Imperial College of Engineering

The Imperial College of Engineering (ICE or Kobu Daigakko (工部大学校^?)) was founded by Yamao Yōzō as a university at Tokyo in 1873, though its predecessor the Kogakuryo (工学寮^?) existed from 1871. The name "Kobu Daigakko" dates from 1877. In modern-day parlance it would have been called an institute of technology.

Henry Dyer was appointed in charge and wrote the syllabus for the first year of the college whilst travelling by ship from his native Scotland to Japan. Among the first staff appointed to the college were:

Josiah Conder, alongside Henry Dyer likely the most influential member of the college faculty, arrived to take up his post as Professor in the Department of Architecture in 1877.

The college buildings were located at what is today Kasumigaseki 3 Chome 2-1, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, site of the Kasumigaseki Common Gate office development and the Japanese Government's Financial Services Agency. A red brick pillar and plaque marks the site. The main hall of the college was designed by Charles Alfred Chastel de Boinville.

The ICE was under the Ministry of Industry (Japan) (工部省^?, Kobusho) which was abolished in 1885. Control was then transferred to the Ministry of Education (文部省^?, Monbusho) and the ICE became part of the Tokyo Imperial University (later the University of Tokyo) when it was created by the Ministry of Education in 1886. The ICE was thenceforth the Faculty of Engineering of the Imperial University.

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