Abstract
The participants of the Tohoku University exchange program with the University of Science and Technology in Beijing are first year students from the Department of Engineering. The program requires the students to take their research from the Team-based Engineering Design Course through to the next logical step in the research process: the presentation stage. Each student works on their own presentation with the help of a native speaker, and then spends a considerable amount of time together with the other students in the group working to improve their performance. This unique combination of steps provides the students with instruction on many aspects of presenting research, many hours of proactive teamwork, access to a number of other research fields in English, and many hours of English practice. As well as making new Chinese friends, the experience provides our students with a deeper understanding of the research process, a strong sense of accomplishment, a network of like-minded motivated contemporaries from various fields, and a commitment to learning English.
