W-11 Research Internship for 1^st to 3^rd Year Students in Laboratory of Forefront Science

－In Case of Team Superconductor－

Abstract

The practical R&D projects conducted among private companies and university laboratories contains the educational factors for students who learning engineering skills and knowledge. The authors established a novel educational program called “Smart Dormitory” as one of the educational reform activities, where the students can freely discuss, plan, measure and estimate their own engineering activities by themselves. For an example, the authors focus on the students who built a team together in a certain laboratory studying forefront scientific researches on superconductivity. The program has been characterized as a kind of research internship programs nurturing the leadership for elite students. The students were assigned the scientific presentations on their research results in certain international meetings, which enhanced their motivation to scientific studies.