Activity Report - Kobe University Engineering Summer School 2023

The Faculty and Graduate School of Engineering hosted the Kobe University Engineering Summer School 2023 for ten days from June 29 to July 12. A total of 22 students from RMIT University (Australia) and Mahidol University (Thailand) participated in this short-term program.

The program consisted of classes and laboratory tours by all the departments of our faculty; visits to companies, research organisations, and facilities related to engineering and technology; workshops to gain insight into the future from engineering-related perspectives; and a seminar by the Kobe University Career Center on job-hunting and workplace culture in Japan.

Lecture & Lab Tour

Schedule

	AM	PM
Day1	Orientation	[Architecture］ Lecture & Lab Tour / Welcome Party
Day2	[Electrical and Electronic Engineering］ Lecture & Lab Tour	Campus tour with KU students
Day3	Seminar by Career Center	[Mechanical Engineering] Lecture & Lab Tour
Day4	Visit to Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (Hy touch Kobe)	Visit to Kobe Maritime Museum (Kawasaki Good Times World), Riken Centre for Computational Science (Fugaku supercomputer)
Day5	[Civil Engineering］Lecture & Lab Tour	[Chemical Science and Engineering］ Lecture & Lab Tour
Day6	Visit to Higashi-nada Wastewater Treatment Plant(WWTP)	Visit to HAKUTSURU Sake Brewery Museum
Day7	[Computer Science and Systems Engineering] Lecture & Lab Tour	Workshop 1
Day8	Visit to Nipron Corporation 1	Visit to Nipron Corporation 2
Day9	Workshop 2	Workshop 3
Day10	Workshop 4 Presentation by Summer School participants	Closing & Farewell Party

Hakutsuru Sake Brewery Museum

After the program, the participants had a wide range of comments, with many saying that the site visits were particularly impressive because they were precious opportunities to enter places and environments they would not usually have access to. In addition, having experienced lectures and laboratory tours by the various departments of the Faculty and Graduate School of Engineering at Kobe University, some respondents expressed a desire to consider Kobe University as a postgraduate destination.

Seminar at the Career Center

Workshop

[Participants’ voices]

‘The experience Kobe University gave me was eye opening and taught me a lot of new things alongside new cultural experiences.’ ‘I had an incredible experience that has cemented my desire to live and work or study in Japan. I am deeply interested in attending Kobe University in the future and hope that is a possibility for me. I wish to express sincere gratitude to the wonderful staff who organized this event.’

Higashi-nada Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP)

*Kobe University Engineering Summer School 2023 was part of the “International Education Program for Developing Global Human Resources in Engineering for Solving Global Issues”, a program adopted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) under its Inter-University Exchange Project.