2024 Faculty Courses School of Engineering Undergraduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Engineering Writing (L Seminar)
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Shigeru Nakagawa
- Class Format
- Experiment (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 3-4 Mon / 3-4 Thu
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- EEE.L321
- Number of credits
- 001
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course instructs skills to write reports and technical papers and to make presentations in Japanese in order to convey the contents to the others correctly. It gives how to summarize in Japanese in comparison with in English. Targets of this course include presentation types and their features, research presentations and ethic, constructions of papers and presentations, writing papers, ways to write sentences and summary, drawing of figures and tables, making of slides and poster, search of papers and patents and presentation methods.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Make a logical description on academic and technological contents in Japanese.
2) Make academic papers and technical reports with figures and tables easy to understand.
3) Make a presentation with appropriate posters and/or slides to avoid misunderstanding.
4) Collect and summarize the required information from technical papers and/or patent documents.
Keywords
making sentences, making figures and tables, presentation skill, information search
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
- ・Fundamental specialist skills on EEE
Class flow
We have two classes in each week. The lecturer will give lecture in the first day of the week, and then, we will have exercise in the second day.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Why we need to write technical papers? Types, readers, and purpose of technical paper. Correct Japanese expression to avoid misunderstandings. | Write and improve sentences |
| Class 2 | Exercise of correct Japanese expression to avoid misunderstandings. | Exercise of writing and improvement of sentences |
| Class 3 | Structure and components of technical papers. | Writing a summary |
| Class 4 | Exercise of making summary. | Exercise of making summary |
| Class 5 | Method to writing and explaining of figures, tables, and equations. | Writing figures, tables, and equations |
| Class 6 | Exercise of writing figures, tables, and equations | Exercise of writing figures, tables, and equations |
| Class 7 | Method to find references, technical paper and patent search. | Technical paper and patent search. |
| Class 8 | Exercise of technical paper and patent search. | Exercise of technical paper and patent search. |
| Class 9 | Writing technical paper, copy right, end ethic. | Citation of references |
| Class 10 | Exercise of reference citation. | Exercise of reference citation. |
| Class 11 | Technical papers and presentations. | Prepare presentation contents |
| Class 12 | Exercise of preparation of presentation contents. | Exercise of preparation of presentation contents |
| Class 13 | Presentation practice | Prepare presentation contents |
| Class 14 | Exercise of preparation slide | Exercise of preparation slide |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend a certain length of time outside of class on preparation and review (including for assignments), as specified by the Tokyo Institute of Technology Rules on Undergraduate Learning (東京工業大学学修規程) and the Tokyo Institute of Technology Rules on Graduate Learning (東京工業大学大学院学修規程), for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
The text is delivered at T2SCHOLA.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
1) Toshikatsu Nakajima, Shin-ya Tsukamoto, "Intellectual writing of scientific and engineering sentences," Koronasha, ISBN：978-4-339-07640-0
2) Tadao Kinoshita, "Writing skills for science courses, Chuokoronsha, ISBN:978-4-12-100624-0
3) Tadashi Itasaka, "Thinking skills and writing skills," Kodansha, ISBN: 978-4-061-15885-6
Evaluation methods and criteria
Assignｍents and reports 100% (totally 7 times).
Related courses
- EEE.L331 ： Science and Engineering Ethics (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
- Independent research project
Prerequisites
Student who belongs to a laboratory or will belong from the fall semester.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
Shigeru Nakagawa, snakagawa[at]ee.e.titech.ac.jp