W-06 Value Creation by Global Project-based Learning in Internship: Practices in G-DORM 2017

Abstract

G-DORM is a student exchange project that has global project-based learning (PBL) in an internship by Niigata University with four universities in Mekong countries. In 2017, actual implementation of G-DORM was launched. One of the uniqueness of G-DORM is that students form cross-academic year, cross-disciplinary, multinational groups to have the internship. This paper aims to grasp achievements of G-DOMR carried out in 2017, in terms of coordination with companies for program designing, recruiting and selection of students, implementation of internship in the student exchange program and evaluation. In addition, this paper argues values of this international cooperation for global PBL in an internship based on findings of the achievement of G-DORM in 2017. As a result, global PBL in an internship of G-DORM is implied as a model of international engineering education that can create impacts to students as well as industry.