An Experiment of Reading Aloud Meeting in English

Arimitsu, Yutaka,Yagi, Hidetsugu,Lee, Jae-Hoon,Wu, Zhiqiang Korean Society for Engineering Education 2012 공학교육연구 Vol.15 No.4

Nowadays, fewer Japanese university students are taking PhD degrees in the U.S.A than Koreans or Taiwanese. The language barrier is considered as one of major reasons for this. This lack of international education is one of the reasons cited, as Japan has been falling behind in industrial globalization. Reading aloud is a good practice for learning a foreign language, since many areas of our brains are simultaneously activated. Furthermore, students have a chance to overcome the psychological barrier in reading aloud in front of others, in a meeting. The authors start the voluntary meeting (which is unrelated to official classes of the curriculum) by reading English articles aloud. Topics in the meeting are selected from articles on web sites, therefore, (1) textbooks were not needed, (2) voice data could be listened to, and (3) the meaning and the pronunciation of an unknown word could be checked by web tools. Once the methodology has been mastered, volunteer students can manage the meeting. The authors introduce our experiments conducted at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ehime University.

Remarks on Education Method to Turn Failure Experience to Instructions for Engineering Design

Arimitsu, Yutaka,Yagi, Hidetsugu Korean Society for Engineering Education 2010 공학교육연구 Vol.13 No.2

This article proposes to examine how the study of failure differs from other technical subjects, and how to turn failure experiences to one's advantage. The authors surveyed the properties of failures in PBL (Project Based Learning) and also examined students' interest and understanding of failure, after introducing failure examples. To investigate how students communicate failure experiences to third parties, reports of the failure experience in PBL were evaluated. From above mentioned surveys, we get the following results. The typical causes of failure in educational institutions are lack of skill in manufacturing and inadequate planning, which conversely are minor causes of failure in the industry. A knowledge database on failure, employed commonly in industry, is not effective in PBL, because projects in educational institutes are usually changed every year. Case studies in failure can be approached from many points of view including causes, processes, effects and safety measures. While teachers should emphasize the notable points in the failure examples in introducing examples of specific topics in machine design, teachers should explain the multiple aspects in the failure examples to educate students about the complexity of actual accidents.

Remarks on Education Method to Turn Failure Experience to Instructions for Engineering Design

Y.Arimitsu,H.Yagi 한국공학교육학회 2010 공학교육연구 Vol.13 No.2

This article proposes to examine how the study of failure differs from other technical subjects, and how to turn failureexperiences to one's advantage. The authors surveyed the properties of failures in PBL (Project Based Learning) and alsoexamined students' interest and understanding of failure, after introducing failure examples. To investigate how students communicate failure experiences to third parties, reports of the failure experience in PBL were evaluated. From abovementioned surveys, we get the following results. The typical causes of failurein educational institutions are lack ofskill in manufacturing and inadequate planning, which conversely are minor causes of failure in the industry. A knowledgedatabase on failure, employed commonly in industry, is not effective in PBL, because projectsin educational institutes are usually changed every year. Case studies in failure can be approached from many points of view including causes, processes, effects and safety measures. While teachers should emphasize the notable points in the failure examples in introducing examples of specific topics in machine design, teachers should explain the multiple aspects in the failure examples to educate students about the complexity of actual accidents.

An Experiment of Reading Aloud Meeting in English

Yutaka Arimitsu,Hidetsugu Yagi,Jaehoon Lee,Zhiqiang Wu 한국공학교육학회 2012 공학교육연구 Vol.15 No.4

Nowadays, fewer Japanese university students are taking PhD degrees in the U.S.A than Koreans or Taiwanese. The language barrier is considered as one of major reasons for this. This lack of international education is one of the reasons cited, as Japan has been falling behind in industrial globalization. Reading aloud is a good practice for learning a foreign language, since many areas of our brains are simultaneously activated. Furthermore, students have a chance to overcome the psychological barrier in reading aloud in front of others, in a meeting. The authors start the voluntary meeting (which is unrelated to official classes of the curriculum) by reading English articles aloud. Topics in the meeting are selected from articles on web sites, therefore, (1) textbooks were not needed, (2) voice data could be listened to, and (3) the meaning and the pronunciation of an unknown word could be checked by web tools. Once the methodology has been mastered, volunteer students can manage the meeting. The authors introduce our experiments conducted at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ehime University.

Multifractal Analysis of Turbulence by Using Statistics Based on Non-Extensive Tsallis' or Extensive R enyi's Entropy

N.Arimitsu,T.Arimitsuy 한국물리학회 2002 THE JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY Vol.40 No.6

An analytical expression for the probability density function (PDF) of the velocity uctuation is derived with the help of the statistics based on the generalized entropy (the Tsallis entropy or the Renyi entropy). It is revealed that the derived PDF explains the detailed structure of the experimentally observed PDF as well as the scaling exponents of the velocity structure function. Every parameter appearing in the analysis, including the index proper to the Tsallis entropy or the Renyi entropy, was determined self-consistently by making use of the observed value of intermittency exponent. The experiments conducted by Lewis and Swinney (1999) are analyzed.

Comparison Survey Examining Korean and Japanese University Students' Understanding of Foreign Words

이재훈,Yutaka Arimitsu,Zhiqiang Wu,Hidetsugu Yagi 한국공학교육학회 2014 공학교육연구 Vol.17 No.4

This paper investigated the influence of foreign words, otherwise known as loan words, on global communication abilities ofuniversity students from two non English-speaking countries: Korea and Japan. To survey the understanding and usage of foreignwords which are from English language and used frequently in daily conversation, questionnaires were administered to Koreanand Japanese university students majoring in engineering who shared similar linguistic backgrounds. The results were analyzedfrom global communication viewpoint. Based on the results, methods for improving global communication skills in engineeringeducation were proposed.

Practice of Design Curriculum Aimed for High Attainment Level of Creativity and Perfection

Yagi, Hidetsugu,Arimitsu, Yutaka Korean Society for Engineering Education 2010 공학교육연구 Vol.13 No.2

The practice named "Creative Design and Production" has been given to train the students'ability to find and solve problems. Students are expected to design and fabricate creative artifacts in the practice. The practices focusing on perfection and creativity of the products have been executed for the past few years. We have reviewed the relationships between these abilities and the qualities of products of the students in the practices. It seems that the products lacks of originality and creativity when focused on the perfection. And on the contrary, the perfection of the products is low when focused on the creativity. We have employed the new three trials in order to solve these problems in the practice. Among trials, the cooperation with veterans has been the most useful for students through "Creative Design and Production".

Comparison Survey Examining Korean and Japanese University Students' Understanding of Foreign Words

Lee, Jae Hoon,Arimitsu, Yutaka,Wu, Zhiqiang,Yagi, Hidetsugu Korean Society for Engineering Education 2014 공학교육연구 Vol.17 No.4

This paper investigated the influence of foreign words, otherwise known as loan words, on global communication abilities of university students from two non English-speaking countries: Korea and Japan. To survey the understanding and usage of foreign words which are from English language and used frequently in daily conversation, questionnaires were administered to Korean and Japanese university students majoring in engineering who shared similar linguistic backgrounds. The results were analyzed from global communication viewpoint. Based on the results, methods for improving global communication skills in engineering education were proposed.

Practice of Design Curriculum Aimed for High Attainment Level of Creativity and Perfection

H. Yagi,Y. Arimitsu 한국공학교육학회 2010 공학교육연구 Vol.13 No.2

The practice named “Creative Design and Production” has been given to train the students ability to find and solve problems. Students are expected to design and fabricate creative artifacts in the practice. The practices focusing on perfection and creativity of the products have been executed for the past few years. We have reviewed the relationships between these abilities and the qualities of products of the students in the practices. It seems that the products lacks of originality and creativity when focused on the perfection. And on the contrary, the perfection of the products is low when focused on the creativity. We have employed the new three trials in order to solve these problems in the practice. Among trials, the cooperation with veterans has been the most useful for students through “Creative Design and Production”.