Interdisciplinary Research Fundamentals II 3

Academic unit or major

Graduate major in Human Centered Science and Biomedical Engineering

Instructor(s)

Hideki Abe

Class Format

Lecture (Livestream)

Media-enhanced courses

-

Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

3-4 Mon

Class

3

Course Code

HCB.C412

Number of credits

100

Course offered

2026

Offered quarter

2Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 5, 2026

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

In this lecture series (Interdisciplinary Research Fundamentals II of HCB), students select one of the classes 1, 2 or 3, which is held in the different department from yours. Students are encouraged to choose either class 2 or 3.
In the class 1, students select the designated lecture (a class for the undergraduate students in Japanese, course number: 300).
In the class 2 and 3, students attend the dedicated lecture in English.

Course schedule/Objectives

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.

Related courses

• HCB.C411 ： Interdisciplinary Research Fundamentals I

Prerequisites

This lecture is not open to undergraduate students or students in other courses.

Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).

For Class 1: Katsunori Tanaka: tanaka.k.dg[at]m.titech.ac.jp

Office hours

Anytime, Contact by e-mail in advance to schedule an appointment.

Other

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.