* * STEAM is STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) plus A (art).
New manufacturing education begins with an eye on the game change era
Since its establishment in 1929, Musashi Institute of Technology has continued to produce solid engineers who support the manufacturing industry, which is the foundation of Japan's economic development. Since the name was changed to Tokyo City University due to a large-scale reform in 2009, as a university aiming to become an "university of urban studies", it is accelerating its fusion of literary sciences and expansion into interdisciplinary fields.In recent years, concepts such as Super City and Society 5.0 have been advocated in the industrial world, and the premonition of game change (transformation from the conventional industrial structure by innovative technology) is spreading, but in 2021, Tokyo City University is in such an era. Introduced a new function curriculum that quickly responded to the demands of.
The project name is "Program to create" inspiration, things, things, people "that will open up the manufacturing industry in the era of game change."It was adopted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as a "human resources development project that supports a knowledge-intensive society" as a curriculum aimed at radical reform of manufacturing education.This year, we started as a pilot in 3 departments of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Systems Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Communication Engineering). It aims to.
The curriculum in the three departments of this year is characterized by the fact that even the main specialized subjects can be taken across the three departments from machinery to electricity. It means that it is possible to expand the knowledge that integrates the fields while consolidating the specialized technology in "manufacturing". In the lesson subject "Inspiration Making", you will learn the case of startup ventures, repeat STEAM type active learning, and steadily improve your design thinking idea brain. In the lesson subject "Kotozukuri", you will learn the scenarios of the near future while organizing the components of society and learning the thinking of SDGs as basic knowledge to create things (story) and fashion.All of these classes are not one-off classes, but are conducted continuously from the first year to the fourth year, and it is easy to imagine that the inquiry activities in high school are highly and comprehensively programmed as weekly classes. .. The "Human Development" class includes liberal arts education through integrated learning to solve complex social issues, development of engineer ethics, and English education to respond to the global society.
In addition, it can be said that it is unique to science and technology universities that the subject groups of "AI, big data, mathematics, and data science" are enriched and run side by side in these four categories.The curriculum also includes the ability to analyze various knowledge, information, ideas, hypotheses, etc. theoretically, and the acquisition of data technology for constructing predictions.
Various reforms have been made in engineering education.Starting with JABEE (Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education) to maintain the quality of education internationally, 6 years of consistent study up to the graduate school master's course with the aim of further deepening specialization Consistent system, and in recent years, under the keywords such as cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary fusion, the aptitude of oneself by taking a wide range of general liberal arts courses in the first and second years of undergraduate education or late specialization Curriculum reforms will also be promoted to encourage students to go on to higher education after identifying them.Although these efforts have been made at Tokyo City University, this program is drawing attention as an initiative that goes beyond the conventional framework of university education.
Tokyo City University, which started from a technical university and whose school corporation is the genealogy of the Tokyu Group.Each department is composed of a capacity scale that emphasizes the best care system for students, and has fostered a unique school spirit and a soil that facilitates reforms.This new function curriculum is attracting attention as a prototype for game change in university education as well as engineering education.
