Engineering has a great influence on how present society is. The Tohoku Institute of Technology is deeply concerned with society through engineering. No progress can be possible without technology made by engineering in elderly-support welfare and life-protecting medicine as well as beautiful and comfortable building construction, convenient community planning of buildings, humane communication technology and environmental technology for making the earth comfortable. Engineering courses of TOHTECH educate and research in order to meet the present social need of this kind. It has so far produced about thirty thousand competent specialists into society.

In our country which has highly progressed, industrial products need not only convenience but also added value that is sensitively matched with users. No merchandise succeeds without beauty and feeling of ease. In the Department of Life Design, which was newly established this year and is literary-science fused type, we research and educate taking into consideration how the new engineering should be in the highly-advanced society and its relationship with society.

TOHTECH, as the representative engineering university in the Tohoku district, pursues this engineering learning and sends forth its results from Sendai to the Tohoku district, to all over Japan and to the world. The New Technology Creation Research Center publicly recruits Industrial-academic-fused projects where we research and produce with local companies. It supports over ten projects per year. The downtown campus, ”Ichibancho Lobby” aims at educating students to grow in the working world through communication with citizens and local industries.

The Tohoku Institute of Technology is proud of having professors of high reputation such as the former president, Shunichi Iwasaki, the world –famous inventor in the field of computer memories, Professor Reiji Tanaka, who is known nation-wide in quake-resistant architecture. We also boast having many enthusiastic teachers who engage in active discussion on how they can give education of high quality to all the students. There are many needs for the graduates from society. We maintain over 95% employment rate every year, ranking high in our country. Our goal is contributing to amplifying industry and culture in our society. This will be realized by that many excellent graduates play an active role in society and by that the results of researches cooperate with companies.