Activity Report - Kobe University Engineering Summer School 2024

Short-term incoming program

For ten days from July 1 to July 12, 2024, the Faculty of Engineering hosted the Kobe University Engineering Summer School 2024 (hereinafter referred to as KUESS24), an intercultural education program welcoming short-term incoming students. After receiving more than 100 applications this year, 20 students from RMIT University (Australia) and Mahidol University (Thailand) participated in this short-term program. In addition, several students from the Global Challenge Program (GCP) of Kobe University’s Faculty of Engineering have participated in this KUESS series each year. The Faculty of Engineering’s GCP has developed a short-term study abroad program for second-year students visiting RMIT University around March. After being sent overseas, the students also actively interact with those in the inbound program in Kobe.

Study Visit

Since 2025 will mark the 30^th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, KUESS24 has adopted “Disaster prevention and resilience” as its basic theme. Specifically, under the title “Feel the sea breeze and disaster resilience technologies in Kobe,” KUESS24 consisted of lectures and laboratory tours by all six departments of the Faculty of Engineering, visits to private companies, research organizations, and engineering-related facilities, and workshops on the conception of communication tools to overcome language barriers in emergencies.

At the end of the program, the participating students expressed different opinions about their engineering studies, their socio-cultural encounters, and the impact of the program on their individual career development.

Lecture & Lab Tour

Program Schedule

	AM	PM
Day1		Opening: ・Welcome address ・Program introduction ・Survival Japanese 1 ・Keynote speech A: Kobe University’s initiatives on SDGs
Day2	“Mechanical Engineering”: Lecture and lab Tour	Survival Japanese 2 Keynote speech B: Introduction to natural disasters in Japan
Day3	Site visit (i): Tunnel and ventilation station construction sites of the Hanshin Expressway Route 2 (“Yodogawa-Sagan Route”)
Day4	Survival Japanese 3	”Architecture” :Lecture and lab tour
Day5	Survival Japanese 4 “Computer science and systems engineering”: Lecture and lab tour	Campus tour
Day6	Site visit (ii): Kobe City Museum	The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Memorial: Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution
Day7	Survival Japanese 5 “Electrical electronic engineering”: Lecture and lab tour	Site visit (iii): Noritz Cooperation
Day8	“Chemical science and engineering”: Lecture and lab tour	Survival Japanese 6
Day9	“Civil engineering”: Lecture and lab tour	Survival Japanese 7
Day10	Workshop: Creating communication tools for global emergencies	Workshop: Rapid prototype presentations and feedback Closing ceremony Certificate of completion award Closing remarks

Closing Ceremony

*) The Kobe University Engineering Summer School 2024 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) as part of its Inter-University Exchange Project.

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