Engineering education in Japan until the high-speed growth era of the 1970s had been composed mainly of lectures by teachers on various types of subjects and skill training through experiments. “Education” by which students enhance their inherent ability to learn is insufficient in the current courses for engineers, even though that is the most important goal of education. In addition, changes in Japanese society and in the technologies applied in it result in the confusion of skill training in schools. On the other hand, today there is a better understanding of the ability needed to achieve the purpose of engineering, and educational programs have been developed and become sophisticated through the introduction of the JABEE program and through the improvement in higher engineering education. In this study, the current problems of universities, teachers and students under rapidly changing circumstances have been discussed, namely the technologies that have continuously been divided into specialized fields, lack of educational funding, and also the way in which students generally appear to lack a sense of ambition and opportunities to actually witness various experiments in their younger days. Based on the problems pointed out above, a newly designed concept of experiments has been proposed by discussing 1) a new way of thinking about the relation between the brain and physical condition, 2) the concept of education for the purpose of national interest to education for the benefit of the individual student, and 3) the problem of the Fundamental Law of Education in Japan.
