International Admission Program in Resilience Engineering — Nuclear Engineering and Management Course

Programme overview

A two-year, fully English-taught Master's course inside the University of Tokyo's International Admission Program in Resilience Engineering, run by the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management of the Graduate School of Engineering on the Hongo Campus. The programme is taught jointly with the Department of Systems Innovation and other related departments, but is admitted and awarded department by department: this record covers the Nuclear Engineering and Management Course only. It combines resilience engineering — the design of sociotechnical systems that absorb shocks and adapt to long-term change — with the department's own nuclear curriculum in reactor safety, radiation sources and measurement, advanced modelling and simulation, and materials in extreme environments, together with the social-science and risk-communication strand the department built after the Fukushima Daiichi accident. Admission for the 2027 cycle is a single International Admission Program route: applicants apply from outside Japan through the T-cens online system, post original printed documents to the department, and, if they pass the document screening, sit an online interview with a panel of faculty including a potential supervisor. There is no on-site entrance examination. Entry is October 2027 only.

The course sits inside the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management of the Graduate School of Engineering, on the Hongo Campus. Students join a laboratory under a supervisor and combine taught coursework with laboratory research leading to a master's thesis over the standard two-year master's programme. The department's lecture courses fall into three categories — nuclear engineering core courses (semi-compulsory, offered every year, usually for first-year master's students), specialist foundation courses (electives offered every year, normally for master's students) and advanced courses (theme-based electives, normally offered every other year, some run jointly with other departments and schools) — plus a fourth category of course seminars, exercises and laboratory work. All courses are generally taught in English. Lectures for the Resilience Engineering programme are provided collaboratively by faculty of this department, the Department of Systems Innovation and other related departments, while "Graduate courses are offered by each department." The Graduate School of Engineering states that "students are required to complete at least 30 credits in the master's program" through "a combination of coursework, exercises, and research". The master's degree is screened twice, at an intermediate and a final thesis screening. Japanese language courses are optional.

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