Ocean Mechanical Engineering

This department conducts education and research in the area where marine and fisheries engineering merges with mechanical engineering ─ a field that is based on physics but also incorporates biology and chemistry. The department seeks to endow students with a broad array of technological capabilities related to the development of machinery used in fisheries, the sustainable utilization of fisheries resources, and the conservation of marine environments, so that graduates can actively contribute to the industry in a wide variety of ways, including the development of machinery related to the marine environment, ships and food.

Students who graduate from this department and take up further study in Marine Engineering in the Advanced Course can obtain certification as a ship officer, enabling them to work as a chief engineer or engineer on a ship traveling on international waters.

The National Fisheries University is the only fisheries-specialized higher education institution in Japan bearing the term “fisheries” in its name and is run under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries of Japan. During its history of more than 70 years, it has contributed to the growth of Japan’s fisheries industry by sending out many talented graduates who are now playing major roles at the forefront of the fisheries industry, as well as other relevant professions, both in Japan and abroad.

It was transformed into an independent administrative agency in 2001; all the faculty and staff have since been making concerted efforts to provide ever-expanding and advanced levels of education and research, so as to achieve the goal of “cultivating professionals who will play leading roles in the fisheries industry in the future,” the institutional purpose defined in the Act on the National Fisheries University, Independent Administrative Agency.