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School of Environment and Society
- Department of Architecture and Building Engineering
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- Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
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- Liberal arts and basic science courses
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Oda Mitsushige Shinno Hidenori Horie Mikio Iijima Junichi Kitazume Masaki Kishimoto Kikuo Saijo Miki Fujii Haruyuki Mougenot Celine Matsumura Shigeki Yoshida Kazuhiro Hasegawa Osamu Inaba Kazuaki Shirabe Masashi Sakamoto Hiraku
- Class Format
- Lecture
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- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Intensive ()
- Group
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- Course number
- TSE.A342
- Credits
- 2
- Academic year
- 2016
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2017/1/11
- Lecture notes updated
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- Language used
- Japanese
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Course description and aims
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.
Student learning outcomes
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 that will be developed
| 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.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | 5 day intensive course Day 1 Ice-breaking, team formation, simple collaboration, lecture on design thinking Day 2 Introduction to Japanese society, culture and technology, explanation of problems to tackle in this class, concept designing by team Day 3 Selection of a design concept, 2D prototyping, improvement of the design concept Day 4 3D prototyping or preparation of demonstration Day 5 Finishing operation, preparation of presentation, presentation | Each team selects one of the following design targets. (1) products, systems or services to solve an important problem of Japanese society, e.g, aging. (2) products, systems or services based on Japanese technology or cultures (3) products, systems or services targeting the Japanese market |
Textbook(s)
N/A
Reference books, course materials, etc.
hand out materials as needed
Assessment criteria and methods
(1) participation situation to / attitude to tackle a project (30%)
(2) result of project and its presentation (70%)
(2) will be evaluated as a team.
Related courses
- ESD.A501 ： Engineering Design Project A
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
Basic English Communication.
Motivations to global teamwork.
Other
When the number of applicants exceeds 20, we will select 20 of them for this class in consideration of the balance of foreign/domestic participants. When the number of applicants is less than 10, we may cancel this class.
