R-Gap supported my interests

Haruna Doi, a fourth-year student in the Intelligent Information Media Course, chose the "Science and Engineering Internship." “I learned basic theory in classroom lectures in my first and second year, but networks are invisible technology. I wanted to know if it was working," he experienced a two-week internship at a company that develops network security solution services.

In the final assignment of the internship's technical training, the only goal set was to use the basic commands necessary to build a network that were learned in the first half of the training, and to use an access point to connect to Wi-Fi and browse the Internet. Instead of being told the correct answer, I looked up the necessary commands on my own and found the correct answer through trial and error. I feel that way,'' he says, reflecting on the experience.In addition, through the internship, he realized the importance of an atmosphere in which employees teach and improve their skills, and that engineers also need communication skills.

“I was interested in an internship from my first and second year, but I had a hard time taking action. I was encouraged by being recognized as a credit during the R-Gap period. I am grateful that the university has created opportunities for me to easily move about what I want to do and what I want to know," he said, talking about the results of his internship experience at R-Gap. Ta.

Professor Tetsushi Okuda of the environmental ecology engineering course, who is the leader of R-Gap, says, "University is originally a place to learn with independence and independence. We believe that R-Gap is a system that makes it easier to put that attitude into practice. ” says.

“Activities during the R-Gap period differ depending on the student, but the repetition of 'trial and error' in which you dig deeper and revise your own learning to see if it is actually applicable to society is 'confidence' and then 'confidence'. "I feel that it will lead to a 'challenging spirit' in students' academic studies and society," he said, emphasizing the significance of R-Gap.