Seminar in energy science S2

Academic unit or major

Graduate major in Energy Science and Engineering

Instructor(s)

Academic Supervisor

Class Format

Experiment

Media-enhanced courses

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Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

Seminar

Class

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Course Code

ENR.Z591

Number of credits

002

Course offered

2024

Offered quarter

1-2Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 14, 2025

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

In this course, students pursue researching, discussing, summarizing, and making presentation for their thesis research and related topics as requested by their academic supervisor.
Students can acquire the basic ability as an independent researcher and an engineer; such as literature survey and analysis of previous published literature, data collection, method for analysis and evaluation, capacity of understanding, creativity, ability of design, ability to find gaps in knowledge in the literature, ability to solve problems, improve language skill, ability to write a thesis, discuss research methods, and prepare oral presentations.
In the graduate course students acquire knowledge from coursework and the laboratory-based education, while receiving individual guidance on their research. This research seminar is a core course in the laboratory-based education and students are required to increase their research specialty and power of execution, actively and critical thinking in this course.

Course description and aims

Students will acquire the following ability in order to become an independent researcher, step by step.
1) Professional expertise for identifying the scientific and technological essence of energy science and engineering.
2) Ability to acquire expertise in areas outside of energy science and engineering and connect it to practical problem solving.
3) Ability to analyze emerging research issues and to propose creative ideas by use of the professional knowledge.
4) Ability to conduct research with global awareness of the research and developing trends.
5) Ability to explain concepts logically, develop arguments, and put them in writing.

Keywords

Research, literature search, data collection, data analysis, analysis and evaluation, understanding, finding key research issues, solving problems, academic paper writing, oral presentation, laboratory-based education

Competencies

• Specialist skills
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Classes are held at the academic supervisor’s laboratory. The course schedule will be determined through discussions among lab students with the academic supervisor.

Course schedule/Objectives

Study advice (preparation and review)

Textbook(s)

Specified by the academic supervisor, as necessary.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Specified by the academic supervisor, as necessary.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Evaluation is made based on the specifics of the assessment criteria and methods, being in accordance with the student learning outcomes 1)-5), which are determined prior to the start of the course.

Related courses

• 400-level graduate major courses in Energy Science and Engineering.

Prerequisites

1. Students must be a member of one of the laboratories in the Energy Science and Engineering graduate major.