2019 program
Outbound Programs
Mechanical
| Department of Mechanical Engineering | SHIRAI Katsuaki | Taiwan／National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) | 2019/8 | Program Report |
| The students at the Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT) will visit ans stay at the partner laboratory at the department of Energy and Regrigerating Air-Conditioning Engineering at the National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) in Taiwan. The participants students will be mainly 4th year students and possibly 3rd year students of the bachelor course at the department of mechanical engineering at the SIT. The maximum participants will be 10 students from the SIT. They learn the basic knowledge through lectures and seminars, visit facilities of local industries (including Japanese companies) and local univeristy together with the local students. The SIT students will work on own research topics assigned individually and report their output at the final presentation. | ||||
| Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics | TAKASAKI Akito | Poland／AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH) | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| This program is a PBL between SIT and AGH, but includes ten times (two hours per time) Communicative English classes (to improve SIT students' communication skill in English) because Polish students speak native-like English.Generally, topics of the PBL will be decided by students group after making fundamental experiments on enviroment, energy and so on. Basically, the students group will be asked to focus on difference between Japan and Poland. After a midterm and a final presentation, the group performance will be evaluated using a Rubric type metrics and the exellent group will be awrarded.hours per time) Communicative English classes (to improve SIT students' communication skill in English) because Polish students speak native-like English.Generally, topics of the PBL will be decided by students group after making fundamental experiments on enviroment, energy and so on. Basically, the students group will be asked to focus on difference between Japan and Poland. After a midterm and a final presentation, the group performance will be evaluated using a Rubric type metrics and the exellent group will be awrarded. | ||||
| Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics | TAKASAKI Akito | Thailand/Suranaree University of Technology (SUT) | 2020/03 | Program Report |
| This program is a large scale PBL sponsored by SUT, generally with about 50 participants from not only SIT and SUT but also from universities in Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia and Korea (participating countries and universities may change occasionally). Topics of the PBL will be decided among international students groups after visiting a factory or an external facility nearby SUT. Most of the topics the stdudents groups raised so far were on enhancing productibility, improving products and proposing new products. The representatives of the company or the facility will also attend a midterm and a final presentations, and an exellent group will be awarded. Cultural activities are also planned. | Program cancelled due to COVID-19 | |||
| Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics | HOSOYA Naoki | Thailand／King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) | 2019/7 | Program Report |
| A global project based learning (gPBL) will be held at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) in Thailand. About twenty Shibaura Intstitute of Technology (SIT) students will make a voyage across to Thailand to attend the gPBL. Both KMUTT and SIT students are going to take part in the gPBL. They will build teams, which consist of the two countries’ students, and each team works in collaboration to solve assignments for ten days. They will discuss or publish their obtained achievements in midterm and final presentation in English. | ||||
| Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics | ONO Naoki | Australia／Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| SIT students in the department will visit RMIT and have a discussion about an engineering issue with RMIT students in English. If possible, they will go out and see a fascility to deepen their discussion. | ||||
| Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics | MATSUHIRA Nobuto | India／Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITM) | 2019/9 | Program Report |
| As a collaborative program development, the following will be implemented. (1) Participation of more than 10 undergraduate and graduate students in the laboratory (2) Implementation of advance preparation by skype etc. (3) Setting of pre-assignment issue by teacher (4) Introduction of mutual robot research (5) Development of preset robot issues (6) Implementation of program development among students (7) Evaluation of outcomes by related teachers |
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| Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics | HASHIMURA Shinji | Thailand／King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) | 2019/7 | Program Report |
| One or more laboratory students in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Shibaura Institute of Technology and one or more laboratory students of KMUTT will attend to the program. The students develop new materials made of natural resources in Thailand and make mechanical elements. And then the students evaluate the materials and the mechanical elements. |
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| Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics | HOSOYA Naoki | Malaysia／Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) | 2019/12 | Program Report |
| A global project based learning (gPBL) will be held at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia （UTM) in Malaysia. About twenty Shibaura Intstitute of Technology (SIT) students will make a voyage across to Thailand to attend the gPBL. Both UTM and SIT students are going to take part in the gPBL. They will build teams, which consist of the two countries’ students, and each team works in collaboration to solve assignments for ten days. They will discuss or publish their obtained achievements in midterm and final presentation in English. | ||||
| Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics | ONO Naoki | United States／Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) | 2019/8 | Program Report |
| This program will be done with the collaboration of Prof.Powell at WPI, who is a long-time friend of Ono's. The SIT students will have technical discussions and projects with WPI counterpart students, including English communication and comaprison of each country's technology issues. Factory visit in Boston area, and visits to MIT, Harvard will be included. | ||||
| Department of Machinery and Control Systems | ITO Toshio | Vietnam／Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) | 2020/3 | Program Report |
| This exercise is paired with Inventive and Creative Design. Therefore, the exercises are implemented along the lecture. A development process which includes a planning, basic design, detailed development design and structural analysis is learned through the exercise. You design it using CAD software such as CREO and Solidworks since a digital engineering technology is introduced. The Universal design and a reverse engineering techniques are used in the upper development as well as the CAE structural analysis. If you take the lecture, you have to also take Inventive and Creative Design. | Program cancelled due to COVID-19 | |||
| Department of Machinery and Control Systems | ITO Toshio | United Kingdom／Loughborough University (LU) | 2019/7 | Program Report |
| This gPBL aims to analyze European driver behavior data, whch are in Loughborough University, by groupe activity and find issues for traffic safety by comparing Japanese driver data. | ||||
Materials/Applied Chemistry
| Department of Materials Science and Engineering | SERIZAWA Ai | Thailand／Chulalongkorn University (CU) | 2019/7 | Program Report |
| During 14 days (From 08/01/2019 to 08/14/2019), the global PBL program of Department of Materials Enginemering will be hold at Chulalongkorn Univeristy of Thai with the students of Department of Metallurgical and Mateirals Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Chulanlonkorn University. The advantage of this program is to carry out the activity which find out the solution for problems with a very limitied memebers. In detail, the discussion will be performed to find out the solution about the current problem in materials engineering. Then the group’s presentaion will be hold. To enhance the efficiency of learining, the students will learn and pratice of the technical english for engineering and get lecture with english along with this program. Based on this experience, the students are expecting for engineerers who can active in oversea in the future. | ||||
| SIT Research Laboratories | MIRON Camelia | Thailand／Kasetsart University (KU) | 2019/7 | Program Report |
| Lab experiments in the field of luminescence materials, copper clay, plasma in liquids, and 3D printing, company visits | ||||
| Department of Applied Chemistry | YOSHIMI Yasuo | Taiwan／National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) | 2019/8 |
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| Pairs of a SIT participant and a National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) have competition about design of chemical experiment. The achivement was analysed by discussion between the pair and make oral presentation. | ||||
| Department of Applied Chemistry | YOSHIMI Yasuo | Indonesia/Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya (WMCUS) | 2020/02 | Program Report |
| Pairs of a SIT participant and a Widya Mandala Catholic University (WMCU) have competition about design of chemical experiment. The achivement was analysed by discussion between the pair and make oral presentation. | Program cancelled due to COVID-19 | |||
| Department of Applied Chemistry | NOMURA Mikihiro | Republic of Korea／Chungnam National University (CNU) | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| The separation processes which separates things is used in various fields such as liquor distillation, fuel cell and water purifier. Here, these separation technologies are "membranes". In the development of membranes, we should separate efficiently. It is necessary to make pores smaller than nanometer to separate molecules. In this internship, together with experiments and presentations, we will concentrate on research on separation membranes in overseas laboratories. | ||||
Electrical/Electronic/Information
| Department of Electrical Engineering | ANDO Yoshinobu | Vietnam／Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| This global PBL program is supported by Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electronic Engineering, Department of Information Science and Engineering and Department of Engineering and Design. In this program, we set 2 missions for global PBL. Mission 1 is individual mission. In mission1, students make an each line tracing robot per each student. Every student try to make a hardware and software of a line tracing robot. We prepare normal line tracing courses and reversed colored line tracing courses. Mission 2 is group mission. In mission 2, we make some groups that include SIT students and HUST students. In mission 2, the groups discuss about extensional function of the robot. Finally, every groups have a presentation and demonstration about each extensional function. Through this program, students improve their skill of the hardware and software of the robot system. Students improve their skill of the discussion and presentation and solving problems. | Program cancelled due to COVID-19 | |||
| Department of Electrical Engineering | FUJITA Goro | Taiwan／National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| You can learn the basic skill of power electronics in one of the best laboratory in the world. You learn how to make a PCB, and how to make the DC/DC converter. Also you use DSP for the control of DC/DC converter. You will make a pair with Taiwanese student. You can enjoy not only the power electronics but also the night market in Taiwan. | Program cancelled due to COVID-19 | |||
| Department of Electrical Engineering | ABIKO Satoko | United States／NASA and others | 2019/9 | Program Report |
| This program is custermized engineering english course for mainly 2nd and 3rd undergraduate students in the electrical department. In the course, the students can learn technical skills of writing and presentation. The main features of this couse are visiting NASA Jet propulstion laboratory (JPL) and having a lecture from Virgin Galactic Cooperation, which is a venture company for space tour. | ||||
| Department of Electrical Engineering | YOSHIMI Takashi | Hungary／Obuda University | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| In this program, SIT students visit to the Antal Bejczy Center for Intelligent Robotics, Obuda University, Budapest, Hungary. The students experience robotics and virtual reality researches under the support of Associate Prof. Peter Galambos and his graduate students at his lab. They join the meetings and experiments of the lab. and visit some related companies. | ||||
| Department of Electrical Engineering | YOSHIMI Takashi | Republic of Korea／Pusan National University (PNU)、University of Ulsan (UOU) | 2019/8 | Program Report |
| In this program, SIT students visit to the Robotics Laboratories of Pusan National University and University of Ulsan in Korea. The students experience robotics and automation researches at the above two Laboratoties under the support of Prof. Min Cheol Lee (PNU) and Prof. Kanghyun Jo (UoU) and their graduate students. The SIT students join the meetings and experiments of the labs and visit some related companies. The SIT students also join and experience the International Symposium about Robotics which will be held in Pusan during their internship period. | ||||
| Department of Information and Communications Engineering | KAMIOKA Eiji | Vietnam／Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT) | 2019/9 | Program Report |
| This program is organized by Department of Information and Communications Engineering and Department of Computer Science and Information Technology in SIT. The purpose of this program is to understand what IoT is through a gPBL, collaborating with School of Computer Science in HCMUT. Concretely, it includes (1) brainstorming to determine the theme, (2) system development, (3) evaluation and (4) presentation. In addition, a fieldwork as a cultural exchange. | ||||
| Department of Information and Communications Engineering | KAMIOKA Eiji | Thailand／Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology (TNI) | 2019/9 | Program Report |
| This program is organized by Department of Information and Communications Engineering in SIT and is aimed at activating collaborative research and student mobility between TNI(Ｔｈａｉ−Ｎｉｃｈｉ Institute of Technology) and SIT.The theme of the PBL is Information and Communication Technologies, especially IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (Artificial Intelligence).The program is divided into four activities, that is to say, gPBL, research workshop, research institute visit and cultural exchange. | ||||
| Department of Electronic Engineering | SASAKI Masahiro | United States／California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) | 2019/8 | Program Report |
| DIGITAL SYSTEM INTEGRATION PROJECT is an intensive course that will train students in the design and implementation of a series of field programmable gate array (FPGA) design projects. Emphasis will be placed on integrating a complete system with programmable logic that includes a processor, VGA monitor, A/D converter and D/A converter. Students will practice skills learned in previous classes to integrate a complete system then verify it using standard test equipment such as the logic analyzer, oscilloscope, and function generator. Students will gain practical experience in system design and test in a collaborative team environment. | ||||
| Department of Electronic Engineering | KOIKE Yoshikazu | Thailand／King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) | 2019/9 | Program Report |
| The PBL program has been carried out from 2015 with Electronics and Telecommuncaionts department, KMUTT. The students discussed and created system using Arduino micro-computer in the relation with sensors, control and bioengineering in 20 days (11days in Japna and 11days in Thailand). Both SIT and KMUTT students cooprate with the program. In 2017, the company which attneds with GTI coporation gives the hints of project theme. The students consider and discuss the project goal on the basis of the compnie's hint. To make the student's education effect higher, the PBL program is important subjects in the department curriculum. | ||||
| Department of Electronic Engineering | MUGURUMA Hitoshi | Republic of Korea／Dongyang Mirae University (DMU) | 2020/3 | Program Report |
| Electronics is closely related to biotechnology and bioengineering. We practice the basic operation of biotechnology while communicating with local students of Dongyang Mirae University. We manipulate genetic information, which is a design drawing of life,and incorporate it into microorganisms to produce useful substances. In that process, we can experience the use of various electronic devices.We use gene analysis software to experience the fundamentals of life information. We fabricate a biosensor using the useful substances. | Program cancelled due to COVID-19 | |||
| Department of Electronic Engineering | UENO Kazuyoshi | Thailand／King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) | 2020/3 | Program Report |
| In order to implement gPBL for device area, students will break down electronic systems used in society. Students will learn what kind of electronic and optical devices are actually used, and what kind of technology is used there. Japanese and Thai students will also jointly investigate and learn through discussion what technologies are required in the future. The target is the second, third, and fourth graders, and it is expected that it will lead to the research exchange of KMUTT and SIT in the future. The following is a concrete plan: survey of how and what products are used in Thailand (the difference from Japan), and buy the electronic products sold in Thailand electrical stores, disassemble it in a team of 2 Japanese and 2 Thai, examine the used electronic and optical parts, and find out the specs and functions of the product and the technology used on the Internet etc. Finally, students will make presentations. | Program cancelled due to COVID-19 | |||
| Department of Computer Science and Engineering | IJIRI Takashi | Thailand／Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology (TNI) | 2020/3 | Program Report |
| In the Department of Information Science and Engineering, exercises are held continuously from the first half of the 1st year. In "Advanced information exercise 2 C" of the latter half of the 3rd year, an exercise entitled "Interactive Virtual Space Design and Construction," utilizing virtual reality technology as an intuitive interface exploiting human space capability, and utilizing the programming skill, each student group creates an interactive system with visual, auditory and tactile stimuli. This PBL is based on the exercise (The students who do not take this exercise should participate a workshop held separately). Assuming more than 2 graders of our department, a hybrid team of SIT and TNI students will develop a media interactive system. At the end of the PBL, presentation will be held. We also visit a factory of a company during the PBL period. | Program cancelled due to COVID-19 | |||
| Department of Computer Science and Engineering | FUKUDA Hiroaki | Vietnam／Dong A University | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| This gPBL program consists of four different universities from Japan(SIT, FIT) and Vietnam(Dong A, SICT). The studetns from these universities will implement software systems as a group. The software system must use network technologies such as WiFi and Bluetooth, and also use different devices such as PC, SmartPhone and micro computers. With these activities, students will know how to design network protocols and use concreate infrastructures that realize network communications. Also they will understand how English is important and the importance of understanding the difference of cultures. |
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| Department of Computer Science and Engineering | FUKUDA Hiroaki | Vietnam／Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST)、Sun* Inc. | 2019/7 | Program Report |
| This gPBL will be conducted with students who are lerning IT and Japanese in Hanoi University Science and Technology(HUST) called HEDSPI. Therefore we use Japanese and English to communicate each other in this gPBL. Also, Sun* Inc. which is a company to develop software in Hanoi collaborates this gPBL. Sun* Inc. provides a lecturer who teaches web application development using Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Then students will learn variety of elements that is required in Web application development such as ideason, definition of the specification and writing spefications. Students will give their presentation about the applications they have developed in the final day. |
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| Department of Computer Science and Engineering | KIMURA Masaomi | Thailand/Suranaree University of Technology (SUT) | 2020/03 | Program Report |
| SIT students will discuss problemｓ such as social problems or problems in a company with students in SUT, and propose their solutions. During the program, English comunication ability and global view should be fostered. | Program cancelled due to COVID-19 | |||
Architecture/Civil Engineering
| Department of Architecture | MINAMI Kazunobu | China／Hefei University of Technology (HFUT) | 2019/8 | Program Report |
| Based on the experiences of the previous gPBL from 2015 to 2018, SIT and the partner Univesities in China will organize an advanced design workshop such as the desgn studio of the restoration of the local historical village. | ||||
| Department of Civil Engineering | INAZUMI Shinya | Thailand／Kasetsart University (KU) | 2019/9 | Program Report |
| The students of the Department of Civil Engineering will actively discuss various issues that civil engineering should contribute collaborated with local students and young engineers with different nationalities and specialized fields. And the students propose a novel solution. Through such efforts, the students will nurture global awareness as a civil engineer. In this project, the students of Department of Civil Engineering at Shibaura Institute of Technology and King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi jointly cooperated with each other on the disaster prevention and disaster prevention technologies that protect the geosphere and hydrosphere from natural disasters common to both Japan and Thailand (such as earthquakes and heavy rain disasters). The students will work on the discovery of various issues. | ||||
| Department of Architecture | KUWATA Hitoshi | Republic of Korea／Hanyang University | 2019/9 | Program Report |
| SIT students visits Hanyang University in Seoul Korea for a month to develop skills for designing architecture by collaborating with foreign students and communicating with foreign students in English. Students will have wider and deeper view of city and architecture through this exchange program. During this program, Students will have opportunity to visit contemporary and historical architecture in Seoul to learn architectural history in Korea. | ||||
| Department of Architecture | SATO Hirosuke | Taiwan／Shih Chien University (USC) | 2019/9 |
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| This is a global PBL workshop with Shin Chien University in Taiwan. Students of both universities will break into some mixed teams to make an architectural proposal. Based on the understandings of the social and architectural history of Taiwan, future revitalization plan of the selected site is the expected result. Student will gain better understandings of other social and architectural cultures, learn how to collaborate effectively with others and improve their communication skill in English through the workshop. | ||||
| Department of Architecture | GOTA Osami | Spain／Barcelona Architecture Center (BAC) | 2019/8 | Program Report |
| In this program, students visit the Barcelona Architecture Center in Spain, that is the Architectural School led by Miguel Roldan, architect and visiting professor of SIT, for three weeks during the summer vacation to participate in the architectural design exercise, office visits and architectural tours. It aims to expand the views on architecture by experiencing architectural culture and design exercise in overseas. The local architect Yoshihide Kobanawa, visiting professor of SIT, mainly leads the program and the faculty members of SIT, also join the presentation and discussion of the design exercise program. | ||||
| Department of Architecture | NISHIZAWA Taira | Russian Federation／Moscow Institute of Architecture (MARKHI) | 2019/9 | Program Report |
| The exchange program with MARKHI, Moscau Institute of Architecture (a State academy in Russian Republic). All students will design atchitectural pieces with members in a group and will solve some regional problems in Moscau city. All works, such as servey, study, design and presentation, will be done as a group work and be ended up for 4 weeks. Each group basically consists of 4 members, including 2 Japanese and 2 Russian equally, and doing different grade of students as well. The official language of this program is English. | ||||
| Department of Architecture | YAMASHIRO Satoru | Italy／Sapienza University of Roma | 2019/9 | Program Report |
| This is a joint workshop with SIT and Sapienza University of Rome.We plan to stay in Italy for around 3 weeks.The Sapienza University of Rome is one of the oldest universities in the world and is located in the heart of Rome.The theme of the workshop is temporary housing after the earthquake, rebuilding housing, disaster prevention town planning etc. Japan and Italy have completely different historical cultural backgrounds, but we have common background as earthquake prone county.You will acquire professional knowledge and skills through workshops with English, but also you will learn many things from experiencing the urban space and architecture in and around the city. | ||||
| Department of Architecture | SHIMIZU Ikuro | Lao People's Democratic Republic／Souphanouvong University (SU) | 2020/3 | Program Report |
| It is a global PBL workshop with Souphanouvong University which will be launched newly from 2019. It is a design-based workshop aimed at solving the social problems that the community is facing. Experts in architecture and urban design teach students and contributes to the local community by revitalizing the community by entrepreneurship of small business and use of dwelling culture. | Program cancelled due to COVID-19 | |||
| Department of Architecture | OKAZAKI Rumi | Republic of the Philippines／Escuela Taller De Filipinas Foundation | 2019/9 | Program Report |
| Based on the experiences of the previous gPBL from 2015 to 2018, SIT and the partner Univesities in China will organize an advanced design workshop such as the desgn studio of the restoration of the local historical village. | ||||
| Department of Planning, Architecture and Environmental Systems | NAKAGUCHI Takahiro | Germany／Berlin International University of Applied Sciences (BAU) | 2019/8 | Program Report |
| In Berlin, Germany, observe the buildings and elements of the city and the natural materials, grasp the features and issues, and think about the proposal in groups. As for Dessau, he creates activities using paper based on observations of the world heritage Bauhaus and its surroundings. | ||||
| Department of Planning, Architecture and Environmental Systems | NAKAMURA Hitoshi | Malaysia／International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) | 2019/10 | Program Report |
| International Workshop on Planning and Design for Urban and Environmental Issues in Malaysis | ||||
| Department of Planning, Architecture and Environmental Systems | MATSUSHITA Kiwa | Finland／Aalto University | 2019/6 | Program Report |
| This workshop offers an opportunity to design and learn about landscape by surveying the actual works in Finland, which has many excellent examples of not only architecture but also landscape design. Students are expected to acquire a new point of view on architecture, urban planning and environment through exchanges of ideas with professors and students at Aalto University. | ||||
| Department of Planning, Architecture and Environmental Systems | IWATA Tomoko | Germany／Technical University of Munich (TUM) | 2019/10 | Program Report |
| In this program, students learn from Germany about important factors in social implementation of environmentally friendly technologies and systems in terms of transportation and energy, and discuss issues and solutions for implementing social implementation in Japan with students from Technische Universitat Munchen. SIT students learn about the transportation systems such as LRT and rental cycle, environmentally friendly buildings, utilization of renewable energy and environmental education in Munich city and its neighboring, and finally have a final presentation about sustainable society towards for achieving SDGs based on the group work with TUM students. | ||||
Mathematical Sciences
| Department of Mathematical Sciences | FUKUDA Akiko | Indonesia／Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) | 2019/8 | Program Report |
| In this program, we will conduct global PBL to solve problems of Indonesia by a mathematical approach. First, the lecturer will give explanation of subjects and lectures of some methods for analysis. After that, we make a group with several students of ITS and SIT and work for solving problems for each group, and finally give presentations for results. Through this program, students will understand various problems of Indonesia, improve global communication skills, and improve skills for solving problems using mathematical knowledge. Also, students can cultivate a global perspective through intercultural exchanges through activities such as sightseeing, simple Indonesian language courses and local traditional dance. | ||||
| Department of Mathematical Sciences | FUKUDA Akiko | United States／University of Guam (UoG) | 2020/02 |
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| In this program, we will conduct an outbound PBL for undergraduate students of Department of Mathematical Sciences, SIT and Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Guam (UoG) in cooperation with students of Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science Club. SIT and UoG students are divided into small groups, perform group work on mathematical sciences, and give a presentation of the discussions. Also, students will be able to sit in ordinary classes of UoG concerning mathematical sciences, visit to facilities related to mathematical science and technology, and conduct activities to learn culture of Guam as well as social gatherings, in order to interact with each other. | ||||
Bioscience
| Department of Bioscience and Engineering | WATANABE Nobuo | Malaysia／University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) | 2019/8 | Program Report |
| Annual event gPBL between SIT Japan and UNIMAS Malaysia will be held during August period again this year as well.Last year, keyword was material structural Engineering in Engineering course, and Science course worked on Water pollution.Engineering course students annually experience the esigning with 3DCAD and prototyping with 3D printer, and simulation with 3CAD software. | ||||
| Department of Bioscience and Engineering | ZULKHARNAIN Bin Azham | Malaysia／Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT) | 2020/3 | Program Report |
| The first gPBL program designed specially for Bioscience course students in Department of Bioscience and Enginering, SIT. This gPBL program will take place in Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technonology (MJIIT) in Kuala Lumpur for 10 days in early March. SIT students will be working together with Malaysian students to understand and scietifically investigate the environmental polution issues in metropolitan city of Kuala Lumpur | Program cancelled due to COVID-19 | |||
Design
| Department of Engineering and Design | NODA Natsuko | Thailand／Prince of Songkla University (PSU) | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| In this gPBL, you observe the current situation of designing and manufacturing in Thailand with students of PIM, and you learn to utilize your experience for designing new products and systems. You learn other cultures from field work with Thai students, and design new products and systems based on your new cross-culture experience in a workshop. | Program cancelled due to COVID-19 | |||
| Department of Engineering and Design | ASHIZAWA Yusuke | Thailand／King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| Design Workshop that will be held in KMUTT at Thai with various asian universities. It takes 10 days and makes some design proposals through fieldwork and some presentation. | ||||
| Department of Engineering and Design | ASHIZAWA Yusuke | Republic of Korea／Kookmin University, University of Ulsan (UOU) | 2019/5 | Program Report |
| "Design Workshop Through Different Cultural Experiences": Shibaura Institute of Technology, College of Engineering and Design visited Korea for workshops with the purpose of exchanging and cooperating by creating opportunities for understanding and common values through experiences of intercultural experience with Kookmin University and the Department of Product Environment Design at Ulsan University. |
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| Department of Engineering and Design | HASHIDA Noriko | Taiwan／Chaoyang University of Technology (CYUT) | 2019/8 |
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| The theme of this project is "The green intelligent create living room".we perform design suggestion to live a creative life after having considered sustainable (global environment maintenance). The suggestion design is a product, but enables even service. Student will research in fieldwork afterwards. and They set a goal in the group and work on suggestion. As for the last presentation, it is shown sketching and the application of the schematic view and suggestion thing of the system. Student explain it by PowerPoint. All the presentation is performed in English. | ||||
| Department of Engineering and Design | SAWA Takekazu | Republic of Korea/Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SEOULTECH) | 2020/02 |
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| The department of design engineering will have the workshop with SEOUL TECH Design Engineering department. Theme is that think about useful function and a high added value of industrial products. The contents are as follows, Orientation, field survey, group work, intermediate presentation, company tour, panel discussion, final presentation. | Program cancelled due to COVID-19 | |||
Multidisciplinary
| Department of Engineering and Design | KATO Kyoko | Thailand／Panyapiwat Institute of Management (PIM), King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) | 2019/9 | Program Report |
| In this program, students will propose Kaizen ideas that improve aproduction system of a factory owned by a Thai company.In the process,students make cross-border teams to 1) visit and observe an actualworkplace (the factory) to identify problems, 2) develop Kaizen ideas basedon their observations, 3) try out their ideas, and 4) finalize and present their Kaizen proposals. Because of its 1) applicability to students regardless of their age,gender, and work experience, 2) the excellent partnership with PIM, KMUTT,and companies in Japan and Thailand, and 3) providing the opportunity forstudents to see “real-world” problems, this program earned quite positive reputations among students. | ||||
| Graduate School | Portugal／HASEGAWA Hiroshi | Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa | 2019/7 | Program Report |
| The overall goal of the global project based learning is an innovation creation. Successful students in this course will acquire integrated capacity of problem-solving, which is required when they work as a member of an international and/or interdisciplinary team, through integrated problem solving experience in global Project Based Learning (Global PBL) course, whereby students would be triggered by setting their own theme selected from suggested keywords by the lecturers, then exposed to hands-on experience on “Systems thinking”, “Systems Method”, and “Systems Management”. To acquire integrated capacity of problem-solving, which is required when they work as a member of an international and/or interdisciplinary team, through integrated problem solving experience in Global PBL course. | ||||
| Graduate School | Thailand／MANO Kazunori | King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| This program aims to acquire comprehensive problem solving skills through exercises by international and interdisciplinary project teams. At the global PBL, Shibaura Institute of Technology graduate students (and some undergraduate 3, 4 graduate students) and KMUTT students organize project teams. The project themes are set from keywords related to society widely such as environment, health, welfare, life etc. including SDGs. In order to realize the themes, students will solve comprehensive problems by using concepts and techniques of "systems thinking", "systems methods", and "systems management". The implementation program of this PBL consists of (1) ice break and team formation, (2) theme determination, requirement analysis and target setting, (3) formulation of evaluation plan and budget plan, (4) design review, (5) plan activities based on field research and prototype development, (6) final presentation. |
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| Department of Electronic Information Systems | INOUE Masahiro | Republic of Korea／Hanyang University | 2019/10 | Program Report |
| Research Internship at Hanyang University, Korea. Students will reseach at laboratories in Facuty of Engineering, ERICA campus for two weeks.Undergraduate and Master students of all engineering and science fields are accepted.The campus is located in Ansan city where the university, national laboratories, industries make a cluster for reseach and education.Students will stay at domitory or guest house on the campus. | ||||
| Department of Electronic Information Systems | NAKAI Yutaka | Indonesia／Institut Teknologi Bandung(ITB) | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| The exercise is operated in Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia as Project Based Learning. Several joint teams will be organized with students of Bandung and Shibaura Institute of Technology and tackle this PBL. First, executing researches on the community by field works and questionnaire, they understand the problems and needs of the concerning community. Second, they make peoples’ behavior models, and finally make the plan to vitalize the community, examining the effects with agent-based simulations. The course aims cultivating engineers with system and global thinking through experiences of cross culturally cooperation. Also, students are hoped to understand the importance of communication via collaborative works. | ||||
Inbound Programs
Mechanical
| Department of Mechanical Engineering | SUWA Yoshihide | Taiwan/TaipeiTECH | 2019/6 | Program Report |
| The program aims to extend the fundamentals knowledge on mechanicalengineering and to provide an opportunity of working on research projectsand to learn applications of knowledge in industry. In May 2018, theprogram was supported by the Sakura Science Plan provided by the JapanScience and Technology Agency. The workshop provide opportunities tovisit industry facilities. The participating students give final presentations atthe end of the program. | ||||
| Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics | ONO Naoki | Australia／Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | 2019/6 | Program Report |
| Students will have a techical discussion about some engineering issues in English. Moreover, they will go out and see a fascility in Tokyo area to deepen their discussion in the PBL. | ||||
| Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics | TAKASAKI Akito | Poland／AGH University of Science and Technology | 2019/8 | Program Report |
| AGH students, who participated in the gPBL program held in Krakow, Poland last winnter, come to our campus. SIT students and AGH students solve a theme such as Renewable Energy. The students give a presentation the results they discuss and debet in English. | ||||
| Department of Machinery and Control Systems | SAITO Hiroyasu | Thailand／King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi | 2019/10 | Program Report |
| Thai students, who participated in the gPBL program held in KMUTT in last year, come to our campus. Japanese students and Thai students solve one theme together. The students give a presentation the results they have discussed and debeted in English. | ||||
| Department of Machinery and Control Systems | ITO Kazuhisa | Italy／University of L'Aquila | 2019/9 | Program Report |
| Students propose a novel mechanical device/system for supporting equipment (welfare equipment, labor saving equipment) in production plant applying the concept of universal design. In the program, students first visit laboratories and companies involved in the theme and start from discovering the problem. The final proposal content is to explain the concept, by making proposals including not only function designs, motion simulation and control algorithms, but also energy-saving and price setting, it is possible to make detailed design utilizing the specialty fields of participants. | ||||
| Department of Machinery and Control Systems | KAWAKAMI Yukio | - | 2019/7 | Program Report |
| Sensors and actuators are important components of mechatronics. Recently, their practical programming to systemize them effectively are required to realize “Embedded Control Systems” in many engineering fields. In this program, students learn 1) the simple embedded control systems, 2) practice programming techniques using of the Rensselaer Mechatronics Kit* including an ArduinoR as a microcontroller, a DC motor, a set of sensors, and 3) how to operate popular software MATLABR and SimulinkR. Since the mathematical model itself does not show the students how the system behaves, it is effective to run experiments using the actual hardware, and then compare the both results. | ||||
Materials/Applied Chemistry
| Department of Material Science | ZHANG Xiaobin | China／Multiple Universities | 2019/7 | Program Report |
| Nearly 20 students from multi-universities of Beijing joined this 9 days global PBL. At the weekend, they visitedscience museums, learned the developing history of science and technology, and realized that science andtechnology are very important in changing our society and life. In the weekdays, they visited the laboratory inShibaura Institute and Technology, saw the research equipment which they seldom touched in their study. They alsojoined the lectures given by professors from SIT, and learned the basics about material engineering. They had awonderful experience in SIT and hope to visit again. The students from SIT had a good chance to introduce theirresearches and the Japanese cultures to the abroad students in English. They made a very nice communication witheach other. | ||||
| Department of Applied Chemistry | NOMURA Mikihiro | Republic of Korea／Chungnam National University | 2019/11 | Program Report |
| The separation processes which separates things is used in various fieldssuch as liquor distillation, fuel cell and water purifier. Here, theseseparation technologies are "membranes". In the development ofmembranes, we should separate efficiently. It is necessary to make poressmaller than nanometer to separate molecules. The English presentationwill be conducted as an international workshop. | ||||
| Department of Applied Chemistry | YOSHIMI Yasuo | Taiwan/National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, India/Loyoka College | 2019/8 | Program Report |
| Egg drop contest will be held in former of the program. Each participant prepares a capsul which can protect a egg from cracking by droppping from 40-m height. The fabricaiton manual of the capsul is excanged wit foreign participant and let the partner to fabricate it. The result of the dropping experiment is analyzed by the both of the fabricator and desginer. Professional engineers also challenge the contest, then the participants can learn phisosophy of professional enginers. | ||||
| Department of Applied Chemistry | YOSHIMI Yasuo | India／Indian Institutes of Technology | 2019/10 | Program Report |
| Fijio Cup Quiz will be held at the first day. The participants was selected by online quiz one month before. Top classed particilans are invited with finantial travel support. The final tounament is held at hall of Toyosu Campus.At second day, presentation and debate will he held among the invited students and SIT students. | ||||
Electrical/Electronic/Information
| Department of Electrical Engineering | YOSHIMI Takashi | Republic of Korea／Pusan National University | 2019/8 | Program Report |
| This program accepts master course students from Pusan National University (University of Ulsan, Chonbuk National University) to SIT robotics laboratories. The students join the lectures of SIT professors, discuss the research topics with Japanese professors and graduate students, and visit to some related companies in Japan. | ||||
| Department of Electrical Engineering | YOSHIMI Takashi | Hungary／Obuda University | 2019/11 | Program Report |
| This program accepts master course students from Obuda University, Hungary to SIT robotics laboratories. The students join the lectures of SIT professors, discuss the research topics with Japanese professors and graduate students, and visit to some related companies in Japan. | ||||
| Department of Electronic Engineering | SHIMOMURA Shouji | France／Sigma Clermont | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| 12 students from Sigma Clermont will work on the "Developing of a business model for a mobile charging service for BEVs" set by Mitsubishi Fuso from Sep. 2019 to Jun. 2020. As part of that, 12 students of Sigmawill come to Japan in February and carry out | ||||
| Department of Electronic Engineering | PREMACHANDRA Chinthaka | Sri Lanka／University of Moratuwa, University of Sri Jayawardenapura | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| Image processing and robotics internship at SIT collaborating with a student team from two Srilankan universities. | ||||
| Department of Electronic Engineering | PREMACHANDRA Chinthaka | Sri Lanka／Wayamba University | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| Image processing and robotics internship at SIT collaborating with a student team from two Srilankan universities. | ||||
| Department of Electronic Engineering | KOIKE Yoshikazu | Thailand／King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi | 2019/10 | Program Report |
| The PBL program has been carried out since 2015. In 2015 and 2016 students discussed and created system using Arduino micro-computer in the relation with sensors, control and bioengineering in 20 days (11days in Japan and 11days in Thailand). In 2017, GTI member company gave the hints of project theme. The students consider and discuss the project goal on the basis of the compnie's hint. | ||||
| Department of Information and Communications Engineering | MORINO Hiroaki | Malaysia／Universiti Teknologi Malaysia | 2019/6 | Program Report |
| In this program, Malaysian and Japanese students are divided into groups and they find problems in their daily life or social problems common with both country. They attempt to develop ICT systems using microcomputers such as Arduino or Raspberry Pi. | ||||
| Department of Information and Communications Engineering | KAMIOKA Eiji | Malaysia／Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia | 2019/10 | Program Report |
| This program is mainly organized by Kamioka Laboratory, Department of Information and Communications Engineering in SIT and is aimed at activating collaborative research and student mobility between UTHM (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia) and SIT. | ||||
| Department of Computer Science and Engineering | SUGIMOTO Tooru | Vietnam／Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Indonesia／Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Republic of Korea/Hanyang University | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| The aim of this program is to develop web application software that visualize data provided by a company. Participants will use PHP language and web application frameworks. On the last day, final presentation by each group will be done and evaluated. |
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| Department of Electronic Information Systems | YAMAZAKI Taku | Republic of Korea/Hanyang University | 2019/7 | Program Report |
| In recent ICT field, it is necessary that the systems and applications must coppperate with and utilize various information among them, to access the resources on each other through networks for realizing services. Hence, engineers in ICT field need to Therefore, engineers are required to have the ability to design and develop the structure of a complex system using a network. In this PBL, we design and develop systems and applications utilizing the above-mentioned networks as a group activity. | ||||
Architecture/Civil Engineering
| Department of Civil Engineering | INAZUMI Shinya | Thailand／King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi | 2019/7 | Program Report |
| The students will actively discuss various issues that civil engineering should contribute collaborated with local students and young engineers with different nationalities and specialized fields. And the students propose a novel solution. Through such efforts, the students will nurture global awareness as a civil engineer.In this project, the students jointly cooperated with each other on the forefront of disaster prevention and disaster prevention technologies that protect the geosphere and hydrosphere from natural disasters common to both Japan and Thailand (such as earthquakes and heavy rain disasters). | ||||
| Department of Civil Engineering | INAZUMI Shinya | Thailand／Kasetsart University, Vietnam／National University Civil Engineering | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| Students belonging to the Department of Civil Engineering at Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT), National University of Civil Engineering (NUCE) and KU will discuss disaster mitigation technologies and work on solving various issues. | ||||
| Department of Planning, Architecture and Environmental Systems | SUZUKI Shunji | Austria／Vienna University of Technology | 2019/9 | Program Report |
| Study sites that have various tasks and opportunities will be selected in the Tokyo Metropolitan Region. Communicating and working together with the members who have different backgrounds in culture and specialty will be a great challenging and learning experience for all the participants, especially for young students. Technical tours to some project sites of current urban redevelopment and historic preservation will be done to broaden the view of the participants and acquire new knowledge. |
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| Department of Architecture | MAEDA Hidetoshi | Thailand／King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi | 2019/4 | Program Report |
| The 10th international exchange workshop towards architecture and urban design for Asian citites took place with King Mongut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) School of Architecture and Design, and SIT College of Design and Engineering. Participants of the 4th-year architecture worked in mixed groups and on prefabricated modular frames which are often used in construction sites and natural disasters, and pursued application to public space in terms of small urbanism. | ||||
| Department of Architecture | MINAMI Kazunobu | China／Huangshan University | 2019/6 | Program Report |
| The teachers and students from the partnership University in China willvisit SIT and participate the PBL program with SIT students. In theprevious program, students visited the construction sites and factories ofthe most advanced Japanese construction | ||||
| Department of Architecture | ITO Yoko | Italy／University of Laquila | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| In Exchange Program with L'Aqula University in Italy,10 Italian students and 10 Japanese students learn architectural designs in historic environments, doing their work in 5 groups. They acquire methods how to design comfortable and ideal urban facilities and dwellings. Moreover, this program also improve their ability in English conversation. | ||||
| Department of Architecture | SHIMIZU Ikuro | Thailand/Rajamangala University of Technology, Laos／National University of Laos | 2019/8 | Program Report |
| In this workshop, based on the design survey in the wooden dense area in the mega city, students will explore and utilize regional resources, activate townscapes by architectural design, remodel the small alley houses, improve the living environment by housing openings to the public. Students will propose to activate exhausted regional shopping districts by integrating these programs. Students will conduct survey in a group basis composed of students from three countries, and will promote tasks while communicating with each other through English as an intermediary. Also, by observing the traditional townscape in the city as well as the redevelopment area and the site of huge development related to the Ompics, students cultivate a viewpoint to compare the way of building and townscaping in contemporary cties. In addition, this workshop aims at acquiring the communication skills, cooperativeness and harmony in international collaboration work. |
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| Department of Architecture | SHIMIZU Ikuro | Thailand／Maejo University, Chiang Mai University | 2020/2 | Program Report |
| In this workshop, with the main focus on landscaping, students will practice the landscape, external design of the house site, design and build of the small scale architecture, etc., in the community near Tokyo as the stage for learning the landscape method. Sounding the problems that the target area has in the landscape by survey, students will promote the devise solutions for that, actually plan and apply. In the process, students will compose a hybrid group of Japan and Thailand and will collaborate while communicating in English. In this program, students will also experiment with the latest greening method in the center of the city to acquire techniques to contribute to greening of cities and improvement of living environment. In addition, this workshop aims at acquiring the communication skills, cooperativeness and harmony in international collaboration work. | ||||
Mathematical Sciences
| Department of Mathematical Sciences | ZHAI Guisheng | Indonesia／Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember | 2019/11 | Program Report |
| In this program, we will conduct an inbound PBL for undergraduate students of Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS), Indonesia. ITS and SIT students are divided into small groups, perform group work on mathematical sciences and mathematics education. | ||||
Design
| Department of Engineering and Design | SASAKI Takeshi | United Kingdom／Loughborough university | 2019/10 | Program Report |
| The main organizer of this design project is Loughborough university, and around 5 universities from all over the world join this. At first, at each university, we make teams composed from several students, and each team make pairing with other universities team. Each pair proceed their project with having a regular meeting in every week, and make proposal. Each team play a role in client and designer mutually, and in order to develop their practical skill, they valuate client skill and designer skill of their pather periodically. | ||||
| Department of Engineering and Design | SAWA Takekazu | Republic of Korea／Seoul National University of Science and Technology | 2019/7 | Program Report |
| The department of design engineering will have the workshop with SEOUL TECH Design Engineering department. Theme is that think about useful function and a high added value of industrial products. The contents are as follows, Orientation, field survey, group work, intermediate presentation, company tour, panel discussion, final presentation. |
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| Department of Engineering and Design | NODA Natsuko | Thailand／Prince of Songkla University | 2019/7 | Program Report |
| In this gPBL, you learn "to think using models" in designing, which is oneof the most important key in the development of products and systems. Atfirst, you learn the basics of various modeling techniques such as UML,and then consider and evaluate what you want to make, what should bemade, and what kind of structure realize what you designed. Ability ofmodelling from various viewpoints is very useful not only for softwaredevelopment but also for designing in many fields. Let's learn "thinkingwith models" together with Thai students. | ||||
| Department of Engineering and Design | HASHIDA Noriko | Thailand／King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Republic of Korea／Ulsan University, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology | 2019/7 | Program Report |
| The design workshop various university students participate in, and main participants come from asian region. On this workshop, teams are composed from 6 -8 students of each universities, and they do fieldwork survey and develop their ideas through their group discussions and make proposals in line with a design theme. Design theme and informations are provided from company and they watch the final presentation and give some comments. | ||||
| Department of Engineering and Design | YANG Wonseok | Republic of Korea／Kookmin University | 2019/8 | Program Report |
| “Design Workshop Through Different Cultural Experiences” Kookmin University and Shibaura Institute of Technology College of Engineering and Design held a workshop in Tokyo in objective to exchange and cooperate with others by creating opportunities to experience different cultures and creating common values. |
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Multidisciplinary
| Department of Machinery and Control Systems | HASEGAWA Hiroshi | Multiple universities from all over the world | 2019/12 | Program Report |
| The mixed team of multinational, and interdisciplinary field performs synthetic problem solving based on Systems Thinking and methods. The overall goal of the Global, Industrial, and Community Cooperative Project Based Learning (GIC2 PBL) is synthetic prooblem solving to industrial and community problems. Additionally, Oh My God (OMG) experience as improvisation education is performed for getting the creatively adaptation skill to unexpected changes in a project. Successful students in the program will acquire integrated capacity of problem-solving, which is required when they work as a member of an international and/or interdisciplinary team, through synthetic problem solving experience in GIC2 PBL program, whereby students would be triggered by setting their own theme selected from suggested keywords by the lecturers, then exposed to hands-on experience on “Systems thinking”, “Systems Method”, and “Systems Management”. |
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