2022 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 / Kazuaki Inaba / Mika Goto / Shintaro Sengoku / Masaharu Tsujimoto / Yuki Taoka
- Class Format
- Lecture/Exercise (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 5-8 Tue (W832)
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- TSE.C318
- Number of credits
- 110
- Course offered
- 2022
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This class's main topic is "finding inconvenience", which appears from global societies to local societies.
Students should make ideas about finding inconvenience, considering "inconvenience" in our real world.
By doing exercises and group works in the class, students consider what factors make people solve "inconvenience" which will enable them to create a new social value.
Course description and aims
Students can make ideas to find "inconvenience" in their neighborhood, and practice their ideas.
Keywords
inconvenience; 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.
Please keep in mind that different lecturers use different rooms.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction (Inaba) | Know the overview of this course |
| Class 2 | Team building Group Work (GW) (Saito, Inaba, Taoka) | Learn what team building is Do the group work |
| Class 3 | How does the team turn the ideas into reality? | Learn how the team turns the ideas into reality |
| Class 4 | Group Work (GW) (Saito, Inaba, Taoka) | Do the group work |
| Class 5 | Can mathematical modeling and simulations solve“inconvenience” in our society? (Nakamaru) | Learn "inconvenience" in the communication strategy. |
| Class 6 | Group Work (GW) (Sengoku) | Do the group work following the lecture by Nakamaru |
| Class 7 | Inconvinience in the process of Business Model design and implementation (Tsujimoto) | Learn and Exercise the analysis and design of ecosystem in business context |
| Class 8 | GW (Tsujimoto) | Do the group work following the lecture by Tsujimoto |
| Class 9 | Inconvenience from the perspective of productivity analysis (Goto) | Learn productivity analysis |
| Class 10 | GW (Goto) | Do the group work following the lecture by Goto |
| Class 11 | "inconvenience" in cooperation (Nakamaru) | Learn "inconvenience" in the cooperative relationship |
| Class 12 | GW (Nakamaru) | Do the group work following the lecture by Nakamaru |
| Class 13 | Preparation for group presentation (Taoka) | 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
Other
Different lecturers use different rooms.