A modeling interview was conducted with Hiroshi Michiwaki, inventor of the “screw that does not loosen”, which has been a challenge for mankind for 2000 years. The purpose of this project is to contribute to the development of human resources who will follow in the footsteps of him and create one invention after another. His daily feelings, thoughts, beliefs, values, sense of mission, identity, and methodology were introduced for beginners. In addition, he himself summarized the 20 steps of invention as “Michiwaki′s Visionary Thinking” to reveal his background and philosophy. Through the interview, it was strongly suggested that (1) emotional education, (2) science education (including metacognitive education), and (3) the development of a society that respects the place of the mind and psychological safety are important to cultivate inventiveness. Cultivating inventive skills based on his visionary thinking could become one of the pillars of future education.

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We have developed a syllabus to inspire proficiency in project management by assigning students multiple small projects of increasing difficulty. This enables them to practice the knowledge they have learned outside of the classroom. After completing this syllabus for second-year students at Kinki University in FY2019, questionnaire responses showed that about 80% of the students became more enthusiastic about project management and gained confidence in utilizing what they had learned in the class. Furthermore, when we conducted this course in FY2020 and FY2021, the results were equivalent to those of FY2019.

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A portable flow single-drop extraction system was prepared as an educational tool for facilitating the connection between actual extraction behavior and theory. In this system, an aqueous dye solution is circulated through a ring-shaped extraction cell equipped with a droplet introduction unit and a flow cell for absorbance detection. The dye is extracted into a droplet in the extraction cell. This system enables simultaneous and continuous observation of the image of the droplet in the extraction cell and changes in absorption spectrum or absorbance over time on the same screen by using a USB camera. It was suggested that the material balance in the extraction can be calculated from the decrease in absorbance of the circulating dye solution and the absorbance of the droplet after the extraction.

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Since the majority of fires caused by the disaster was due to electric-related fires, it is possible to support the early restoration of a community and the functions of the electrical equipment of each household at the time of restoration if the individual residents from those households turn off the circuit breakers before evacuation. This paper presented the development of a new electrical disaster prevention education program for junior high school students to address the impact of electrical equipment and to enhance emergency response abilities during disasters. Moreover, this study focused on developing abilities to restore the entire community at an early stage, with attention to differences among students, i.e., junior high school and elementary school students. After incorporating the experiment into our electrical disaster prevention education program, it was observed that the psychological structure for disaster prevention of emergency response abilities of students decreased from four to three axes, fewer axes means that features of educational effectiveness can be extracted more easily.

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A CPU simulator that can design instruction sets has been developed. This simulator can use a stack. By using the stack, subroutine calls can be realized. The simulator also allows students to design their own instruction sets. The simulator simulates assembler programs using the instruction sets designed by the students. In addition, the simulator displayed the memory status in colors, making program execution easy to understand. After the Excel file was used in a class, a questionnaire survey was conducted. According to the results of the questionnaire survey, almost all students felt that this Excel file was very useful to understand computer architecture.

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Three different teaching methods were performed for basic laboratory class of first-year students in science and engineering school at Setsunan university as the infection control of COVID-19. In these classes, questionnaires were conducted to the students taking the class at before and after courses. The results of these questionnaires for three different class methods indicated that it was important for students to carry out face-to-face class. We propose that the information about academic education should be collected and shared for improving educational effects under future pandemics.

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Education for younger generations is important to develop future biomedical field in Japan. To attract them to the field, we conducted a hands-on external lecture on brain-machine interface (BMI), a communication interface using brain signals. The seminar contained a cartoon that introduced how to decide a research topic for the first time, a hands-on seminar to attach electroencephalography electrodes to staffs, spelling letters, and demonstrations of controlling a grasping robot and an autonomous driving robot via the BMI. This paper is to clarify how this hands-on external lecture was effective for participants based on questionnaires. As a result, 36 people participated in the seminar, including students in kindergarten, elementary school, and junior high-school, and their parents. About 80% of participants satisfied with the seminar. Especially the demonstration of an autonomous robot control using BMI was most attractive of all. The response of participants implied that this seminar give opportunity to touch the biomedical field and to think about their own future.

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A purpose of the engineering and resource science education is to bring up human resources of effective utilizing natural resources, considering environmental conservation for making sustainable society. As seen in the description of the course of study, the promotion of ESD is regarded as important in elementary and secondary education. Japan ranks second, after Chile, in the production of iodine in the world, and formation water in Minami-Kanto gas fields is the biggest supply source in Japan. The formation water can be substantially used for science education. However, the activation method of the formation water has not been well investigated. In this study, we developed the following teaching materials using the formation water in Minami-Kanto gas fields:1) extraction of iodine from the formation water and 2) making polarizing plates using the extracted iodine. We found that 18 L of the formation water was required to perform two experiments for one class: preliminary experiments and educational practice for university students. The teaching material developed has the potential to create interest in students not only in science experiments but also in engineering and resource science.

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The effectiveness of introducing freeware for bridge design into mechanic education was examined based on a questionnaire to students. It was found that the introduction of freeware for bridge design (Bridge Designer) as a teaching material for mechanic education and for self-study was effective for many students. Among the features of this software, the ability to visually check the stress state of members at arbitrary load positions and the ability to easily create arbitrary bridge structures were found to be of high interest. In addition, the fact that the software is free of charge and easily available is considered advantageous for its use by many students.

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This study aims to evaluate how satisfaction of technical training courses in in-house education was influenced by comprehension, goal achievement and training design factors: difficulties, trainers′ instruction ways, training materials and training volumes. Covariance structure analysis was conducted on questionnaire answer data from approximately 16,000 participants of training courses, which were classified into lecture and practical training types in comparison of face-to-face classes with online classes. The analysis revealed that goal achievement had a significant effect on satisfaction, and comprehension had an indirect effect on satisfaction through goal achievement. The influence of the training design factors on satisfaction, comprehension and goal achievement differed significantly with training types. In particular, the difficulties showed no significant effect on comprehension in online lecture-type trainings. This indicates subjective difficulties of online class participants may be different from those of face-to-face class participants.

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Project-Based Learning (PBL) is widely adopted in colleges of technology. Especially, comprehensive PBL including mechanical design and system development is considered to be effective. However, it essentially has problems such as long-term classes hours and excessive burden on teachers. In addition, many of the comprehensive PBL do not include process planning education, even though they are manufacturing education. In this study, we developed an advanced comprehensive PBL including process planning education, and proposed an educational method to implement it efficiently and intensively by efficient system development and online implementation. Furthermore, we implemented this in third- and fourth-year students of our college, and achieved an advanced and efficient comprehensive PBL. We also have shown that this program has a remarkable educational improvement effect compared to less specialized and limited PBL.

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In this study, we have improved and verified the CLIL, Content and Language Integrated Learning, lecture designed to create English interaction in the regular science class of engineering education. The main changes for the CLIL lecture of 2021 are the following three points. (1) Inclusion of presentation exercise, (2) Change the explanation method of grammar in lecture-based teaching, (3) The use of supplemental Japanese for English vocabulary. The first-year students at the National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Ube College took the CLIL lecture in the chemistry class. The results in 2021 improved compared to 2020 in both the score of the questionnaire and the pre and post tasks. The quantitative content analysis showed that the content of students′ reports changed to more specialized descriptions, such as the phenomenon and properties of chemistry. These improvements may be reflected by the impact of modified CLIL-based lectures that includes the presentation exercises.

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Kanazawa Institute of Technology applies PBL to the backbone of its curriculum, and names it Project Design Program to grow up students into independently minded and actively engaged engineers. Through the Project Design courses for freshmen and sophomores, students construct teams and carry out problem-finding and problem-solving activities. To solve the problem, they need to find out the true cause of the problem. Therefore we have introduced “Five Whys” into the Project Design courses to find out it efficiently. And we have developed the “Five Whys Cardgame” to make it easier to understand the concept of “Five Whys”. Furthermore, we applied the flipped classroom to improve understanding of the concept of “Five Whys”.

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Considering the relationship between mass education and the abilities required by society, face-to-face teaching methods using Zoom as a countermeasure against corona infection, the method to improve students′ awareness, and the grading method that does not rely on mid-term examinations and regular examinations are proposed and the effectiveness of the proposed results are discussed for the implementation of hydraulics and river environmental engineering in 2022.

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Robots are used in many industries, and it is important to educate students about robot technology. In order to utilize robots in industry, it is necessary to construct robot systems that combine arms, sensors, and other components. In addition, programming and sensor adjustment techniques are required to operate the robot. Therefore, we developed the educational tools using LEGO DUPLO and bread board that allow students to practice building robotic systems through a trial-and-error process. We report on the high educational effect of this tools in robot practice.

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In this paper, we describe an example of studying a partial differential equation by a student in a national institute of technology. Differential equation is important for scientific understanding various phenomena. However, it is not easy for students in lower grades to make full use of mathematics. Therefore, we attach importance to an engineering side of a problem and use relatively easy mathematical method. Moreover, this study is performed in environment equipped by the student, herself.

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We report on the research activities and exchange of views carried out in mathematics and science education project through high school-college collaboration from 2020 to 2021 during the COVID-19 crisis.

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When we solve a problem using mathematical methods, the validity of the solution must be verified with real data. In this case study, we describe a method constructed by a student to survey turfgrass growth using a drone with little effort and discuss the contrast between the actual data obtained and the results of a turfgrass model simulation. As a result, we expect that the conventional empirical model will be improved by the real data obtained with this method.

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We make a quantitative analysis of educational effects by the division of Mathematics of Academic Support Center using Decision Tree. A dependent variable is an examination score, and independent variables are frequencies of use of various learning methods in Academic Support Center. The Decision Tree shows which learning method influences the examination score, and shows to what extent the learning method does. It is observed that students who solve exercises that we have made tend to get higher scores in the examination of Differentiation than students who don′t. On the other hand, concerning the examination of Multiple Integration, it is observed that face-to-face personal assistance method is effective.

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