A Report on Overseas Study Tours for Engineering Students

Abstract

At Kumamoto National College of Technology, Yatsushiro, students usually have study tours in their 4th grade. They visit engineering facilities including factories, plants, construction sites and so on as well as cultural heritages. Nowadays, an increasing number of KOSENs send their students abroad as their study tours, though students of our campus did not have any chance to go abroad for their 4th year trip. Therefore, the department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering planned overseas study tours and their first tour to Singapore was held in 2012. In 2013, students are supposed to visit Singapore followed by Taiwan. It is highly expected that this kind of visit contributes a lot for students to acquire global points of view.