The is a

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in the city of Chōfu, Tokyo,

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. It specialises in the disciplines of

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, the

physical science Physical science is a branch of natural science that studies non-living systems, in contrast to life science. It in turn has many branches, each referred to as a "physical science", together called the "physical sciences". Definition Phys ...

engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

and

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. It was founded in 1918 as the Technical Institute for Wireless-Communications.

History

The University of Electro-communications was founded in the Azabu district, Tokyo city as the Technical Institute for Wireless-Communications by Wireless Association in 1918. The Technical Institute for Wireless-Communications was transferred to the Ministry of Communications in 1942 and renamed to the Central Technical Institute for Wireless-Communications in 1945. Following to the transfer from the Ministry of Communications to the Ministry of Education in 1948, the University of Electro-communications was established as a

in 1949. The campus was moved to the city of Chōfu, Tokyo in 1957. The university has been run by the

National University Corporation is a corporate body (legal entity) established under the provisions of the ''National University Corporation Act'' (2003) for the purpose of establishing a national university in Japan. History As part of promoting the reform of Japanese univer ...

since 2004.

School symbol

The school symbol was set in 1949. The design shows a Lissajous figure of the frequency ratio ob 5 to 6 with

Kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequ ...

character "学" which means "University". The frequency ratio of 5 to 6 means the commercial power frequency of 50 Hz (eastern Japan) and 60 Hz (western Japan), and indicates Japan-wide harmonization. The meaning of school symbol is common with that of school name which is "to establish an university which is open to all over Japan, by call it by a name without any geographical name".

Rankings

Global

The ''

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'' 2018 ranks UEC in the bracket of the 801-1000 best universities in the world.

Organisation

Faculties

*Faculty of Electro-Communications (until 2010) **Information and Communication Engineering **Computer Science **Electronic Engineering **Applied Physics and Chemistry **Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems **Systems Engineering **Human Communications *Faculty of Informatics and Engineering (since 2010) **Informatics **Communication Engineering and Informatics **Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems **Engineering Science **Fundamental Programs for Advanced Engineering

Graduate schools

*Graduate School of Electro-Communications (Until 2010) **Information and Communication Engineering **Computer Science **Electronic Engineering **Applied Physics and Chemistry **Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems **Systems Engineering **Human Communication *Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering (Since 2010) **Informatics **Communication Engineering and Informatics **Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems **Engineering Science *Graduate School of Information Systems **Human Media Systems **Social Intelligence and Informatics **Information Network Systems **Information on System Fundamentals

Centers for Education and Research

* Institute for Laser Science *Advanced Wireless Communication Research Center(AWCC) *Center for Space Science and Radio Engineering (SSRE) *Center for Frontier Science and Engineering *Center for Photonic Innovation *Research Center for Ubiquitous Networking and Computing *Advanced Ultrafast Laser Research Center *Innovation Research Center for Fuel Cells

Notable faculty

* Kwan-ichi Terazawa - mathematician and member of the Japan Academy *

Noriaki Kano Noriaki Kano (狩野紀昭 ''Kanō Noriaki,'' pronounced ) is a Japanese educator, lecturer, writer, and consultant in the field of quality management. He is the developer of a customer satisfaction model (now known as the Kano model) whose simp ...

- consultant in quality management, recipient of the Deming Prize (1997), and also known for

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* Masahiro Mori - roboticist * Kanji Nishio - German literary figure and philosopher * Te Sun Han - information theorist and recipient of the Shannon Award (2010) * Hisaki Matsuura - poet and novelist

Notable alumni

Businesspersons

Ken Kutaragi is a Japanese engineering technologist and businessman. He is the former chairman and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), the video game division of Sony Corporation, and current president and CEO of Cyber AI Entertainment. He is known ...

, B.E. in Electronic Engineering in 1975 - former CEO of

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, current Honorary Chairman of

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Corporation, and also known as Father of

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* Kōichi Nakamura - video game designer and founder of Chunsoft

Scholars and Researchers

* Sumio Iijima, B.E. in 1963 - discoverer of

carbon nanotubes A scanning tunneling microscopy image of a single-walled carbon nanotube Rotating single-walled zigzag carbon nanotube A carbon nanotube (CNT) is a tube made of carbon with diameters typically measured in nanometers. ''Single-wall carbon na ...

and recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal (2002) and the

Balzan Prize The International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or organizations who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, culture, as well as for endeavours for peace and the br ...

(2007) *

Seinosuke Toda is a computer scientist working at the Nihon University in Tokyo. Toda earned his Ph.D. from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1992, under the supervision of Kojiro Kobayashi. He was a recipient of the 1998 Gödel Prize for proving Toda's th ...

, B.E. in 1982, M.E. in 1984 - computer scientist, recipient of the

Gödel Prize The Gödel Prize is an annual prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science, given jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interes ...

(1998), and also known for Toda's theorem

Others

* Kiana Danial - personal investing and wealth management expert, CEO of Invest Diva * Noritoshi Ishida - politician and member of

New Komeito Party , formerly New Komeito and abbreviated NKP, is a conservative political party in Japan founded by lay members of the Buddhist Japanese new religious movement Soka Gakkai in 1964. Since 2012, it has served in government as the junior coalit ...

* Jirō Nitta - novelist *

Soichi Terada is a Japanese electronic music composer, best known for his work in the ''Ape Escape'' video game series. He started producing music in 1989 as well as remixing singers such as Nami Shimada. He and fellow producer Shinichiro Yokota formed Far Eas ...

- composer and musician

References

External links

The University of Electro-CommunicationsThe University of Electro-Communications (in English)
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