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INTERUNIVERSITY EXCHANGE AGREEMENT SIGNED
The Faculty of Engineering signed a new inter-university exchange agreement with Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (Malaysia) and Parana Catholic University (Brazil) in FY 2010.
Malasia Melaka Technical University
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (Malaysia)A signing ceremony for an agreement between the Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, (UTeM: http://www.utem.edu.my/) and Yokohama National University took place on December 6, 2010 in Yokohama. As shown in the photo, six people including Vice Chancellor Hassan (as the University Chancellor is royalty, the Vice Chancellor is the de facto Chancellor) visited Japan (Photo 1). UTeM is an engineering college located in the City of Melaka with about 8,000 students, established in 2000 as the 14th national college in Malaysia. As the history of the college is recent, teachers without doctorate degrees are now enrolled in the doctoral program at YNU Faculty of Engineering (at present 4 people), deepening a cooperative relationship. The event was big news in the local press, whipping up the expectations for the results of our exchange (Photo 2). Kawamura (DenDen Net) has traveled to Melaka as an External Examiner for UTeM three times.
Agreement signing ceremony
(Front row from left: Deputy Vice Chancellor Hussain (in charge of International), Vice Chancellor Hassan, YNU President Suzuki, Faculty of Engineering Director Ishihara. Back row: Related parties.)
News report from local newspaper (dated December 28, 2010)
Parana Catholic University
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (Brazil)Parana Catholic University is a large-scale private Christian university with the official name Pontifica Universidade Católica do Paraná, located in the Federal Republic of Brazil, in Parana’s state capital city Curitiba.
Curitiba is a city known as the ‘Environmental Capital’ ever since it held the Earth Summit Curitiba in 1992, gaining world-wide fame in the implementation of advanced urban policies.
The city basks in global attention as the sustainable city that implemented, one after another, novel policies toward problems particular to developing countries such as the influx of the poor to cities, environmental issues, social welfare issues, and transportation problems. Some well-known examples include the project to separate and purchase garbage from poor areas, and the urban transportation network that fully utilizes buses. Parana Catholic is the university that turns out great numbers of talent who spearhead the advancement of these policies. At Parana Catholic University, a graduate-level urban management major started in 2010 that is interdisciplinary and accepts foreign students from overseas, primarily from countries in South America.
Premised on this new trend, YNU Committee for Founding the Graduate School & Faculty of Urban Innovation led the efforts to conclude the Inter-University Exchange Agreement in December, 2010, with an eye to expanding the alliance as far as to such related interdisciplinary disciplines as engineering, economics, business administration, education and human sciences, environment and information sciences, social sciences from an international perspective, and others, without shifting the emphasis from urban-policy fields. Parana Catholic University has had no ties with Japanese universities other than the 20+ year exchange relationship in arts and nursing with Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts and its sister schools, thus we are convinced that having established an alliance with a leading university in the model progressive city of Curitiba will be of great advantage in terms of YNU’s internationality, progressiveness and practicality.
Administrative Building, Parana Catholic University
Parana Catholic University Vice Chancellor signing Agreement
Academic Exchange Agreements with Foreign Universities (University level)
| Shanghai Jiao Tong University | People's Republic of China | 10/29/1982 - |
| Universidade de São Paulo | Federative Republic of Brazil | 11/28/1983 - |
| Ecole Centrale Paris | French Republic | 4/30/1985 - |
| RWTH Aachen University | Federal Republic of Germany | 6/9/1986 - |
| University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | United States of America | 8/14/1995 - 8/14/2011 |
| Delft University of Technology | Kingdom of the Netherlands | 7/4/1996 - 7/3/2011 |
| University of Seoul | Republic of Korea | 12/11/1998 - 12/10/2013 |
| VŠB Technical University of Ostrava | Czech Republic | 2/13/2003 - 2/13/2013 |
| Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | Republic of India | 1/6/2004 - 1/5/2009 |
| Yeungnam University | Republic of Korea | 1/18/2005 - 1/18/2015 |
| Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal | Canada | 3/1/2005 - 2/28/2010 |
| Tianjin University | People's Republic of China | 8/16/2005 - 8/15/2010 |
| Yonsei University | Republic of Korea | 10/17/2006 - 10/16/2011 |
| University of Southampton | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 11/9/2006 - 11/8/2011 |
| National University of Kaohsiung | Republic of China (Taiwan) | 4/20/2006 - 4/19/2011 |
| Pukyong National University | Republic of Korea | 5/2/2007 - 5/1/2011 |
| Dalian University of Technology | People's Republic of China | 2/10/2009 - 2/9/2014 |
| University of Oulu | Republic of Finland | 3/23/2009 - 3/22/2014 |
| Istanbul Technical University | Republic of Turkey | 3/11/2010 - 3/10/2015 |
| Vietnam National University HoChiMinh City University of Technology | Socialist Republic of Viet Nam | 3/22/2010- 3/21/2015 |
| Universiti Teknikal Malasia Melaka | Malaysia | 12/6/2010- |
| Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná | Federative Republic of Brazil | 12/15/2010- |
Academic Exchange Agreements with Foreign Universities (College level)
| College of Engineering, Pukyong National University | Republic of Korea | 9/14/1995 - 9/14/2005 |
| King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi | Kingdom of Thailand | 11/14/1995- 11/14/2005 |
| Faculty of Engineering, Monash University | Commonwealth of Australia | 12/16/1996 - 12/16/2006 |
| Faculty of Science, Monash University | Commonwealth of Australia | 6/19/1996 - 6/19/2006 |
| College of Engineering, University of Seoul | Republic of Korea | 6/26/1996 - 6/26/2006 |
| College of Engineering, Pusan National University | Republic of Korea | 7/17/2006 - |
| Faculty of Engineering, Prince of Songkla University | Kingdom of Thailand | 1/27/1999 - 1/27/2009 |
| College of Engineering, Seoul National University | Republic of Korea | 3/27/1999 - 3/27/2009 |
| Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat Univ. | Kingdom of Thailand | 4/20/1999 - 4/20/2004 |
| University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 | French Republic | 1/15/2001 - |
| Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University | People's Republic of China | 8/1/2001 - 7/31/2011 |
| Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, NTHU | People's Republic of China | 8/31/2001 - 8/31/2006 |
| Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University | People's Republic of China | 3/17/2003 - 3/17/2013 |
| Faculty of Science, University of Dhaka | People's Republic of Bangladesh | 3/16/2005 - 3/16/2010 |
| College of Engineering, National Taiwan University | Republic of China (Taiwan) | 12/8/2006 - 12/8/2011 |
| Graz University of Technology | Republic of Austria | 12/10/2007 - 12/9/2010 |
| Faculty of Chemistry, National University of Mongolia | Mongolia | 12/12/2007- 12/11/2012 |
| College of Science National Chiao Tung University | Republic of China (Taiwan) | 1/14/2008 - 1/13/2013 |
| College of Science, Nanyang Technological University | Republic of Singapore | 3/25/2008 - 3/24/2013 |
| Graduate School of Changwon National University | Republic of Korea | 4/22/2008 – 4/21/2013 |
