Organization and History

Founding of Tohoku Imperial University

Sendai Technical High School reorganized to Tohoku Imperial University, Department of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering and three other departments).

Establishment of School of Engineering and Division of Mechanical Engineering.

Establishment of Department of Aeronautics.

Establishment of Department of Mining and Mineral Engineering.

Department of Aeronautics abolished, and Department of Industrial Dynamics established.

Tohoku Imperial University renamed Tohoku University.

Under the post-war Educational Reform, Second High School, Sendai Technical College, Miyagi Teacher’s School, Miyagi Youth Teacher’s School and Miyagi Women’s College were merged into Tohoku University. (establishment of School of Engineering under new reforms).

• Department of Industrial Dynamics renamed Department of Precision Engineering.
• Department of Mining and Mineral Engineering renamed Department of Mineral Engineering, later to become Department of Geoengineering.

Graduate School of Engineering established.

Establishment of Second Department of Mechanical Engineering, to which one laboratory from Department of Mechanical Engineering was transferred.

Establishment of department nuclear engineering, later to be changed energy engineering.

Establishment of Institute of Material Strength Research, later to become Research Institute of Fracture Mechanics, then Research Institute of Fracture Control Systems.

The Building for three departments of Mechanical Engineering was completed in Aobayama campus, and the departments transferred from Katahira Campus.

Department of Mineral Engineering renamed Department of Resource Engineering.

Three departments of Mechanical Engineering reorganized as Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, and Mechanical Aeronautic Engineering.

Graduate School of Information Sciences established (five laboratories transferred from three departments of Mechanical Engineering).

Three departments emphasized and reorganized on the graduate level: Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering.

Departments emphasized and reorganized on the graduate level: Nuclear Engineering changed to Nuclear Energy Engineering, Department of Resource Engineering changed to Geoengineering.

Department of Management Science and Technology established (two laboratories transferred from three departments of Mechanical Engineering).

• Department of Bioengineering and Robot System established (seven laboratories transferred from three departments of Mechanical Engineering).
• Graduate School of Environmental Studies established (all departments of Geoengineering, and one laboratory transferred from three departments of the Division of Mechanical Engineering).

• Tohoku University reclassified as a National University Corporation.
• Three departments of Mechanical Engineering reorganized as Mechanical Systems and Design, Nanomechanics and Aerospace Engineering.
• Three courses of the Division of Mechanical Engineering, along with Department of Quantum Engineering, and Geoengineering reorganized as Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; implemented as six courses; Mechanical Systems and Design; Nanomechanics, Aerospace Engineering, Quantum Science and Energy Engineering, Bioengineering and Robot Systems, and Environment and Energy Engineering.
• Fracture Research Institute renamed Gracture and Reliability Research Institute.

Micro/Nano-Machining Research and Education Center established.

Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering established (instructors transferred from Department of Bioengineering and Robotics, new lectures created).

International Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Course (IMAC) established.

• Department of Mechanical Systems and Design reorganized into Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering.
• Department of Nanomechanics reorganized into Department of Finemechanics.
• Department of Bioengineering and Robot Systems reorganized into Department of Robotics.
• Eight undergraduate courses implemented as Mechanical Systems, Finemechanics, Aerospace Engineering, Quantum Science and Energy Engineering, Robotics, Environment and Energy Engineering, Mechanical/Biomedical Engineering and International Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Course.

Introduction of entrance examination for fall enrollment of prospective Japanese students (the first in the Faculty of Science and Engineering).