The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) has played a central role in shaping the content of American engineering education over the last 120 years. It was founded as the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education in 1893 due to the growth in the number of American engineering schools in the late 19th century. This growth was due in large part to the passage in 1862 of the Morrill Act, also known as the Land Grant College Act. As a result, the number of American engineering schools nearly trip led between 1860 and 1872, and enrollment continued to grow over the next several decades. Since these engineering schools were state rather than federal institutions, their offerings were highly diverse in content and method of instruction. A primary focus of the ASEE in its early years was to establish common educational standards to help unify the engineering profession. The ASEE was successful in these efforts, and the Society's current role in accreditation grew out of those efforts.

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Globalisation has penetrated all areas of contemporary society, and higher education (HE) is no exception. Universities worldwide are under pressure to seek ways to compete globally and identify what elements they should adjust or create and how. This paper discusses employability; i.e., the skills and capabilities required by human resources for the future sustainable global society. It first compares the three eras of globalisation, the expansion of trade/territorial space, that of cyber/(e)-financial space, and emerging third era, 'sustainable globalisation.' It then presents the human resources / employability skills necessary to realise sustainable globalisation, emphasising the necessity of the participation of young individuals in creating new work models. The paper will close by discussing the future issues for HE, industry, government and community in ensuring the sustainable society and nature.

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The modern globalization of the economy extends itself to social systems as well as the globalization of culture, and the promotion of international interaction becomes more crucial to Japanese universities. In this circumstance, the acceptance of international students from Southeast Asian countries in particular is essential not only from the view point of conventional support but also for the continued development of Asian countries. Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT) started an international joint graduate level education program, so called Hybrid Twinning Program (HTP), in 2005 with partner universities in Southeast Asian countries. After starting HTP, South East Asian Technical University Consortium (SEATUC) was established among partner universities and SIT in 2006 to strengthen academic relations. SEATUC holds a meeting and a technical symposium annually, aiming for comprehensive exchange activities among partner universities. The activities in SEATUC, which are discussed annually at a meeting, are expanding.

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The global knowledge economy has never been of greater importance and PhD graduates are expected to contribute to society not only as academics but also as highly skilled research staff in wider society. The industrial sector needs to develop technologies and expand into new business globally and universities are increasingly required to produce researchers with the skills required by global society. What can be done at institutional, national and international level to promote the value and appeal of a doctorate in a globalised world and to produce PhD graduates who can create new roles in wider society? What is the skill set required by "global researchers"? How should universities embed training and development in the research environment in order to produce global researchers? The importance of these issues is becoming increasingly felt by the government, university and business sectors of many countries which are thriving to be competitive in a global economy. This paper will look at some programmes initiated by British organisations for PhD students and researchers in an effort to address these challenges.

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The environment of IT industry is changing. I report the result that analyzed survey data based on IT skill standard (ITSS) which IPA (INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY PROMOTION AGENCY) which is an affiliated organization of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established. I carried out the investigation for a software engineer individual. The numbers of people of the type of job in charge of demand analysis and a process including the definition of requirements of upper reaches increase when I watch the movement between the types of job if I become old. In other words the movement from application specialists to project managers and consultants is seen. This accords with a tendency of the career path of software engineers said conventionally. On the other hand, like IT specialists and IT architects, the type of job with a few outflows to other types of job relatively exists, too.

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Recently, the demerit of the mass education was pointed out. But, the individual counseling is difficult. When performing homogeneous education and evaluation, mass education is suitable. The design education in mechanical engineering is acquisition of a process which makes the trial calculation of the intensity calculation for manufacturing a machine part and a structure repeats feedback of form change and makes a size decision. This thinking method and process can expect an education effect broadly, without remaining in the lecture of a mechanical design, since it is widely applicable to a life at large. The process of the mechanical design has been the important educational process of forming the view over craftsmanship, through the discussion with a teacher, and the advice from a teacher. Therefore, individual consulting is desirable. There are about 70 participants of the mechanical design which we are teaching. Then, we developed the system for finishing individual consulting in school hours. This system was used for the lecture. As a result, it was found that About 300 persons' individual consulting was able to be performed. This paper describes the result of having individual consulting to about 70 participants within the time in a lesson using the developed system.

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A joint seminar that included an international symposium and several events sponsored by Muroran Institute of Technology in Japan and Chiang Mai University in Thailand was held in Hokkaido in January 2012. The title of the seminar and symposium was "Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Robotics, MIER2012." The prime objectives are to foster young engineers and collaborate on research and education, focusing on the development of science and technology in Asia. The seminar was conducted over ten days and included the symposium, which lasted two days. The seminar program consisted of academic and cultural events, included the following: lectures, presentations, and discussions offered by both universities as part of the international symposium; the exchange of technological information and original ideas; visits to the facilities of local industries and the university's laboratories; hands-on classes; study tours; homestays; and meetings. The students and professors of both universities actively exchanged their ideas and key information in English. This report briefly summarizes the activities of the seminar.

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The authors describe how an English for Science and Technology (EST) course at graduate level was offered to enhance the global awareness of engineering students. The EST course covered both strategies and tactics for writing a clear and logical research paper and the language forms of particular use for engineering-related communication. In addition, the course offered collaborative learning activities, such as simulated international conference sessions and in-class discussions. Students from various majors and six different Asian countries took the course. The authors developed a questionnaire to investigate whether the EST course effectively increased students' global awareness in engineering contexts. The questionnaire responses showed that the students had regarded the course as a good practicum for enhancing their communication skills and the awareness necessary to become a global engineer. In addition, they considered that taking the course with students from different backgrounds and various majors helped them develop a multifaceted point of view.

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In the higher education sector in Egypt, due to the growth of the youth population and generous tuition exemptions for all students of governmental university, the number of students per university has been increased and, as a result, most universities suffer from the difficulties to offer quality education and research environment. To improve this situation, in September, 2009, the Egyptian government established a new university, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (hereinafter refer to E-JUST) in Borg El-Arab City, Alexandria Governorate, with cooperation of Japan International Cooperation Agency (hereinafter refer to JICA) and twelve leading Japanese universities, among which Waseda University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kyoto University and Kyushu University are recognized as the direct-supervising universities. The concept of E-JUST is based on Japanese graduate engineering education and research such as research-oriented and laboratory-based learning. In this paper, the authors present the concept of E-JUST and supporting system from Japanese universities.

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The American educational goals for this 21st century stems from the proclamation by President Obama (October 1, 2009). Specifically, President Obama states that "rather than merely processing data, we must also learn the skills necessary to acquire, collate, and evaluate information for any given situation." As a call to action, respective educational leaders of America are implementing ways to address the inclusion of information literacy within existing educational curricula. While addressing recent key environmental concerns, this paper will also touch upon some ideas to standardize English literacy requirements at the Japanese university levels. By doing so, this may elevate and heighten critical thinking levels among Japanese students to realize the immediacy in preserving our Earth's biodiversity and in supporting ecological standards in the "greening" of our environments. As educators, this standardization would contribute in developing more eco-answers to the pressing questions that demand our attention for more global awareness.

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A set of class libraries is developed and applied to education of mechanics. The feature of this library set is for Java application including Java Applet, which is platform and OS independent and able to be connected in internet. While the current methodology for mechanical design is concentrated into Finite Element Method models, they are not applied to basic education for mechanics because of complexity of management. In this study, developed class libraries are found to be able to be applied to typical catalogues for beam model, and quiz system automatically generated by a server system. This both of usages for education and engineering application are called here as the hybrid library. The education system may be rearranging the knowledge base of engineer working for industries. Some tests in classroom can make confirmation for the applicability for education.

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OnCAL, the Online Corpus of Academic Lectures, was built using transcriptions downloaded from MIT Opencourseware and Stanford Engineering Everywhere to offer language support to teachers and students in science and engineering that are non-native speakers of English (NNS). OnCAL shows abundant examples of interactive language blended with technical content, the type of language needed by NNS teachers in science and engineering lectures. As of May 2012, the number of lecture transcriptions included in OnCAL is 466. The lectures were delivered in both undergraduate and graduate courses related to various fields in science and engineering: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, and Computer Science and Programming. The lectures included in the corpus correspond to a total class time of 397 hours, and contain 3.5 million words. As the adoption of English as the higher education medium of instruction spreads, an increasing number of NNS teachers and students may find in OnCAL useful support for their language needs.

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2011 Shibaura-Yonsei Joint MOT Seminar and, Workshop on International Development of Construction Industries by Korean and Japanese Construction Companies were held on September 19 and 20, 2011, at Yonsei University, Shinchon Campus in Seoul. Shibaura and Yonsei have been holding Joint MOT Seminars from 2008. at each university alternatively. Our Joint MOT Seminar series have been successful in cultivating MOT research and education at two universities, and we are hoping to develop the Southeast Asian MOT research and education to lead the world.

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For over 4000 years Materials has been important to mankind. Today Materials links Physics, Chemistry, Geo and Bio sciences, Environmental science and Engineering. This is why Materials can help solve the big problems of the future. It is important to get across to students both the history of the subject and its linking role in modern engineering practice. This talk will introduce some of the ways that we do this in our teaching. Aspects of the underlying physics of material properties are brought out using charts created (by the student, in many cases) using the CES EduPack software developed by Granta Design and now used by over 800 Universities and Colleges worldwide. The parallels and differences between man-made and natural materials is well illustrated by comparing charts of the properties of each, suggesting bio-inspired materials for engineering and engineered materials for bio-replacement. New CES EduPack developments dealing with Materials and the environment make connections between the chemistry of materials and the impact that making and using them has on the environment. The motive here is to supplement the more traditional approach to materials teaching with broader scans of the materials world, bringing out the richness and diversity and at the same time drawing out the connections that link them.

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Both the University of Tokyo (UT) and the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) have developed their own e-learning system over the past years, and are in the process of creating educational content for these systems. At both universities, students create these new e-learning modules in courses or as part of their research, under the guidance and supervision of teaching staff. This integrated approach of creating teaching materials and teaching students at the same time has several advantages, but of course also poses some challenges. The UT and UCB have been exchanging their strategies and experiences regarding this process, and found many similarities, which we believe will be useful to share with others involved with the creation of e-learning materials.

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In this study, the civil engineering education in "Specialist School of Business" from the Meiji period to Showa period is focused on. Specially, to focus the considerations on the time that teachers are changed from "the civil engineers that received a civil engineering education by employed foreigners" to "the civil engineers that an education by Japanese engineers." Materials of this study are the graduation theses about 1,000 students from 1901 to 1938. The processes of this study are following: The first, these were constructed of database and arranged to analyze the changes of targets. The second, the civil engineering educations in those schools were divided three terms. The last, the validity of them based on the changes of curriculums and teachers was discussed. Then, the features of the civil engineering educations in those schools were guessed every term.

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We designed a new program to foster engineers who can contribute to the global society as a sub-major program in the graduate school of engineering. The competences required for the global engineers are the management of technology, multi-faceted engineering perspectives, and meta-national competence. The term "meta-national" was first introduced in the field of economics, and stands for the ability to appreciate and respect professional and cultural diversity in multinational environments, and hence the meta-national competence is required for the engineers who can function in a global team. The sub-major program consists of seven subjects related to the technological management and innovation in addition to the subject focused on teaching technical English. These subjects are all taught in English in a class where Japanese and foreign students with multi-nationalities join together. According to the survey, all the students who completed the sub-major course were satisfied with the program, and acquired new viewpoints for their career plan, which suggests that the program was successful.

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Japanese government launched a project to promote the increase of international students to 300,000 by the year 2020 and 450,000 by 2025. This project encourages Japanese universities to develop and enhance their curricula to be internationally competitive by obtaining the excellent international students as well as the stability of management. Among the Asian engineering students to Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan dominated the student number to give an 80% account to the total number. Considering the number of Asian engineering students studying in Japan, Japanese Society of Engineering Education (JSEE) should take initiative in Association for Engineering Education in Southeast and East Asia and the Pacific (AEESEAP) in order to provide high quality education service for the Asian engineering students.

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Together with leaderless G-zero world, the main powers of world economic activity and the industrial structure is being rapidly changed and reorganized. The engineering education also has to position in this world changing to improve the nation's competitiveness in global market. Anytime-anywhere mobile internet accessibility has made the private ownership of knowledge change to the good of the common people. Thus, the education of engineering, which creates values and goods from the knowledge and technology, focuses on glowing global leading engineers who can make the creative knowledge production by reorganizing existing units. For the vigorous interchanges of knowledge, the construction of open-source based on open-platform is essentially demanded. South Korea's National Statistics Office found that about 99% of Koreans expect to have a higher degree than Associate. This high demand for tertiary education has been a driving force nurturing Korean engineering education in both a quantitative and qualitative way. However, relevant statistics indicate that the change in educational circumstances-such as the reorganization of the industrial structure, the advent of new technologies, and the expectation of the population decreasing-requires new strategies to strengthen and substantialize engineering education. To address the future direction of Korean engineering education, major activities of engineering bodies are investigated, namely, (1) developing specialized engineering educational programs and methods, (2) strengthening academic-industrial cooperation, and (3) improving the education evaluation system and administrative system. The current Korean government's objective in higher education can be simplified in three aspects: (1) to reinforce educational competitiveness, (2) to raise the autonomy of education institutions, and (3) to nurture research competencies. As for educational institutions, three aspects of their efforts and achievements to develop customized engineering education systems reflecting regional characteristics will be presented in three aspects: educational program, teaching method, and education evaluations. Additionally, activities of the Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea to ensure the quality of education programs will be described. At last, the Korean Society for Engineering Education is introduced to emphasize its role in improving and maintaining the engineering educational system.

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