Tokyo City University's epoch-making engineering education program "Inspiration, Things, Things, People" that was introduced last time.This time, I will tell you the details with the concrete curriculum structure and the story of Professor Toru Iwao, the project leader and the dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
A new type of curriculum adopted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Traditional university learning has been based on the "academic field," but from now on, attention will be focused on the development of new educational programs in response to social demands and changes in the industrial field.The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's "Human Resources Development Project to Support an Intellectually Intensive Society" selects and subsidizes such new types of educational curriculums and programs.・ One of them is the “things / people” creation program.In addition to taking "manufacturing", which is a specialized subject that crosses the three departments of mechanical engineering, mechanical system engineering, and electrical and electronic communication engineering of the Faculty of Science and Engineering, "creating ideas and forming" in lessons such as "inspiration and making" that integrates literary and science. To "train".These lessons, which are not found in conventional university education, are also in charge of professors invited from industry, and a care system is in place by learning advisors.In addition, it consists of four categories, including "human resource development," which focuses on theme-based liberal arts subjects that address social issues and globalization.In addition, the subjects of "AI, big data, mathematics, and data science" run side by side, which constitutes "integrated learning" that transcends the framework and fields of humanities and science.
Whether you choose the traditional curriculum that refines your department's specialty or this new function curriculum, the graduation requirement is the same 124 credits.The figure below shows a list of subject names and credits that can be earned.
With existing education, only traditional human resources can be trained.From that idea, an unprecedented program was born that removed all the stereotypes of undergraduate and university education.This major curriculum change is the first attempt in the 90-year history of our university.It is expected that the students will improve their creativity and proposal ability to their heart's content.
110 selected people participated and started
This program recruited 360 new students from three departments in the first year, and started by selecting about 110 applicants.Most of the lessons are problem-finding and problem-solving, with a focus on dialogue [see 2P].The backbone of this is "SD PBL" (a team is formed to work on problem finding and problem solving that contributes to a sustainable society), which started in 2020, but Yamada of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Communication Engineering who attends "This is exactly what I was looking for. I was fascinated not only by taking lectures and learning by myself and repeating experiments, but also by discovering and exploring problems by the students themselves while discussing with the team. "I talk about my motives.In addition, there is also a realistic one, "I want to be a human resource who can solve the problems of the manufacturing industry with a feeling of blockage with new ideas."Regarding the impressions of taking classes so far, students who went on to school from high school say, "I am excited to be able to learn ideas and entrepreneurship as a lesson subject."Others say that the integration of all learning has made it possible to understand the essence and concepts of things.This year, we are targeting three departments as a pilot, but we plan to gradually expand it and expand it to the entire university in 2024.
→next pageProfessor Iwao talks about the background and purpose of introducing the program
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