Shibaura Institute Of Technology Provides Campus-Wide Access To MATLAB And Simulink Products

First University in Japan to Offer Students and Faculty Campus-Wide Access to Software from The MathWorks for Technical Computing and Model-Based Design.

NATICK, Mass. - The MathWorks today announced that the Shibaura Institute of Technology in Japan has adopted the country’s first Total Academic Headcount (TAH) license for the MATLAB and Simulink product families. This licensing agreement allows all students and faculty to access MATLAB and Simulink products from on-campus computers.

Shibaura Institute of Technology began using MATLAB and Simulink for its control engineering studies in 1994. Since then, these products have been widely adopted throughout the university in programs ranging from specialized undergraduate studies to control engineering studies at the graduate level.

“I am pleased that all students and faculty members have access to MATLAB and Simulink products,” said Tatsuro Yamazaki, general manager of the Center for Science Information at Shibaura Institute of Technology. “We hope this will be a major step toward realizing our goal of providing a model education and research environment based on information and communication technology.”

A MathWorks institution-wide TAH license provides all university students and professors with ready access to the latest versions of MathWorks software. In addition to the core products of MATLAB and Simulink universities can choose products that cover a variety of application areas, including image processing, control systems, statistics, finance, signal processing, mathematics, instrument control and data acquisition, and computational biology.

“Our objective is to help universities attain their academic goals,” said Ken Dunstan, Asia Pacific education manager at The MathWorks. “Shibaura’s TAH implementation ensures that its students are able to benefit from industry-standard technology tools through wide-scale use in studying, teaching, and research. As adoption of MathWorks products continues to grow across multiple industries, their widespread use in universities helps to ensure graduates enter the workforce with the skills that employers are seeking.”

Shibaura Institute of Technology was established in 1927 as the Tokyo High School of Industry and Commerce. As an engineering university, its function is to provide a comprehensive education at junior high school, senior high school, and university levels. In addition to providing practical education in fields such as machinery, electricity, construction, chemistry, materials, and information technology, the university has also incorporated environmental systems into its syllabus in order to fulfill its objective of adding a human dimension to the study of engineering, in addition to promoting a sustainable society capable of preserving both the environment and resources. The university currently spans across three campuses—the Toyosu Campus in Koto-ku, Tokyo; the Omiya Campus in Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture; and the Shibaura Campus in Minato-ku, Tokyo, opened in April 2009.