November 30, 2016
Eiji Kamioka
Global PBL and Research Workshop on Information and Communications Engineering--- Inviting graduate students from Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) --Global PBL and Research Workshop on Information and Communications Engineering was held at Toyosu
Campus, Shibaura Institute of Technology from November 14 to November 21 in 2016, hosted by Department ofCommunications Engineering. It was financially supported by JST Japan-Asia Youth Exchange Program in
Science (SAKURA SCIENCE) for inviting 10 graduate students and one professor from School of Computing,
UUM (Universiti Utara Malaysia). Additionally, four more students from UUM participated in this programsupported by JASSO scholarship for Top Global University Project.
This program provided a Global PBL activity, a research workshop as poster sessions and some cultural
exchange activities. Table 1 and Table 2 show the summary of this program and the schedule at a glance,respectively. In total, 47 students from 11 countries (UUM: 5 countries, SIT: 6 countries) cooperated in the Global
PBL in solving research issues, which are Wearable Computing, Drone Technology and Self-Driving Cars. Inaddition, 32 students presented their own research topics in the poster sessions.
Table 1 Summary of this program
DateVenue
Participants from UUM
Participants from SIT

Global PBL
Research Workshop(Poster sessions)
Science and Technology Tour
Cultural exchange

From Nov. 14 to Nov. 21, 2016
SIT Toyosu Campus
14 graduate students (12 Doctoral course students, 2 Master’s course students)
1 professor
33 students (from B4 to D3 and research students)
11 faculty members from Department of Communications Engineering
Ms. Reiko Kageyama (UGA) and some staff of International Office
Wearable Computing
Drone Technology
Self-Driving Cars
32 poster presentations by students
Discussion on their own research
Miraikan (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation)
NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) MuseumNICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Japanese culture: Yukata (Japanese summer kimono) and paper-crafting
Networking: “Diversity of Education System in Different Countries”

Table 2 Schedule at a glance
Date

A.M.
7:15(MH88:T2) / 7:35(TG642:T1) 10:30 Arrival at
Arrival at NRT
Hotel/Airbnb/Apartment
9:00 Opening
11:00 Ice Breaking
Nov.14 Mon
5F Meeting room
5F 501
9:00 gPBL
Nov.15 Tue
13F Exp.-room
9:00 gPBL(Preparation for presentation)
Nov.16 Wed
5F 501
9:00 Hotel
10:00 Miraikan
Nov.17 Thu
Nov.13 Sun

Nov.18 Fri

8:30 Toyosu campus

9:30 Workshop (poster session 1)
5F Meeting room
Summarizing PBL
Nov.20 Sun
13F Exp.-room
9:30 Closing, Feedback
Nov.21 Mon
5F Meeting room
5:00 Check-out
Nov.22 Tue
Hotel/Airbnb/Apartment
Nov.19 Sat

10:00 NTT Museum

P.M.
12:00
Visiting Ueno-Akihabara
12:30 Welcome party
3F GLC
13:30 gPBL
13F Exp.-room
13:30 gPBL(Presentation)
5F 501
14:00 Culture exchange
8F Library
14:00 NICT Lab.
13:30 Workshop (poster session 2)
5F Meeting room

Free activities
11:00 Farewell party
GLC
10:30(MH89) /9:45 (TG641)
Departure from NRT

15:00 Check-in
Hotel/Airbnb/Apartment
14:00 gPBL
13F Exp.-room

15:30 Networking
3F GLC
17:30 Toyosu campus

(1) Arrival day
14 students and one professor arrived at Narita airport. Prof. Kamioka, Assoc. Prof. Horie and three GSS
members exchanged greetings with them and took them to their hotel (at Kiba), Airbnb (at Ryogoku) andapartment (at Kinshi-cho). After that, they spent time visiting Ueno-Akihabara area until check-in time (at 3pm).

Greetings at Narita airport, Terminal 2

Greetings at Narita airport, Terminal 1(2) Guidance and Opening ceremony
Three GSS members brought UUM people to Toyosu campus. Firstly, the guidance for this program wascarried out by UGA Ms. Reiko Kageyama, instructing how to use ID-card, Wi-Fi, Library, and so forth.
Subsequently, the opening ceremony was held, consisting of short talks by Prof. Shinichi Tanaka and by Prof.
Ku Ruhana, welcome address by President Masato Murakami, instruction of this program by Prof. EijiKamioka, introduction of the faculty members of Department of Communications Engineering and group
photo session with all the participants.

Welcoming address by President Murakami

Message from Prof. Ku Ruhana

Photo session in Opening ceremony

(3) Ice-breaking
Ice-breaking was performed to become better acquainted with each other by cooperating in solving aproblem called “Hata-Furi”, which is usually used at the new student orientation. One of SIT graduate
students instructed the procedure in classroom 501, and then both UUM and SIT students discussed how tosend the information of text message and pictograph by using a pair of red-and-white flags. After thediscussion, they actually performed it in the courtyard of Toyosu campus.

Instruction by an SIT graduate student

Discussion how to send information

Simulation of sending information“Hata-Furi” in the courtyard(4) Welcome-party
Welcome-party was held at Global Learning Commons on the 3rd floor of lecture building, Toyosu campus.
Five types of HALAL foods were catered from a restaurant at Roppongi.

HALAL foods by catering

Welcome-party at Global Learning Commons

(5) Global PBL
Assoc. Prof. Morino instructed the Global PBL. Three themes, namely, 1) Wearable Computing, 2) Drone
Technologies and 3) Self-Driving Cars, were given as discussion themes. The participating students weredivided into nine groups and one theme out of the tree themes was assigned to each group. They confirmed
the current technologies and application services related to each theme and brought up the issues to be solved.
After doing a brainstorming about the solutions to each issue, they made a proposal. Each group prepared fora presentation on their discussion, and finally made a presentation. Each group had 10 minutes forpresentation and 5 minutes for Q&A including discussion with the participants. Four papers will be
submitted to international conferences in December, 2016 as achievements of the Global PBL.

Instruction of Global PBL

Brainstorming about solutions to the issues

Presentation of achievements

Discussion of proposals(6) Research Workshop
Two poster sessions were held as the Research Workshop on Information and Communications Engineering.
32 students presented their own research and discussed with the participants.

Poster sessions in Research Workshop

(7) Science and technology tourThree GSS members picked up 15 participants from UUM people at their accommodations and took them toMiraikan (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation) located in Odaiba area on Nov. 17. Inaddition, UUM people with Prof. Gyoda, Prof. Kubota, Prof. Horiguchi and 2 SIT students visited NTT
Museum and NICT Laboratory by a chartered bus on Nov. 18.

Miraikan

NTT MuseumNICT(8) Japanese culture experience
UUM people and SIT students enjoyed wearing “Yukata” (Japanese summer kimono) and paper-crafting at
the library of Toyosu campus.

Wearing “Yukata”

Paper-crafting(9) Networking
Both UUM and SIT students discussed “Diversity of Education System in Different Countries” at Global
Learning Commons over having snacks.

Discussion of education system in each country

(10) Closing ceremony and feedback
In the closing ceremony, all the participants got the certificate which show they completed this program.
Surprisingly, UUM people were wearing the same T-shirts, stating “GLOBAL PROJECT BASEDLEARNING”. They made and brought them from Malaysia. As a feedback of this program, all theparticipants made an assessment of the outcomes on an assessment sheet which will be made the best use offor the future activities.

Certificate of this program

T-shirts for Global PBL

Front design

Back design(11) Farewell-party
Farewell-party was held at Global Learning Commons as well as Welcome-party.

Farewell-party at Global Learning Commons

(12) Departure day
After checking-out at their accommodations, UUM people departed for Narita airport. One of their flights
returned to Narita airport after three hours from the take-off due to a trouble of the flight equipment. Finally,
they arrived in Malaysia safely.