OKADA Daishi, PhD

Overview

Daishi OKADA has recently completed his PhD dissertation titled gPost-War Reform program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, h was awarded a PhD degree by the Tokyo Institute of Technology in April, 2005. His dissertation attempts to analyze the post-war reform program at the Tokyo institute of technology (Tokyo Tech) by placing it in its social, political and historical contexts by drawing on official and unofficial records, other primary sources and interviews with surviving actors. He shows the connection between the postwar university reforms in Japan and those of the U.S during the interwar period. In the 1930s, Massachusetts Institute of Technology had reformed its education programs and become an advanced science and engineering university. At Tokyo tech, some faculty members visited MIT and learned about the MIT curricula in chemical engineering at the very time when MIT has just completed its major reform program. To advance his study of the connection between the reforms programs of these two countries, he would like explore the issue further both in Japan and in the United States, and has identified the theme "university reform in the interwar U. S. and its impact on the postwar Japanese universities" as his postdoctoral research project.

Educational Background

1993-1997    Ritsumeikan University: College of international relations (B.A)
1997-1999    Tokyo Institute of Technology: Graduate school of decision science and technology (M.A.)
1999-2004    Tokyo Institute of Technology: Graduate school of decision science and technology (PhD Course)
4/30/2005    Awarded PhD from Tokyo Institute of Technology

Professional Positions held

1998-1999 Teaching Assistant: Undergraduate course of Tokyo Institute of Technology
1999-2004 Teaching Assistant: Graduate course of Tokyo Institute of Technology
2002-2004 Research Assistant: Graduate course of The University of Tokyo
2004-2005 Teaching Assistant: Undergraduate course of Tokyo Institute of Technology
2005-2007 Lecturer : Junior college course of Ohtsuki City College
2006   Research Assistant: The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
2006- Lecturer: The School of Life Science at Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science
2006-2007 Faculty Assistant: The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
2007-2008 Lecturer: The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
2007-2009 Teaching Assistant (ICT Supporter): Surugadai Educational Media Group, Meiji University
2008- Lecturer: Tokyo-Rissho Junior College
2009- Assistant Professor: Chuo University Faculty of Law

Specialty

Major Publications

 PhD thesis

2005/1

Master thesis
1999/2

 
Published paper  

2004/7

 


2005/3

 

Daishi OKADA, gPost-War Reform program at the Tokyo Institute of Technologyh

(Awarded from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, supervisor Prof. Masanori KAJI)

 Daishi OKADA, gA historical analysis of the post-war reform at the Tokyo Institute of Technologyh

(Awarded from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, supervisor Prof. Masanori KAJI and Prof. Tadaaki KIMOTO)

 

 OKADA, Daishi, gPost-war University Reform at the Tokyo Institute of Technology: the process of the Reform and its Contribution to Establish the Japan University Accreditation Association,h Daigakusi Kenkyu. Historical Studies on Higher Education, 2004, No.20, pp.46-60

 OKADA Daishi, gA Study of the history of Engineering Education through university reforms: Post-War Reform Program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and 1930s Reform at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,h JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF TOKYO UNIVERSITY, 2005, No.23, pp96-84

Professional Committee

2004/11- The Japanese Society for Historical Studies on Higher Education. Staff

Awards and Grants

2000/12-2001/11 Itoh-Foundation, Research Grant for Japanese Studies on
gLiberal arts for Higher Engineering Education in Japan: todays and yesterdaysh

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