Masanori Wada

Profile Information

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Organization for Higher Education Design, Mie University

Degree: Ph.D.(Mar, 2013, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Researcher number: 10724990
J-GLOBAL ID: 201401051694842005
researchmap Member ID: B000234730

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Sociology/history of science and technology / History of Science and Technology, Science and Technology Studies

Research History

Apr, 2024 - Present

Associate Professor, Student Affairs and Education Design, Mie University
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2024

Associate Professor, Organization for Higher Education Design and Promotion, Mie University
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2022

Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Mie University
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2020

Associate Professor (Lecturer), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Mie University
Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2018

Associate Professor (Lecturer), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Mie University
Sep, 2014 - Aug, 2015

Post-doctoral Fellow, The D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia
Sep, 2011 - May, 2012

Visiting Graduate Fellow, Department of History of Science and Technology, The Johns Hopkins University

Awards

May, 2014

The 8th Young Scholar Award of the History of Science Society of Japan, The History of Science Society of Japan

Masanori Wada

Papers

Seeking Employment during Japan's Early Industrialisation: New Engineering Graduates and Their Struggles before 1900

Masanori Wada

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, First View 1-15, Mar 11, 2024 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
A History of Two Higher Technical Schools in Tokyo and Osaka Attaining University Status in 1929

Masanori Wada

Journal of History of Science, Japan, 60(298) 99-114, Jul, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Validity of Student-peer Evaluation on Report of Book Reviews: A Case Study on the First-year Mandatory Reading-writing Course “Liberal Arts Seminar”

Yasura Tashiro, Masanori Wada, Akira Noda

Mie University Journal of Studies on Higher Education, 26(26) 81-84, Mar, 2020 Peer-reviewed
Improving Students’ Ability to Conduct Research while Reducing Teachers’ Burden: A Report on Problem-Based Learning for History of Science at a Japanese University

Masanori Wada

Tokyo Tech Studies in Science, Technology and Culture, (22) 21-36, Apr, 2019
Closure of the Imperial College of Engineering and Formation of the Imperial University

Masanori Wada

Journal of History of Science, Japan, 57(287) 186-200, Oct, 2018 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
「工部大学校と日本の工学形成」

和田正法

『科学史研究』, 55(278) 178-182, Jul, 2016 Invited
A Report on the Adoption of Evaluation Criteria for Essays in a General Class for Freshmen at a Japanese University

Masanori Wada

Bulletin of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Mie University, 1(1) 37-48, Mar, 2016
The Two International Congresses Held in Tokyo in the 1920s: The Rise of the First Generation of Japanese Scientists

Masanori Wada

Transformation of Chemistry from the 1920s to the 1960s: IWHC 2015 Tokyo Proceedings, 35-41, 2016
Making Research Integrity a Part of Undergraduate Education in Japan (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

The Research Reports of Shibaura Institute of Technology. Social Science and Humanities, 48(2) 115-122, Mar, 2015
Japanese Undergraduate Research and How to Reform It (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

Journal of Learner-Centered Higher Education, (3) 117-132, Jul, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Did Practical Training at the Imperial College of Engineering Really “Decline”? (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

Tokyo Tech Studies in Science, Technology and Culture, (17) 1-16, Apr, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Civil Engineering Education at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo: An Analysis Based on Ayahiko Ishibashi’s Memoirs (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

Journal of History of Science, Japan, 53(269) 49-66, Apr, 2014 Peer-reviewed
The Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo, 1873–1886, and Its Role in the Formation of Engineering in Meiji Japan (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

Tokyo Institute of Technology, (16) 51-59, Mar, 2013 Peer-reviewed
From Foundation to Dissolution of Rigaku Kyokai: An Introduction to Studies on Academic Societies in Japan (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

Tokyo Tech Studies in Science, Technology and Culture, (15) 11-24, Sep, 2012
The Formation of the Society of Engineering in Japan: From and Alumni Association to an Academic Society (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

Journal of History of Science, Japan, 51(263) 148-159, Sep, 2012 Peer-reviewed
Chemistry and Practical Education at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo, 1873–1886 (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

The Journal of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry, 39(2) 55-78, Jun, 2012 Peer-reviewed
The Role of the Ministry of Public Works in Meiji Japan in Designing Engineering Education: Reconsidering the Foundation of the Imperial College of Engineering (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

Journal of History of Science, Japan, 50(258) 86-96, Jun, 2011 Peer-reviewed
AVOIDING INFERIORITY: GLOBAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION ACROSS JAPAN

Gary Lee Downey, Masanori Wada

2011 ASEE ANNUAL CONFERENCE & EXPOSITION, 2011 1-20, 2011 Peer-reviewed
Following in Jokichi TAKAMINE’s Footsteps (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

Il Saggiatore, 39(39) 12-22, May, 2010
The Education of Kiyoshi MINAMI, a Graduate of the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

Il Saggiatore, 38(38) 61-69, May, 2009

Misc.

[Series: Classic Books on the History of Science] Giichi KAMO's Enomoto Takeaki, 1960

Masanori Wada

The Journal of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry, 50(1) 34-36, Mar 15, 2023 InvitedLead authorLast authorCorresponding author
「放射線」

和田正法

日本科学史学会編『授業に活かす科学史26のエピソード』, 16頁, Oct 23, 2019 InvitedLead author
「読者のことを考えて書かせるレポート」

和田正法

『会誌はまゆう』（三重県高等学校国語教育研究会研究紀要）, (67) 171-182, Jun, 2018 Invited
「1970年代の科学史と自主ゼミ――火ゼミの誕生を井原聰氏に聞く」

和田正法, 岡田大士

『サジアトーレ』, (45) 27-38, May, 2018
「梶雅範先生の思い出」

和田正法

『技術文化論叢』, (20) 65-68, May, 2017
「追悼梶雅範先生への感謝を込めて」

和田正法

『化学史研究』, 43(4) 229-231, Dec, 2016
「天野郁夫『高等教育の時代（上）戦間期日本の大学』中央公論新社、2013年，同『高等教育の時代（下）大衆化大学の原像』中央公論新社、2013年」

和田正法

『科学史研究』, 55(277) 99-100, Apr, 2016 Invited
A Report on the workshop, IWHC2015 (The International Workshop on the History of Chemistry) (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

The Journal of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry, 42(3) 163-164, Sep, 2015 Invited
Research integrity guidelines in Japan

Masanori Wada

NATURE, 514(7520) 35-35, Oct, 2014
Review of Igirisu Gijutsusha Yōseishi no Kenkyu, by Shin Hirose, Tokyo: Kazama Shobō (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

Journal of History of Science, Japan, 53(270) 266-268, Jul, 2014 Invited
An Experimental Physicist W.C. Röntgen (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

The Journal of Science Education, 55(1) 98-101, Jan, 2012 Invited
Review of Daigaku no Tanjo, by Ikuo Amano, Tokyo: Chuō Kōronshinsha (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

The Journal of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry, 38(1) 48-50, Mar, 2011
A Report of a Movie ‘Rokkasho-mura Rhaposody’ on a Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

Kagakushi Gijutsushi Tsūshin, (21) 2-3, 2011
Review of Kindai Nihon no Kogyo Rikkokuka to Kokumin Keisei: Gijutsusha Undo ni-okeru Kogyo Kyoiku Mondai no Tenkai, by Shoichi Ohyodo, Tokyo: Suzusawa Shoten (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

Journal of History of Science, Japan, 49(254) 120-123, Jun, 2010
Review of Nihon no Sangyo Gijutsu Kotohajime, by Hitoshi Tomita, Tokyo: Diamond-sha (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

Kagakushi Gijutsushi Tsūshin, (13) 4-5, 2010
A Report of an Exhibit ‘History of Medical Education in Japan’ at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (in Japanese)

Masanori Wada

Kagakushi Gijutsushi Tsūshin, (16), 2010

Books and Other Publications

『未来を考えるための科学史・技術史入門』

河村, 豊, 小長谷, 大介, 山崎, 文徳, 但馬, 亨, 中澤, 聡, 和田, 正法, 水沢, 光, 佐野, 正博, 永島, 昂, 由井, 秀樹

北樹出版, May, 2023 (ISBN: 9784779307089)
Accessing Technical Education in Modern Japan

Erich Pauer, Regine Mathias (Role: Contributor, Chapter 5 "The Role of the Ministry of Public Works in Designing Engineering Education in Meiji Japan: Reconsidering the Foundation of the Imperial College of Engineering (Kobu-dai-gakko)" [pp. 88-113], and Chapter 7 "The Fall of the Imperial College of Engineering: From the Imperial College of Engineering (Kobu-dai-gakko) to the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial University, 1886" [pp. 161-188])

Renaissance Books, Mar, 2022 (ISBN: 9781912961252)
Encyclopedia of the history of science

The History of, Science, Society of Japan (Role: Contributor)

Maruzen, May, 2021 (ISBN: 9784621306062)
Encyclopedic Dictionary of the History of Chemistry

Japanese Society for the, History of Chemistry, 化学史学会 (Role: Joint editor)

Kagaku-Dojin Publishing, Mar, 2017 (ISBN: 4759818391)
『作文がうまくなる訓練方法――小論文でレポート・論文の基礎力をつける』

和田正法

和田正法, Apr 5, 2014
Simple Principles in Cutting Edge Technologies, edited by Yamazaki, M., and Kobayashi

(Role: Joint author, Microscope, Magnet, and three columns)

JIPM Solution, Oct, 2010 (ISBN: 4889563768)

Presentations

History of Chemical Engineering in Japan: From the Establishment of a Society to Overcoming Environmental Pollution

Masanori Wada

Symposium “A Half-Century of the History of Chemistry: Past, Present and Future” co-organized by the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry (JSHC) and the Commission on the History of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences (CHCMS), IUHPST/DHST, at 2023 Annual General Meeting of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry (50th Anniversary), Jul 9, 2023, Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry (JSHC) Invited
「科学論の視点からみる研究不正の事例とその背景」

和田正法

鈴鹿大学・鈴鹿大学短期大学部研究倫理FD・SD, Jun 14, 2023, 鈴鹿大学・鈴鹿大学短期大学部 Invited
Employment Seeking by Elite Engineers in a Developing Industrial Society in 1880s Japan

Masanori Wada

The XIX World Economic History Congress, Paris, July, 2022 (On-line participation), Jul 27, 2022 Invited
「大正期における高等工業学校の大学昇格運動」

和田正法

火曜日ゼミナール（オンライン開催）, Feb 2, 2021, 火ゼミ運営委員会 Invited
「研究室主宰者の役割と責任」

和田正法

令和2年度研究に関するコンプライアンス研修会（三重大学、オンライン開催）, Dec 25, 2020, 三重大学 Invited
「なぜ研究公正を学ぶのか」

和田正法

令和2年度第2回三重大学大学院生を対象とした研究公正教育に関する講演会（オンライン配信）, Oct 5, 2020 Invited
「科学論の視点からみる研究不正の事例とその背景」

和田正法

岐阜市立女子短期大学研究倫理教育研修会（オンライン開催）, Sep 30, 2020, 岐阜市立女子短期大学 Invited
「なぜ研究公正を学ぶのか」

和田正法

令和2年度三重大学大学院生を対象とした研究公正教育に関する講演会（オンライン配信）, Apr 23, 2020 Invited
「グループ活動における学習行動ピア評価の妥当性――初年次全学必修科目『教養ワークショップ』における取り組み」

太城康良, 和田正法, 野田明

第26回大学教育研究フォーラム（オンライン開催）, Mar 19, 2020
「研究室主宰者の役割と責任」

和田正法

令和元年度研究に関するコンプライアンス研修会（三重大学）, Dec 25, 2019, 三重大学 Invited
「なぜ研究公正を学ぶのか」

和田正法

令和元年度三重大学大学院生を対象とした研究公正教育に関する講演会, Oct 7, 2019 Invited
The Fall of the Imperial College of Engineering: From the Kōbu daigakkō to the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial University, 1886

Masanori Wada

International Conference on Knowledge on the Move, Formalization of Technical Know-how and the Creation of an Institutional Framework for Technical Education in Meiji Japan (Project: From Craftsman to Engineer II), Sep 22, 2019, Centre Européen d'Études Japonaises d'Alsace (CEEJA) Invited
The Foundation of the Imperial College of Engineering: From Kōgaku-ryō to Kōbu daigakkō 1873–1886

Masanori Wada

International Conference on Knowledge on the Move, Formalization of Technical Know-how and the Creation of an Institutional Framework for Technical Education in Meiji Japan (Project: From Craftsman to Engineer II), Sep 21, 2019, Centre Européen d'Études Japonaises d'Alsace (CEEJA) Invited
「どのようにして学生に良いレポートを書かせるか」

和田正法

ユマニテク医療福祉大学校教職員研修会, Aug 5, 2019, ユマニテク医療福祉大学校 Invited
「なぜ研究公正を学ぶのか」

和田正法

平成31年度三重大学大学院生を対象とした研究公正教育に関する講演会, Apr 9, 2019 Invited
「レポート成果物の教員評価と学生ピア評価の相関解析――初年次全学必修科目『教養ワークショップ』における取り組み」

太城康良, 和田正法, 野田明

第25回大学教育研究フォーラム、京都大学、京都, Mar 23, 2019
「書評を通したライティング教育の課題と成果――初年次全学必修科目『教養ワークショップ』における取り組み」

和田正法, 野田明

第25回大学教育研究フォーラム、京都大学、京都, Mar 23, 2019
Social Motives of Two Higher Technical Schools in Tokyo and Osaka to Attain University Status in 1929

Masanori Wada

International Conference on Generation and Dissemination of Technical Knowledge in Japan from Edo- to Meiji-Period--From Craftsman to Engineer, Sep 20, 2018, Centre Européen d'Études Japonaises d'Alsace (CEEJA) Invited
Reconsidering the Role of Higher Technical Schools in the Taisho and Showa Eras before Attaining University Status

Masanori Wada

65th Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society of Japan in Tokyo, Japan, May 26, 2018
「研究室・部局内での研究公正教育ワークショップ」

和田正法

平成29年度三重大学における研究に関する研修会, Feb 27, 2018 Invited

Teaching Experience

2018 - Present

PBL科学史 (三重大学)
2015 - Present

教養セミナー（旧教養ワークショップ）「新書を読んで書評を書く」 (三重大学)
2015 - Present

科学技術の歴史 (三重大学)
2015 - Present

科学技術と社会 (三重大学)
2014 - 2014

Science and Technology in Society (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
2014 - 2014

技術史（産業革命以降） (東京工業大学)
2014 - 2014

工学倫理 (東京工業高等専門学校)
2013 - 2014

情報と職業 (創価大学)
2013 - 2014

職業指導 (創価大学)
2013 - 2014

工業科教育法 (創価大学)

Social Activities

｢レポート・論文の書き方のコツ｣

Lecturer

鈴鹿高等学校, 高大連携講義, 三重県鈴鹿市（オンライン開催）, Feb 29, 2024
「レポート・論文について」

Lecturer

三重県立津高等学校, 津高等学校SSH, Sep 1, 2023
「研究を成功させるコツ」

Lecturer

三重県立津高等学校, 津高等学校SSH, Jun 23, 2023
｢レポート・論文の書き方のコツ｣

Lecturer

鈴鹿高等学校, 高大連携講義, 鈴鹿高等学校、三重県鈴鹿市（オンライン開催）, Mar 17, 2023
「研究を成功させるコツ」

Lecturer

三重県立津高等学校, 津高等学校SSH, Sep 16, 2022
「レポート・論文について」

Lecturer

三重県立津高等学校, 津高等学校SSH（オンデマンド講演）, Jul 1, 2022
「研究を成功させるコツ、レポートの書き方」

Lecturer

海星高校, 国際理数コース探究ゼミ, Jun 13, 2022
「研究を成功させるコツ」

Lecturer

三重県立津高等学校, 津高等学校SSH, Oct 13, 2021
「レポート・論文について」

Lecturer

三重県立津高等学校, 津高等学校SSH（オンデマンド講演）, Sep 1, 2021 - Sep 2, 2021
｢レポート・論文の書き方のコツ｣

Lecturer

鈴鹿高等学校, 2年特進コース「データサイエンス、総合的な探究の時間」（オンライン開催）, 鈴鹿高等学校、三重県鈴鹿市（オンライン開催）, Jul 12, 2021
「研究テーマの出し方」

Lecturer

鈴鹿高等学校, 1年特進コース「データサイエンス、総合的な探究の時間」（オンライン開催）, 鈴鹿高等学校、三重県鈴鹿市（オンライン開催）, Feb 18, 2021
「研究テーマの出し方」

Lecturer

三重高等学校, 三重高等学校特進コース「総合的な探求の時間」, 三重高等学校、三重県松阪市, Oct 30, 2020
「研究を成功させるコツ」

Lecturer

三重県立津高等学校, 津高等学校SSH, 三重県立津高等学校, Oct 8, 2020
「レポート・論文の書き方のコツ」

Lecturer

三重高等学校, 三重高等学校特進コース「総合的な探求の時間」, 三重県松阪市, Jul 18, 2020
「研究を成功させるコツ」

Lecturer

三重県立津高等学校, 津高等学校SSH, Oct 7, 2019
「レポート・論文について」

Lecturer

三重県立津高等学校, 津高等学校SSH, Aug 30, 2019
「研究を成功させるコツ」

Lecturer

三重県立津高等学校, 津高等学校SSH, Oct 29, 2018
研究発表指導

Consultant

三重県立四日市高等学校, 四日市高校グローバル・リーダー学, Oct 20, 2018
「レポート・論文の書き方のコツ」

Lecturer

三重県立津高等学校, 津高等学校SSH, Aug 28, 2018
「文章力を付けよう！」

Lecturer

三重大学, 三重大学平成30年度サマーセミナー（高大連携）, Jul 23, 2018

Professional Memberships

Committee Memberships

Apr, 2023 - Present

Secretary General, Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry
Feb, 2013 - Present

Member, General Affairs Committee, Nihon Kagakushi Gakkai [History of Science Society, Japan]
Feb, 2013 - Present

総務委員, 日本科学史学会
Jul, 2011 - Present

Member, Editorial Board, Kagakushi Jiten [Dictionary of the History of Chemistry]
Jan, 2011 - Present

Member, Administrative Board, Kagakushi Gakkai [Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry]
Jan, 2011 - Present

Assistant Editor, Editorial Board, Gijutsu Bunka Ronso [Tokyo Tech Studies in Science, Technology and Culture]
Jan, 2011 - Present

Member, Editorial Board, Kagakushi [Journal of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry]
Jan, 2011 - Present

『化学史研究』編集委員, 化学史学会
Jan, 2011 - Present

理事, 化学史学会
Apr, 2008 - May, 2015

『技術文化論叢』編集委員, 東京工業大学
2011 - 2012

Member, Election Committee, Nihon Kagakushi Gakkai [History of Science Society, Japan]
2011 - 2012

選挙管理委員, 日本科学史学会
Apr, 2008 - Dec, 2010

Member, Editorial Board, Gijutsu Bunka Ronso [Tokyo Tech Studies in Science, Technology and Culture]
2009 - 2010

Member, Election Committee, Nihon Kagakushi Gakkai [History of Science Society, Japan]
2009 - 2010

選挙管理委員, 日本科学史学会

Research Projects

工部大学校を中心とした明治前期技術教育の総合的研究

科学研究費助成事業若手研究, 若手研究, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2023

和田正法
Formation of Technical Schools and Promotion to Universities in Japan

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2020

Wada Masanori
History of Science Studies comcerning solving current problems in Science and Society in Japan

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019

Hazime Mizoguchi, Yutaka Kawamura, Masanori Wada, Masahiro Sano, Daishi Okada
Comparative Studies on Japanese Chemistry from the 1930s to 1960s as a Turning Point of Chemistry in Japan

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2015

KAJI Masanori, UCHIDA Masao, YATSUMIMI Toshifumi, KOHNO Toshiya, FURUKAWA Yasu, OHNO Makoto, TANAKA Hiroaki, TSUKAHARA Togo, YOSHIMOTO Hideyuki, WADA Masanori, KIKUCHI Yoshiyuki

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