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What is globalized?
How Globalization Affects Our Life ? How it is globalized?
- Challenge of TUT toward Fostering Global Engineers -
*production, goods, commodities
*money, fund, capital, investment
*people, labor force
International University Exchange Program for Young Engineers 2010
*information
-- Role of Engineers in Globalization --
September 27, 2010 - beyond national boundary easily
Toyohashi, Japan - adaptation to global standard
- worldwide tough competition
Kaname KITA
International Cooperation Center
High Mutual Dependency
for Engineering Education Development (ICCEED)
Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT)
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When it is globalized?
Why it is globalized?
(Political aspect)
•Collapse of the Cold War paradigm ← Dismantling of the Berlin Wall
•Growth of developing countries ・・・ G6 → G8 → G20, BRICs
(Economic aspect)
・ Market economy mechanism
Mass production – Mass consumption
Cost consciousness, Scale merit, Expansion of market
(Technological aspect)
•Rapid mass transit means
•Widely extended accessbility to Internet
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*small firm in local town – 50 years ago
*nation-wide business deployment
*co-production system with Chinese factories - early 80’s
*expanding production to Viet Nam, Cambodia
*world-wide retail expansion since 2001
to UK, China, Hong Kong, Korea, USA, France, Singapore,
Russia, Malaysia, Taiwan
*joint-ventured social-business with Grameen Bank in
Bangladish
*company official language : Japanese → English
world-wide recruitment
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Advantage or Disadvantage ?
The advance of globalization brings positive effects, sparking economic
development and providing people with new opportunities.
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Globalization also has its negative side, though, including such effects as
uneven wealth distribution and the cross-border issues of climate change,
infectious diseases, terrorism, expanding economic crises etc...
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These effects pose a threat to the stability and prosperity of countries - which
depend on resources from around the world like Japan - and of course the rest of
the international community.
Particularly such threat is dire for developing countries. How engineers can make full use of their specialized
knowledge and technologies to address the various
globalization-related issues in collaboration with
international colleagues?
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Locational Advantage
Challenge of TUT
toward Fostering Global Engineers Toyohashi, in the central
Sapporo
region of Japan
Hiroshima Kyoto Nagoya
Fukuoka
Tokyo
Osaka
Two “No.1”
No.1” in Japan
1) Biggest port for automobile imports
Industry accumulation with
automobile manufacturers
2) Biggest amount of agricultural supply (1968-2004).
Centre of both Japanese
industry and agriculture
TUT up to Now TUT from NOW to the Future
-Found in 1976 For meeting the demand in the globalized society,
-Provision of higher education for the graduates from TUT is challenging to provide advanced education program for fostering
colleges of technology (KOSEN) practical, creative & leading engineers
-Compact power: 2000 students, 200 academic staff who will be capable to develop globally competing technology
-Educational systems focused on who will be able to play proactive role in the international community
Graduate School Programs
Continuity of Undergraduate and Master’s Program
-Cooperation with Industries and Local Communities
-Active and broad international exchanges・・・ICCEED
• Reforming educational programs and structure
• Development of engineering education program with quality of international
standard
-World’s best 4 at ABU ROBOCON 2008・2009 • Advanced researches of cutting-edge technologies at world-class level
•TUT students team won Japanese championship responding and contributing to the international community
and got 4th place at ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest, and global issues
held in Pune, India.
•They also won “2nd Runner Up Award” and
“Panasonic Award.”
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Reform of Undergraduate Programs & Graduate Programs
Key Points in Reforming TUT Educational Programs Till JFY2009: 8 programs From JFY2010: 5 programs
Solid knowledge bases for creative and leading engineers Cutting-
Cutting-edge technology
- Wide-range and high-level natural science education
At the time of founding TUT in 1978
to support key industry
- General arts and social science education １．Mechanical Engineering
２．Production System Engineering I. Mechanical Engineering
３．Electrical & Electronic
Advanced technology training for practical & leading engineers ４．Information and
II. Electrical & Electronic Information
- Practical and interdisciplinary training of advanced technologies Computer Sciences
Engineering
- Internship program in cooperation with major industries. ５．Materials Science
III. Computer Science & Engineering
６．Architecture &
Training for creative and leading engineers Civil Engineering
- Research in cutting-edge engineering Enhancements responding need of society Leading technology to support
- International training activities ７．Knowledge-based the society of sustainable
Information Engineering 1988
development
VI. Environmental & Life Sciences
８. Ecological Engineering 1993
V. Architecture & Civil Engineering
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TUT Spiral-up Engineer Education Program
Special program for graduate students
Doctor's course who are expected to be next generation leaders
“Spiral-
Spiral-up education”
education”
“Spiral-up education” Master’s course University Companies
research
by alternately studying basic Specialized subjects
Human resource/
and specialized subjects Master's course research activities
Basic subjects
‘Tailor-made’
including practical and
Studying specialized field
Studying basic field
interdisciplinary technology
Colla
bora
Internship Experiments study tive
training, and internship Research
curriculum
Baton Zone
Specialized subject Collaboration/
program
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Basic subjects curricu atory
3rd and 4th grade
lum projects
Language study,
(undergraduate) PD C
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sciences
Graduation research
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Internship
“Base for practical, with companies
Specialized subjects
creative and leading engineer”
Basic subjects
Technical Colleges
“KOSEN” Tailor made /Baton zone Education Program
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Frontiers of Intelligent Sensing
Development of Engineering Education Program TUT proud research
in the most cutting-edge engineering
with Quality of International Standard
• Expansion of Education Programs and Courses (incld. Twinning
Programs) conducted by English
• Increasing Admissions of International Students
(As of May 1, 2010)
208 international students / 2,227 total students
(Sum of undergraduate & graduate students. 21 Indonesian)
• Promotion of International Cooperation and Research Collaboration
54 Inter-University Exchange Agreements
• Build the Center of Engineering Education
with Quality of International Standard
connecting with Universities in Asia, EU and USA.
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Frontiers of Intelligent Sensing
Promotion of
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