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Recently, innovations in the university education are reqired. In this parer, we discuss some problems for the improvements in the curiiculum and the teaching systems, and the introduction of the evaluation systems from the viewpoint of the engineering education.

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Japan has been enjoying a phase of stable economic expansion over the past few decades, but the structure of the demand and supply of natural resources remains vulnerable. Therefore it is indispensable to the future well-being of the economy to construct a solid strategy for the stable supply of natural resources.
For this reason mining engineers play important roles in various fields such as operations of domestic mines, development of overseas resources, overseas technical cooperation and so forth.
In this paper the present state of the demand and supply of natural resourses in Japan is briefly discussed. Emphasis is then placed on the critical necessity of preserving and maintaining a minimum number of mining engineers and the increasing importance of education of mining engineering at universities. Finally the philosophy and system of education of the Department of Mining Engineering of Kyushu University is introduced and the two international group trainig courses of Geothermal Energy and Coal Science and Technology which are both held by the Department are described.

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Students own volition to study and facultys own volition to do research are important in education at graduate and undergraduate schools. Causes of the obstruction or enhancement of volitions are discussed.

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In this paper, several to be considered concerning the engineering education in the undergraduate-, and the postgraduate-courses, especially in the scientific and technological field, are presented as the private opinion by the author. He emphasizes the following standpoints in it, that is,
i) the more clear distinction of their functional parts in both courses of university should be established.
ii) new looks have to be taken at their curricurums and education systems of both courses in order to raise creative abilities of students.
Finally, it is proposed to find out the best way derived from an essential standpoint for the engineering education based on the trends of high technology development in the coming century.

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