Intellectual Property Education to Various Students as Starting Point of Engineering Education

Abstract

Diversification of the university entrance examinations induces differences of scholastic attainments of the students. It is difficult to maintain various students′ learning motivation with interests in basic engineering education courses. We think that the students can be motivated by learning the basic course about the intellectual property. Because the knowledge level of the freshmen about the intellectual property is almost equal to each other. The knowledge about the intellectual property is very important in the industrial offices where the students will work after graduation of university. We report the survey results of the intellectual property education programs for the first-year students. The follow-up survey and some problems of the intellectual property education program are also reported.