Roots Finding – PBL in the First Year Course –

Takao Hanabusa,Shoichiro Fujisawa 한국공학교육학회 2010 공학교육연구 Vol.13 No.5

Design subjects have become popular in the engineering education. In these subjects, an active learning skill was introduced to students. Students have to decide a theme and the way how to study it and to find answers by themselves.This learning method was developed in the early year courses in the University of Tokushima. The common learning curriculum among whole university adopted this design subjects from 2005 of the school year and eleven more new subjects started. “Roots finding” is one of them and the objectives are to gain abilities of self-study through the research on a particular subject, and make report then presenting them. Self-learning ability, research ability and presentation skills were enhanced through this subject.

Roots Finding - PBL in the First Year Course -

Hanabusa, Takao,Fujisawa, Shoichiro Korean Society for Engineering Education 2010 공학교육연구 Vol.13 No.5

Design subjects have become popular in the engineering education. In these subjects, an active learning skill was introduced to students. Students have to decide a theme and the way how to study it and to find answers by themselves. This learning method was developed in the early year courses in the University of Tokushima. The common learning curriculum among whole university adopted this design subjects from 2005 of the school year and eleven more new subjects started. "Roots finding" is one of them and the objectives are to gain abilities of self-study through the research on a particular subject, and make report then presenting them. Self-learning ability, research ability and presentation skills were enhanced through this subject.

Students Voluntary Teaching Activities in Science Schools

Takao Hanabusa,Shozo Tsuzuki 한국공학교육학회 2012 공학교육연구 Vol.15 No.5

Student members from The University of Tokushima worked voluntarily at the science school for elementary school children and high school students under the support of Japan Science and Technology Agency. The teaching classes for the science school were held in 2010 as follows: (1) Science handicraft class for children on “Wonder in light, sound, temperature and force”, (2) Family Science School for children and parents on “Measurement of length, temperature, weight and energy”, (3) “Tatara steel making” for high school students, (4) “Wave motion in strings” for high school students. This paper describes how the students prepared the teaching materials and what they obtained from the teaching activities.

The Way to Make Student Project Activity Successful

Takao Hanabusa,Masaki Konishi,Satoshi Kiriyama 한국공학교육학회 2014 공학교육연구 Vol.17 No.5

Student independent project activity is beneficial for enhancing many kinds of abilities, e.g., team working, collaboration,communication, presentation, creativity, leadership, and so on. More than ten project teams actively perform every year in the Centerfor Innovation and Creativity Development of The University of Tokushima. The project management workshop was planned in order tomake project activity successful. In this workshop, the team members studied the importance of holding a common objective amongthem and of making a clear plan for achieving the activity. They practiced brainstorming method and KJ method and experienced a PDCAcycle. The team activity will be fruitful on the basis of the project management method.

Students’ Voluntary Teaching Activities in Science Schools

Hanabusa Takao,Shozo Tsuzuki 한국공학교육학회 2012 공학교육연구 Vol.15 No.5

Student members from The University of Tokushima worked voluntarily at the science school for elementary school children and high school students under the support of Japan Science and Technology Agency. The teaching classes for the science school were held in 2010 as follows: (1) Science handicraft class for children on “Wonder in light, sound, temperature and force”, (2) Family Science School for children and parents on “Measurement of length, temperature, weight and energy”, (3) “Tatara steel making” for high school students, (4) “Wave motion in strings” for high school students. This paper describes how the students prepared the teaching materials and what they obtained from the teaching activities.

Roots Finding – PBL in the First Year Course –

Takao Hanabusa,Shoichiro Fujisawa 한국공학교육학회 2010 공학교육연구 Vol.13 No.5

Design subjects have become popular in the engineering education. In these subjects, an active learning skill was introduced to students. Students have to decide a theme and the way how to study it and to find answers by themselves. This learning method was developed in the early year courses in the University of Tokushima. The common learning curriculum among whole university adopted this design subjects from 2005 of the school year and eleven more new subjects started. “Roots finding” is one of them and the objectives are to gain abilities of self-study through the research on a particular subject, and make report then presenting them. Self-learning ability, research ability and presentation skills were enhanced through this subject.

The Way to Make Student Project Activity Successful

Hanabusa, Takao,Konishi, Masaki,Kiriyama, Satoshi Korean Society for Engineering Education 2014 공학교육연구 Vol.17 No.5

Student independent project activity is beneficial for enhancing many kinds of abilities, e.g., team working, collaboration, communication, presentation, creativity, leadership, and so on. More than ten project teams actively perform every year in the Center for Innovation and Creativity Development of The University of Tokushima. The project management workshop was planned in order to make project activity successful. In this workshop, the team members studied the importance of holding a common objective among them and of making a clear plan for achieving the activity. They practiced brainstorming method and KJ method and experienced a PDCA cycle. The team activity will be fruitful on the basis of the project management method.

Globalization of Engineering Education in Asia

Kim, Yun-Hae,Hanabusa, Takao,Park, Se-Ho Korean Society for Engineering Education 2010 공학교육연구 Vol.13 No.2

The Asian Conference on Engineering Education has organized and is held in Busan. This paper tells the steps for the process of planning of this conference. Firstly, the Innovation Center for Engineering Education in Korea Maritime University and the Center for Innovation and Creativity Development in The University of Tokushima signed the mutual interchange agreement on engineering education in 2005. The interrelation of both centers has made a continuous relation by mutual visiting of teachers and students. The first symposium on engineering education between the two universities was held in 2006. Three symposia were succeeded until now. By the way, the Japanese five-university coalition of engineering education was composed in 2004. This five-university coalition annually held the symposium on engineering education. Two teachers and two students of each university participated in the symposium and introduced their activities. Annual symposium was held every year from 2004 to 2008. Based on these two kinds of symposium, we have planned to enlarge the relationship by including partner universities in both countries. The capstone design coalition on engineering education between the Center for Innovation and Creativity Development in the University of Tokushima and the innovation center for engineering education in Korea Maritime University are introduced. The interrelation of both centers has held by mutual visiting of teachers and students during four years. The capstone design activities of Korea Maritime University and the students' creative design projects of the University of Tokushima were introduced each other. This coalition is planned that it needs to be enlarged by including partner universities in Asian countries.

A Way to Further Understanding of Basic Engineering Principle by Supervising Junior High School Students through Sets of Science Experiment

Naim, Muhamad,Tsuzuki, Shozo,Fujisawa, Shoichiro,Hanabusa, Takao Korean Society for Engineering Education 2010 공학교육연구 Vol.13 No.5

The objective of this project is to cultivate interest among junior high school students toward Science & Technology. Six simple experiments will be introduced to the participants (junior high school students) of this project which is focusing on the basic principles of engineering including law of motion, free-fall, force, energy, friction and work. Our student team has been assigned to design six set of experiment according to the principles. The experiments are easy to understand and simple to assemble by the students of age 13 to 15. Experimental manuals were written by the members using simple words complete with figure so that all the participants can understand the procedure of each experiment. In order to make sure the manuals are practically working, the experiment sets were tested and the results were compared with actual theory. As a result, we believe that the experiments can be done by the students within less supervision. The students are able to set up the experiments by using some simple equipment around them. By doing this experiments, we can further our understanding and explain better the principles of energy, force and work.

A Way to Further Understanding of Basic Engineering Principle by Supervising Junior High School Students through Sets of Science Experiment

Muhamad Naim,Shozo Tsuzuki,Shoichiro Fujisawa,Takao Hanabusa 한국공학교육학회 2010 공학교육연구 Vol.13 No.5

The objective of this project is to cultivate interest among junior high school students toward Science & Technology. Six simple experiments will be introduced to the participants (junior high school students) of this project which is focusing on the basic principles of engineering including law of motion, free-fall, force, energy, friction and work. Our student team has been assigned to design six set of experiment according to the principles. The experiments are easy to understand and simple to assemble by the students of age 13 to 15. Experimental manuals were written by the members using simple words complete with figure so that all the participants can understand the procedure of each experiment. In order to make sure the manuals are practically working, the experiment sets were tested and the results were compared with actual theory. As a result, we believe that the experiments can be done by the students within less supervision. The students are able to set up the experiments by using some simple equipment around them. By doing this experiments, we can further our understanding and explain better the principles of energy, force and work.