Tokyo Denki University
35°44′54.3″N 139°48′22.5″E / 35.748417°N 139.806250°E
東京電機大学 | |
Former name | Denki Gakko (1907–1939) Tokyo Denki Technical High School (1939–1944) Denki Technical College (1944–1949) |
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Motto | respect for practical science |
Type | Private |
Established | 1907 |
Founder | Seiichi Hirota |
President | Tadahiko Ibamoto |
Students | 10,156 (2023) |
Undergraduates | 9,118 (2023) |
Postgraduates | 1,038 (2023) |
Location | , 35°44′51″N 139°48′26″E / 35.747579°N 139.8071806°E |
Campus | Adachi, Tokyo Hatoyama, Saitama Inzai, Chiba |
Colors | dark blue |
Website | www.dendai.ac.jp (in Japanese) www.dendai.ac.jp/en |
Tokyo Denki University (東京電機大学, Tōkyō denki daigaku) is a private university in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1907 as Denki Gakkō (電機学校). It was chartered as a university in 1949 with Yasujiro Niwa as first president. Denki (電機) means an electric device in Japanese, and the university is dedicated to science and technology.
Organization
Undergraduate schools
- College of Engineering
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Department of Electronic Systems Engineering
- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Department of Advanced Mechanical Engineering
- Department of Information and Communication Engineering
- College of Science and Engineering
- natural science course
- Information System Design Course
- life engineering Course
- mechanical engineering Course
- electronic engineering Course
- Architecture and Urban Environment Course
- College of Future science
- Department of Information Media
- Department of Robotics & Mechatronics
- Department of Architecture
- College of Systems Design Engineering
- Department of Information Systems Engineering
- Department of Design Engineering
- College of Second Department Engineering
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Department of Information and Communication Engineering
Graduate schools
- Graduate School of Engineering (Master's Program)
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Electronic Systems Engineering
- Materials Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Advanced Mechanical Engineering
- Information and Communication Engineering
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering (Master's Program)
- Natural Science
- Informatics
- Life science and Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electronic Engineering
- Architecture and Urban Environment
- Graduate School of Future science (Master's Program)
- Architecture
- Information Media Science
- Robotics & Mechatronics
- Graduate School of Systems Design Engineering (Master's Program)
- Information Systems Engineering
- Design Engineering
- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology (Doctor's Program)
Notable alumni
- Jirō Nitta, novelist and meteorologist
- Eiji Tsuburaya, special effects director of films and television series, including Godzilla and Ultraman
- Tomohiro Nishikado, creator of the Space Invaders shooter game
- Jun'ya "ZUN" Ōta, sole member of Team Shanghai Alice and creator of the Touhou Project shoot 'em up video game series
- Hisashi Koinuma (鯉沼久史), director of the Samurai Warriors video game series and chief operating officer of Koei Tecmo (2015–)
In popular culture
- In the visual novel Steins;Gate, characters Okabe Rintaro and Hashida Itaru attend the university.