Developing Graduate-level Educational Programs to Nurture Practical Intelligence in Students through Industry Academia Partnerships

Abstract

A great many companies need technology-talented persons who have challenging will to face frontier or innovative scientific matters. However, today’s graduate-level educational programs do not necessarily respond to the request. From this point of view, we have tried to develop a new educational program for graduate students to nurture their practical and technological intelligence. The program consists of the following three substantial matters ; (1) to edit a textbook written by front-line researchers having been working in the R&D field of industrial chemistry, (2) to have classes with lectures given by the authors of the textbook, and (3) to make short-term classes at some company facilities, where students can discuss various technological matters with young researchers of the company with a close relationship.