Assistance for Faculty Development in the Electronic Engineering Polytechnic Institute of Surabaya

The Electronic Engineering Polytechnic Institute of Surabaya (EEPIS) in Indonesia plans to make teaching staff study in doctor courses. To support the plan, TUT intends to accept the EEPIS teaching staff as its Ph.D candidates.

Cooperation with the Promotion and Enhancement of the Afghan Capacity for Effective Development Project

The Promotion and Enhancement of the Afghan Capacity for Effective Development (PEACE) Project is JICA's technical cooperation for Afghanistan. This project mainly supports civil servants and academic staff members in Afghanistan, working on infrastructure and aims to enable them to pursue study in master courses in Japan.

TUT expressed its intention to accept Afghan trainees as master students and accepted four candidates in the Master's degree program in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering.

Survey of Cooperation for Higher Education Loan Project in Malaysia

Higher Education Loan Project (HELP) in Malaysia funds scholarships by Yen Loan for Malaysian students who want to study in Japan. The scholarships offer opportunity for the students to study at science and engineering departments or graduate schools of universities in Japan.

The project, in the thrid phase, provides three-year study (preparatory study in a year and the former hal of undergraduate study n two years) in Malaysia and furthre supports the latter half of undergraduate study in two years at universities in Japan.

TUT is exploring the possibility of collaborating with the project, assisted by ICCEED.

Cooperation with Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology

Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT) opened in 2011 as a higher education institution following Japanese engineering education and held its opening ceremony in 2012.

To provide cooperation to MJIIT, a consortium has been formed at the Japanese side, constituted by organizations including participating universities, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and JICA.

TUT joined the consortium and is cooperating to MJIIT through ICCEED.

Accepting Academic Staff of Surabaya Institute of Technology

TUT has accepted academic staff of Surabaya Institute of Technology (ITS) as visiting researchers based on request for cooperation from ITS since FY2009.

The activity is supported by the "Indonesia-Managing Higher Education for Relevance and Efficiency (I-MHERE)" project by Directorate General of Higher Education (DGHE) in Indonesia. In FY2010, two members of the academic staff joined in Department of Mechanical Engineering of the university as visiting researchers.

ICCEED coordinated and processed administrative issues to accept them.

Hasanuddin University Engineering Faculty Development

Hasanuddin Univeristy Engineering Faculty Development Project started as technical cooperation project of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in January 2009.

The aim of this project is to strengthen education and research basis of Faculty of Engineering in Hasanuddin University in order to produce graduates contributing for sustainable development in the northeastern region of Indonesia. A visiting professor at ICCEED has served as an expert for the project in exploratoryand operation phases.

Other TUT professors have also been involved in the project as short-term experts or member of JICA advisory committee for the project.

ASEAN University Network / Southeast Asia Engineering Education Development Network

ASEAN University Network/Southeast Asia Engineering Education Development Network (AUN/SEED-Net) is a technical cooperation project with 19 leading institutions from 10 countries in Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) with the support the support of 11 Japanese universities, including TUT.

The project aims to promote human resources development in engineering research and enhancing academic exchange in ASEAN.

TUT has dispatched its academic staff and a visigint professor of ICCEED as the advisory committee members and a chief advisor, respectively.

The University has also cooperated with the project by accepting researchers from ASEAN.

International University Exchange Programme - Seminars for Young Engineers

TUT has annually held International University Exchange Programme for Young Engineers. In the programme, students from TUT and universities overseas learn and discuss technological, environmental, social, and ethical issues in a global context, and jointly take part in various cultural exchange activities in the programme.