Tsuruoka National College of Technology (Japanese: 鶴岡工業高等専門学校; Tsuruoka Kougyou Koutousennmonngakkou) is a Japan

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ese National College of Technology that is located in Tsuruoka, Yamagata

Tsuruoka, Yamagata

is a city located in the Shonai region of Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.Tsuruoka is the second largest city in Yamagata Prefecture after Yamagata City...

. The abbreviated name is TNCT (Japanese: 鶴岡高専; Tsuruoka Kousen)。

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History

• 1963 Tsuruoka National College of Technology was founded on April 1, 1963 (the two-class Department of Mechanical Engineering
  Mechanical engineering
  Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
  
   class and Department of Electronic Engineering
  Electronic engineering
  Electronics engineering, also referred to as electronic engineering, is an engineering discipline where non-linear and active electrical components such as electron tubes, and semiconductor devices, especially transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, are utilized to design electronic...
  
  ).
• 1967　Department of Industrial
  Industry
  Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...
  
   Chemistry
  Chemistry
  Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
  
   added.
• 1990　Department of Control and Information Systems
  Information systems
  Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...
  
   Engineering
  Engineering
  Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
  
   came into being by reorganizing the two-class Department of Mechanical Engineering.
• 1993　Department of Industrial Chemistry was reorganized into Department of Material Engineering.
• 2003　Advanced Engineering Course was established.
• 2004　After the "Institution of National Colleges of Technology Japan" Act was enacted, this dollege has become the Tsuruoka College of Technology of the Institute of National Colleges of Technology Japan.
• 2005　Department of Electrical Engineering was renamed Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Regular Course (Associate's degree Course)

Five years' course.

• Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
• Department of Control and Information Systems Engineering
• Department of Material Engineering

Advanced Engineering Course (Bachelor's Degree Course)

Two years' course.
Graduated regular course student can enter this course after entrance examination acceptance.

• Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
• Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

See also

• Colleges of technology in Japan
  Colleges of technology in Japan
  College of technology is the word used in Japan today for the English translation of kōsen school system, a 5-year college, while some traditional 4-year colleges have been using the word for their specific names, and some kōsen schools have their own English names that differ from college of...
  
  
• Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
• Nagaoka University of Technology
  Nagaoka University of Technology
  , abbreviated as Nagaoka Gidai, is a national technology university founded in 1976 in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan. One of the only two Universities of Technology, a form of universities in Japan, the other being Toyohashi University of Technology in Aichi. Many students from colleges of technology, a...
  
  
• The Institution of National College of Technology
• Toyohashi University of Technology
  Toyohashi University of Technology
  Toyohashi University of Technology , often abbreviated to TUT, is a national engineering university located in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan...
  
  

Presidents

1. Mosuke Hayashi (1963–1971)
2. Shingi Saito (1971–1976)
3. Shozo Watarai (1976–1981)
4. Mayumi Someno (1981–1986)
5. Jiro Shimizu (1986–1993)
6. Mitsuo Abe (1993–2001)
7. Tsutomu Nonaka (2001–2006)
8. Masaaki Yokoyama (2006–present)

External links

• Tsuruoka National College of Technology (Japanese)