2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Undergraduate major in Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering
International Engineering Design Experiences (Spring Semester)
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Kazuaki Inaba / Miki Saijo / Shigeki Saito / Takumi Ohashi / Yuki Taoka
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- TSE.A342
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 25, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
In this course, students can learn the basics of design thinking in a PBL(Project Based Learning) style. Students from different backgrounds form teams. Each team selects a small project to work on design activities, and make a presentation on the outcome.
The goals of the course are to learn the basics of design thinking and to exercise implementing them.
[Important] In order to maintain a good balance as a team, students who wish to take courses are collected and selected from among them before registration, and only the selected students are allowed to register for this course as additional courses. Please note that we will be recruiting students. https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/students/abroad/programs/aspire-ug
Course description and aims
Students
- understand the basic knowledge and skills of design thinking
- become accustomed to cross-cultural communication
- become cross-culturally aware
Keywords
design thinking, PBL (project based learning)、cross cultural awareness
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
As collaboration is the main activity, this course is an intensive course of one week. Short term overseas students will join this class. (Depending on the situation of short-term international students, the course may not be offered.)
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | 5 day intensive course Day 1 (June 23, 10:45-12:25, 13:30-17:05) Ice-breaking, team formation, simple collaboration, lecture on design thinking Day 2 (June 24, 10:45-12:25, 13:30-17:05) Introduction to Japanese society, culture and technology, explanation of problems to tackle in this class, concept designing by team Day 3 (June 25, 10:45-12:25, 13:30-17:05) Selection of a design concept, 2D prototyping, improvement of the design concept Day 4 (June 26, 10:45-12:25, 13:30-17:05) 3D prototyping or preparation of demonstration Day 5 (June 27, 10:45-12:25, 13:30-17:05) Finishing operation, preparation of presentation, presentation | Each team designs the following target. Products, systems and services purchased only by Japanese people |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
N/A
Reference books, course materials, etc.
hand out materials as needed
Evaluation methods and criteria
(1) participation situation to / attitude to tackle a project (30%)
(2) result of project and its presentation (70%)
will be evaluated as a team.
Related courses
- ESD.B401 ： Engineering Design Advanced
- ESD.B402 ： Engineering Design Project
- ESD.A402 ： Design Thinking Fundamentals
Prerequisites
Basic English Communication.
Motivations to global teamwork.
Other
[Important] Approval from the department head is required for participation. Participation in this class does not constitute official leave. Coordination with other classes should be done by each student.