Yokohama National University
Yokohama National University was founded in 1949 after the Yokohama Normal School, Kanagawa Prefecture Training Institution for Teachers of Supplementary Vocational Education, Yokohama Higher School of Commerce and the Yokohama Higher School of Technology merged.
Today, the school has four undergraduate schools which they take pride in: Education and Human Sciences, Economics, Business Administration, Engineering. YNU also has four graduate schools: Education, Social Sciences, Engineering, Environment and Information Sciences.
YNU is highly internationalized and it understands the importance of challenges, giving useful knowledge and responding to the needs of the society. And with more than five decades of history and tradition, YNU tries very hard to cover various areas in order for its students to achieve their ultimate potential.
One way of doing this is by providing several departments: the Faculty of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Education and Human sciences, Graduate School of Education, Graduate School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences; School of Engineering, and the Science of International Affairs Division, General Affairs Department.
Its Graduate School of Engineering’s Department of Mechanical Engineering offers education in the basics of system integration, science, elemental technology, materials engineering and system design among others. Here, students are equipped with the knowledge that will enable them to flourish, especially in the world of robotics.
Among the notable robots that this university has developed through its Kawamura Laboratory are KEN, the human like, tiptoe walking robot; the ROCOS, and the MARI-1 robot that is able to walk fast and is quite stable.
It is the lab’s vision to eventually develop a really intelligent machine that can help people through the fusion of electrical energy and mechanical movement by electronic tools.
