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ItemProject-Based Engineering Career Education Programs by the Collaborations with Private Companies(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-22) Oka, Tetsuo ; Tanabe, Yuji ; Nishimura, Shin-ya ; Imaizumi, Hiroshi ; Harada, Shuji ; Ishii, Nozomu ; Abe, Kazuhisa ; Iwabe, Hiroyasu ; Sato, Takashi ; Haneda, Takuji ; Souma, Hajime ; Terasawa, Kumiko ; Maruyama, Takeo ; Ohkawa, Hideo ; Sengoku, MasakazuThe newly developed education programs including some regular curricula have been conducted with a common idea based on what we call "the ability for engineering" that is defined as abilities to learn and create. The purpose of the activity is reduction of unemployment caused by the discrepancy between the expectation on job hunting and the practical condition after getting job. We refer to the novel education programs on the internship with respect to the reformation of career designing. A major part of the project is composed of two kinds of internship programs and a workshop on career designing. These courses are prepared for the students from 2nd to 4th year grades. One of the most characteristic ideas is the program what we call "Market Internship", which is introduced for the first time in Japan from the view point of the users who are living where the engineering technologies are practically utilized. This program is mainly intended for the 2nd year students. The career design program named "Career Design Workshop" is prepared for the 3rd year students with respect to the discussion by the students, company engineers and faculties. The 4th year students are going to take the "Technology Internship" from the point of view of manufacturers they will be employed in near future. A couple of characteristic programs what we call "Network of 100 Wisdom" and "Enterprise Week" are planned to assist the whole system, as the collaboration with the local companies and the practical career design lectures, respectively.
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ItemA Collaborative Educational Program Involving the Reuse of Timbers from the Old Farm Houses Damaged by the Earthquakes in Niigata(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21) Bohda, Satoshi ; Iwasa, Akihiko ; Nishimura, Shin-yaIn this educational program, students, inhabitants and professionals worked together discussing the planning and design for wooden arcades, called locally Gangi, and actually built them together as a part of various town planning schemes. The Chuetsu area of Niigata JAPAN was struck by strong Earthquakes in 2004 and 2007. After the earthquakes, many damaged houses were demolished and a lot of materials like timbers were discarded. We kept a number of old timbers of damaged houses for re-use in the new wooden arcades. We tried to sustain the memory of the old buildings and to prevent these materials from being thrown away. Students measured the old timbers and made up a list of them as materials in the design of the Gangi. We requested that the students re-use the old timbers in their design. At the design presentation stage, we were able to find various ways of reusing the old timbers. One team created a design using the old timbers for the main structures like posts and beams. The other team used them as non-stressed timbers or for decorative use. The inhabitants evaluated the teams proposing the positive timber usage. We successfully built two new Gangi and 24 ornamental features re-using the old timbers. There were some practical problems in using the old timbers. They contained many nails and metals, and most of them were partially decayed. Moreover, we could not cut them into adequate sizes easily. Additionally the constructor misunderstood this idea and proposed to use only new materials instead of the old ones. In this educational program, we thought it was necessary to keep to the traditional landscape using natural materials with their essential qualities and shapes. A good way to solve these practical problems, was the collaboration with local professionals, and the sharing of ways of thinking with inhabitants, professionals, and students at every opportunity by discussion. Our educational program is has not been temporary but has been made up of various ongoing activities. This program has lasted for twelve years and we have successfully kept a good relationship going among the students, inhabitants and professionals involved.
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ItemDevelopment of Water Purification System by Magnetic Separation Technique and Its Application to the Education for Environment on the Course of Learn-by-Doing Program(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21) Oka, Tetsuo ; Kanayama, Hayato ; Hirose, Yutaka ; Kikuchi, Hokuto ; Kobayashi, Ryo ; Tanaka, Katsuyoshi ; Ooizumi, Manabu ; Yamaguchi, Mitsugi ; Haneda, Takuji ; Fukui, Satoshi ; Ogawa, Jun ; Sato, Takao ; Nishimura, Shin-ya ; Imaizumi, Hiroshi ; Harada, Shuji ; Tanabe, Yuji ; Sengoku, Masakazu ; Ohkawa, HideoA superconducting permanent magnet system capable of generating strong magnetic fields has been constructed by using bulk high temperatures superconductors HTS. The magnetic field in the open space between the face-to-face settled magnetic poles has exceeded 3 T when they were activated at 30 K. We have investigated the magnetic separation technique with respect to Fe ions in the waste water drained from the university laboratories. The performances of bulk magnet system closely came to those of 5 T superconducting solenoid with a ratio over 90 % under the flowing rate of 3 liter/min in spite of the narrower space of strong field. The result attributes to the fact that the bulk magnet system has the steepest gradient among them. This suggests that the magnetic separation by using bulk magnets is effective for the practical water purification systems. The students of Niigata University take various parts in the actual R&D processes that were incorporated as a course of their educational curricula. It is important for the university students to learn the environmental issues by resolving the practical problems surrounding them. In the study, the water purification system has been adapted to the education course to carry out as a project-based learning. We expect that students would acquire strong motivation to learn sciences through the course.