Our research is designed to accomplish the efficient education in database systems. Hiroshima City University has developed a curriculum for the Department of Information Sciences based on the model curriculum which was proposed by an American association, ACM (The Association for Computing Machinery), since its establishment in April 1994. The lecture of relational database system, which is important in educating information engineers, is carried out for the sophomore students.
However, there is a problem that giving only lecture is insufficient to make students understand the concept of the relational database system. In order to solve this problem, we have developed an educational system including the database and WWW servers of practical size that are connected to the University's LAN. This made students be possible to learn the relational database systems in more practical manner. This paper reports the educational method and its results using this educational system.

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The purpose of this paper is to provide an optimum indication for individualized education for many students in a WWW environment by developing an intelligent CAI system, which provides the information response to the student corresponding to the understanding degree by using fuzzy inference.
In fuzzy inference, it is important to find the boundary values for the fuzzy parameter. In this paper, the attention coefficient which depends on the student's score and the time needed to complete the given problem, is derived by applying a statistical analysis on a S-P table. This coefficient is then applied to find the boundary value for the fuzzy parameter. By using this method, wedeveloped an intelligent CAI system and made courseware of electromagnetic field exercises for an example of the system. We have described how the CAI system can efficiently manage a database for many students, and practice the individualized education.

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The importance of human-oriented design and engineering is well recognized nowadays. It is desired to take a totally new perspective of education and research focusing on human kansei (roughly, sensitivity; faculty of perception and cognition). In 1996 the Department of KANSEI Design and Engineering (Perceptual^* Sciences and Design Engineering) was devised in Yamaguchi University. The new department consists of three divisions: Space Design, Human Interface, and Perception and Cognition Basics. In this report are outlined the procedures through which the department was devised with what educational concepts and research prospects.

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There is a future style of educational method which gives a terminal device to every student in a class and make use of the device interactively with a lecturer. On the one hand, a presentation style lecture using personal computers is easier to practice because only one difference with traditional method is in that board writings can be replaced by digital electronic materials. So this is a new style of lecture which can be practiced by any lecturers. There are several advantages in this type of lecture, such as that visual slides can be used, enough time is given for explanations, relatively quickly proceed lectures can be given, review of lectures is easier and to measure degrees of understanding of the students is possible. Teaching material is not so difficult to prepare because of software progresses and developments of bright liquid crystal displays have now provided good opportunities to give lectures by the personal computer. In this report, details of a practice of lectures on "The energy conversion technology" are reported.

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Some attempts of educational improvement that the author had been trying in these years are introduced. The subject of "structural mechanics" is a basic and important one in civil engineering. The CAI method simulated by using cards instead of CRT display is replaced by full computer system in this case. The results of the enforcement of CAI programming learning and the questionnaires for the students are described, focusing on the problem about typing by students for answers.

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The measures, against the tendency of young generation to avoid technological educations, are needed. In Yonago National College of Technology, we have been performing the measures, which consisted of the special lectures on science and technology for junior highschool students and the TV programs to introduce present technology, since 1995.
Most of the lectures included many experiments as their main parts. About 180 students were participated the lectures in this and last years. It was shown that the special lectures were valued by the students from the survey of their attitudes. However, it was also found that several improvements are needed in our lectures.

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This investigation by computer analysis is concerned with the frequency and register of the words, sentences and sentence patterns that occur in ETW (English Technical Writing) Test and STEP (the Society for testing English Proficiency) Test, both of which are authorized by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.
The purpose of this study is to find some characteristic aspects of EST quantitatively by making clear some distinctions between EST and GE as to token-type ratio, validity of basic vocabulary, frequency of words grouped into parts of speech, sentence length, frequency of sentence patterns, etc.

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Graduate schools are rapidly shifting their purposes from education of students who will be future scientists to that of highly talented engineers. In addition, international relations with foreigners have been more and more crucial in every field in Japanese society.
In view of these situations, a curriculum "English for Graduate Students of Engineering" was introduced five years ago in the curriculum of Department of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering of Nagoya University. Special attention has been paid in this class to educate students to use English as a tool for international communication with recognition of the cultural background of the English language. The problems to be solved for further advancement of this curriculum in qualitative and quantitative aspects are discussed.

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