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2021　PLP Advanced Practice

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Academic unit or major
Career development courses
Instructor(s)
Kobashikawa Satoshi  Izumi Akira 
Class Format
Exercise     
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Intensive ()  
Group
-
Course number
LAC.P642
Credits
1
Academic year
2021
Offered quarter
4Q
Syllabus updated
2021/9/16
Lecture notes updated
-
Language used
Japanese
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Course description and aims

This lecture is a collaborative program with the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) for doctoral course students of all majors.

This academic year, with the cooperation of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), a total of three days of intensive lectures will be held in 4Q under the theme of "strategic planning for connecting R & D results to businesses."

Students have lectures from managers of the companies, and are divided into groups to set assignments based on the lectures, discuss and make presentations finally. Then they also receive advice from lecturers.

By taking this course, you can directly learn about the business, issues, and solutions in the actual company from the lecturers who are active in the front line of the company. In addition, it is expected that each student's own ideas and horizons will be expanded through discussions, summarization, and presentations in a group of students with different knowledge and ideas.

The maximum number of students will be 25 for group discussions. Please note that if the number of students registered reaches 25, no further students may be able to take the course.

Distribution of lecture materials, submission of reports, and communication related to lectures will be done using the OCWi system.

Student learning outcomes

Through lectures by lecturers from a private company, students can understand of such as R&D, business, issues in industry, approaches to solutions, values and perspectives.

In a group consisting of members with different backgrounds, students can collectively assert your own opinions on the tasks set based on the lectures, listen to the opinions of others, make corrections, and reach a conclusion, receiving comments and advices from lecturer and facilitators. By acting as a team, students can deepen their understanding of the assignments and gain hands-on experience of generating results through group activities.

Course taught by instructors with work experience

✔ Applicable How instructors' work experience benefits the course
After the lecturers from a private company based on their experience on its business, each group of students set an assignment. After making intensive group works on the assignment, each group deliver a presentation on it finally to receive comments and advices from lecturers and facilitators.

Keywords

PBL (Problem-based Learning), group work, collaboration with industry, interactions with students from other fields

Competencies that will be developed

Specialist skills ✔ Intercultural skills ✔ Communication skills ✔ Critical thinking skills ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

The target class size is 25 students or less due to have group works. In case that the number of applicants for the course exceeds 25, students who apply the course after that may not take the course.

3 days intensive lectures in 4Q.

Lectures will be held at Musashino R&D Center, Musashino-shi or Granpark Tower, Minato-ku of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT).

Depending on the infection status of the COVID-19, the course plan may be changed or the lecture location may be changed to online lectures by ZOOM.

lecturer:
KOBASHIKAWA Satoshi, Senior Research Engineer, NTT Computer and Data Science Laboratories

facilitators:
OTA Masazumi, Senior Research Engineer, NTT Network Innovation Center
KOZAI Masaki, Senior Research Engineer, NTT Space Environment and Energy Laboratories
ASAMI Taichi, Senior Research Engineer, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories
KITAYAMA Daisuke, Senior Research Engineer, NTT Device Technology Laboratories

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 December 20, Monday 13:00-18:00 orientation, lectures by NTT lecturers, introduction of assignments, grouping and 1st group work. Assignments related to the content of the lecture will be given.
Class 2 January 17, Monday 10:00-18:00 visiting companies and 2nd group work. Assignments related to the content of the lecture will be given.
Class 3 February 1, Tuesday 13:00-18:00 3rd group work, presentation session and closing Assignments related to the content of the lecture will be given.

Textbook(s)

None

Reference books, course materials, etc.

None

Assessment criteria and methods

Students are evaluated based on reports for each day about new awareness and original ideas about lectures and group work (70%), and substantial contributions to group activities as the roles such as leader, presenter, and record taker (30%).

Related courses

  • LAC.C601 ： Doctoral Career Design

Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)

Due to doing group works, Japanese language skill enough to understand daily conversations and contribute group works of this course is required.

Other

The maximum class size is 25 students due to have group discussions. In case that the number of students registered for the course reaches 25, students who apply the course after that may not take the course.

Students are required to agree by signature to the contents of "Agreement on PLP Advanced Practice" jointly signed between NTT and Tokyo Tech. The contents mainly are related to non-disclosure agreement and intellectual property rights.

Students who belong to companies or organizations disclose the company or organization names to NTT prior to starting of the course.

Please refer to the URL below for a list of career development courses offered by the Innovator and Inventor Development Platform (IIDP), including this course, and lecturers' introductions.
（https://www.titech.ac.jp/student-support/students/career/career-education）

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