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1.  What is QSTEP doctoral exercise?
It refers to the doctoral exercise of each department. For example, in the case of Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems (EEIS), the EEIS doctoral exercise corresponds to the QSTEP doctoral exercise. For departments that do not have the doctoral exercise, you need to contact the professor in charge in your department. For Department of Advanced Materials Science (Graduate School of Frontier Sciences), the options include: self-directed joint research, long-term overseas dispatch (at least 1 month), corporate internship (at least 1 month), and entrepreneur challenge.

2.  How is the Qualifying Examination (QE) conducted?
In the School of Engineering and the School of Frontier Sciences, the QE is the pre-defense of the doctoral thesis. In the School of Science and the School of Arts and Sciences, please wait for further instructions from the faculty members in your department. For students selected at the master’s level, the master’s thesis defense is considered equivalent to the QE.

3.  How should I acknowledge the support from the WINGS-QSTEP program in my paper?
There is no strict template or funding number required for acknowledging the WINGS-QSTEP program. You may use either of the following suggested formats:

• "本研究は、東京大学WINGS-QSTEPプログラムの支援を受けて実施されました。" (For Japanese paper)

• “This work was supported by the WINGS-QSTEP Program, the University of Tokyo.”

• “The author acknowledges the fellowship from WINGS-QSTEP, the University of Tokyo.”

All of them are perfectly acceptable. Feel free to adapt the wording to better fit your manuscript and journal guidelines.