November 5, 2019
Eiji Kamioka
Advanced Global PBL on AIoT and Filming--- Collaborative Education Program between UTHM and SIT --Summary
This Advance Global PBL was held at Toyosu Campus, Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT), fromOctober 21 to October 29, hosted by Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Collegeof Engineering, SIT, inviting 10 Diploma course students and one lecturer from Universiti Tun Hussein Onn
Malaysia (UTHM). From SIT, 14 students, six faculty members, 11 Teaching Assistants (TAs) and threeGSS (Global Students Staff) members participated in the PBL.
The program was mainly divided into three activities, which are AgPBL, Cultural exchange (Yukataworkshop) and Science museum (Miraikan) visit. AgPBL stands for "Advanced" Global PBL (ProblemBased Learning). PBL is a teaching method in which students create ideas to solve a given problem andevaluate 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 aspecific topic. Secondly, the students will actually develop a system based on their ideas to show thefeasibility and to evaluate the effectiveness. Through the AgPBL activity, the students will learn how toclarify research issues and how to acquire practical skills. These abilities are indispensable in engineeringresearch. This viewpoint focusing on research is different from a general PBL. That is why this is called"Advanced" Global PBL. In this AgPBL, two research topics, AIoT (Fusion between AI and IoT) andFilming, were provided.
The participants were divided into 5 groups and each group achieved the missions, clarifying problems
in a specific topic, proposing a system, developing the proposed system, evaluating the effectiveness andmaking the presentation with demonstration. In this program, two types of the AgPBL promotion videos
were produced. They will be uploaded to YouTube server after checking the adequacy of the content.
As a whole, this AgPBL was successfully done. Participants from SIT were the 3rd year ofundergraduate students, Department of Information and Communications Engineering. Theircommunicative ability in English was fantastic, and thus, the faculty members and TAs did not have to help
them for their conversations.
1. MoU between UTHM and SITFig. 1 MoU between UTHM and SIT was made on July 20 in 2019

2. Program at a glance
The participants form UTHM arrived in Japan on Oct. 20 in 2019. The program was conducted fromOct. 21 to Oct. 29, including the opening ceremony, ice-breaking, campus tour, welcome party, AgPBL
sessions, Yukata workshop, Miraikan visit, presentation session, closing ceremony, farewell party andsummary & meeting. The participants from UTHM departed from Japan on Oct. 30.
Table 1 Program at a glanceDate

Morning session (10:00 - 13:00)-Oct. 20

Sun.

Day 1

Oct. 21

Mon.

Day 2

Oct. 22

Tue.

Day 3

Oct. 23

Wed.

Day 4

Oct. 24

Thu.

Day 5

Oct. 25

Fri.

Day 6

Oct. 26

Sat.

-Oct. 27

Sun.

Day 7

Oct. 28

Mon.

Day 8

Oct. 29

Tue.

Afternoon session (14:00 - 17:00)

Arrival at Haneda (Philippine Airlines, 13:40)
Campus tour 12:00 - 12:30
Opening ceremony/Ice breaking
Welcome party 12:30-14:00
10:00 - 12:00
PBL (discussion)
10:00 - 13:00
PBL (discussion)
10:00 - 13:00

PBL (guidance)
14:00 - 15:00

PBL (discussion)
15:00 - 17:00
PBL (discussion)
14:00 - 17:00
PBL (discussion)
Yukata workshop
14:00 - 16:00
16:00～17:30

Visiting Mirai Kan
PBL (discussion)
10:00 - 13:00
PBL (discussion)
10:00 - 13:00

PBL (discussion)
14:00 - 17:00
PBL (discussion and preparation for presentation)
14:00 - 17:00
Day off

PBL (Preparation for presentation)
10:00 - 13:00
Summary and meeting
10:00 - 13:00

PBL (Presentation)
14:00 - 16:00

Closing ceremony 16:00 - 16:30
Farewell party 16:30 - 18:30

Departure from Haneda (Philippine Airlines, Oct. 30, 01:30)

3. Details of program(1) Welcoming participants at Haneda
10 students and Dr. Shelena Soosay Nathan from UTHM arrived at Haneda International Airport on Oct.
20, 2019. Prof. Kamioka and a GSS (Global Student Staff) exchanged greetings with them and took them totheir Airbnb at Iriya.

Fig. 2 Participants from UTHM arrived at Haneda and moved to their Airbnb at Iriya(2) Program guidance and opening ceremony
On Oct. 21, a GSS brought 11 participants from UTHM to Toyosu campus from their Airbnb. Firstly,
the program guidance was carried out by the staff of International Programs & Initiatives Section,instructing how to use Guest ID-card, campus Wi-Fi, and so forth. Subsequently, the opening ceremony
started, where Prof. Eiji Kamioka gave an address of welcome, Dr. Shelena Soosay Nathan gave a speech,
Dr. Mohamad Sabri bin Sinal introduced SIT and Ms. Manami Kanamaru who is a Ph.D student presented
SIT students life. Finally, the introduction of Faculty members of Department of Information andCommunications Engineering was conducted.

Fig. 3 Dr. Shelena Soosay Nathan, Dr. Mohamad Sabri bin Sinal and Ms. Manami Kanamaru (Ph.Dstudent) made presentations in the opening ceremony

Fig. 4 Participants group photo(3) Ice-breaking
In this AgPBL, we did not have any special Ice-breaking activity since almost all the SIT students werecommunicative and good at speaking English. Therefore, we just gave them a time slot to introduce
themselves and conduct the campus tour in each group.

Fig. 5 Ice-breaking: They just introduced themselves but it was more than enough since they were alreadygood friends(4) Welcome partyWelcome-party was held at 4F GLC (Global Learning Commons). HALAL foods were catered from arestaurant, “Chicken Man”.

Fig. 6 Welcome party at 4F Global Learning Commons(5) AgPBL session – Guidance, brainstorming and system designing –At the beginning of AgPBL, Mr. Yuhi Kaihoko who is a master course student gave a lecture on thisAgPBL, explaining what AIoT and Filming are and how to conduct the PBL sessions.

Fig. 7 Guidance of this AgPBL and brainstorming(6) YUKATA workshop
YUKATA workshop was performed at 4F Global Learning Commons as a cultural exchange. BothInternational and Japanese students really enjoyed wearing YUKATA and taking their photos.

Fig. 8 YUKATA workshop at 4F Global Learning Commons(7) Miraikan visit
Participants from UTHM visited Miraikan to obtain ICT knowledge.

Fig. 9 Visiting Miraikan at Odaiba(8) AgPBL session – System development –Each group developed the system based on the proposal to show the feasibility and to evaluate theeffectiveness.

Fig. 10 System development in AgPBL session

(9)Final presentation
Presentation session of AgPBL was conducted to evaluate their achievements. Each group made apresentation with demonstration videos.

Fig. 11 Final presentation was conducted(10) Closing ceremony
In the closing ceremony, all the participants got the certificate which show they completed this program.
In addition, the representative student from each university gave a speech.

Fig. 12 Certificate of completion was given to each participant in the closing ceremony(11) Farewell party
Farewell-party was held at 4F GLC (Global Learning Commons). Again, HALAL foods were cateredfrom a restaurant, “Chicken Man”.

Fig. 13 Farewell party at 4F Global Learning CommonsAppendix: Participants list
University

UTHM
Department of Information
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SIT
Department of Information
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AIDA NABILAH BINTI MOHD KHAIRUDIN
HAREENA HAZLINI BINTI MOHD TAHAR
LIM HUI WEN
LIM XIN WOEIEVANGELINE MONICA RAJEN
MUHAMMAD NAJMI AFIQ BIN SAIFUL BAHRINORHIDAYAH BINTI ABD HAMID
NUR ATHIRAH BINTI SAMSARINURIN FAQIHAH BINTI MOHAMED RAFIKSITI NURFARAHANIM BINTI MOHD ISADr. SHELENA SOOSAY NATHANYUNA MATSUMOTOKAZUMA ITOYUKA UMEZAWAAI OISHITATSUYA KUROKAWATOMOHA SHIMAKAWAHIKARU TAZAWAZHANG WENSHISHOTA NEMOTOKEITO YOSHIZAWARYO ITAGAKIKIE TAKAZAWASAO MIURASHUMA YAMAUCHIMANAMI KANAMARUYUHI KAIHOKOSHUMA TAJIMANARUHISA AMAIKE
KEISUKE OKADA
KOHEI YOKOKAWAYASUHIKO HOSAKAIORI IIOKAREIA TANABESHUTARO HAGIWARA
YUMA IDE
Prof. Dr. Eiji KamiokaAssist. Prof. Dr. Phan Xuan Tan
Assist. Prof. Dr. Heeyoung Lee
Dr. Mohamad Sabri bin Sinal
Prof. Dr. Koichi Gyoda
Prof. Dr. Hiroyuki Morino

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