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List of Course for IEI (Intellectual Exchange and Innovation) Program

As of October 1, 2018
No 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