Director, Technical Japanese Program Donald E. Petersen Professor Professor, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering College of Engineering, University of Washington Adjunct Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Literature mtsutsui@u.washington.edu PH: (206) 685-2566, 543-7610 FX: (206) 543-8858 Ground Mail: 209 Sieg Hall Box 352315 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195

Michio Tsutsui established the Technical Japanese Program and has directed it since its inception in 1990. He received a B.S. in Naval Engineering from Osaka University, Japan, and worked several years for IBM Japan as a systems engineer. In 1984, Prof. Tsutsui earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. The next year he moved to MIT to set up the Japanese language program, which he directed until 1990. While at MIT, Prof. Tsutsui also participated in the establishment of the MIT Summer School in Technical Japanese for Computer Scientists and Electircal Engineers, where he taught for three years.

Prof. Tsutsui is a national leader in technical Japanese. He has written a number of articles on technical Japanese and teaching Japanese to engineers and scientists, given numerous presentations on these topics at national and international conferences, and organized workshops to promote collaboration among programs and individuals engaged in or interested in teaching technical Japanese. Prof. Tsutsui is also active in promoting the use of technology for foreign language learning. He leads several CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) projects at the University of Washington, including Language Partner and Language Evaluator, and has organized several workshops on this subject.

Prof. Tsutsui's publications include A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar, A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar and A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar (co-authored with Seiichi Makino and published by The Japan Times), and Tobira: Gateway to Advanced Japanese; Learning Through Content and Multimedia (editorial supervisor and a coauthor; published by Kuroshio Shuppan). His research interests include Japanese linguistics, technology-enhanced language learning, teaching Japanese for special purposes, second language acquisition, and international technical communication.

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