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HISTORY

1938June 29 Ginjiro Fujiwara, President, Oji Paper Co., Ltd., meets with Keio University President Shinzo Koizumi at the Kojunsha Club. This marks the start of the Fujiwara Institute of Technology, later to become the Keio University Faculty of Engineering.
1939June Opening ceremony for the Fujiwara Institute of Technology. The Institute is privately funded by Keio University alumnus Ginjiro Fujiwara, who appoints Keio President Shinzo Koizumi as its head. A system with a three-year preparatory course and a three-year course at the Institute was established.
1939September The old school building in Mita is moved to the northwest part of Hiyoshi Campus, and the Fujiwara Institute of Technology Preparatory School is completed. (Undergraduate program facilities are completed in November 1943.)
1943November Undergraduate program facilities are completed.
1944August Ginjiro Fujiwara donates Fujiwara Institute of Technology to Keio University. It then became the Faculty of Engineering of Keio University, with departments of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Applied Chemistry.
1945April The firebombing of Tokyo results in total destruction of the preparatory school facilities and 80% of the undergraduate facilities. The Electrical Engineering and Applied Chemistry departments are evacuated to Fukui Prefecture, and the mechanical engineering students are put to work for around two months at the naval arsenal at Tagajo in Miyagi Prefecture.
1945September U.S. military takes over Hiyoshi. Having lost its headquarters, the Faculty of Engineering moves to temporary facilities.
1945October 8  Classes resume at the undergraduate program's temporary facilities in Meguro, Tokyo.
1945October 10 Classes resume at the preparatory school's temporary facilities in Noborito, Kanagawa Prefecture.
1946June The undergraduate program moves to temporary facilities in Mizoguchi, Kanagawa Prefecture. The facilities include part of a factory building owned by Nihon Kogaku Kogyo (Nikon).
1948 Engineering Faculty facilities set up in the Veterinary and Animal Science Vocational School. (School in Shiki City is closed in March 1949.) Until November 1950, research laboratories are housed there while new facilities in Koganei are constructed.
1951Graduate School of Engineering masters program begins; new system for academic accreditation introduced.
1953Graduate School of Engineering doctoral program starts.
1957Department of Instrumentation Engineering is established.
1959Department of Administration Engineering is established.
1960Central Service Facilities for Research are opened.
1966The Faculty of Engineering begins using a recommendation-based admission system.
1968May In response to long-time requests for the return of the Faculty of Engineering to Hiyoshi, an official Consultative Committee decision is made to move the Faculty to the Yagami section of the Hiyoshi campus.
1970Buildings 6, 7 (Elementary Engineering Classroom Buildings) are completed and first- and second-year instruction in elementary engineering begins.
1971The Education, Research Laboratory (main building and wing), general classroom, and welfare buildings are completed.
1971August The Matsushita Memorial Library is donated by Konosuke Matsushita.
1971October Beginning with Mechanical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, the move to Yagamidai begins. The move of all departments is completed in March of the following year.
1972March Ceremony held to mark the completion of the new buildings at Yagami.
1974Department of Mathematical Engineering is opened.
1981The name of the faculty is changed to the "Faculty of Science and Technology." Departments of Physics and Chemistry are opened. The Department of Mathematical Engineering is changed to Department of Mathematical Science.
1985The Graduate School of Science and Technology was opened.
1989Three programs for the Graduate School of Science and Technology are established: Computer Science, Material Science, and Biomedical Engineering.
1996Faculty of Science and Technology reorganized (Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Applied Chemistry, Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics, Administration Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, System Design Engineering, and Information and Computer Engineering established).
2000The Soh-Soh-Kan is completed. The Graduate School of Science and Technology is reorganized: School of Fundamental Science and Technology, Integrated Design Engineering, and Science for Open and Environmental Systems.
2002Department of Biosciences & Informatics is opened.
2003The Graduate School of Science and Technology's international Graduate Program (English-based Program) is opened.
PHOTO

History of "Faculty of Sci. & Tech."

Yukuzawa Fukichi stressed the importance of science and engineering courses at Keio Gijuku, which he founded in 1858. However, due to a lack of financial and other resources, engineering schools were not established when the country’s university system was started in the Meiji era.

Finally, the forerunner of the faculty of engineering, the Fujiwara Institute of Technology, was established in 1938, but due to the war, the campus frequently had to be moved. The present Yagami campus was established in 1972.                        >> Narrow ver.

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