Abstract
Center for Engineering Education Development, CEED, Hokkaido University was established to provide new graduate course programs more practical and concordant with the needs of industry and global society. The major program is the overseas internship, where students join some project as experiment, design, analysis, production, software making, etc, in the companies or research organizations in the foreign countries. For these three years, CEED sent over 65 students to 24 countries in the world. In this report, the CEED implementation of the internship program is described and examples of students′ activities in the overseas internship are introduced. The educational effect is also stated based on the questionnaire survey. From the data, students′ abilities such as, international understanding, challenging spirit, attitude to learn new things, as well as language proficiency are markedly improved.
