15-year History and Future Image of the University-wide Research Support Organization at Tokyo Institute of Technology

Abstract

Before the university was incorporated, a laboratory with a system of professors-assistant professors-assistants-engineers or clerical staff was formed, and departments and majors have been run based on the aggregate of these laboratories. Although the number of faculty members above the associate professors increased at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (hereinafter referred to as Tokyo Tech) based on the Advancement Policy of graduate school, it was not possible to maintain laboratories including engineer as before. Therefore, the engineers were integrated to departments in 2004 (Heisei 16), and then all technical staff were integrated to the Technical Staff Division in April 2007 (Heisei 19). It was the first that all the technical staff were integrated to form the university-wide research support organization in the National University Corporation in Japan. Considering the current situation where the concentration of technical staff, the sharing of research facilities, and the enhancement of core facilities are being called for, looking back on the 15 years of the university-wide research support organization, what can be overcome and what is unsolved, and it is important to think about the vision for the future

In this report, we look back on the history and future of Tokyo Tech's Technical Staff Division before it was born, and look into the future.