Because a typical discussion among the Japanese tends to regard a denial of one' s opinion as a denial of character, a new method called 'Assent-Dissent Discussion' is proposed in this paper. The method is composed of the following three steps or procedures:
1) First, to confirm 'assent' opinions, and accept mutual characters as those,
2) Second, to pick up and classify 'dissent' opinions and clarify reasons of the difference, and
3) Third, to sublate the 'dissent' opinions.
Effectiveness of the method has been confirmed in the practical training and education fields in industries.
The method, fit for the Japanese society, is further useful for a knowledge creation in various kinds of group activities.

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A new subject named "Society and Engineers" to educate engineering students has been developed and about 2000 students have finished the classes in 11 terms. The objective of the subject is to make students think and understand by themselves how to study in the technical institutes by informing them of the importance of technical competency and ethics society requires and general education. Emphasis is placed on the report works in which students learn and think by themselves rather than limited discussion in the class. Although the subject covers a wide varieties of topics from current changing society to environments, details of engineers' jobs and ethics, the students show constructive and favorable responses to the program.

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It is no overstatement that Monotsukuri "production" is the starting point in mechanical engineering education. By experiencing monotsukuri, imagination is fostered and experience is acquired leading to a boost in confidence.
Though there is some significance that indulging a student without previous experience in production helps the student develop interest, however, the act itself becomes interesting to the extend that students will develop the false impression that mechanical engineering education is all about Monotsukuri "production" In consideration of the situation, one is left pondering the monotsukuri that is befitting to mechanical engineering education, the author has been groping for a theme that will interest students and also be beneficial as well. In this Paper, the production of a robot hand is undertaken as a practical means of educating through monotsukuri "production" and the achieved results are related.

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The aim of this paper is to report on the practice of creative education of intellectual property. Firstly, this paper introduces the educational method in which I get information from Industrial Property Digital Library and change it into database typed teaching materials and argues about the character of this method. Secondly, in order to examine its effect, I compare the results of the questionnaire on this method with those on the former method. The results show remarkable improvement in students' motivation. Lastly, I analyze 9918 time-sampled video pictures of the class. The results show that from 0.29 through 1.13 students in average taught one student without teacher's instruction. It can be said that this method effectively lets the students voluntarily teach each other.

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Distribution Method using Network-Infrastructures for Training and Learning is getting more popular in recent years. FUJITSU is filling up an effective Training and Learning environment with Learning Technologies. Combination between classroom instruction and the above distribution method is also attempted now. This paper describes the overview of Live Distance Learning, WEB based self-learning environment, and WEB based self-assessment environment.

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Image data from earth observation satellites like LANDSAT are widely utilized for a variety of practical purposes. Educational importance of satellite image data processing/analyzing is now greatly increased. A fundamental practice using TMSAT-1 images and a photo retouch software has been undertaken to evaluate their effective-ness from an educational point of view. Such a practice is easily to realize in teaching satellite image data processing because of its cost performance. Details of TMSAT-1 image data, contents, merits and demerits of the practice are described in this report.

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Three kinds of methods of education concerning engineering ethics were practiced in The Polytechnic University and in Kanagawa Institute of Technology. The first method is "the incorporating method" in which the matters concerning engineer-ing ethics are incorporated into any engineering subject. The second one is "the concentrating method" in which the lesson focused on the engineering ethics is given in a concentrated period. The third one is "the independent subject method" in which a subject concerning engineering ethics is set up and the lesson is given through half a year or one year. This report describes the composition and the contents of these three methods, evaluates them and makes clear the merits and the demerits of each method.

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Under the Joint Research Agreement between Kure National College of Technology (KNCT) and Maui Community College (MCC), we are now considering appropriate classroom management for the international exchange through E-mail and its place in our curriculum. Our previous study (1999) examined the KNCT students' attitudes towards this project. On the other hand, in this paper, 13 MCC students' attitudes towards our project were examined and reported from the same perspectives. The results are discussed according to the questionnaire items. In the end, several practical problems are pointed out for our further research.

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