Sep. 10, 2019
Eiji Kamioka
Advanced Global PBL at TNI (Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology)--- AgPBL on Society 5.0 towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) --AgPBL (Advanced Global PBL) on Society 5.0 towards SDGs was held at TNI (Thai-Nichi
Institute of Technology), Thailand, from August 31 to September 9 in 2019, hosted by Faculty ofInformation Technology in TNI. This program was planned as a part of research collaboration
between Prof. Eiji Kamioka’s laboratory in SIT and a team of Dr. Saromporn Charoenpit in TNI. Dr.
Saromporn Charoenpit is Deputy Dean for Strategy and Quality Assurance, Faculty of Information
Technology in TNI and also an Adjunct Associate Professor in SIT.
20 students from SIT and 25 students from TNI participated in the AgPBL. In addition, a student
from Zhejiang Gong Shang University, China, joined the PBL. This student joined SIT as alaboratory internship student from April to July, 2019 and offered to participate in the PBL.
Therefore, 46 students, in total, joined the AgPBL.
In the AgPBL, firstly, B4 students from SIT presented their graduation researches to share theresearch interests which would be useful to decide this PBL’s theme. After that, the participants
were divided into eight groups. In each group, they brainstormed the given topics (Educationsystem or Healthcare system), found difficulties in existing researches and discussed the solutions toovercome the difficulties. Based on the solutions, they proposed systems and developed them.
Finally, they presented their achievements and demonstrated the developed systems to show thefeasibilities.
As a whole, this AgPBL was successful and the participants achieved their goals as well asbrushing up their English communication skills.
Schedule at a glance
Date

Morning session (9:00 - 13:00)

Day 1 Aug. 31 Sat.

Departure from Haneda-Sep. 1Afternoon session (14:00 - 18:00)
Campus tour at Thai-Nichi
Arrival at Bangkok
2 hoursSun.

Day off
PBL (discussion)
4 hours
PBL (discussion)
4 hours
PBL (discussion)
4 hours
Workshop (Presentation & discussion)
4 hours
PBL (discussion)
4 hours
PBL (Presentation)
4 hours

Opening ceremony / Ice breaking
PBL (Guidance)
2 hours
2 hours
PBL (discussion)
Day 3 Sep. 3 Tue.
4 hours
PBL (discussion)
Day 4 Sep.4 Wed.
4 hours
PBL (discussion)
Day 5 Sep. 5 Thu.
4 hours
PBL (discussion)
Day 6 Sep. 6 Fri.
4 hours
PBL (Preparation for presentation)
Day 7 Sep. 7 Sat.
4 hours
Day 2 Sep. 2 Mon.

-Sep. 8Sun.

Day 8 Sep. 9 Mon.

Day off
Closing ceremony
1 hours
Ceremonies / Ice breaking
PBL activities
Workshop
Total

Departure from Bangkok
Arrival at Haneda

3 hours
44 hours
4 hours
51 hours

Farewel Party: After PBL Activity on Sep. 71Introduction to each university at the opening ceremony

Ice-breaking with games

AgPBL activity: Clarification of the issues on Society 5.0

Presentation of ongoing research at the research workshop
2

System developments using microcomputers and sensors

Photo with the President and Dean

3

Final presentation: Giving presentations and demonstrations

Farewell party with Thai foods and a Thai traditional dance
4Giving the certificate of completion to participants at the closing ceremony

Giving presentation awards

5

Final photo session

6

Summary of AgPBL
Name of PBL
DateVenue
PBL
WorkshopParticipants from SIT

Participants from TNI

Advanced Global PBL on Society 5.0 towards SDGs
From August 31 to September 9, 2019
Faculty of Information Technology, TNI, Thailand
Active leaning in 8 groups:
Research survey, problem clarification, theme decision, proposition, systemdevelopment, evaluation, presentation and discussion
Research presentations and discussions by SIT bachelor students
20 students (from B4 to D2), mainly belonging to Kamioka Lab.
20
4 Faculty members- Prof. Dr. Eiji Kamioka
4- Assist. Prof. Dr. Phan Xuan Tan- Assist. Prof. Dr. Peeraya Sripian- Adjunct Lecturer Dr. Nguyen Duc Toan
25 students from Faculty of Information Technology (from B1 to M2)
25
6 Faculty members,- President, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bandhit Rojarayanont- Dean, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ruttikorn Varakulsiripunth
6- Deputy Dean, Lecturer, Dr. Saromporn Charoenpit- Lecturer, Dr. Pramuk Boonsieng- Lecturer, Dr. Paskorn Apirukvorapinit- Lecturer, Ms. Salinla Chevakidagarn

Participants from Zhejiang
1 student (M2)Gong Shang University, China
National Institute of Technology, Kushiro College
Observers from other- Associate Professor, Dr. Yoko Nakajima
organizations
National Institute of Technology, Nagaoka College- President, Dr. Motomu Takeshige
The total number of participants

71258