Curriculum and Requirements for Completion

This agreement establishes research guidance, curriculum, and requirements for completion of “Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Agriculture and Engineering, University of Miyazaki”

(1) Research guidance

A chief advisor (主指導教員) in addition to two or more assistant advisors (副指導教員) must provide students with curriculum and research guidance. Students are required to plan their research program based on the guidance of the advisors, and develop experiments and theories to compose research papers.

Advisors are required to provide students with guidance as follows:

In the first stage, advisors should give students guidance on how to conduct literature research directly related to their research theme, and literature research on the trend or potential of the research area, leading students toward the developing a specific research program.

In the second stage, advisors should lead students to collect and analyze data based on their research program. Moreover, students must present the progress of their study verbally in English at a major-classified seminar, which is conducted twice. Furthermore, the advisors encourage students to present their research achievements at academic conferences, and so forth (Academic Presentation).

In the third stage, advisors should give students guidance on how to organize for prepublication of their paper and finally, preparation for publishing their paper in journals in order to write a dissertation and apply to the Doctoral Dissertation Committee (博士論文審査会).

(2) Curriculum

●Researcher Ethics:
Students are required to take a course about environmental ethics, bioethics, and morals of engineers, which varies according to their major.
●Essential Subject:
Students are required to take one essential subject (2 credits) set for each Education Course.

Education Course

 Course Models

Essential Subject

１．Course of Environmentally Harmonized Technology and Science

 Model 1

Environmentally Harmonized Technology and Science
２．Course of Sustainable Agricultural Technology and Science Model 2

Sustainable Agricultural Technology and Science

３．Course of Bioscience and Biotechnology

 Model 3

Bioscience and Biotechnology

４．Course of Marine Biological Science

 Model 4

Marine Biological Science

５．Course of Advanced Materials and Energy

 Model 5

Energy conversion

６．Course of Production Technology

 Model 6

Design and Production Technology

７．Course of Computer Science and Bio-informatics

 Model 7

Computer Science and Bio-informatics
●Research Fundamental Subject Group:
Students are required to take two or more subjects from the Research Fundamental Subject Group admissible in Educational courses. The subjects must include one taught by a chief advisor.

Education Course

Research Fundamental Subject

１．Course of Environmentally Harmonized Technology and Science
  • Advanced Study for Environmentally Harmonized Technology and Science
    (環境共生科学特論(融合科目))
  • Disaster Mitigation for Infrastructure
    (社会基盤災害軽減学(融合科目))
  • Conservation and Utilization of Forest Resources
    (森林資源保全利用学)
  • Ecology and Management of Grassland Systems
    (草地システム科学)
  • Development and Utilization of Bio-resources in Grasses
    (草本植物資源開発・利用学)
  • Applied Animal Production System and Environmental Management
    (応用動物環境管理学)
  • Advanced Lecture on Chemistry of Materials Cycle and Resources Utilization
    (資源循環化学特論)
  • Advanced Civil Engineering Ⅰ
    (地域社会基盤特論Ⅰ)
  • Advanced Civil Engineering Ⅱ
    (地域社会基盤特論Ⅱ)

２．Course of Sustainable Agricultural Technology and Science
  • Recent Crop Production Science
    (作物生産学)
  • Advanced Horticulture
    (先端園芸学)
  • Postharvest Biology
    (ポストハーベストバイオロジー)
  • Advanced Plant Breeding Science
    (植物育種学特論)
  • Molecular Plant Pathology
    (分子植物病理学)
  • Physiology and Biochemistry of Animal Resources
    (動物資源生理生化学)
  • Methodology of Animal Breeding and Management
    (動物機能情報制御学)
  • Advanced Environmental Engineering in Agricultural and Industrial Production
    (生産環境工学特論)
  • Advanced Silviculture
    (造林学特論)

３．Course of Bioscience and Biotechnology
  • Applied and Molecular Microbiology
    (微生物機能利用学（融合科目))
  • Bioinformatics
    (生体情報解析学(融合科目))
  • Bioprocess Engineering
    (生物応用工学)
  • Applied Biochemistry
    (応用生物化学)
  • Food Chemistry and Nutrition
    (食品機能化学)

４．Course of Marine Biological Science
  • Applied Science of Marine Bioresource
    (水域生命利用科学)
  • Biology of Aquatic Animals
    (水域資源生物学)
  • Aquatic Molecular Biology
    (水族分子生物学)
  • Fish Physiology and Pathology
    (水族生理・病理学)

５．Course of Advanced Materials and Energy
  • Advanced Lecture on Functional Materials
    (機能性材料特論)
  • Advanced Photochemistry, Laser and Photonics Engineering
    (光・レーザー工学特論)
  • Advanced Lecture on Semiconductor materials
    (半導体材料特論)
  • Advanced Lectures on Applied Energy Technology
    (エネルギー応用工学特論)
  • Advanced Quantum Physics on Elementary Processes
    (量子エネルギー特論)
  • Advanced Lecture on High Energy Astrophysics
    (宇宙エネルギー工学特論)

６．Course of Production Technology
  • Advanced Lecture on Design and Production Manufacturing
    (設計生産技術特論)
  • Advanced Lecture on Visualized Information and Vibration Technology
    (可視化情報振動工学特論)
  • Advanced Lecture on Control System
    (制御システム特論)
  • Advanced Lecture on Computer Integrated Production Systems
    (高度生産情報システム特論)
  • Advanced Lecture on Measurement and Analysis of Agricultural and Engineering Production
    (農工計測解析特論)

７．Course of Computer Science and Bio-informatics
  • Advanced lectures on Mathematical Models in Biology
    (生物の数理モデル特論)
  • Advanced Lecture on Computer Software
    (情報処理ソフトウェア特論)
  • Advanced Lecture on Information Processing Hardware
    (情報処理ハードウエア特論)
●Advanced Research:
Students are required to plan their research program in deference to research guidance by the chief advisor and assistant advisors, and complete a dissertation through research, study and presentation.

Education Course

Advanced Research

１．Course of Environmentally Harmonized Technology and Science

Advanced Research on Environmentally Harmonized Technology and Science

２．Course of Sustainable Agricultural Technology and Science

Advanced Research on Sustainable Agricultural Technology and Science

３．Course of Bioscience and Biotechnology

Advanced Research on Bioscience and Biotechnology

４．Course of Marine Biological Science

Advanced Research on Marine Biological Science

５．Course of Advanced Materials and Energy

Advanced Research on Advanced Materials and Energy

６．Course of Production Technology

Advanced Research on Production Technology

７．Course of Computer Science and Bio-informatics

Advanced Research on Computer Science and Bio-informatics

(3) Requirements for Completion

Students are required to be enrolled in Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Agriculture and Engineering for three or more years with twelve or more credits, and to pass the review by the Doctoral Dissertation Committee (博士論文審査会) as well as the final examination.Regarding students who have achieved remarkable results; three or more years of enrollment, including the duration of the master’s program or pre-doctoral program, is sufficient.

Regarding students who are admitted because they have academic abilities equal to or higher than those who have finished the master’s program, three or more years of enrollment is sufficient Regarding students who have accomplished the excellent academic and research achievements, one or more years of enrollment is sufficient

(4) Requirements for the application for Doctoral Dissertation Committee

  1. The main part of a doctoral dissertation must have two or more sections. It is required that the dissertation be published or for it to have been published in an academic journal and so forth, information on which is provided in (5).
  2. In principle, the applicant should be the first author of the dissertation.
  3. When one section of the dissertation is replaced to a multiple-section discourse paper with referee reading (Proceedings and so forth), the details are determined according to the major.

(5) Requirements for academic journals

1) Domestic journals:

Doctoral dissertations are required to appear in academic journals with referee reading, which are issued by an academic society provided as follows:

a) An academic society registered as a Cooperation Organization for the Science Council of Japan (日本学術会議協力学術団体) established by the Science Council of Japan in October of 2005.

b) Organization judged to fulfill the requirements by the Graduate School Management Committee (研究科運営委員会). The organizations are required to submit documents to confirm following conditions:

  • Stating the name of the organization, their objectives, office, qualifications of constituent members, and representatives.
  • Holding one or more general assembly meetings or meeting of the same sort in order to work out policies on the management and operation every year.
  • Not limiting to constituent members living or working in a certain area.
  • Operating for more than three years as an academic organization.
  • Having more than five hundred constituent members.
  • Holding one or more meetings for reading research papers every year.
  • Issuing an academic journal with referee reading once or more every year. There should be the provisions of referee reading, and multiple referees.

2) International journals:

Academic journals in the Current Contents or Scopus