1My Studying Abroad
January 29, 2016
Hanaoka labo Master 2nd year
14M18046

Kiriyama Kosuke
TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYThe Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Department of International Development Engineering
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2Contents
Introduction
KAIST
NUSImpression

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3Introduction
Last year, I have studied abroad for 7 month to
study Asian countries’ urban planning.
The universities I studied are
1. KAIST (South Korea)
3 March. 2015 - 22 May 2015
2. National University of Singapore
3 August. 2015 - 5 December 2015
The reason why I selected these universities is,
1.
2.

They are located in Asian developedcountries.
English is mainly spoken in both university.

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TKT Campus Asia Program
Based on the Trilateral Cooperation Vision 2020 that wasadopted between the governments of China, Japan and Korea,
TKT Campus Asia Program was established among thefollowing universities;- Tsinghua University (China)- KAIST (South Korea)-Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)

The program was designed to promote cooperation between the universities and offervaluable opportunities for students to be exposed to various technologies and cultures.
Actually, I experienced Korean culture many times through Campus Asia program.
And after this program, I also attended many events of Campus Asia to make students’
network in Tokyo-Tech.
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6About KAISTKAIST, formerly the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, is a
public research university located in Daejeon, South Korea.
KAIST was established in 1971 as the nation's first research ionstituteoriented science and engineering.
Although it was established recently,
It ranked high position of world
rankings.
QS World University Rankings 2016
・ World Ranking 43th・ Asia Ranking 11th
Reason…?

KAIST have many Ph.D students and international
students because they can get much scholarship.
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Study@KAISTTaking class
1. Advanced Transportation System Engineering- big class room and studying basic knowledge

2. Special Topics in Operation & Management
for Green Transportaion- small class room and tackling with groupproject which treat actual projects of South Korea.

Lab roomLab activity

I belonged to Transportation Planing lab- attending group seminar- having presentation at seminar- having a dinner with professor and lab
mates per week.
Dinner of lab
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8Coursework@KAIST
Advanced Transportation System Engineering
In this class, I learned Basic statistics and economics to analyze and evaluate Korean
actual project of transportation infrastructure. Compare to classes in Japan, theclasses in this university tend to require students not only to learn basic knowledge
but also to apply these methodology to actual project.

Presentation- Theme Analysing data you get by statisical methodology
you learn at this class
I applied principal component analysis toJapanese trip data and show that it can beclassified into 7 category.

Principal component analysis@SPSS
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9NUS

10About NUS
The National University of Singapore(NUS) is one of the three largest public
and autonomous universities in Singapore.
NUS is consistently ranked as one of Asia's top as well.
QS World University Rankings 2016
・ World Ranking 12th・ Asia Ranking 1stInternationalization
This university have the agreement of exchange
program with 300 universities which are top
universities in each 40 countries. Therefore there
are many international students, and it account for
30% of all NUS students.
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Study@NUS
I took two course work,“Infrastructure & the environment” and “Introduction to Japanese Studies”
Because I want to study my major subjects and want to know How foreign
people look Japanese.
These course work consists of 2 classes;
LECTURE- Big room and many students- Mainly input work

LectureTUTORIAL- small room and 10 to 15 students- Mainly output work
Tutorial
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12Coursework@NUS
Infrastructure & The environment
In this class, we had an exam and group working at Tutorial.

Group Work theme
Suggesting the solution to consolidate transport infrastructure in Singapore. Our
team considered from 3 perspectives, MRT, LRT and bus service.
Ex) Suggestion of increasing Bus stops and buses- collecting basic information (→)- calculating total cost (↓)- comparing 3 suggestions
Life Cycle of 10 years
Cost of new bus stops and buses = $8.4mMaintenance and Operation Cost = $0.84m/annum
PW = -$8.4 + (-0.84(P/A,7%,10))= -$14.30m
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Ave distance per route/km

33

Ave bus stop numbers per route91

Final ave bus stop distance/km

0.363493

Adjust bus stop distance/km

0.358

Adjust bus stop numbers per route

92.17877

Ave number increased bus stop per route1.178771

Total route in Singapore

357

Total number of increased bus stops

420

Cost per bus stop

20000

Total cost

8,400,000

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13Impression
EnglishMost students of KAIST can speak English more fluently than Japanese Students.
But Korean English is easy to listen for me. On the other hand, Singlish is reallydifficult to listen for me. Through these program, I though that I should study
English consistently as ever.
Challenge
I tried to experience various things through this exchange program, as well as
studying my major. Sometimes I failed, but, It was really good for my life.
Coursework
I understood that people who have different background have different way ofthinking through group working and the class “Introduction to Japanese Study”

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Thank you for your attention!

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Out of NUS campus
Volunteer workInterpreting- To help stage setting of KABUKI Ichikawa Ebizo
performed in Singapore to interpret

Out sourcing project of Cambodia- to check the correctness of floor plan figure- planning study tour of Cambodia

Ichikawa Ebizo and other actors

Experiencing working- at Japanese consulting and office renting
company, “CROSS COOP SINGAPORE pte Ltd.”- Working for two days per week
- Selling Japanese sugar at “Oishii Japan” event- Accompanying its president to see his consulting
CROSS COOP office
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Out of KAIST campus

Going out
with international students

Meeting friends
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Muscle training

Attending English
practice session

Taking a trip to Seoul

Campus Asia’s events
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