Illustration: In a Japanese university engineering laboratory, two students test a carefully built bridge model spanning a gap between rigid supports. One lowers a tray of metal weights onto its center while the other watches a displacement gauge and the movement of a sensor arm.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

工こう学がく

kougaku

engineering

Example sentences

  1. その大学生だいがくせいは工学こうがくを学まなんでいます。

    That college student is studying engineering.

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  2. 僕ぼくは大学だいがくで工学こうがくを専攻せんこうするつもりだ。

    I plan to take up engineering at college.

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  3. 私わたしはプリマス大学だいがくで電気でんき工学こうがくを勉強べんきょうしています。

    I am studying electrical engineering at the University of Plymouth.

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Kanji in 工学

  • 工craft; constructionOnコウ・ク・グ
  • 学study; learningOnガクKunまなぶ

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