2011 Volume 59 Issue 2 Pages 2_79-2_84
Recently, many trials and errors have been carried out to improve the communication skills for science and engineering students in higher education. This paper introduces the education programme at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) , especially the planning and management of the Science Café and the analysis of its effectiveness. Tokyo Tech values the development of communication design ability, which may be cultivated through interaction with others while being self-aware of “internationalism” and “career” . In addition to the conventional Science Café, more diverse participants and communication were achieved by the introduction of a new series of Creative Café, which features themes such as science, technology, art, and design. The cultivated internationalism and communication design ability, particularly framing ability and mode adjustment ability, in Creative Café are discussed.
