The National University of Electro-Communications is one of a few graduate schools in Japan that offer a compulsory Graduate School Technical English (GTE) program. The goal of the program is to give students English skills useful for an academic career in research including presentations, reading, discussion, and writing. A surveys administered to current GTE students aim to find out in-coming students’learning needs and expectations of the course and whether various aspects of the current curriculum meets the needs of the students. This presentation summarizes the salient points of the results of the two surveys, discusses the implications of student responses, and makes recommendations for improvements to the curriculum in line with the student feedback. The specific recommendations for course design, especially materials development and pedagogical revision, are aimed to better fulfil the intended ESP-oriented academic learning goals and strengthen the collaboration between the English and science faculty.