Greeting

I’m Yoshiaki NAKANO, and I have been appointed as the third President of the OUJ Sky PE Group.

I’m originally from Ise City, Mie Prefecture, and I’m a parishioner of Ise Jingu Shrine, which is currently enlivened by the Shikinen Sengu (regular renewal of the shrine buildings).

I spent my school years up to high school in Ise, then completed my studies at Shibaura Institute of Technology and its graduate school, after which I worked at IBM Japan’s Yamato Research Laboratory.

Subsequently, I worked as a teacher at a prefectural high school in my hometown of Mie, as a university teacher in Osaka, and as a teacher at a municipal high school in Kobe.

Currently, I serve as the Principal of the Junior and Senior High School attached to Kogakuin University, and also as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Information and Network Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, at the University of Electro-Communications.

As for my professional engineering credentials, I registered in Information Engineering (Information Applications) in March 1999, and in Engineering Management (Information Engineering) in April 2002.

My connection with the Open University of Japan began when I enrolled as a full-time student in the Psychology and Education Course of the Faculty of Liberal Arts from the second semester of the 2015 academic year, graduating in March 2019.

I then continued as a student in the Human and Culture Course, where I remain to this day.

In addition, I have been in charge of the face-to-face classes “Learning Information Science through Play” and “Assorted Programming Languages” every year, and I have also served as a guest lecturer for the broadcast course “Information Science from the Basics.”

Whether I am teaching as a lecturer or attending as a student at the Open University of Japan, I am always amazed by the breadth and depth of the backgrounds of the students. In this context, I believe it is extremely significant that professional engineers—who are engaged in planning, research, design, analysis, testing, evaluation, or supervisory work related to matters requiring advanced specialized and applied capabilities in science and technology—can organize themselves as members of the Open University community.

While activities will likely be mainly online, I would like to create a space where members can interact with each other. Please feel free to share your various opinions and requests with me.