Osaka Sangyo University (大阪産業大学, Ōsaka sangyō daigaku) is a private university in Daitō, Osaka, Japan. It is abbreviated as "DaiSanDai" using the first characters of its name. It was established in 1923 as Osaka Railway School. The university has six faculties and four graduate schools. Its campuses are in the Nakagaito area of Daito City, Osaka close to the ancient Japanese capital of Nara. A satellite campus is in the Umeda district of Osaka. There are about 11,000 students; 10% of them are international students. It is one of the major universities in Japan with a higher number of international students.
In 2004, it was selected as one of the special universities under the Educational Support Program for Special Universities (特色ある大学教育支援プログラム) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Japanese Government. The university's award-winning clean-energy solar car project frequently participated in domestic and international clean energy competitions. Yoshihiko Motoyama (本山美彦), former chairman of the Japan Society of International Economics, is its current president. Yoshikuni Dobashi, former president of Kubota Corporation, is the chairman of the board of directors.
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History
1928 Established as Osaka Railway School
1950 Developed as Osaka Transportation College
1965 Developed as Osaka Industrial University
1988 English name was changed from Osaka Industrial University to Osaka Sangyo University
Organization
Faculties
School of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Information Systems Engineering
Department of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering for Transportation
Department of Civil Engineering
School of Economics
School of Human Environment
School of Management
School of Education
School of Design Engineering
Graduate schools
Graduate School of Engineering
Division of Production Systems Engineering
Department of Information Systems Engineering
Department of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering for Transportation
Division of Environmental Design Engineering
Graduate School of Economics
Graduate School of Human Environment
Graduate School of Management
Research institutes
OSU Institute for Industrial Research
New Industrial Research and Development Center
Asian Community Research Center
Venture business
OSU Digital Media Factory
OSU Corporation
OSU Health Support Academy Inc.
Robust Engineering Corporation Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
Solar Car Project
Osaka Sangyo University started the OSU Solar Car Project as an industry-academia project-based learning program since 1989. The project is focused on the research and development of high efficiency solar cars. The project is funded by major Japanese corporations including Panasonic, Citizen Holdings etc. OSU solar car models have been presented in domestic and international clean energy competitions.