Abstract
The Faculty of Engineering of The Fifth High School and Kumamoto Higher Technical School are the predecessor to The Faculty of Engineering of Kumamoto University. These were the technical schools established in 1897 and 1906 of the Meiji era. The students in these schools were taught high technical knowledge and given the degree "the associate engineer." The first, these schools were ranked among the civil engineering and the ratio of the associate engineers were showed. The second, the course and the office of the graduates from these schools were constructed of database and the main office was showed the local government. The last, the graduates employed in there were extracted from database and analyzed the employment situation. Finally, the roles of them were deliberated in civil engineering under modernization in Japan.
