What, then, are the features of a knowledge and skill system and the competencies required for high flyers? It is a fact that, unlike academic knowledge, the value of most knowledge and skills that are required to perform actual tasks will never be truly obtained without any experience. In addition, although competency is crucially important in performing practical tasks, it has seldom been considered at the higher levels of traditional education of the difficulty in providing systematic education. The school comprises educational programs to cultivate advanced professionals targeting people who understand the value of the education provided and realize its necessity. At regular universities, students experience their student life first, then inevitably go through a clear transition of phase when they start work in society. However, at this university, no such phase transition exists. Instead, it is more accurate to say that, just like a node observed in a convection process, the school functions as a place through which students pass in the course of their life’s learning processes and from which they derive their energy.
  Reflecting these features of the school, students with various backgrounds systematically learn the latest knowledge and skills required in each professional field in their first year. In the second year, they clearly identify the competency group, which is the characteristic of a high-flyer, and thoroughly implement and reinforce it through team learning called PBL (Project Based Learning). Under the system we have adopted (the KHP system), all classes in the first year of study are video-recorded and students can view it for ten years after their graduation free of charge. This system forms a core part of the mechanism for providing a place of lifetime learning for graduates. In addition, to provide graduates with vastly superior knowledge and skills, we have also introduced a certified lecture system to encourage graduates to provide feedback to the school and to put something back in society. Besides, we have introduced a number of completely new innovations, such as the adoption of a quarter system and lecture support system as well as a mechanism for communicating with the industrial community through the Operation Advisory Council. In this way we make a continuous effort to become the foundation of of lifetime learning for advanced professionals.
  As indicated above, as the only comprehensive and professional engineering graduate school in Japan, this school has as its primary mission the development of Tokyo as a mature industrial society through the provision of an advanced place for mutual learning that incorporates a mechanism through which professionals are spontaneously cultivated. Therefore, this school does not wish to accept students who will only play a role as recipients of education. We are seeking people who wish to become high flyers and who can play an active role in the development of an affluent society by participating in the place of mutual learning that this school strives to create, as well as by leveraging the power of professional knowledge. We strongly believe that a place of mutual learning that brings together these people will spread throughout the city of Tokyo in the course of time and will lead to the creation of a city of the next generation, in which multi-talented professionals will come together.