List of Course for IEI (Intellectual Exchange and Innovation) Program
As of October 1, 2018No | Course | Credit | Course Term | Remark |
1 | Discussion Leading & Organizing* |
1 | 1st semester |
TBD in consultation with your mentoring Prof/Assoc. Prof |
2 | Conference Design & Organizing* |
1 | 2nd semester | G Building, 3 Floor, Room 309 Start date: April 11, 2019 Time period: Division 2 (10:30-12:00) |
3 | Journal Running & Handling* |
1 | 1st semester |
Venue: Soriko 2 Start date: October 16, 2018 Time period: Division 2 (10:30-12:00) |
4 | Industrial Structure of Japan* |
1 | 1st semester |
TBA** |
5 | Fundamentals of Japanese Communication* |
1 | 1st semester | Please refer to the Syllabus of "Fundamentals of Japanese Communication" |
6 | Practical Internship* | 1 | TBD in consultation with your mentoring Prof/Assoc. Prof | TBD in consultation with your mentoring Prof/Assoc. Prof |
7 | Fundamentals on Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences – Material, Energy, Environment* |
2 | 1st semester | Venue: Soriko 1 Start date: October 10, 2018 Time period: Division 1 (8:40-10:10) |
8 | Doctoral Research* | 2 | Each semester | TBD in consultation with your mentoring Prof/Assoc. Prof |
9 | Exercise for Doctoral Thesis* |
4 | Each semester | TBD in consultation with your mentoring Prof/Assoc. Prof |
10 | Research Internship III | 2 |
* Compulsory subject
** Details will be announced by the student affairs division.
List of Course for IEI Program Syllabus(IEI Program)
CONTACT:
IGSES Student Affairs Section, Student Affairs Division
Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences
Tel: 092-583-7512 EX: 7512/7137
Email: srkkyomu@jimu.kyushu-u.ac.jp
1. Discussion Leading & Organizing
Course Term
First semester
Credit 1
Contact Information:
Assoc. Prof. Shuichi Matsukiyo (matsukiy@esst.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
Course Description
The Discussion Leading and Organizing course is designed to practically train students how to control and/or stimulate discussions. Apart from logical thinking, effective discussion requires several skills, such as comprehensive ability to detect essential points, wide knowledge to relate several topics, and sensibility to follow audiences’ interests. In this course, students will learn those skills through providing “seed questions” to stimulate discussions at seminars or meetings.
At an inner-lab seminar or an akin meeting, the student should provide seed questions just after a talk presented by another person. The questions should cover essential points of the presentation, and also interests of the audience. At the end of the seminar, the mentor professor evaluates those questions based on how discussion with the audience was stimulated by them. The seminars or meetings should be held at least once a month, in order to keep opportunities of training for the students.
Concrete topics of this course include:
- Logical consistency of the presentation
- Comprehensive ability to sort essential and trivial points of the presentation
- Wide knowledge to expand topics toward the related issues, such as practical examples and similar ideas in different fields of science and engineering
- Distinguish different interests from different audiences
Course Outline
Series of seminars or meetings, at least once a month; contact the mentor professor
2. Conference Design & Organizing
Course Term
Second semester
Credit 1
Contact Information Assoc. Prof. Osama Eljamal (osama-eljamal@kyudai.jp)
Course Description
The Conference Design and Organizing course is designed to train students involved in leadership positions and conference planning. The Course offers students an opportunity to apply, improve and reflect on their personal leadership skills and styles. This course integrates practical work with academic work. The course is formed to help students learn the art of conference planning while serving in positions responsible for conferences on campus. Further students will participate in reviewing of manuscripts submitted for conference and help in searching of suitable guest speakers.
Concrete topics of this course include:
- Write down conference goals
- Design conference schedule
- Choose the conference venue
- Select suitable guest speakers
- Circulation of conference information (call for papers)
- Assign submitted papers for review by relevant reviewers
- Contribute to conference committee meeting
Course Outline
April 11, 2019 introductory guidance and lecture for conference design and organizing
April 25, 2019 1st conference committee meeting (plan, task allocation, venue, conference schedule and call for papers)
May 16, 2019 2nd conference committee meeting (call for papers, review process and Keynote speakers)
May 30, 2019 3rd conference committee meeting (review process, and conference proceedings)
June 7, 2019 4th conference committee meeting (Keynote speakers and conference program)
June 27, 2019 5th conference committee meeting (Printed materials and conference proceedings)
July 12, 2019
October 17, 2019 6th conference committee meeting (Beverages, gifts, certificates and final program)
7th conference committee meeting (task allocation for conference day and Final approval)
October 24-25, 2019 Conference day(participate in the conference)
IEI program students must attend the IEICES 2018 to get an experience about how can they plan and manage IEICES 2019.
3. Journal Running & Handling
Course Term
First semester (consult with Course Outline)
Credit 1
Contact Information:
Prof. Bidyut B. Saha (saha.baran.bidyut.213@m.kyushu-u.ac.jp) Editor-in-chief of Evergreen
Assoc. Prof. Hiroshi Tashima (tasima@ence.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
Course Description
This course will provide practical training regarding how to write a journal article and journal management (journal running and handling) as an assigned editor, and covers a series of journal operation activities of an editorial board member. The student will participate in reviewing of manuscripts submitted for Evergreen journal, help in searching of suitable reviewers, approaching potential authors, promote the journal to authors and readers. Each student will be assigned as a guest associate editor for one article and a referee for peer reviewing of at least 1 article. This course will be advanced in cooperation with Evergreen - Joint Journal of Novel Carbon Resource Sciences & Green Asia Strategy. Full attendance during the editorial board meeting is mandatory.
Concrete topics of this course include:
• Circulation of CFP (call for papers)
• Assign submitted papers for peer review by relevant reviewers
• Peer review of papers and recommendation regarding publication
• Promote the journal - encourage submissions of papers from colleagues (including yourself) and relevant experts from your research field
• Cite Evergreen journal paper(s) in your research papers
• Encourage citation of Evergreen papers by your colleagues and co-workers
• Encourage usage of Evergreen journal in your laboratory and relevant departments for research and academic studies
• Contribute to editorial board meeting, not only regular issue of Evergreen journal but also special issue in relation to international conferences supported by IGSES.
Course Outline
In the first class, dated on 16 Oct. 2018 Introductory guidance and lecture
In the second class, dated on 23 Oct. 2018 How to write a paper in peer reviewed journal
In the third class, dated on 06 Nov. 2018 Call for Papers for Evergreen In the fourth class, dated on 27 Nov. 2018 1st Editorial board meeting (first round of review process, handling a journal paper as an assigned associate editor)
In the fifth class, dated on 11 Dec. 2018 2nd Editorial board meeting (2nd round review process, proof reading, etc.)
In the 3rd week of January 2019 3rd Editorial board meeting (publication of Vol. 5, Issue 1 of Evergreen)
Information
Evergreen - Joint Journal of Novel Carbon Resource Sciences & Green Asia Strategy
http://www.tj.kyushu-u.ac.jp/leading/en/evergreen.php
4. Industrial Structure of Japan
Course Term
First ,Second, Third or Fourth semesters (depending on our arrangement on a part-time-lecture)
Credit 1
Lecturer Masatoshi Takao
Contact Information:
Assoc. Prof. Maiko Nishibori (nishibori.maiko.511@m.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
Course Description
Industry structure of Japan:historical view of industrialization of Japan for two hundred years and present situation. Keywords; Promotion or evasion between academy and industry collaboration. Japanese industry structure evolution from meiji to heisei eras. Reconstruction from defeat of world war II, High economic growth period, Home-appliance spreading in Japan, New industries, Bubble economy and successive 20 years deflation, Failure of economic growth recovery, Linea and bi-directional-horizontal models of R&D activities, Role of early RIKEN, Open and close R&D management, Left hand law by TAKAO, Stage management of R&D, From basic research to both technology and social innovation, Close and open R&D system, etc.
Concrete topics of this course include:
• Research and development management view by Takao as a physicist.
Course Outline
Time:
1. Nov. 26 13:00~14:30
2. Nov. 26 14:50~16:20
3. Nov. 26 16:40~18:10
4. Nov. 27 8:40~10:10
5. Nov. 27 13:00~14:30
6. Nov. 27 14:50~16:20
7. Nov. 28 10:30~12:00
8. Nov. 28 13:00~14:30
Place:
To Be Determined
5. Fundamentals of Japanese Communication
Credit 1
Contact Information:
Associate Prof. KOYAMA, Satoru (oyama.satoru.188@m.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
Course overview
The main purposes of this course are for students to be able:
(1) to communicate in Japanese language;【communication】
(2) to gain knowledge and understanding of Japanese culture;【cultures】
(3) to connect with other disciplines and acquire information;【connections】
(4) to develop insight into the nature of Japanese language and culture;【comparisons】
(5) to participate in communities within and beyond the school setting.【communities】
Concrete topics of this course include:
• Family & Friends
• New Life
• Living Space
• Daily Life
• Trip
• Japanese Geography
Course objectives
For this purpose, students are expected:
(1) to learn contemporary Japanese linguistics;
(2) to learn Japanese cultural traits;
(3) to learn Japanese language learning strategies.
Course Plan(Details will be explained at the first class)
1. Oct 2(C-Cube 301)火曜日 Tuesday 16:40~18:10
2. Oct 4(E Building 101)木曜日 Thursday 16:40~18:10
3. Oct 11(E Building 101)木曜日 Thursday 16:40~18:10
4. Oct 25(E Building 101)木曜日 Thursday 16:40~18:10
5. Nov. 1(E Building 101)木曜日 Thursday 16:40~18:10
6. Nov. 15(E Building 101)木曜日 Thursday 16:40~18:10
7. Nov. 29(E Building 101)木曜日 Thursday 16:40~18:10
8. Dec. 6(E Building 101)木曜日 Thursday 16:40~18:10
The Lecture of Dec.6 is cancelled.(Make-up Class is to be determined.)
9. Dec. 13(E Building 101)木曜日 Thursday 16:40~18:10
10. Dec. 20(E Building 101)木曜日 Thursday 16:40~18:10
11. Jan. 8(C-Cube 301)火曜日 Tuesday 16:40~18:10
12. Jan. 10(E Building 101)木曜日 Thursday 16:40~18:10
13. Jan. 17(E Building 101)木曜日 Thursday 16:40~18:10
14. Jan. 24(E Building 101)木曜日 Thursday 16:40~18:10
15. Jan. 31(E Building 101)木曜日 Thursday 16:40~18:10
Textbook
Handout
Evaluation
Class activity 40%, Homework 40%, Final exam 20%
Study consultation
Tuesday 15:30-16:30
Reference Book
‘Minna no Nihongo vol.1 Grammar Book’(English, 中国語, 韓国語, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese)
Moodle:https://m2b.s.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/index.html
6. Practical Internship
Course Term
To be determined in consultation with your supervisor
Credit 1
Contact Information:
Receive the guidance from the supervisor
Query for the process: Assoc. Prof. Tadahiro Kin (kin@aees.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
Course Description
This course will provide practical training to learn the latest situations in actual Japanese job sites. The student will participate in a short term internship held in a domestic company to experience the actual job situation in Japan. The student will find a domestic company admitting the internship for foreign students with the guidance of the supervisor. It is possible to deepen the understanding of practical manufacturing, research and development in Japanese companies by taking this course.
Concrete topics of this course include:
• Finding the company admitting the internship for foreign students and applying to the internship with the guidance of the supervisor
• Information gathering for the company and the Japanese job site
• Participation in the internship, which is held in a domestic company
• Reporting what the student did and learned in the internship to the supervisor
Course Outline
The schedule is not determined yet.
Information
Consult the supervisor and the employment advisor in each department for the internship
7. Fundamentals on Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences, Material, Energy, Environment
Course Term
First semester
Credit 2
Contact Information:
Assoc. Prof. Masaru Itakura (itakura@kyudai.jp)
Course Description
This course is designed to give a broad introduction to the issues included in the “Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences, Material, Energy, and Environment”. As the energy and environmental problems have become complicated and interconnected, collaboration with different professionals are needed and students must have a broader knowledge and capability to tackle such problems. The lecture will be given in an omnibus style by leading researchers in the five departments in the faculty of Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, including Applied Science for Electronics and Materials (ASEM), Molecular and Material Sciences (MMS), Advanced Energy Engineering Sciences (AEES), Energy and Environmental Engineering (EEE), and Earth System Science Technology (ESST). Each department will deliver three lectures as one module. As a consequence, this course is composed of 15 sessions in total. Grades can be assigned as a number out of 100. Representatives of the each department need to report the grades of the course attendees. Each lecturer can ask the attendees short essay or make a quiz to assess their achievements.
Schedule (2018)
Days | Begin time | Location | Dept. | Lecturer | Topic | |
1 | Oct. 10 | 8:40 | Soriko1 | ASEM | Satoshi Hata | Some topics on advanced electron microscopy |
2 | Oct. 17 | 8:40 | Soriko1 | ASEM | Minoru Nishida | Phase Transformations in Metals and Alloys |
3 | Oct. 24 | 14:50 | Soriko1 | ASEM | Kungen Teii | Introduction to power semiconductors and devices |
4 | Oct. 31 | 8:40 | Soriko1 | MMS | Takeshi Nakagawa | Small, but strong magnet |
5 | Nov. 7 | 8:40 | Soriko1 | MMS | Mitsugu Todo | Application of Mechanics to Medicine – How to predict the bone strength of osteoporotic patients – |
6 | Nov. 14 | 8:40 | Soriko1 | MMS | Yoichiro Kuninobu | Development of C-H Bond Transformations Directed Towards the Synthesis of Organic Functional Molecules |
7 | Nov. 19 | 13:00 | Soriko1 | ESST | Osama Eljamal | Environmental Engineering and Science: Fundamentals and Applications |
8 | Nov. 21 | 8:40 | Soriko1 | EEE | Hooman Farzaneh | Devising a Clean Energy Strategy for Asian Cities, lesson learned from real case studies |
9 | Nov. 28 | 8:40 | Soriko1 | EEE | Kyaw Thu | Mechanical Vapor Compression Systems and Next Generation Refrigerants |
10 | Dec. 5 | 8:40 | Soriko1 | EEE | Hiroshi Tashima | General Perspective of Internal Combustion Engines based on Similarity Law |
11 | Dec.12 | 8:40 | Soriko1 | AEES | Kenichi Hashizume | Introduction to nuclear materials |
12 | Dec. 19 | 8:40 | Soriko1 | AEES | Yukinobu Watanabe | Nuclear transmutation and its application to reduction of high-level radioactive waste |
13 | Jan. 9 | 8:40 | Soriko1 | AEES | Nobuya Hayashi | Discharge and plasma application studies |
14 | Jan. 23 | 8:40 | Soriko1 | ESST | Tohru Hada | Space Plasma Environment |
15 | Jan. 30 | 8:40 | Soriko1 | ESST | Shigeo Yoshida | Wind Energy Basics |
8. Doctoral Research
Course Term
All semesters
Credit 2
Contact Information Mentor professor
Course Description
This course is intended to familiarize doctoral students with basic research concepts and their application in conducting educational research. Further, this course is designed to help doctoral students make some of the decisions for their own research proposals. Consequently, students will become familiar with tools that enable them to determine the best approach for a problem they wish to investigate, the nature of their research objectives, and the constraints of the research problem. Students will broaden their knowledge of how to access, understand, and evaluate research reports.
Concrete topics of this course include:
• Distinguish between opinion articles and reports of systematic research.
• Explore the trends and issues related to the development of a research proposal.
• Develop an understanding of the various components of an effective research proposal.
• Gain familiarity with a variety of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis techniques.
• Identify a research problem within study field of concentration, to generate appropriate research questions, and to explore the choice of an appropriate methodology and design
• Explore issues in designing a clearly focused, defensible research project
• Describe the Principles underlying randomized experiments and their advantages for making casual inferences.
• Select appropriate measures for assessing outcomes, describing implementation fidelity, and capturing process variables.
Course Outline
Thesis: Expectation
Fundamentals of Research
Selecting a Problem and Preparing a Research Proposal
The Research Report
Evaluating a Research Report
Basic Research Designs, Ethical Consideration and Report Writing
Methods and Tools of research
Data Analysis – Quantitative & Qualitative
Approaches to Educational Research Design
9. Exercise for Doctoral Thesis
Course Term
All semesters
Credit 4
Contact Information Mentor professor
Course Description
Completing a thesis successfully is the last and often most challenging part of doctoral studies. The goal is to put one’s theoretical knowledge and research proficiency to practical test by carrying out an independent project producing an original piece of research and making a significant contribution to solving a problem and expanding the knowledge base in the specific discipline. While research is an ongoing process, in which one is expected to stay on top of the relevant developments in the discipline, the assumption is that students are capable of thinking through the important milestones in the thesis process and developing a thesis prospectus that spells out the core concepts and questions as well as the designs of research and the structure of intended thesis.
Concrete topics of this course include:
• Apply theoretical and methodological understanding and skills into devising researchable ideas and specific research questions and hypotheses
• Conduct a focused review of the relevant literature and create appropriate conceptual framework
• Develop a realistic research design with specific research strategies
• Think through and articulate a chapter-by-chapter outline of the intended a thesis
• Communicate research ideas and their appropriate theoretical and methodological issues effectively and efficiently
• Critique other’s ideas paying particular attention to both theoretical and methodological rigor and reality
• Gain understanding of the process of thesis including stress, time, and project management, committee formation, thesis proposition and defense, and human subjects reviews.
Course Outline
Thesis: Expectation
Problems and Questions
Literature Review
Research Design
Analysis, Writing, and Ethical Considerations
Presentation and Wrap up
10. Research Internship Ⅲ
Course Term
TBD in consultation with your supervisor
Credit 2
This course is not compulsory. You can take other lectures instead of this course.
Contact Information:
Receive the guidance from the supervisor
Query for the process: Assoc. Prof. Tadahiro Kin (kin@aees.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
Course Description
This course will provide research experiences to learn the forefront of science and technology in Japan. The student will participate in a medium-term internship (one to two months) held in a domestic research institute or company to experience the research in Japan. The student will find a domestic research institute or company admitting the internship for foreign students with the guidance of the supervisor.
Concrete topics of this course include:
• Finding the research institute or company admitting the internship for foreign students and applying to the internship with the guidance of the supervisor
• Information gathering for the research institute or company and the forefront of science and technology in Japan
• Participation in the internship, which is held in a domestic research institute or company
• Reporting what the student did and learned in the internship to the supervisor
Course Outline
The schedule is not determined. It depends on the individual cases.
Information
Consult the supervisor and the employment advisor in each department for the internship
11. Practical research skills development
Course Term
TBD in consultation with your supervisor
Credit 2
This course is not compulsory. You can take other lectures instead of this course.
Contact Information:
Receive the guidance from the supervisor
Query for the process: Prof. Yuichi Harada (yharada@gic.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
Course Description
Over the master's and doctoral courses, you have to develop knowledge and skills that equip you to undertake independent research at the front of your field. This course provides you how to develop your research skills practically. Therefore, the lecture is composed of general talks on scientific skills for a research project and your tailored case study which is based on your own MD or PhD research project. The scope of this lecture covers not only deepening into your research study, but also considering how to develop the research project into practical applications, such as a product or service, and even building up a start-up.
This lecture requires you to dig deeply into your research project as homework.
Concrete topics of this course include:
research management, research methodology, innovation, intellectual property right, carrier development, entrepreneurship
Course Outline
The outline is as follows:
No. 1: Introduction to this course
No. 2: Understanding on a research subject and how to develop its methodology
No. 3: How to solve a research subject
No. 4: What is the conclusion of a research project
No. 5: Future development on a research subject
No. 6: R&D processes from your curiosity to business development or a product
No. 7: Carrier development - the talk from an expert -
No. 8: Presentations and wrap-up
Time:
14:50-18:10 on 19th, 26th of October, 2nd,9th, 16th, 22th and 30th of November
10:00-12:00 on 10th of December
Place:
E-building 101
Information
Consult the supervisor and the employment advisor in each department for the internship