2024 Faculty Courses School of Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Graduate major in Human Centered Science and Biomedical Engineering
Interdisciplinary Research Fundamentals I 1
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Human Centered Science and Biomedical Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Katsunori Tanaka / Kotaro Kajikawa
- Class Format
- Lecture (Livestream)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- 1
- Course Code
- HCB.C411
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
In order to develop technologies for “Life Engineering; Human Centered Science and Biomedical Engineering” research filed, it is very important to integrate knowledge and technologies of different fields. In other words, researchers in “Life Engineering” field are required to have deep and wide knowledge of both their specialized areas and different field related to “Life Engineering”.
In this course, students attend a lecture in a different department, gain wide expertise knowledge, and understand the relationship between the lecture and their specialized field.
Course description and aims
By completing this course, students will be able to:
1) Understand fundamental expert knowledge of other fields.
2) Discuss the relationship and synergistic effect for the integration of knowledge of different fields.
Keywords
Integration of different fields
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Students select one of the class 1, 2 or 3. In the class 1, students select and attend a lecture (course number: 200 or 300) in a
different field from the department of the students.
In the class 2 and 3, students attend the decicated lecture in English.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction to the course | Understand the overview for this course |
| Class 2 | Attendance to the selected lecture | Understand the relationship between the lecture and student’s filed of expertise. |
| Class 3 | Attendance to the selected lecture | Understand the relationship between the lecture and student’s filed of expertise. |
| Class 4 | Attendance to the selected lecture | Understand the relationship between the lecture and student’s filed of expertise. |
| Class 5 | Attendance to the selected lecture | Understand the relationship between the lecture and student’s filed of expertise. |
| Class 6 | Attendance to the selected lecture | Understand the relationship between the lecture and student’s filed of expertise. |
| Class 7 | Attendance to the selected lecture | Understand the relationship between the lecture and student’s filed of expertise. |
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)
Text book specified by the instructor.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
These materials specified by the instructor.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Learning achievement is evaluated by reports in the standpoint of integration of different fields. If misconduct, such as plagiarism or misappropriation of someone else's work is committed, we will treat it strictly： The grade of the subject will be 0.
Related courses
- HCB.C412 ： Interdisciplinary Research Fundamentals II
Prerequisites
Students from the other courses and graduate students cannot take this class.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
class-1: Kotaro Kajikawa（kajikawa[at]ep.titech.ac.jp）・Katsunori Tanaka（tanaka.k.dg[at]m.titech.ac.jp）
Office hours
Anytime, Contact by e-mail in advance to schedule an appointment.