Compulsory subjects, mechanical drawings I and II, have been opened in the author's department of mechanical engineering. The subject of mechanical drawings II was divided in two in 2003, one was a compulsory subject and the other an optional subject. Reduction of lesson hours means a lowering in students' scholarship, namely students who can not understand the mechanical drawings will be graduated. Several changes deriving from the change from compulsory subject to an optional subject will be reported in this article. Moreover, an ill effect of decision by majority and professor's ethics will be discussed.

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Recently, creativity education has been required in Colleges of Technology. Kushiro National College of Technology has set up a new course ("all-departments creativity education course") based on hands-on education in order to promote the second grade students. In the new course, all the students of the five departments were divided into several groups composed of almost equal numbers of each department. Every student had to choose two from ten themes prepared by the teachers and to complete each of those every half years. Moreover, we have arranged a new type of laboratory ("Souzou Lab") to enhance a unique and creative faculty for designing, doing experiments and producing useful things. The questionnaire confirmed the effect of our course on creativity education.

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This paper focuses on cross-curricular engineering education system capable of remarkable improvement in the education programs that synthesize effective concepts and features of a futuristic education system. The engineering education program is well-performed with a better way which aims to comply with manufacturing skills, information and management science technology. An experimental report focusing on optimal product design and rapid digital prototyping is suggested.

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At the training of Web programming, especially Server side programming, the experiments of trial and error play important role. In this paper, the authors describes an outline of WebASES, that stands for Web Aided Server side script Educational System, and its effectiveness of applying to a lecture "network programming and practices." By using WebASES at the internet programming training, not only teachers could get sufficient environment for the educations, but also students could get enough times to challenging new technologies.

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In JABEE self-inspection, it is important to evaluate students' level of achievement vis-á-vis learning and educational objectives. In the civil and environmental engineering program of Kumamoto University, students self-evaluate their comprehension level for three most important items in each subject of the program. Based on their evaluation, two indexes that reflect the comprehension level and learning hours were designed. Then, it was examined whether the program's credits follow an appropriate quality and quantity of learning by using these indexes.

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Hydraulics is considered as a difficult subject for undergraduate students in civil engineering, although it is the basic subject for understanding the environmental issues. A compact ripple tank is made so that the undergraduate students may be easy to understand visually the basic properties of the water waves such as reflection and diffraction. The Digital contents for lecture are developed using the experimental images demonstrated with the ripple tank. The digital contents are composed of the animations of experimental images and are opened to public on the homepage. Both experiments using the ripple tank and studies using the digital contents improve understanding the basic properties of water waves.

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Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tokushima has carried out a new approach towards team working education in 3D CAD exercise class. This paper addresses the overview of design/drawing education in the department, and clarifies the role of CAD exercise class, of which curriculum has been redesigned at the end of 2002 and started in 2003. Presenting what we have done in the class and what we have obtained from the class, this paper discusses our approach in teamwork education. Starting from the toy-models which we have used in the 2003 class, we would like to employ actual industrial products in the next step under the collaboration with industrial partners.

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Basic teaching materials in monozukuri ("creating things") are not very effective at instilling motivation to study engineering among students today, who have grown up in the modern world surrounded by high-tech products. In order to stimulate interest in the study of engineering to such students, we propose teaching of monozukuri that incorporates both high-tech and low-tech approaches. In this paper, we report the results from educational trials of two sets of teaching materials, one high-tech and one low-tech. The high-tech materials project involved the creation of a digital terminal for the Personal Handy-phone System (PHS), and the low-tech materials project involved the creation of a crystal radio made from everyday items found in the home.

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The purpose of this study is to consider how to use the e-Learning system in the engineering design courses at Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT). The courses consist of two levels: Engineering Design I (ED I) and Engineering Design II (ED II). The former is taken by all freshmen during the second quarter, and the latter is taken by all sophomores during the sixth quarter. KIT's calendar has three 10-week quarters per year. The courses require students to participate in a team project from the problem discovery stage to the concept design stage. As the first e-Learning trial in the engineering design course, we introduce the collaboration-communication function of the e-Learning system to our ED I class. In this paper, we describe the students' activities in each engineering design process in situations where students can use the e-Learning system.

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