2017 Volume 82 Issue 1 Pages 5-13
Recent company scholarship system in Japanese oil industry has been started in mid-1970s after the First Oil Shock, because oil companies were gaining better economic situation in terms of crude oil price that was getting increase from $3/bbl to $12/bbl in 1974. During this time Japex set up systematic approach to study abroad, one of which opportunity was directed to the author as being a student in graduate study at University in USA for 2 years. It has been forty years since then. Going abroad is no longer special just same as domestic trip in these days. It might be important at this timing that we would reconsider the meaning of studying abroad as a part of career paths in industrial education of human resource development.
In this paper, the author, as a first generation with such career of studying abroad, reconstructs the meaning of experience that he has obtained during his stay abroad. His global academic career has been started from his primitive basin model, which expands into a usable 1D expulsion model and 2D fluid flow system, and his idea of simulation is further directed to modeling on sedimentology, geochemistry and finally on sealing mechanism. There are 3 aspects for going abroad; to develop self-assertion (self-improvement), to expand global networking, and to find the importance of self-responsibility (can be seen in ‘delegation of authority’). Based on these 3 aspects, the necessary future system for scholarship is discussed. The most important aspect for going abroad is to find out one's life rather than obtaining technical knowledge.
