バーチャル工房を活かした高専教育高度化による情報活用エンジニアの育成

抄録

IoT has been getting a lot of attention in the global industry. Recent education programs also adopt information technologies such as IoT and ICT to improve the teaching method. However, education of KOSEN is desired to teach how to realize IoT and ICT, not only to utilize information technology. In this education program, we gave lectures about social needs of IoT and the management method of a project first. Based on the lecture, students investigated real information applications and then proposed their new technical seeds of information applications independently. Some projects were launched to realize the technical seeds. To move their project forward, they were able to use a virtual workshop in National Institute of Technology, Gunma College. Finally, students discussed their final products within the projects, and then we evaluated deliverables and processes of their projects. The virtual workshop includes visualization of existing equipment, which is placed in laboratories and facilities of our college, by network management. We connected the hardware and software resources to our college network and rebuilt the resources to the virtual workshop which was shared across our college. Moreover, we introduced new network-compatible IoT products other than existing equipment. This paper describes our education program to nurture IoT engineers in Gunma College.