Participants
Engineering Competency III‐Summer Camp‐

64 graduate students from a variety of engineering fields
representing 19 universities in 12 countries.

GMSI‐GSDM
Summer Camp 2014

ReportSummer camp
Organizers & facilitators
2014.10.7
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Details of the participants(Japanese)
UT students: UT_GSDM
UT_GSDM (Non‐Japanese)
UT_GMSI (Japanese)40
UT_GMSI (Non‐Japanese)

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Lab visits at UT

Travel to Camp

Self- Techni
Introduc caltion Session

Team meetings

Teammeetings

Lectures

Bus transfer

67

Team meetings

Dinner1 pm

45

Final Presentation

NISSAN lab tourGroup photo

12Opening

Sep
29

11Bus

Mechanical Engineering
Material Science & Engineering
Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

Sep28

10LunchMaterials Science and Engineering, MechanicalEngineering

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Sep
27

9Lunch1

The University of Texas at Austin
University of Toronto
Peking University
Universidade de São Paul

Sep
26

8LunchStanford University

7 am

Lunch

Robotics Systems
BioRobotics
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
M.Sc.Informatics
Machine Tools and Production Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Precision Instrument
Material Science & Engineering
Physics and Applied Physics
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
AeronauticsChemistry and Applied Biosciences
Mechanical Engineering
Metal forming
Mechanical Engineering

registration

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Breakfast Breakfast

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Scuola Superiore Sant’ Anna (SSSA)
Rice University
Imperial College London
Technische Universität München (TUM)
RWTH Aachen University
UC Berkeley
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Imperial College London
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH)
Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland)
RWTH Aachen University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

ScheduleFri.

Major

Sat.

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Sun.

University

Mon.

Invitedstudents:
2489

Team meetings(Optional)

Award
Ceremony&Banquet

Return toUT

原子力×1、 機械×3、シス創×2、化シス×１、航空×1、社基×１
機械×2、学際情報×1、社基×1、技術戦略×1、メディカルゲノム×2、農学国際×1
機械×8、シス創×1
精密×5、機械×7、バイオ×1、航空×1

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Introduction & lectures

UT Lab tours

Messages from:Course A
Mitsuishi‐Sugita Lab.
Matsumoto‐Takagi Lab.
Najajima Lab.

Prof. Mitsuishi
Prof. Maruyama
Prof. Watanabe
Proj. Prof. Yokono

Course B
Maruyama‐Chiashi Lab.
Ikuhara Lab.

Course C
Kunieda‐Mimura Lab.
Watanabe‐Himeno Lab.
Kaneko‐Yamasaki Lab.

Lectures:Proj. Assoc. Prof.
YarimeGradate schoolof public policy

Prof. Kato
Dep. ofmechanicalengineering
5Team meetings: task

6Team meetings

Task is to propose an innovative product/service for the Japanese society related
to your team’s topic:<Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Information Technology, Infrastructure>and propose an international research project to demonstrate the proof ofconcept or to accelerate the innovation process.
A presentation template
was distributed.

10 teams (6‐7 students/team) were organized in advance by the facilitatorsconsidering the balance of the nationality, organization (UT/Non‐UT),
area (Europe/America/ Asia), grade (PhD/MSc), gender, technical backgrounds, etc.

Some UT students took an excellent initiative during the team meeting.
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Final presentations

Evaluation & Awards
Criteria

Pointsinnovation, and potential
impact/ 5 points

background survey, technicalsoundness, feasibility, andproject management/ 5 points

Teamwork & presentation/ 5 points

Award for Best ChallengeAward for Best Presentation
Award for Best Technology
Award for Best Proposal

Comments given to each team

9Others

10

Tour to Nissan Technical CenterConfidential

Certification
ofparticipation

14:30‐15:50 Lab tour

Facilitators

Students enjoyed Karaoke,
swimming, public bath, etc.

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16:10‐17:00 Discussion with UT OB&OG working at Nissan

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Questionnaire summary (1)Questionnaire summary (2)In which areas did you find the camp beneficial?

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4.1

4.3

4.2

4.6

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4.6

Invitedstudents

4.7

4.1

4.3

3.9

4.3

4.4

4.3

4.0

4.4

4.4

4.7

4.6

UT(Japanese)

4.5

4.0

4.0

3.5

3.9

4.1

3.8

4.3

3.9

4.9

4.7

4.6

UT (non‐Japanese)

4.6

4.1

4.6

3.9

4.6

4.3

4.3

4.7

4.3

4.6

4.4

4.7

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fieldsexperience Basically, most of the participants enjoyed the camp very much.
 Many participants complained of the slow internet connection and the long bus trip.
 Some Japanese students join the camp reluctantly, which resulted in the low scores.

N. ofparticipants(N=58)

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42

26

48

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Ratio

71%

72%

45%

83%

31%

 The camp surely enhanced the “competency” of the students.
 Some students got useful comments on their research.

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Comments from participants (1)14Comments from participants (2)Positive comments

Negative comments / suggestions

 Great experience to discuss and brainstorm with people who have diverse backgrounds.
Well organized and an overall great experience!
 it really enjoyed the camp and I got a lot of contacts for further cooperation or evenconsultations related to my research. The installations were incredible and the food wasperfect. Thank you for the invitation and organization.
 It was very inspiring for me to see what other departments are doing for their research.
Thus, lab tour, technical session was particularly exciting.
 I really enjoyed every aspect of this camp and I hope that this program continues to run
long into the future. Thanks for the wonderful time!
 In summer camp, the discussion with many‐country students gave me precious
experience because I didn't have such a deep discuss about energy before. So that was afruitful time for me. Thanks.
 To my surprise, I enjoyed the camp very much. I knew many new friends, both from
UTokyo and other top universities over the world. I feel that I also improved mybrainstorming, discussion, and presentation skills during the camp. My group members'
mixture and teamwork are great. We worked extremely hard and the experience we hadlearned was wonderful.

 On the other hand, because there were only few students whose research fields aresocial science oriented, like me for instance, I am not sure if we were able to inspire them(engineering students) by introducing what we are doing for our research. It would bevery helpful if the feedback regarding this issue is shared if there is any.
 if the distance between club and company lab is shorter, we can save more time forcommunication between participants.
 internet connection during the camp was very bad and it very much hindered our abilityto do background research and get necessary data for the team project. i think internet
connection should be considered better when choosing the location. (Many similarcomments)
 We need more time for groupwork. I felt 2 days are too short to make creative result.
At least, give us little more detailed topics. "Energy" or "Environment" is too broad.
 If we have enough time to exchange own research result, summer camp will be better
because many talented students join the summer camp with great results.
 A cultural tour of Tokyo/Japan could have brought completeness to the camp. We could
have got more time, If the long travel was planned during night.
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