Masters's / Doctoral Program in Risk and Resilience Engineering , University of Tsukuba

Master' Program

Educational Objectives

Faced with today' increasingly unstable social conditions, our biggest challenge is to create resilient social systems capable of recovering from and flexibly responding to unforeseen contingencies, while maintaining and providing the required functions. This requires establishment of risk management appropriate for providing the strength and flexibility needed to achieve safety and security for an information-based society and economy, nationally and regionally. To that end, the purpose of this degree program is to foster highly specialized professionals, who as a result of studies pursued in view of real-world issues will be able to give back to society. The aim is for them to help create a resilient society by applying the results of risk analysis and assessment obtained using engineering methodology.

Graduate Qualities and Capabilities

We aim to foster professionals who acquire both basic theory and related information processing skills for analyzing and assessing risk and resilience based on a strong foundation in engineering. They are able to take a broad view of real-world problems in risk and resilience engineering, using communication skills to fulfill their assigned role on a research team or research project. As required they are able to assume leadership while taking an engineering approach in defining problems, and in devising and developing concrete methods for resolving those problems.

Diploma Policy

The university confers a Master' Degree in Engineering on students who achieve research results befitting our Master' Degree Program, having fulfilled the completion requirements as stipulated in the University of Tsukuba’s Graduate School Rules and related regulations, submitted either a thesis or research report on a specific topic, and demonstrated the abilities listed below by passing a final examination.

General Knowledge and Abilities

1. Competence of knowledge application: Ability of contribute to society with advanced knowledge
2. Management competence: Ability to appropriately address challenges from broader standpoints
3. Communication competence: Ability of communication in expert knowledge with accuracy and clearness
4. Teamwork competence: Ability to work with the team and actively contribute to the achievement of goals
5. Competence in Internationality: Willingness to contribute to the international society

Specialized Knowledge and Abilities

1. Fundamental engineering ability: Basic knowledge and academic abilities appropriate to highly specialized professionals in the areas of engineering
2. Knowledge of foundations and associated techniques: Knowledge of the foundations for risk and resilience analysis and evaluation, and associated information processing techniques
3. Knowledge about problems in reality: Knowledge about problems in reality that involve risk and resilience engineering
4. Ability to have the big picture in mind from a wide perspective: Ability to interpret, from a wide perspective, the issues to which risk and resilience engineering is applied: the ability to grasp issues focused on in risk and resilience engineering by adopting a broad perspective
5. Ability to identify and solve problems: Ability to understand the process from identifying to solving a riskresilience problem using engineering means and come up with and develop the concrete means to provide a solution
6. Global communication ability: Ability to fulfi ll one's given role shares, bring out sufficient communication ability, and if required, take a leadership position in a research team or research project