2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Graduate major in Engineering Sciences and Design
Engineering Design Challenge
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Engineering Sciences and Design
- Instructor(s)
- Kazuaki Inaba / Kazuhiro Yoshida / Dai Senoo / Masayuki Tanaka / Miki Saijo / Momoko Nakatani / Yuval Kahlon
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 5-6 Thu
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- ESD.A401
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course aims to train individuals to foster innovation by working together as a team that transcends borders like culture and academic differences to allow for different personal values while preserving independent collaborative relationships with various stakeholders. This course introduces Engineering Design professors' thinking and activities and asks each student to think their own strength.
Course description and aims
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) explain various ideas on engineering design in the world
2) understand the ideas to foster innovation by working together as a team
Keywords
Design, Innovation
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
The instructor explains the engineering design.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Guidance, Action + Innovative Thinking, Purpose | Understand the powers for innovation, deepen understanding of yourself |
| Class 2 | Engineering design: Mechanical engineering | Understand Engineering design: Mechanical engineering |
| Class 3 | Engineering design: Industrial Engineering and economics | Understand Engineering design: Industrial Engineering and economics |
| Class 4 | Engineering design: Systems and control engineering | Understand Engineering design: Systems and control engineering |
| Class 5 | Engineering design: Information and Communications Engineering | Understand Engineering design: Information and Communications Engineering |
| Class 6 | Engineering design: Transdisciplinary science and engineering | Understand Engineering design: Transdisciplinary science and engineering |
| Class 7 | Engineering design: Architecture and building engineering | Understand Engineering design: Architecture and building engineering |
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)
None
Reference books, course materials, etc.
None
Evaluation methods and criteria
Exercises in every lectures
Related courses
- TSE.C201 ： Introduction to Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering
- TSE.A318 ： Introduction to Design Engineering
Prerequisites
Restrict non-ESD students from attending without special reasons.