December 11, 2018
Eiji Kamioka
Technical Training on Information and Communication Technologies towards Industry4.0 Activation--- Collaborative ICT training program with UPM, IITG and KLS GIT --Summary
This technical training program was held at Toyosu Campus, Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT),
from November 18 to November 27, hosted by Department of Information and Communications
Engineering, College of Engineering. It was financially supported by JST (Japan Science and TechnologyAgency) Japan-Asia Youth Exchange Program in Science (SAKURA Exchange Program in Science),
inviting 25 university students with 3 faculty members from Malaysia and India. From SIT, 46 students,
nine faculty members, the president, four staff members of International Programs & Initiatives Section andfour GSS (Global Students Staff) members participated in the program. It was a very large scale activity,involving 92 people with 11 nationalities in the program.
The program was mainly divided into three activities, which are AgPBL, Tutorials and Observation tourof research laboratories. AgPBL stands for "Advanced" Global PBL (Problem Based Learning). PBL is ateaching method in which students create ideas to solve a given problem and evaluate the ideas in a group
discussion manner. AgPBL includes two additional aspects. Firstly, problems to be solved in the activity are
not provided in advance, hence, students will find the problems existing in a specific topic. Secondly, thestudents will actually develop a system based on their ideas to show the feasibility and to evaluate theeffectiveness. Through the AgPBL activity, the students will learn how to clarify research issues and how toacquire practical skills. These abilities are indispensable in engineering research. This viewpoint focusingon research is different from a general PBL. That is why this is called "Advanced" Global PBL. In thisprogram, four tutorials with different topics, (1) IoT, (2) AI/Big data, (3) Multimedia and (4) Network
Robot, were provided. Besides the tutorials, a research observation tour in which participants visited two
Japanese research laboratories was conducted in order to acquire general knowledge about the topics.
The participants of this program were divided into 10 groups and each group achieved the mission,clarifying problems in a specific topic, proposing a system, developing the proposed system, evaluating theeffectiveness and making the presentation with demonstration. Furthermore, the assessments of eachparticipant’s activity and achievement as a group were conducted on the final day.
In this program, two types of the AgPBL promotion video were produced. They will be uploaded toYouTube server after checking the adequacy of the content.
[ Participants ]UPM: Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia (16 people)
IITG: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India (6 people)
GIT: KLS Gogte Institute of Technology, India (6 people)
SIT: Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan (63 people)1. Aims of program
AI, IoT, Big data and Robotics technologies are regarded as key technologies for the fourth industrialrevolution (Industry4.0). Tackling with the decrease of working-age population in Japan, theimplementation of Industry4.0 into our society is an urgent need, leading to Society5.0 (Cyber PhysicalSociety). Cyber Physical Society is also called “Data-driven Society” in which three processes, (1) digital
data acquisition, (2) intelligent data analysis and (3) control/service execution are cyclically operated,resulting in the intelligent society. In such a social requirement, the generation of technological innovations
in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) domain is indispensable. In this program, theparticipants will grasp how to effectively create new information and communication systems using ICT
and how to implement the systems into the society, and finally will learn the research scheme to generatetechnological innovations.
2. Program at a glance
The participants form UPM, IITG and KLS GIT arrived in Japan on Nov. 18 in 2018. The program wasconducted from Nov. 19 to Nov. 26, including the opening ceremony, ice-breaking, welcome party, AgPBLsessions, Tutorial sessions, cultural exchange activities, closing ceremony and farewell party. The
participants from overseas departed from Japan on Nov. 27.
Table 1 Program at a glance
Date

A.M. (9:00-11:30)

PM (13:00-18:00)

Nov. 18 (Sun)-Arrival at NRT (All)Nov. 19 (Mon)

Program Guidance +Opening ceremony

Ice-breaking (ORIGAMI) +Welcome party

AgPBL orientation
Tutorial session 2(AI/IoT security)

Tutorial session 1(IoT/Multimedia content creation)

Nov. 20 (Tue)AgPBL session 1(Brainstorming for theme decision)

AgPBL session 2(Scheduling of activity)

Nov. 21 (Wed)

AgPBL session 3(System development)

AgPBL sessopm 4(System development)

Nov. 22 (Thu)

Cultural exchange 2 (for visitors)
Observation of NTT Laboratory

Cultural exchange 3 (for visitors)
Observation of NICT Laboratory

Nov. 23 (Fri)AgPBL session 5(System development)

AgPBL session 6(System development)

Nov. 24 (Sat)AgPBL session 7(System development)

AgPBL session 8(System development)

Nov. 25 (Sun)

Cultural exchange 4 (for visitors, optional)(Miraikan, etc.)

AgPBL session 9 (optional)(Preparation of presentation)

Nov. 26 (Mon)

AgPBL session 10(Preparation of presentation)

Nov. 27 (Tue)

Departure from NRT (IITG, GIT)AgPBL session 11(Presentation with demonstration)

Cultural exchange 1(YUKATA Workshop)

Closing seremony +Farewell party

Departure from NRT (UPM)

3. Details of program(1) Welcoming participants at Narita
15 students and Dr. Azizol Bin Abdullah from UPM, 5 students and Assist. Prof. Charu Monga fromIITG and 5 students and Assoc. Prof. Swetha Indudhar Goudar from KLS GIT arrived at Narita
International Airport on Nov. 18, 2018. Prof. Kamioka, Adjunct Assoc. Prof. Assoc. Prof. Khaironi Yatim
Sharif and three GSS (Global Student Staff) members exchanged greetings with them and took them toHotel Ann Tsukiji.

Fig. 1 Participants from UPM, IITG and KLS GIT arrived at Narita(2) Program guidance and opening ceremony
Three GSS members brought 28 participants from UPM, IITG and KLS GIT to Toyosu campus fromtheir hotel. Firstly, the program guidance was carried out by Ms. Mayuko Sudo from International Programs& Initiatives Section, instructing how to use Guest ID-card, campus Wi-Fi, and so forth. Subsequently, theopening ceremony started, where the president Prof. Dr. Masato Murakami gave an address of welcome, therepresentative of each university made a brief talk and the introduction of Faculty members of Departmentof Information and Communications Engineering was conducted.

Fig. 2 Program guidance and welcome address by the president, Prof., Dr. Masato Murakami

Fig. 3 Making brief talks by Dr. Khaironi Yatim Sharif from UPM (also SIT Adjunct Assoc. Prof.), Assist.
Prof. Charu Monga from IITG and Assoc. Prof. Swetha Indudhar Goudar from KLS GIT

Fig. 4 Participants group photo in the opening ceremony(3) Ice-breaking
After the opening ceremony, Ice-breaking was conducted to become better acquainted with each otherby performing “ORIGAMI” which is a traditional Japanese crafting. One of SIT graduate students
explained the procedure in video instructions. Basically, Japanese students taught international students how
to make ORIGAMI crafts. This was a good exercise for Japanese students to make English conversations.

Fig. 5 Ice-breaking: Teaching how to make ORIGAMI crafts through English conversations(4) Welcome party
Welcome-party was held at 3F GLC (Global Learning Commons). HALAL and Vegetarian foods werecatered from a restaurant.

Fig. 6 Welcome party at 3F Global Learning Commons

(5) Tutorials
Four tutorials related to the AgPBL topics were given to the participants. The titles were “IoT”, “how tocreate attractive video content”, “AI technology – machine learning –“ and “IoT security”. The lecturers
were Assis. Prof. Phan Xuan Tan from SIT, Assist. Prof. Charu Monga from IITG, Prof. Yuchi Kanzawa
from SIT and Dr. Azizol Bin Abdullah from UPM.

Fig. 7 Four tutorials were given by Assis. Prof. Phan Xuan Tan, Assist. Prof. Charu Monga, Prof. Yuchi
Kanzawa and Dr. Azizol Bin Abdullah(6) AgPBL session – Brainstorming At the beginning of AgPBL, each group did a brainstorming about the topic in order to clarify theproblems. This process is the most important for “Advanced” Global PBL.

Fig. 8 Brainstorming in AgPBL session to clarify the problems on the topic(7) YUKATA workshop
YUKATA workshop was performed at 3F Global Learning Commons as a cultural exchange. BothInternational and Japanese students really enjoyed wearing YUKATA and taking their photos.

Fig. 9 YUKATA workshop at 3F Global Learning Commons

(8) Observation tour of research laboratories
Research observation tour was conducted as a cultural exchange. Participants visited two Japanese
research laboratories, which are NTT and NICT research laboratories, in order to acquire generalknowledge about the AgPBL topics.

Fig. 10 Observation tour for NTT and NICT research laboratories

(9) AgPBL session – System development Each group developed the system based on the proposal to show the feasibility and to evaluate theeffectiveness.

Fig. 11 System development in AgPBL session

(10) Final presentation
Presentation session of AgPBL was conducted to evaluate their achievements. Each group made apresentation with demonstration videos. The achievement was assessed by faculty members and the best
achievement award was decided.

Fig. 12 Final presentation was conducted and BEST Achievement Award was decided

(11) Closing ceremony
In the closing ceremony, all the participants got the certificate which show they completed this program.
In addition, BEST Achievement Award was also given.

Fig. 13 Certificate of completion and BEST Achievement Award were given in the closing ceremony

Appendix A: Participants listUniversityGITIITGUPMGradeFaculty member
B2B2B2B2M1Faculty member
M2M2B4M1B3Faculty member
D2D2D4D2M3D1D3D3D3D2D2D1M2M1M1NameAssoc. Prof. SWETHA INDUDHAR GOUDARADITYA THAKKAR
AMOGH HUILGOLANAY KULKARNIBADRINATH MADHAV KULKARNISAMARTH PRAKASHRAO KULKARNIAssist. Prof. CHARU MONGABITOPAN KALITABHAVNA NAGPAL
VINIT GARG
THONGAM DEBIKA DEVIANIKET MANISH MANDLE
Dr. AZIZOL BIN ABDULLAHFARA BINTI JAMALMD SAIFULLAH BIN RAZALISITI SUHAILA BINTI ABDUL HAMIDENG KAI LUN
MOHAMMAD ALIF BIN MOHAMMAD ALLAUDINFAZLINA BINTI MOHD ALIGUNAVATHI DURAISAMYJOHANNA BINTI AHMAD
SITI NURLIANA BINTI JAMALAI
MUHAMMAD NAJIB BIN RAMLEE
MUHAMAD SUFRI BIN MUHAMMAD
SITI DHALILA BINTI MOHD SATARNUR FATIN BINTI MOHD HAMRANATHIMAHENDRAN PANNEERSELVAM
HAZURAINI BINTI MOHD SUFFIAN SOONationality
India
India
India
India
India
India
India
India
India
India
India
India
Malaysia
Malaysia
Malaysia
Malaysia
Malaysia
Malaysia
Malaysia
Malaysia
Malaysia
MalaysiaMalaysia
Malaysia
Malaysia
Malaysia
Malaysia
Malaysia

Laboratory－－－

University

Grade
President

Facultymembers

SIT

D3
D1
M2
M2
M2
M2
M2
M1
M1
M1
M1
M1
M1
B4
B4
B4
B4
B4
B4
B4
B4
B4
D3
D1
M2
M2
M1
M1
M1
M1
B4
B4
B4
B4
B4
B4
B4
M2
M1
B4
M1
B4
B3
M1
B4
B3
International
Programs &Initiatives
SectionGSS

NameProf. Dr. Masato MurakamiProf. Dr. Eiji Kamioka
Prof. Dr. Koichi Gyoda
Prof. Dr. Yuchi Kanzawa
Prof. Dr. Syuji Kubota
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hiroaki Morino
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ryota Horie
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sumiko Miyata
Assist. Prof. Dr. Phan Xuan Tan
Adjunct. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Khaironi Yatim Sharif
Mohamad Sabri Bin Sinal
Manami Kanamaru
Kahil Mustafa Jamal Salem
Alharbi Fahad Abdulkarim DhaifAllah
Alharbi Abrar Abdullah DhiafAllah
Othmar Othmar Mwambe
Fatin Amanina Ahmad Tarmizi
Yuhi Kaihoko
Yoshihiro Nagano
Zhang Jiaqi
Min Hyun Ki
Tran Minh Chanh
Nguyen Duc Tho
Shota Kawana
Kei Koyama
Yamato Okada
Erika Kojima
Kodai Tsukahara
Zheng WeijiaKosuke Murata
Ryohei Morikawa
Daiki Yamakami
Muhammad Luqman Bin Mahamad Zakaria
Omuwa Oyakhire
Tadahiro Sano
Shinichi Furusawa
Masato Abe
Kiichi Ishijima
Satoru Inazu
Ryoma Sato
Hiroaki Ueno
Yota Uchimura
Tadaaki Kuramoto
Ryosuke Suzuki
Naoki Nemoto
Norihisa Watanabe
Hiroshi Watanuki
Masaki Nishizaka
Yuki Shibuya
Satoshi Watanabe
Shohei Kobayashi
Kouhei Sato
Kazuki Ito
Hiroshi Shibayama
Naoto Suzuki
Serika Yamamoto
Ms. Mayuko Sudo
Mr. Takaaki Toguchi
Ms. Keiko Kaneko
Ms. Reiko Kageyama
Muhammad Ilham Perkasa
Gustavo Akira Gondo
Wang Ziyan
Kengo Yamamoto

Nationality
Laboratory
Japan
－
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan－
Japan
Japan
Vietnam
Malaysia
Malaysia
Japan
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Tanzania
Malaysia
Japan
Japan
China
Korea
Kamioka Lab.
VietnamVietnam
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
China
Japan
Japan
Japan
Malaysia
Exchange student from UPM
Nigeria
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Gyoda Lab.
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Morino Lab.
Japan
Japan
Japan
Horie Lab.
Japan
Japan
Japan
Miyata Lab.
Japan
Japan
Japan
－
Japan
Japan
Indonesia
Brasil－China
JapanUniversity (GIT/IITG/UPM/SIT):

Competency

Usefulness of proposalPerfection in solving problems

Technically, socially andeconomically feasible
well-organized and convincible
presentation

EffectivenessCompletion

Feasibility

Comme n ts and Su ggestion s on th e AgPBL

Presentation

Novelty of proposal

Description

Creativity

Project
Outcomes

Grou p Outc ome sAssessment by yourself (High: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 : Low)

Speaking and listening skills in agroup discussion
Searching skill to understanding
unknown information
Ability of clarifying problems incurrent technologies
Ability of creating new ideas toSolution Proposal
solve problems
Ability of managing group membersLeadershipto conclude discussions

GeneralCommunication
Information
Retrieval
ProblemPresentation

Learning
Outcomes

Self
Assessment

Peer #2
Student Name

Peer #1
Student Name

Name:
Peer #3
Student Name

Peer #4
Student Name

Peer #5
Student Name

Student Name

Peer #6
Student Name

Peer #7

Student Name

Peer #8

Pre AgPBL: November 19, 2018
Post AgPBL: November 26, 2018

Post AgPBL

Self
Assessment

Wh at you have le arnt from the AgPBL

Pre AgPBL Post AgPBL Post AgPBL Post AgPBL Post AgPBL Post AgPBL Post AgPBL Post AgPBL Post AgPBL Post AgPBL

Self
Assessment

Pe rson al ou tc ome sAssessment by yourself and peer students (High: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 : Low)

Group No.:

Advanced Global PBL Assessment Sheet

Appendix B: Assessment sheet for participants

Comments:Group 1Group 2Group 3Group 4Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8Group 9Group 10Group No.

Evaluation (High: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 : Low)

Group No.:

Topic of AgPBL
discussion
Novelty of
proposalCreativity

University (GIT/IITG/UPM/SIT):

Usefulness ofproposal

Perfection insolving problems

Effectiveness Completion

Name:

Evaluation Sheet for Advanced Global PBL Presentation

Presentation
Well-organizedand convincible
presentation

Feasibility
Technically,socially andeconomicallyfeasibleNov. 26, 2018

Appendix C: Assessment sheet for presentations