Activity Report - Kobe University Engineering Summer School 2023
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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.
Kobe University
Faculty of Engineering
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
Day 5
Day 7
Day 5
Day 7
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.