2005 年 1 巻 p. 59-67
This paper examined the educational theory of higher technical schools with regard to the sudden increase in heavy industry. This paper focused on abilities that needed by engineers who were trained in the higher technical school.
The sudden rise of heavy industry, brought great changes and the abilities needed by engineers also changed a lot. To correspond with these changes the higher technical schools trained the students who had the potential ability to be engineers in the future. The sudden increase in heary industey was an important turning point of technical education in Japan. The method of technical education that was carried out in this period was called an opportunity for Japan to produce ‘Japan-styled' engineers.