The School

Kanazawa Institute of Technology, or KIT as its commonly known, is a fully accredited private technical university with both undergraduate and graduate schools.  In fact, it is one of Japan's largest engineering and technical school.  The university, founded in 1965 currently has three colleges and 15 departments.

Go to KIT website for more information.

This school is serious when it comes to providing their engineering students the capability of doing good work.  This university is home to amazing resources such as Yumekobo.  Their Library Center is full with great resources that I wish our university had.  Some examples include a multimedia lab where students can easily access and use many different professional software and hardware to create whatever one can imagine.  Their record collection room is quite impressive as well with amazing seats with high quality headsets.

The thing I was most impressed about KIT was it's Yumekobo.  The name translated to english means "a factory for dreams and ideas."  This was no lie as students could be seen working on amazing things inside the building.  This building housed all kinds of tools and machines for fabricating, machining, and building.  There were computers with high tech A/V equipment with huge printers so students could prepare professional project reports.  KIT calls this place an engineering studio for exercising creativity.  I think we need a place like this here at UIUC.  (right - Picture of one of the Yumekobo labs.  This is one of the workspaces for projects)

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