Organization
The Organization consists of the steering committee, research strategic planning office, intramural member, extramural member, and advisory committee.
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The Organization consists of the steering committee, research strategic planning office, intramural member, extramural member, and advisory committee.
The steering committee consists of an executive director, a deputy executive director, research administrators, extramural members, and intramural members who approve the establishment of Organization in Tohoku University. The steering committee discusses and decides personnel matters and important issues in the Organization.
The research strategic planning office consists of research administrators, extramural members, and intramural members who approve the establishment of Organization in Tohoku University. The research strategic planning office makes projects and supports the execution of projects. The office has the missions of negotiation with external organization and publicity work.
The intramural members are participants who approve the establishment of Organization in Research Institute of Electric Communication, group of electrical engineering and information science in School of Engineering, Information Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and other faculties in Tohoku University. They propose and execute projects and promote the activities of research and study group.
The extramural members are participants of private company, public research organization, local self-governing body, and each government office. They propose and execute projects and promote the activities of research and study group.
Advisory committee gives advices and makes recommendations to discuss the important issues of operation in Organization, depending on an advisory of executive director.
The Organization sets a goal on five-year basis and promotes research and development, aiming at the world's most advanced telecommunications research center. In the first phase, the Organization will focus on projects related to creative reconstruction declared by Tohoku University, and makes a contribution to practical use in about three to five years in general, simultaneously planning and promoting the state-of-the-art research with industry-academia-government collaboration. In the second phase, while continuing the reconstruction project, the Organization will focus on cutting-edge research projects to contribute to the creation of industries in information and communications, and electronics in our country.