2020 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Undergraduate major in Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering
Introduction to Engineering Design and Management of Technology
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Mayuko Nakamaru / Shigeki Saito / Miki Saijo / Kazuaki Inaba / Mika Goto / Shintaro Sengoku / Masaharu Tsujimoto / Takumi Ohashi / Yuki Taoka
- Class Format
- Lecture/Exercise (Zoom)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 5-8 Tue (S323)
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- TSE.C318
- Number of credits
- 110
- Course offered
- 2020
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This class's main topic is designing cooperation, which appears from global societies to local societies.
Students should make ideas about designing cooperation, considering cooperation in our real world.
By doing exercises and group works in the class, students consider what factors make people achieve "cooperation" which will enable them to create a new social value.
Course description and aims
Students can understand what our society is, from global societies to local ones, from the viewpoint of cooperation.
Students can make ideas of "designing cooperation" and practice their ideas.
Keywords
cooperation; design; group work
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Give a lecture in each class. In some classes, students works together, following the instruction from the professor.
Exercises are assigned to students.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction (Inaba) Management of cooperation and collaboration part 1: team-based activity (Sengoku) | Learn how to manage cooperation and collaboration by team activities |
| Class 2 | Management of cooperation and collaboration part 2: logical communication and presentation (Sengoku) | Learn how to manage cooperation and collaboration by logical communication |
| Class 3 | Analysis and Design of ecosystem in business context 1 (Tsujimoto) | Learn the analysis and design of ecosystem in business context |
| Class 4 | Analysis and Design of ecosystem in business context 2：Exercise (Tsujimoto) | Learn and Exercise the analysis and design of ecosystem in business context |
| Class 5 | Investigating society from the viewpoint of cooperation (Nakamaru) | Understand "cooperation" appears everywhere in our society |
| Class 6 | Studying cooperation by means of mathematical models and simulations (Nakamaru) | Understand how to analyze cooperation by means of simulations and differential equations. |
| Class 7 | Assessment of corporate management and cooperation factor I (Goto) | Learn the assessment of corporate management and cooperation factor |
| Class 8 | Cooperation in the context of corporate management: Construction Assessment of corporate management and cooperation factor II (Goto) | Learn the assessment of corporate management and cooperation factor |
| Class 9 | Team building and visualizing ideas: GW (Saito) | Do team building and visualize their ideas |
| Class 10 | How to apply the team's idea to real society: GW (Saito) | Do team building and visualize their ideas |
| Class 11 | How does the team turn the ideas into reality? : GW (Inaba) | Do group work about how the team turns the ideas into reality |
| Class 12 | Reflecting the design work : GW (Saijo) | Reflect the design work |
| Class 13 | Preparation for group presentation (Taoka, Ohashi) | Prepare for group presentation |
| Class 14 | Group presentation(all professors) | presenting the group work |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Not assigned
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Materials are distributed in the class.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Exercises in each class
Discussion in each class
The group presentation in the last class
Reports
Related courses
- TIM.A510 ： Social Simulation I
- TIM.A511 ： Social Simulation II
- TIM.A406 ： Methodology of Mathematical and Computational Analysis II
- TIM.C512 ： Energy Technology and Social System I
- TIM.A403 ： Methodology of Political Science and Economics I
- TIM.A404 ： Methodology of Political Science and Economics II
Prerequisites
No prerequisite.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
Please contact Prof Mayuko Nakamaru; nakamaru.m.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp