抄録
We have been conducting the international collaboration on the engineering education researches in assistance of the educational reform program conducted by the grants-in-aid from Japanese government. Beside the announcements of educational results worldwide, we have been conducting the mutual exchanges of the students and faculty members between the universities, discussing the topics on the educational reforms, project-based learning programs, engineering ethics, and so on. Since the current issues on the engineering education are common to those of every country, it is beneficial for us to discuss about the educational information with foreign faculty members. In addition, since the experiences of collaboration with foreign universities are also profitable for student beside the faculties, we have been conducting the student exchanges by the mutual contracts with foreign universities on the academic research areas. The scientific research collaborations driven by the dispatched students showed us that the experiences of collaborations were beneficial for students’ career-design as well as the enhancement of motivation on their scientific researches, which resulted in the academic paper publications on the collaborative academic researches. 21 Japanese students have studied abroad and 10 German students have studied in Niigata. 13 scientific papers co-authored by the students who contributed to the collaborative researches have been published in nine years.
