Extracurricular activities are important for students’ learning and development. This paper reviews previous research on extracurricular activities and summarizes the learning and development of university students in extracurricular activities. It also discusses future research topics on extracurricular activities.

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This paper deals with the educational effects of co-curricular activities in Kanazawa Institute of Technology. We surveyed the differences between two student groups, participating the co-curricular activities or not, from two viewpoints of students’ academic achievements and generic skills such as communication skill, planning skill, and stress control or resilience skill. After statistical analysis, we find that the students who get involved in the co-curricular activities have better grade point average of academic achievement than the other students, but participating the activities does not affect academic achievements. We also find the collateral evidences that co-curricular activities can foster generic skills of students.

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In the School of Engineering at Tokyo University of Technology, we are promoting the “Education program to produce electric vehicles (EVs) driven by renewable energy” with the aim of enabling students to learn practical science through manufacturing. In this project, students in the School of Engineering produce EVs through extracurricular activities. In the last three years, we have participated in three off-campus races for energy conservation with small carts, and produced the first large-scale EV in cooperation with three departments in the School of Engineering. The following measures have been taken to maintain the motivation of the students : leader meetings to unify the goals of teachers and students, coordination between teachers and leaders, participation in off-campus competitions, and social gatherings that are fun for the participants.

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Many university, technical high school and technical college have been working on extracurricular activities in engineering fields. One of these activities, electric car project, as a good opportunity to experience of engineering design and manufacturing process. Kumamoto University has participated in the race as activity named ECR project. The student project was started up in 2008 for the purpose of enlightenment of engineering design and manufacturing activity. At the starting of project, machine was designed by graduate students because it is difficult for undergraduates. On the other hand, teacher and technical staff supported the team as educational program development project of active learning. The program was named “education program for necessary engineering skill in product development”, and the educational effect was confirmed by good performance in the race by undergraduate students as subject target of the program.

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Since 2015, Mazda Motor Corporation has planned and practiced human capital development internship in collaboration with universities and technical college in Hiroshima. Focusing on “high aspirations and practical skills”, we have devised original programs and tools, and 841 college students have participated in the last 5 years. And training effects such as deepening the view of work and clarifying aspirations are also apparent. This paper introduces the details of the internship efforts and the results of 2019.

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In 2019, the multipurpose workshop “Hazamaru Kobo” having two booths was established in the facility. Various kinds of equipment were implemented for creative extracurricular activity for the KOSEN student. The workshop has been managed by technical staffs, and students who have beforehand taken the instruction course to use the workshop safety can utilize the workshop with their strong interests in manufacturing. In order to make sure the effectiveness of the workshop for the creative manufacturing, we interviewed students who used the “Hazamaru Kobo” in the social implementation education class. It was found that KOSEN students have been using the workshop as one of the opportunities to feel the importance of manufacturing with their own idea. Actually, it was also found that “Hazamaru Kobo” is a promising workshop to proceed our social implementation education. It is therefore expected that the extracurricular activity for the self-learning in “Hazamaru Kobo” will lead to the development of innovative human resources that cannot be achieved by classroom lectures alone.

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This paper reports the educative effect of the student support projects in Salesian Polytechnic Dept. of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering (M.E.). Recently, the drop in student’ s basic scholastic attainments becomes a problem. We started the student support project as an original approach of M.E. department. The student support project is composed of the hands-on education course and the qualification acquisition course. The hands-on education course studies the basic circuit that can be applied to the robot and the electric vehicle. The qualification acquisition course executes lectures by the invited professional engineers. Students who have acquired basic knowledge will challenge many contests. Recent activities have expanded to overseas collaboration and industry-academia-government collaboration. In this paper, outline of the educative effects of this student support project is clarified.

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The Asia Steel Bridge Competition has provided opportunities to learn bridge design, construction and so on for civil engineering students, and therefore the students can integrate their knowledge through participating the Competition; structural planning, designing, drawing, manufacturing, construction skills, presentation through the process of constructing small-size steel bridges. The competition also provides opportunities to exchange experience and ideas from different cultures for the students. This paper presents engineering education and its future prospect for Gifu University’s civil engineering students in this decade through the participation in Asia Steel Bridge Competition.

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ETRobcon (Embedded Technology software design robot contest) has held to disseminate modeling using UML (Unified modeling language) to embedded software engineers through the PBL of robot development. Nowadays, a lot of new technologies such as AI, IoT, image processing are essential to create new business. ETRobocon has been changing the subjects to give the participants the chance to try new technologies. This paper describes the changes in ETRobocon and its effect.

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The university’s club activities are motivated by pure curiosity and are not frequently discussed in the context of engineering education. However, individual interest can be the most vital driving force to grow up as a young engineer. This report introduces Society for the Study of Robotics at Tokyo Institute of Technology and discusses its relation to engineering education.

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Since 2006, we have established the “Student Project Center” as a place where students can cultivate practical abilities. The “four abilities” that Tokai University will nurture in order to increase abilities of our degree and the practical abilities of our student. There are “The ability to think independently”, “The ability to connect with others”, “The ability to tackle challenges”, “The ability to accomplish goals”. In 2019, almost 2000 students have participated in 39 projects. A progress report on generic skill (PROG) was able to measure their “four abilities”.

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Calculation tasks consist of reading, calculating, and writing. The purpose of this study is to clarify the students with a great number of response mechanisms, based on the amount of work, using the Kraepelin test as a model. For this purpose, it has been proposed to create bubble diagrams by classifying them into “writing” and “non-writing” (reading and calculating, pre-reading) tasks by combining eye movements and images. Based on the results obtained by this method, it was clarified that the students with great numbers of answers had less variance in fixation time of “non-writing” (especially in calculating), and “while writing” pre-reading was performed at the timing of writing beginning. Finally, for the students responding to the Kraepelin Metronome rhythm test or repeating the same problem, the eye movements were examined. It was clarified that the pre-reading occurs due to timing and calculating including memory.

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This paper discusses the practice of the “English Extensive Reading & Listening Marathon,” a learning activity that aims to enhance in-class English education by linking it with out-of-class autonomous learning activities. It uses the extensive reading (ER) practice as a foundation. In implementing the practice, ER activities were employed as a part of an English class in order to encourage students to read on their own. An English reading circle was also created to support the practice. The related voluntary, after-school activities were planned and run by the students themselves with guidance from the authors. The collaborative effort between teachers and students was effective in autonomous English learning, resulting in an increase in the average reading volume of the students. Four students attained the goal of reading 300,000 words in a year.

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In order to deal with the problem that the number of engineers and designers who are no longer able to think about themselves is increasing, we planned a “thinking practice workshop” using actual experiments and practiced it for university students. We set up four thinking scenes, actually thought and discussed each one. From the result of questionnaire, it was confirmed that the desired effect was achieved. It can be said that this workshop, including the result of practical cases in the company, is useful for engineers and designers to acquire the way to think through themselves.

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Hokkaido Prefectural Police and NIT Tomakomai College signed a contract about student nurture in cyber security field in 2018. After the contract, we have started collaborated cyber security education. Hokkaido Prefectural Police has spoken to students about cyber security, usage of social network service and cyber security crime. In NIT Tomakomai College, some computer science and engineering course students developed and studied some contents related to cyber security. In this paper, we report the cyber security education in 2018 and 2019.

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