About Our Faculty of Engineering Newly Established
	Dr. H. Ishikawa Dean of Faculty of Engineering Kagawa University Takamatsu City, Kagawa, Japan
--- Last update: April 1, 2000---

Dear Friends and Colleagues: It is a pity for me not to have seen you for a long time. But, I am quite for sure that everything is going fine with you and your colleagues. Indeed, I have been kept extremely busy to handle piles of ineviatble administrative works associated with our Eengineering Faculty newly established. To my ashame, I could not have attended even ICOSSAR'97 held at Kyoto, Japan, in November, 1997. Instead, we have finally succeeded to establish the Faculty of Engineering at our University on October 1, 1997, and I am serving as the Founding Dean of the Faculty, effective as of October 1, 1997 until its completion. It is quite a long term of appointment by the Minister of Education, Japan. I will devote myself to the best of my ability for successful completion of the wonderful Faculty. In the course of preparation of the new Faculty, I am very much indebted to you for your great help and assistance of, for instance, giving me your valuable suggestions and comments to the concept of the Faculty. Thank you very much for everything. The Founding Dean is a very tough position to handle, and make a decision of, every aspect of the necessary preparation for its completion; for example, entrance examinations for new student reception, education and research systems, buildings and facilities, equipments, faculty members adoption, and so forth, to name only a few. At this point, I would like to briefly introduce you the outline of our newly established Engineering Faculty. The basic concept of its foundation is the combination of natural and social sciences to get rid of the restriction of the traditional speciality, to follow the new trend of the engineering evolution, to understand, from a global point of view, the objectives of engineering such as human beeing, nature, society and artificial systems, and to create autonomous and harmonic science and technology which is able to well co-exist with human beeings and environments. Aiming at the main stream of engineering in the coming twenty-first century, we have established four departments, in a hyperimposed manner, as follows: 1. Dept. of Safety Systems Construction Engineering (SSCE) Admission Capacity: 60 (Student Reception from April 1, 1998) Number of Chairs: 3 (in a large sense) Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering Disaster Prevension Systems Construction Engineering Environmental Planning Engineering Anabuki Chair of Foundation Geodynamics (Donated by Anabuki Construction Co., Ltd.) Concept: To pursue a new engineering, with its keyword "co-existence with the nature", to protect human beeing from the change and hazard of the natural environment and support an elegant life of people. 2. Dept. of Reliability-based Information Systems Engineering (RISE) Admission Capacity: 80 (Student Reception from April 1, 1998) Number of Chairs: 4 (in a large sense) Computer and Communication Network Engineering Human-oriented Information Systems Engineering Multimedia Electronic Engineering Reliability Engineering Concept: To pursue a new engineering, with its keyword "human friendly", to hold advanced technology friendly to all the people and pay high respect on personality of the individual, placing its emphasis on reliability and security. 3. Dept. of Intelligent Mechanical Systems Engineering (IMSE) Admission Capacity: 60 (Student Reception from April 1, 1998) Number of Chairs: 3 (in a large sense) Autonomous Control Engineering Intelligent Mechanical Systems Design Engineering Intelligent Formative Engineering Concept: To pursue a new engineering, with its keyword "human support", to promote human interfered engineering with its emphasis on robotics. 4. Dept. of Advanced Materials Science (AMS) Admission Capacity: 60 (Student Reception from April 1, 1999) Number of Chairs: 3 (in a large sense) Materials Systems Engineering Materials Processing Engineering Functional Materials Physics Concept: To pursue a new engineering, with its keyword "harmony with environment", to provide a solid base of R & D in advanced materials for industries of new fronteer. The admission capacity in total is 260. In addition to this, we have an admission capacity of 20 into the third Grade (Student Reception from April 1, 2000). Therefore the grand total of admission capacity becomes 280. Further, we will try to establish Graduate School for Master and PhD degrees in due course. The number of faculty members is scheduled to be around 90 - 100 at the time of its completion in which we may have two foreign guest full-professorships which could be available in a quite near future. Please keep this in your mind and recommend me at my e-mail address, ishikawa@eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp, if you would have prospective researchers or professors around you who are very active and excellent in research and education. The new campus (Hayashi Campus) of 5.24ha is partly completed in the Kagawa Intelligent Park (around 15 minutes ride by car from here: Saiwai-cho Campus), with 11-story and 9-story buildings of research works for faculty members and students, 3-story lecture hall, 4-story building of complex function for library, restaurant, administration bureau and computer rooms, etc. We have also built a very wide lounge with a splendid scenery in the top floor of the 11-story building. Within two years, the new dean's office will be also available, and I would like to see you there. Also, it is my greatest pleasure if we could make an agreement for academic exchange program between your Organization and ours. Please keep in touch with me in order to perform future cooperative research works and establishment of exchange programs, if possible. To conclude, I apologize you once again for my long absence. This year I hope I could have some free time to discuss and talk with you about matters of mutual interest. If you could set aside some time to drop in our University, you are of course most welcome. Please let me know at your earliest convenience, if the occasion may demand. Again, I would like to express my greatest thankfulness to all of you and sincerely hope that everything goes nicely and successfully with you and your colleagues. At the same time, all the good health and happiness to all of you in this year of 1998. With best regards, Yours sincerely, Hiroshi Ishikawa Founding Dean and Professor Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University 2217-20 Hayashi-cho, Takamatsu City, Kagawa 761-0396 Japan Tel: +81-87-864-2001 Fax: +81-87-864-2030 e-mail: ishikawa@eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp URL: http://www.eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp/ Residence: 2-4-1 Tokiwa-cho, Takamatsu City, Kagawa 760-0054 Japan Tel: +81-87-835-5631 Fax: +81-87-861-7512 P.S. I would appreciate it very much if you would kindly let me know your most recent correspondence (your address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail, URL, etc), preferably for both your affiliation and home, if you don't mind. Your exact and correct correspondence is essential to me when I would like to get in touch with you for possible future cooperative research works.

Please e-mail us your suggestions, comments and/or questions, if any, at ishikawa@eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp
Copyright: © 1996-2000 Dr. H. Ishikawa Founding Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University, 2217-20 Hayashi-cho, Takamatsu City, Kagawa 761-0396 Japan Phone: +81-87-864-2001 Fax: +81-87-864-2030
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