, joint university-industry ventures and government funding are sought for promising projects. The function was a foregoing activity of the cooperation/collaboration between University and Industry.
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 industries in the local region

Refereed Proceeding Papers

[yamauchi-01:2005]	K. Yamauchi, W. Chen, and D. Wei. 3G Mobile Phone Applications in Telemedicine - A Survey. In Z. Xie H. Wang S. H. Wang B. Shi N. Gu, D. Wei, editor, The Fifth International Conferernce on Computer And Information Texhnology (CIT2005), pages 956-960, Los Alamitos, California, Sept. 2005. IEEE, IEEE Computer Society.
	We reviewed current 3G mobile phone applications in telemedecine.