It is important for each engineer to learn not only mastering technical items, but also totally designing whole production process. We propose a practical workshop which integrates a sequence of the design process for mechanical control-system engineers. The period of the workshop is shortened from standard one month to three days for busy participants. The workshop consists of modeling a typical mechanical system by the way of experiment, and designing the optimum controller required for the system. Moreover, verification of the design parameters is carried out with experimental equipment.
Many participants have acknowledged the following two points:
1) It is good as the workshop is consistent in design process and production,
2) By doing exercise in both theory and experiment, he or she attains a strong desire to apply the acquired technique to a real design.
These impressions of the participants are just what the workshop is aimed for.

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While the study of International Relations primarily deals with political and economical problems among industrialized nations, the new International Development teaches know-how on the way to promote social/economic development of developing nations, based on friendly relationships between developed and developing countries. Because the development demands knowledge and experience on engineering and technology, we intend to teach students a broad subject of techno-literacy, namely, design, planning, engineering concept, natural resources, environmental protection, disaster prevention, etc., in addition to those traditionally taught, such as international politics, economics, international law, history, social science, communications, etc.
Our prime objective is to train and educate students in the broad interdisciplinary subjects, so that they would be able to take careers on international development. However, students are expected to become important staff members in the future of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries worldwide.

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In a framework to introduce new methods of teaching that nourish the creative talents of students, a new educational approach has been tested involving students to mutually teach technical knowledge with an objective of enhancing students' abili-ty to think independently and promoting positive attitude. The result has revealed that the new approach has provided the students with a unique experience in learn-ing technical knowledge through mutual instruction, and a sense of accomplishment resulting from completion of an entire process from research topic selection to the presentation of research findings. Thus, the new approach was sufficiently success-ful in nourishing the students' ability to think independently and stimulating their willingness to learn. Some examples of creative thinking and ingenuity produced in the actual research and development process were also presented, and active efforts were made to use the Internet effectively for information gathering, which indicates the flexibility of students in meeting the new challenges.

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We found a problem that students, who have enough knowledge, can not utilize their knowledge for actual problem. From 1993, we have an additional exercise in actual adaptive area for a few 4th grade students. The exercise is to make a toy car with optical sensor and its controller software running on a workstation. We also held a few review meeting to guide them.

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It is very important to activate a technical high school. However, there is almost no way for its students to enter the national university. Therefore, we thought that we should prepare an entrance examination system which fits their educational background in order to activate technical high schools on the one hand and national universities on the other in the long run.
We began to admit some technical high school students into the Faculty of Engineering in 1995. We started supplementary lessons, surveyed their records, and collected the voices both from the students who attended them and from the teachers in charge. This survey shows that their records are almost the same as the average records of the other students.

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