Kyushu Institute of Technology

The Kyushu Institute of Technology, known as Kyutech and formerly abbreviated KIT, is a Japanese national university of science and engineering with campuses in Kitakyushu and Iizuka, both in Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu.九州工业大学（Kyushu Institute of Technology，通称 Kyutech，旧简称 KIT）是日本一所国立理工科大学，校区位于九州福冈县的北九州市与饭塚市。

It descends from the private Meiji Vocational School founded in 1907 and opened at Tobata in 1909, became a national university in 1949 and has been a National University Corporation since 2004.该校源自 1907 年创办、1909 年在户畑开课的私立明治专门学校，1949 年成为国立大学，2004 年起改制为国立大学法人。

It sits in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and in the 1401-1600 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, while U.S. News placed it 1,679th for 2026-2027 and OpenAlex records 33,786 works and 829,502 citations.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位于 1201-1400 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位于 1401-1600 区间；U.S. News 的 2026-2027 年度榜单将其列为第 1,679 位，OpenAlex 记录其论文 33,786 篇、被引 829,502 次。

History

• The institution was granted government permission on 23 July 1907 as the private Meiji Vocational School, a four year technical school planned at the height of Meiji era industrialisation.1907 年 7 月 23 日，学校获政府批准设立为私立明治专门学校，这是一所四年制技术学校，筹划于明治时代工业化高潮之际。
• It was the idea of Matsumoto Kenjiro, second son of the Kitakyushu mining magnate Yasukawa Keiichiro, who wanted engineers for the family's coal and metal businesses in the Chikuho coalfield.该校由北九州矿业巨子安川敬一郎的次子松本健次郎倡办，他需要工程师服务于家族在筑丰煤田的煤炭与金属事业。
• Teaching began on 1 April 1909 on the Tobata campus with three departments, mining, metallurgy and mechanical engineering, making it Japan's first four year vocational technical school.1909 年 4 月 1 日，学校在户畑校区开课，设采矿、冶金与机械工程三科，是日本第一所四年制职业工业学校。
• The first school building was designed by Tatsuno Kingo, the architect of Tokyo Station, and was built entirely of wood, and only the gatehouse by the main entrance survives from that original complex.第一座校舍由东京车站的设计者辰野金吾设计，全部为木结构，如今原建筑群中仅存正门旁的守卫室。
• The Yasukawa family's industrial empire expanded in 1915 with the founding of Yaskawa Electric, and the ties between that company and the school have shaped its internships, endowed research and graduate employment ever since.1915 年安川家族创办安川电机，使产业版图进一步扩大，此后该公司与学校之间的纽带持续塑造着实习、捐赠研究与毕业生就业。
• On 30 March 1921 the school was transferred from private to government ownership, becoming a state technical institution at a moment when Japan was expanding its engineering workforce.1921 年 3 月 30 日，学校由私立转为官办，成为国立工业教育机构，正值日本大举扩充工程技术人才之时。
• On 1 April 1944, with the Pacific War tightening the demand for technicians, it was renamed the Meiji Industrial Technical School and shortened its programme to three years.1944 年 4 月 1 日，太平洋战争使技术人才需求趋紧，学校改称明治工业专门学校，学制缩短为三年。
• Under the post war education reforms it became a new system national university on 31 May 1949, taking the name Kyushu Institute of Technology and absorbing the pre war school's staff and facilities.在战后教育改革中，学校于 1949 年 5 月 31 日成为新制国立大学，定名九州工业大学，并接收了战前学校的师资与设施。
• The Meiji Industrial Technical School was formally abolished on 31 March 1951, and a junior college with a three year evening course opened the next day to serve working students.明治工业专门学校于 1951 年 3 月 31 日正式废止，次日学校设立短期大学部，设三年制夜间课程，为在职学生提供升学机会。
• A course for training industrial teachers was added on 1 April 1952, reflecting the national shortage of technical school instructors in the reconstruction years.1952 年 4 月 1 日，学校增设工业教员养成课程，回应重建时期全国技术学校师资短缺的问题。
• An advanced engineering course opened in 1954, the second evening division of the Faculty of Engineering was established in 1959, and the junior college was closed in 1961.1954 年学校开设工学专攻科，1959 年设立工学部第二部夜间课程，1961 年废止短期大学部。
• The graduate school of engineering admitted its first master's students on 1 April 1965, and the advanced course was discontinued on the same day, marking the shift from sub degree to postgraduate engineering education.1965 年 4 月 1 日，工学研究科招收首批硕士生，同日工学专攻科停办，标志着办学重心由专科层次转向研究生工程教育。
• On 1 October 1986 the university opened the Iizuka campus and a Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, the first students arriving in 1987 in response to the information technology boom.1986 年 10 月 1 日，学校设立饭塚校区与情报工学部，1987 年迎来首批学生，以回应当时的信息技术热潮。
• The industrial teacher training course was abolished on 31 March 1988, and on 1 April 1988 the engineering graduate school added a doctoral course while the faculty was reorganised.1988 年 3 月 31 日工业教员养成课程废止，同年 4 月 1 日工学研究科增设博士课程，本科学部亦进行改组。
• A master's programme in information engineering followed on 1 April 1991 and a doctoral programme on 1 April 1993, completing the graduate structure of the Iizuka campus.1991 年 4 月 1 日增设情报工学硕士课程，1993 年 4 月 1 日再设博士课程，饭塚校区的研究生教育体系至此完备。
• In 1995 the Satellite Venture Business Laboratory opened at Tobata to help faculty and graduates turn research into companies, an early example of Japanese university spin off policy.1995 年，卫星创业实验室在户畑校区成立，协助教师与毕业生把研究成果转化为企业，是日本大学衍生企业政策的早期实践。
• On 1 April 2001 the university opened the Wakamatsu campus and an independent doctoral Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, its third campus and its newest academic unit.2001 年 4 月 1 日，学校启用若松校区并设立独立的博士课程研究科生命体工学府，这是该校第三个校区与最新的学术单位。
• In April 2003 Kyutech was selected for the Ministry of Education's 21st Century Centres of Excellence programme, and on 1 April 2004 it became a National University Corporation under the national university reform law.2003 年 4 月，九工大入选文部科学省的 21 世纪 COE 计划；2004 年 4 月 1 日，依据国立大学法人法改制为国立大学法人。
• On 1 April 2008 the Faculty of Engineering was reorganised and the two engineering graduate schools were renamed the Graduate School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Computer Science and Systems Engineering.2008 年 4 月 1 日，工学部改组，两个工学研究科分别更名为工学府与情报工学府。
• On 6 February 2009 the main gate, guardhouse, student support plaza, workshop A and laboratory building 1 with their machine collections were certified as part of Japan's Modern Industrial Heritage, series 22 on engineering education.2009 年 2 月 6 日，正门、守卫室、学生支援广场、实习工厂 A 栋与实验一号楼及其所藏机械被认定为日本近代化产业遗产第 22 系「技术者教育」的组成部分。
• The university marked its centenary on 28 May 2009 with Founder's Day ceremonies and an exhibition on Yasukawa Keiichiro and Tobata, a hundred years after the first classes in 1909.2009 年 5 月 28 日，学校在首堂课开讲一百年后举行建校百年庆典与创办人纪念日，并举办「安川敬一郎与户畑」特展。

Academics

• Kyutech teaches through two undergraduate faculties, Engineering at Tobata and Computer Science and Systems Engineering at Iizuka, with three graduate schools above them.九工大设有两个本科学部，即户畑校区的工学部与饭塚校区的情报工学部，其上设三个研究科。
• The Faculty of Engineering comprises mechanical intelligence engineering, social construction engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, applied chemistry, materials engineering and integrated systems engineering.工学部由机械智能工学、社会建设工学、电气电子工学、应用化学、材料工学与综合系统工学等学科构成。
• Mechanical engineering splits into mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering and intelligent control engineering courses, reflecting the university's long work on engines, control and space systems.机械工学分为机械工学、宇宙工学与智能控制工学三个课程方向，反映该校在发动机、控制与航天系统方面的长期积累。
• Social construction engineering offers architecture, regional environment design and urban regeneration design courses, training architects and civil engineers for Kyushu's cities.社会建设工学下设建筑学、区域环境设计与都市再生设计课程，为九州各城市培养建筑师与土木工程师。
• Electrical and electronic engineering is taught through systems and electronics, electric power and electronic devices courses, aligning with the semiconductor and energy industries of northern Kyushu.电气电子工学按系统与电子技术、电力、电子器件三个课程方向授课，与北九州的半导体及能源产业相衔接。
• The Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering at Iizuka covers intelligent informatics, electronic information engineering, systems creation informatics, mechanical informatics and life informatics.饭塚校区的情报工学部涵盖智能情报、电子信息工程、系统创成情报、机械情报与生命情报等学科。
• A reorganisation in 2008 consolidated the Faculty of Engineering into six broad departments, replacing a structure of narrow chairs with programmes in mechanical intelligence, social construction, electrical and electronic, applied chemistry, materials and integrated systems engineering.2008 年的改组把工学部整合为六个宽口径学科，以机械智能、社会建设、电气电子、应用化学、材料与综合系统工学的课程体系取代原先狭窄的讲座制结构。
• Its Laboratory of Spacecraft Environment Interaction Engineering works on spacecraft charging, space debris and small satellite technology, and the university has flown student built CubeSats as orbital test beds.该校的航天器环境交互工程实验室研究航天器带电、空间碎片与小卫星技术，学校多次把学生参与研制的立方星送入轨道作为试验平台。
• The Graduate School of Engineering traces its master's course to 1965 and its doctoral course to 1988, and now covers the mechanical, construction, electrical, materials and systems fields taught at Tobata.工学府硕士课程始于 1965 年、博士课程始于 1988 年，现覆盖户畑校区开设的机械、建设、电气、材料与系统等领域。
• The Graduate School of Computer Science and Systems Engineering built its master's course in 1991 and its doctoral course in 1993, and serves the information and systems disciplines of the Iizuka campus.情报工学府于 1991 年设立硕士课程、1993 年设立博士课程，服务于饭塚校区的信息与系统学科。
• The Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, created in April 2001 at Wakamatsu, is an independent doctoral school working on brain information, biological functions and life support systems.生命体工学府于 2001 年 4 月在若松校区创立，是独立的博士课程研究科，研究脑信息、生物机能与生命支持系统。
• Research facilities include the Space Environment Technology Research Centre, the Micro and Nano Technology Centre, the Environmental Management Centre, the Machine Analysis Centre and the Advanced Mold Centre.科研设施包括宇宙环境技术研究中心、微纳综合技术中心、环境管理中心、机器分析中心与尖端模具中心。
• The university also runs an Information Science Centre, a Network Design Research Centre with offices in Tokyo and Fukuoka, an Eco-Micro Remote Sensing Centre and an ICT education centre.学校还设有情报科学中心、在东京与福冈均设据点的网络设计研究中心、生态微遥感技术研究中心以及信息通信技术教育中心。
• Library service is divided between the main library at Tobata and the information engineering branch library at Iizuka, supporting the two undergraduate teaching sites.图书馆服务由户畑的主图书馆与饭塚的情报工学分馆分担，为两个本科教学点提供支撑。
• Kyutech holds partnership agreements with the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom, Old Dominion University and the University of Texas at El Paso in the United States.九工大与英国萨里大学、美国老道明大学以及得克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校签有合作协议。
• The 21st Century Centres of Excellence selection in 2003 and the 2004 incorporation gave the university earmarked research funding and greater freedom over its budget and staff.2003 年入选 21 世纪 COE 计划、2004 年法人化，使学校获得专项科研经费，并在预算与人事上拥有更大自主权。
• Undergraduate teaching is concentrated at Tobata and Iizuka, while Wakamatsu is devoted entirely to postgraduate research, giving the university two teaching campuses and one research campus.本科教学集中于户畑与饭塚，若松则完全用于研究生科研，形成两个教学校区与一个科研校区的格局。
• Admission is by examination, and the university's engineering programmes are known for laboratory work from the early years, with students entering research groups in their fourth year.学校通过考试招生，其工程课程以低年级即进入实验室为特色，学生在四年级进入研究课题组。

Campus

• The university has three campuses, two in Kitakyushu, namely Tobata and Wakamatsu, and one in Iizuka, all within Fukuoka Prefecture on Kyushu.该校有三个校区，其中户畑与若松位于北九州市，饭塚校区位于饭塚市，全部在九州福冈县境内。
• The Tobata campus, opened in 1909 in Tobata ward, is the oldest and houses the headquarters, the Faculty of Engineering and the Graduate School of Engineering.户畑校区于 1909 年在户畑区启用，是历史最悠久的校区，设有校本部、工学部与工学府。
• The Iizuka campus, established in October 1986 with first students in 1987, sits in Kawazu, Iizuka city, and houses the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering.饭塚校区于 1986 年 10 月设立、1987 年迎来首批学生，位于饭塚市川津，设情报工学部。
• The Wakamatsu campus, opened in April 2001 in the Hibikinada area of Wakamatsu ward, is part of the Kitakyushu academic research city and hosts the life science graduate school.若松校区于 2001 年 4 月在若松区响滩地区启用，属于北九州学术研究都市的一部分，设生命体工学府。
• A satellite campus in the Tenjin IMS building in central Fukuoka city extends the university's continuing education and public lecture programme beyond its three main sites.学校在福冈市中心天神 IMS 大厦设有卫星校区，把继续教育与公开讲座延伸到三个主校区之外。
• The Tobata campus retains its historic entrance, guardhouse and machine collections, and a 1:50 scale model of Tatsuno Kingo's wooden school building is displayed in the university archives.户畑校区保留着历史正门、守卫室与机械藏品，大学档案室还陈列着辰野金吾木造校舍的 1 比 50 模型。
• Student accommodation includes the Meisen dormitory at Tobata, while the alumni association runs the Meisen Kaikan hall on the former Yasukawa residence site and the Koron Club in Shimbashi, Tokyo.学生住宿包括户畑的明专寮，校友会则在安川旧宅旧址经营明专会馆，并在东京新桥设有凤龙俱乐部。
• The university also operates the Sansui-so lodging house and the Choyozan-so mountain lodge in Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, used for seminars, clubs and retreats.学校还经营仙水庄宿舍与位于熊本县阿苏郡的长阳山庄，用于研讨、社团与集训活动。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Kyutech is placed in the 1201-1400 band, reflecting its specialised engineering profile rather than a broad university footprint.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，九工大位于 1201-1400 区间，这反映其专注工程的专业定位，而非综合性大学的规模。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places it in the 1401-1600 band, and U.S. News ranked it 1,679th in its 2026-2027 global table.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入 1401-1600 区间，U.S. News 的 2026-2027 年度全球榜单则将其列为第 1,679 位。
• It did not enter the main list of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, a common outcome for small specialised Japanese national universities.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，这对日本小型专业化国立大学而言并不罕见。
• OpenAlex credits Kyutech with 33,786 works and 829,502 citations, a research volume concentrated in engineering, materials science, space technology and life systems.OpenAlex 记录九工大论文 33,786 篇、被引 829,502 次，其科研产出集中于工程、材料科学、航天技术与生命系统。
• The university is known for graduate employability, with a high proportion of its engineering students receiving job offers from manufacturers before graduation.该校以毕业生就业力著称，相当高比例的工科学生在毕业前即获得制造业企业的录用。
• Kyutech's reputation in meteorology rests on Tetsuya Fujita, the 1943 graduate whose tornado research at the University of Chicago made him known worldwide as Mr Tornado.九工大在气象学界的声望系于 1943 年毕业的藤田哲也，他在芝加哥大学的龙卷风研究使其以「龙卷风先生」之名享誉世界。
• Its selection for the 21st Century Centres of Excellence programme in 2003 recognised the quality of its engineering research at a time of national competition for earmarked funds.2003 年入选 21 世纪 COE 计划，表明其工程研究质量在全国争夺专项经费的竞争中获得了认可。
• The 2009 certification of its gate, guardhouse and machine collections as Modern Industrial Heritage recognised the campus itself as evidence of Japan's engineering education history.2009 年，其正门、守卫室与机械藏品被认定为近代化产业遗产，等于承认校园本身就是日本工程技术教育史的实物见证。
• Its applied chemistry and materials departments descend from the mining and metallurgy departments of 1909, and they now work on batteries, ceramics, steel and the recycling technologies that serve Kitakyushu's manufacturing base.其应用化学与材料学科源自 1909 年的采矿与冶金两科，如今研究电池、陶瓷、钢铁以及服务北九州制造业基地的回收技术。
• Its partnerships with Surrey, Old Dominion and Texas at El Paso give students exchange and joint research routes into Britain and the United States despite the university's regional location.尽管地处地方，九工大通过与萨里、老道明及得克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校的合作，为学生开辟了通往英国与美国高校的交换与联合研究渠道。

Student life

• Founder's Day falls on 28 May and deliberately coincides with the Battle of Tsushima of 27 and 28 May 1905, the naval victory of the Russo-Japanese War that shaped the school's Meiji era identity.创办人纪念日定在 5 月 28 日，刻意与 1905 年 5 月 27 至 28 日的对马海战重合，这场日俄战争中的海战胜利塑造了学校明治时代的身份认同。
• Admiral Togo Heihachiro, who commanded the Japanese fleet at Tsushima, once visited the school, and his visit along with that of the statesman Okuma Shigenobu is commemorated in the archives.在对马海战中指挥日本舰队的东乡平八郎海军大将曾访问该校，他与政治家大隈重信的到访都记录在档案室中。
• The annual Kodai-sai festival fills the Tobata campus with laboratory exhibitions, robot demonstrations and food stalls run by student circles each autumn.每年秋季的工大祭让户畑校区热闹非凡，各研究室开放展览、学生社团展示机器人并设摊售卖小吃。
• Kyutech competes in the Fukuoka Six Universities Baseball League, giving the institute a sporting identity alongside its engineering reputation in northern Kyushu.九工大参加福冈六大学棒球联盟，使其在北九州除工程声望之外还拥有体育方面的身份认同。
• Students and alumni still call the university Meisen, after the Meiji Vocational School, and the name survives in the dormitory, the alumni association and the Meisen Kaikan hall.师生与校友仍以「明专」称呼母校，这一源自明治专门学校的名称保留在宿舍、校友会与明专会馆之中。
• The Meisenkai alumni association maintains the Meisen Kaikan on the site of the former Yasukawa residence and the Koron Club in Tokyo, where graduates hold reunions and weddings.明专会校友会管理着安川旧宅旧址上的明专会馆与东京的凤龙俱乐部，校友在此聚会与举行婚礼。
• The Yasukawa connection remains active through Yaskawa Electric, founded in 1915, which takes interns, funds research and recruits Kyutech graduates in robotics and motor control.与安川家族的联系通过 1915 年创立的安川电机延续至今，该公司接纳实习生、资助研究并在机器人与电机控制领域招聘九工大毕业生。
• Space engineering students work on small satellite projects, and the university's spacecraft environment group flew the HORYU-2 CubeSat in 2012 as a test of high voltage solar array technology.航天工程专业学生参与小型卫星项目，该校航天器环境研究组于 2012 年发射「凤龙二号」立方星，用于验证高压太阳能电池阵列技术。

Notable people

• Matsumoto Kenjiro, second son of Yasukawa Keiichiro, founded the Meiji Vocational School in 1907 and financed its Tobata campus, giving northern Kyushu its first four year engineering school.松本健次郎是安川敬一郎的次子，1907 年创办明治专门学校并出资建设户畑校区，为北九州带来第一所四年制工程学校。
• Yasukawa Keiichiro, the Meiji era mining and manufacturing magnate of the Chikuho coalfield, provided the family fortune behind the school and gave his name to the Yaskawa industrial group.安川敬一郎是明治时代筑丰煤田的矿业与制造业巨子，为学校提供了家族资金，其姓氏也成为安川产业集团之名。
• Yamakawa Kenjiro, a physicist trained at Yale University and the university's first president, declared that the school should produce gentlemen well versed in technological skills, a phrase still quoted as its founding principle.山川健次郎是毕业于耶鲁大学的物理学家、该校首任校长，他提出学校应培养「精通技术的士君子」，这句话至今仍被视为建校理念。
• Tatsuno Kingo, the architect who designed Tokyo Station and the Bank of Japan, designed the first wooden school building at Tobata, of which only the gatehouse now remains.辰野金吾是东京车站与日本银行的设计者，他设计了户畑的第一座木造校舍，如今原建筑仅存守卫室。
• Tetsuya Fujita, who graduated in 1943 and taught at Kyutech until 1953, became the world's leading authority on tornadoes and severe storms at the University of Chicago and is remembered as Mr Tornado.藤田哲也 1943 年毕业，在九工大任教至 1953 年，后赴芝加哥大学成为世界龙卷风与强风暴研究的权威，被誉为「龙卷风先生」。
• Tatsuo Endo, a professor emeritus of the university, is named by Kyutech among its notable faculty and belongs to the generation that built its strength in materials and mechanical engineering.远藤达雄是该校名誉教授，被九工大列为知名教师之一，属于奠定学校材料与机械工程实力的那一代学者。
• Admiral Togo Heihachiro visited the school after the Russo-Japanese War, and the archive keeps a record of the visit that links the campus to the naval history commemorated on Founder's Day.东乡平八郎海军大将在日俄战争后到访该校，档案室保存的访问记录把校园与创办人纪念日所纪念的海战历史联系起来。
• Okuma Shigenobu, the Meiji statesman who founded Waseda University, also visited the school, and his visit is preserved alongside Togo's in the university archives.创办早稻田大学的明治政治家大隈重信也曾到访该校，其访问记录与东乡的访问一并保存在大学档案中。
• The school's first graduating cohorts supplied engineers to the Chikuho collieries, the Imperial Steel Works at Yawata and the shipyards of Kitakyushu, anchoring the university in the industrial belt of northern Kyushu.学校最初几届毕业生进入筑丰煤矿、八幡制铁所与北九州造船厂，使这所大学深深扎根于北九州的工业带。
• Kyutech's alumni network, the Meisenkai, keeps the pre war name alive and supports current students through scholarships, mentors and the Meisen Kaikan and Koron Club facilities.九工大的校友网络「明专会」延续着战前的校名，并通过奖学金、导师制度以及明专会馆与凤龙俱乐部等设施支持在校学生。