"The Department of Material Chemistry was inaugurated in 1993 in a reorganization that focused its activities on the graduate school. The Department's predecessor was the Department of Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering. The Department of Industrial Chemistry was established within the Kyoto Imperial University College of Science and Engineering as a department with four chemistry chairs, and in September of the following year two courses were inaugurated: Pure Chemistry and Manufacturing Chemistry. Subsequently, in September 1914 the College of Science and Engineering was split into the College of Science (the predecessor of the Faculty of Science) and the College of Engineering (the predecessor of the Faculty of Engineering) and became the Department of Industrial Chemistry, College of Engineering"