Participants
67 Participants from a variety of academic fields representing
23 universities of 15 countries and 2 companies.
Steering: 3 Lectureｒs and 17 staffs from 5 universities

2Details of the Participants
Peking University
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University
KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute os Science and Technology)
Seoul National University
Nanyang Technological University
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Columbia University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rice University
Stanford University
The University of Texas at Austin
University of California, Berkeley
University of Toronto
University of São Paulo
KTH (Royal Institute of Technology)
Technical University of Munich
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Aalto University
Imperial College London
University of Oxford
University of Abomey-Calavi

Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
Optical Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Physics and Applied Physics (Fluid Dynamics)
Material Science and Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Applied Physics
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical System Control
Materials Science and Engineering
Mechatronic Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Biotechnology
Biomedical Engineering
Engineering Physics
Aeronautics
Materials science
Computer Science
Mechanical Engineering
Precision Engineering
Aeronautics and Astronautics
Systems Innovation
Civil Engineering
Chemical System Engineering
Public Policy
Electrical Electronics and Information systems
Information & Communication Engineering
Corporate R&D Center
Research and Development GroupThe University of Tokyo

Toshiba Corporation
Hitachi, Ltd.,

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13Schedule
2345Team meeting

Team meeting

Bus transf Museum tour

SelfIntroduction

transferBus

Campany v Closing

8Team meeting(Optional)

Return toTokyo

The Railway Museum, JR Research Center
Venue: UTokyo, Shinrin‐Koen Heritage Resorts

Opening session at UTokyo

9Award Ceremony &Banquet

Final Presentation
Lunch

Opening

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7PhotoTeammeetingReg.

UT lab tour Travel to Ca

6Dinner

Lectures

1 pm

Dinner

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Day1: Lectures & UT Lab tour
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Address:
Prof. Watanabe

Introduction:
Prof. Yokono

Address:
Prof. Maruyama Prof. Shiroyama

Lectures:Prof. Koashi

Mr. KatoProf. Shiomi

UT Lab tour

Course A: Fluids / Space system
Takagi–Kinefuchi Lab.
Nakasuka–Funase Lab.
Course B Micro‐nano and Optics
Maruyama‐Chiashi Lab.
Gonokami‐Yumoto‐Ideguchi Lab.
Course C: Agro‐industrial system‐Recycling‐Zeolite
Fujita.Dodbiba Lab.
Ohkubo‐Wakihara Lab.

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Day 2: Team Meetings –task‐
Task is to propose an innovative device for the Japanese society related to<Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Information Technology, Infrastructure>and propose an international research project to demonstrate the proof ofconcept or to accelerate the innovation process.
Presentation template Survey
 Problem identification Proposal Organization
 Budget Potential impact• 10 teams (6‐7 participants/team) were organized in advance.
• Each of 2 teams had 1 researcher from industry.
• Proposal “for the Japanese society” so that shy Japanese students could be
involved in the discussion.

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Self Introduction

Team Meetings

7Team Meetings

8Final Presentations

9Evaluation & Awards
Comments given to each team
Criteria

Pointsinnovation, and potential
impact/ 5 points

background survey,
technical soundness,
feasibility, and project
management/ 5 points

Teamwork & presentation/ 5 points

Team 1 (Underwater
Resource Exploration)
It was excellent that…
• Idea was unique.
• Technical details were discussed.
• Large potential impact.
Becomes better if you improve…
Better time planning.
Control system can be further optimized

Awards for
2 Best Presentation
Best Proposal
Winners of best proposal (Team1)

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Railway Museum
JR Research Center

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Questionnaire Summary (1) Basically, most of the participants enjoyed the camp very much.
 Scores vary depending on the affiliation.
 Japanese students are less pleased ?
 Meals are needed to consider.
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Questionnaire Summary (2)In which areas did you find the camp beneficial?
Obtaining Expanding my Developing anImproving
knowledge of international Widening
valuablebrainstorming
network of the scope ofotherteamwork/lea/discussion
engineering friends/colleag my researchdership
skillsues
fieldsexperience
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2017

64%

61%

47%

73%

21%

55%

67%

39%

68%

26%

2016

 The camp surely enhanced the “competency” of the participants.
 International network shows best.

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Comments from Participants

Invited Students It would be better if there is some more time especially for a free talk with professors andthe staff together. After all, it's a good experience and I do enjoy the time.
 Thank you for providing me with a good opportunity. I think that observing Tokyo Univ.
more is also good for visitors from overseas. Actually, I want to know history and researchachievement of Tokyo Univ. more. It would be better to use a separated room for eachgroup. (Reason: sound, crowd..)
 I am happy to attend summer camp. I hope to attend again. Thank you !
 The team final presentations can be improved. A two day "hackathon" can be organizedwhich will help the students actually build or construct something rather than simply
finding a problem. The Lab tour was excellent and it broadened the horizon. Some moretech talks can be looked into. good job, keep it up. Best wishes.
 The last day could be better used on the project.
 The lab tour was not very organized and over crowded, causing the time to be spent
inefficiently. It is better to allow girls/boys to room with people that speak their language.
Otherwise, one person is left not understanding what the other 2 people are saying. Morefeed back from professors would be appreciated ! Thank you for this opportunity !
 What's the point of a visit to a railway museum ? This is absolutely useless. Pleasemaximize use of attendee's time. In general food is good. Lack of attraction after hours.
This is a absolutely valuable chance to mingle with other ph.D 1 master students aroundthe world.
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Comments from Participants

Invited Students One more day to work on project would be beneficial. More technical lectures. More freetime with other students to form relationships. More free time in Tokyo to lean/see
Japanese society. Longer Q/A session for final presentations. UT were great hosts.
 For the team project, please provide wider selection of scopes, and it will be execellent if
some examples from previous years' summer camp proposals are provided. In that way,
we will have a better understanding of what outcome, what level, is expected from theteamwork and discussion.
 This was an incredible experience. I was very impressed with the schedule of thisinternational project and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who has a chance toparticipate. Some possible ways to improve the experience woud include: Longer
technical session that would allow a greater insight info the worth caused by theparticipants. Invited talks from industrial participants.
 I had some problems to find the Forest Hongo hotel, leaving from the Hongo‐Sanchomestation. The map that was provided was in Japonese and I was unable to identify thename of the streets. Maybe the organization could provide more information concerning
this, including some other pictures. I also had problems to find room number 213, Eng.
Bldg. No.2. The room where we've taken lunch on that day has the same number. Maybesome pictures, or a simple map, could improve this aspect. Beside those issues, the camp
was great, and really enjoyable. Congratulations for the iniciative and thank you for theinvitation.
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Comments from Participants

Invited Students
 Maybe it would be better to provide each person with a room key.
 The camp was great ! I really profited from the discussions in the team meetings.
Additionally, the discussions in the Onsen about the different countries were reallyworthful.
 This summer camp was a great opportunity for me and I would like to thank theorganizers.
 Nothing to say about the scientific value of the camp. Just a very small suggestion, pleaseprovide simple water alongside tea and other beverages. As most European people use todrinking water as their main drink.
 The help from the team coordinator was minimum. I think they should be trained equally
to participate in building and guiding the students.
 Break time after Lunch are too small (sometimes no break time). Maybe if these could a30‐40 min for rest after lunch, it will be good. Because generally after Lunch, we can feel
sleeping so may need to go to restrooms. By the way, thank you for the organization.

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Comments from Participants

UT (non‐Japanese) The amount of free time was nice. It would have been good to have a key for each guest
at the hotel to avoid confusion.
 Visiting museum will not give anything to the student (like PhD's and researchs), and it's
better to spend those time more discussion with researchers in the company. Time wasvery short for group meetings to come up ideas and do complete survey and implement
and it will be good if you can increase little bit more. It is very good experience we canincrease both leadership skills time management and project management and how tocome up with new ideas in a short time.
 Perhaps extending the summer camp to a five day event with extended brainstorming andlonger presentation time. I felt some groups didn't have enough time to present a designfor their brainstorm session. I would have liked to see this kind of design. But it was great
and fun, and set new ideas. It so was very enjoyable and I felt I could learn a lot and alsoteach others of my research. Thank you.
 It would be better if we have more free time in the museums. And the cold food for thelast meal at noon was a little unacceptable…But I really enjoyed this experience. Thankyou so much !!!
 I really enjoyed this summer camp. I think it's well organized and provide us a greatchance to make friends and learn from each other. In addition, the team meeting part
enable us to improve our brain storm skills as well as teamwork spirit. I think this summer
camp is a valuable experience to me. I hope more students can attend such kind of17summer camp. Thank you !

Comments from Participants

UT (non‐Japanese) Foods were cold (Rice Miso‐soup came at the last minute of the meal time), Banquet fee wasa little bit expensive (relatively compared to food/drink served).
 The instructions for the group project could have been better explained. It was nor entirely
clear what the organizers wanted the groups to provide them with. In one day, it is very
difficult for the groups to narrow down a legitimate problem in Japanese society, and thencome up with a technically feasible and commercially sensible idea. Having more targeted
topics would have likely been better, for example, if specific Japanese problems had beensuggested, it would have been easier for the participants to come up with engineeringsolutions in the alloted time.
 I think restricting the problems Japan have into 1 problem could have made our finemanagement more effective and ideas better. Also first day of the camp, 1 more activity forthe group members to get to know each other would be better.
 I should be thankful for your great efforts. For me as a student in UT, it was great experiencein terms of being more familiar with "How different International groups work", "anddifferent international member ways of thinking". Specially visiting R&D JR was reallyinteresting for me. Again Big thanks for all your efforts.
 It was such a a valuable experience ! I have been satisfied on the summer camp from allperspective. From the traditional Japanese Accommodation to the enough length of schedule
to make friends from around the world.
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Comments from Participants

UT (non‐Japanese) I hope that the group could be divided more properly that let more people who do similar
research in the same team. In fact in our team we wanted to make our project more expert.
But 4 of us from field similar which relating many physics and chemistry knowledge. Other
people are having little knowledge about this field so they can hardly give some good ideas
about the project.
 I think it would be better to select more general engineering topic for the initial technicallectures. Please allocate more time for the team meeting in order to ease the pressure on theattendees.
 I think it would better if in groups we work on solving more concreate problems of industry. If
we have just areas like energy, infrastructure and so on, it is hard to find a problem byourselves. We don't really now which problems society and industry have and wants to solve.
We spend a lot of time on searching problem and we are not sure if that problem we found is
not solved yet and if it is important enough. It would be much more effective if you provide
us a list of problems from industry, then we can solve it by our technologies, make ideas,
which could be used after he camp.
 In place of choosing different topics, we can work on preselected topic. Thus giving more
beautiful results. Please provide two keys for a room.
 Additional meals would help reduce hunger during long team meetings. Hotel amenities
were mostly adequate. Two keys for each hotel room would have been more convenient.
Finally, please increase time frame or decrease budget of proposal to make planning more
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Comments from Participants

UT (non‐Japanese) The camp was useful to experience viewpoints of people from different countries. I strongly
think usage of cellphones must be prohibited during company tours.
 More foods can be provided for the meal.
 It was good chance to experience lots of foreign students from various country, and also
knowing their research fields.
UT (Japanese) The period is too long. There are a lot of spare time in Hotel Heritage, company tour, ormuseum. Some students are quite busy in their research or project, so it would be better totry to minimize the number of days (e.g. three days).
 The review of the each team's idea by professors should be earlier (e.g. 13:00‐14:00) before
we start making presentation slides.
 チームミーティング問題設定が少し難しい,厳しかったのでもう少しゆるくなると色々なアイデアが出るかもしれません I think when the team meeting of the start, Dr leader should lead the discussion.
 It would have been even better if we had chance to hear some stories about R&D of newdevices.
 A lot of fun to have a discussion with other students from other countries.
 It was variable experience that discussing with members various technical & cultural background. Thank you. (company menmer)
 We can't use the free service like google drive by information security policy of company. So
it is helpful for me that you provide us another way to share the data and presentation
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document. (company menmer)

Engineering Competency III(Summer Camp) UTokyo and world‐leading universities
Ph.D students discuss and exchange ideas
 propose international research project ofinnovative device for the Japanese society 67 Participants from 23 universities of
15 countries & 2 companies
2017 Venue: UTokyo and Shinrin-koen Heritage Resorts▲ Participants▲ Satisfaction▲ Which areas beneficial◀ Schedule of Summer Camp