エンジニアリング・デザイン教育と卒業研究

抄録

Because engineering design, that is very important not only to nation’ s economy but also to sustainability of the earth, is conducted mainly by engineers, design education is the core of engineering education. In addition, the collaborative design education is very important for deep understanding of knowledge and the development of creativity, social skills and others. This paper presents the global trend, educational contents, pedagogy, in particular project-based learning, and evaluation of the design education. Further, it discusses the graduation thesis, which many faculties consider so important that they reject to replace with design project, in terms of its purpose, importance and educational methods, and points out that the conventional education should be changed to the combined education of knowledge acquirement and application such as the design.