2018 UQ-JPIE

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UQ-JPIE（The University of Queensland-Japanese Program for Industry Experience) 2018

Program

This was an intensive 2-week program supported by the New Colombo Plan of the Australian government and held in July 2018, designed to give selected Australian student engineers from the University of Queensland the opportunity to learn about the world-leading research and industries of Japan. During this program, 20 students attended seminars on cutting-edge engineering research at Kyushu University and conducted visits to leading Japanese industries, either based or with a large presence in the Kyushu area, such as TOYOTA MOTOR KYUSHU,Inc. and YASKAWA Electric Corporation. Furthermore, the students had the opportunity to study about Japanese Business Culture and become familiar with the Kyushu area in general.

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony was held on Monday 2nd of July. Distinguished guests present included Mr. Ian Brazier, Australian Consul-General Fukuoka.

 (left) President of Kyushu University, Dr. Chiharu Kubo, gives a speech at the opening ceremony
(right) Australian Consul-General Fukuoka, Mr Ian Brazier, gives a speech at the opening ceremony

Prof. Sho Matsumura,Vice Dean, Faculty of Engineering  
Prof Yoshimi Sonoda,Vice Dean, Faculty of Engineering

UQ Students

Welcome Party

A small lunch-party held after the ceremony to welcome the students.

Prof Masato Wakayama,Executive Vice President, Kyushu University
Representative of UQ students and KU students
Representative of UQ students and KU students

At the Welcome party

Plenary Lecture

Australian Consul-General Fukuoka, Mr Ian Brazier lectured about the connection of Australian and Kyushu economics. UQ students had the opportunity to learn important background information about industry of the Kyushu area linked to Australia.


Lectured by Mr. Ian Brazier, Australian Consul-General Fukuoka

Industry pre-visit seminars

To prepare students for site visits, a series of 5 lectures from faculty specialist in relevant areas were given, such as a seminar about the Shipbuilding by Prof. Koji Gotoh. Here students were able to gain important background understanding to enable them to get the most out of their industrial visits.

Prof Hazarika Hemanta gave a lecture about the research of cascaded recycling of scrap tires.
Prof Koji Gotoh gave students an introduction to LNG carriers and hull construction, prior to the visit to the Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

（left）Prof Ryo Kurazume gave a lecture on Robotics（right） Students had a lab tour with Assistant. Prof Tatsuya Morikawa

World-leading research at Kyushu University

To exemplify the world-leading research being carried out at the School and Faculty of Engineering, students attended a number of seminars and lab visits with leading faculty members, including an introduction about the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) with Prof Chihaya Adachi and an overview of the Ultramicroscopy Research Center with Prof Syo Matsumura.

Prof Chihaya Adachi gave a lecture on [OPERA].

Dr Potscavage explained to students during a tour of [OPERA].

Prof Joichi Sugimura gave a lecture on [HYDROGENIUS].

Prof Syo Matsumura gave a lecture about electron microscopy research being carried out at Kyushu University

Assoc. Prof Stephen Lyth gave a lecture on [I2CNER] & [Q-PIT]

Students gather for a group photo with Assoc. prof Stephen Lyth

Prof Shigeru Aso gave a lecture about recent study on the space transportation system.

Students had a lab tour with Assoc. Prof Yasuhiro Tani

Joint lecture with Q²PEC

The University of Queensland, Prof Kazuhiro Nogita gave a joint lecture for UQ students as well as Kyushu University students due to participate in the Q²PEC program in Australia next August. The lecture covered [solar and electric vehicles],as well as [university R&D between Australia and Japan].

Special lecture series on Japanese industry

In addition to lectures related to the specific industries to be visited by the students, Prof. Masamichi Kohno and Assoc. Prof. Kohei Higashikawa lectured about the history of Japanese industry and the management philosophy of Japanese manufacturing companies and its context in the modern era.

(left)Prof Masamichi Kohno  (right)Assoc. Prof Kohei Higashikawa

Special lectures on Japanese business customs

As part of its rich cultural heritage, Japan has developed a somewhat unique approach to inter-personal communication during business. In order to give students an in-depth understanding of the business customs of Japan and insight into their origins, Ms. Miwa Gen from the Association of Independent Entrepreneurs gave a lecture including many hands-on practise activities. The students were then able to apply the skills learnt when interacting with company representatives during site visits.

Ms. Miwa Gen with the UQ students following their lecture on Japanese business customs

Industry visits

In order to expose the visiting University of Queensland students to the wealth of industry that Japan, and particularly the Kyushu area, has to offer, a number of industry visits were arranged, including MITSUBISHI heavy Industries, Marine Structure Co., LTD., TOYOTA MOTOR KYUSHU, INC., BRIDGESTONE Kitakyushu Plant, TOTO LTD. and YASKAWA Electric Corporation.

(left)BRIDGESTONE Kitakyushu Plant  (right)TOYOTA MOTOR KYUSHU Inc.is home to the Lexus.

(left)TOTO Museum, showcasing the history of TOTO LTD. since its founding over 100 years ago.   (right)At the Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

Students compete against a robot in the YASKAWA Electric Corporation Miraikan

Special lecture on HAKATA GION YAMAKASA

Here the students had the opportunity to learn special knowledge and information of Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival. This festival was certificated as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage 2 years ago. Assoc. Prof Kohei Hatano gave a lecture on Hakata Gion Yamakasa. He joined Yamakasa festival as a member of team. After a lecture students had a short tour of the festival course on final day.

Assoc. Prof Shigero Aso gave a lecture about HAKATA GION YAMAKASA.

Introduction of KU student circle Planet-Q

Planet-Q is a student club for the study of the space development. The students from Planet-Q gave a presentation of their activities and works to UQ students.

Holding a Hybrid Rocket in their hands

Buddy Meeting

We arranged a special meeting for the participant of UQ-JPIE program2018 and Q²PEC program2018. Both programs aim for exchanging research and education expertise through student exchanges. This was great opportunity to build friendship between our two universities.

The1st UQ-KU Student Workshop

The 1st UQ-KU student workshop is held in this year. 5 groups of UQ students and 4 KU students shared their experience and perspective through the UQ-JPIE and Q²PEC program. Each group gave an comprehensive presentation of their 2-week stay, and the workshop was lively with many questions from the audience.

Closing ceremony

A closing ceremony was held and certificates of participation were awarded by the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Prof Yoshio Hisaeda.

(left)Prof Koichiro Watanabe,Vice president of Kyushu university, gave a speech at the closing ceremony  (right)One of the University of Queensland students is receiving their certificate of participation from Prof. Yoshio Hisaeda, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.

Farewell Luncheon

To mark the end of two busy weeks and celebrate the strengthened bond between parties in Japan and Australia, a farewell party was held. Students shared their experiences and thoughts with each other during the buffet lunch.

(left)Prof Sho Matsumura,,Vice Dean of Faculty of Engennering, gave a speech.  (right)The farewell luncheon marks on great opportunity for new friendship.

Thanks

The staff of the International Education Support Center for Engineering would like to sincerely thank the lecturers for their kind support of this program and the companies involved for allowing us to visit their factories and museums, helping to make this program a great success. We also thank the representatives and tour-guides for taking the time to introduce the facilities and answering questions from students. Special thanks are also directed to the distinguished guests and members of the Australian Consul-General Fukuoka who made time in their busy schedules to help inspire the visiting students and ensure that all could take home comprehensive understanding of Kyushu; both the University and the region as a whole. This year, despite starting under unusually poor weather conditions, the participating students were able to attend lectures and visit representative industries in Kyushu, covering a wide range of engineering fields. The students were able to gain a sense of the current status of Japanese engineering technology and the history of its development, as well as learning about Japanese business culture.

2018 NEEP

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The 2nd New Enhanced Education Program young faculty visit to the University of Queensland

The Faculty of Engineering at Kyushu University in cooperation with the Faculty of Agriculture, has been supported by the two-year New Enhanced Education Program (NEEP) since 2018, and has conducted overseas training for young teachers at the University of Queensland, Australia. Taking place on the St. Lucia campus in 2019, faculty members from the Faculty of Agriculture and Faculty of Engineering spent 5 days from the 16th to 20th of September at the University of Queensland. Continuing from last year, the purpose of this training was to help faculty learn how to teach STEM subjects interactively in English, and to learn about the latest teaching methods such as blended learning using ICT at the University of Queensland.

On the first day of the program, a workshop was held by UQ Mechanical and Mining Engineering faculty and hosted by the UQ-KU Project (University of Queensland-Kyushu University Research and Education Exchange; coordinator: Prof. Kazuhiro Nokita). Discussion between university teachers took place.

In the afternoon of each day, interactive lectures in English were conducted with the cooperation of the Institute for Continuing & TESOL Education (ICTE) and the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI). Intensive training was held.

During this training, two other lecture tours in the morning and a workshop entitled “A Blended Approach to Teaching and Learning” was held by staff of ITaLI.

On the last day, all participating faculty members conducted a micro-teaching model lecture, utilising what they had learned in the training, and then a certificate of completion was presented by Dr. Fiona Wiebusch; the senior teacher in charge of the curriculum. This was followed by a small party to celebrate completion.

Although it was a short five-day training, in a limited amount of time the faculty were able to learn many techniques for conducting interactive classes in English. According to the questionnaire after returning to Japan, they were very satisfied with the training content, and many respondents wanted to use what they learned immediately after returning to class the following semester at KU.

The 1st New Enhanced Education Program young faculty visit to the University of Queensland

From September the 17th to the 21st, 2018, the first New English Education Program conducted its first overseas training program for young academics at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia at the St. Lucia campus. A total of 12 academics took part, from the School of Agriculture (4) and School of Engineering (8).

The aim of the training was to master English-language interactive teaching of STEM subjects and learn more about the latest teaching techniques in use at the University of Queensland. This included lectures and hands-on experience of blended classrooms utilising information technology and other cutting-edge educational methods. The program was supported by the UQ-KU project (the University of Queensland – Kyushu University research and education exchange program; co-ordinator: Prof. Kazuhiro Nogita), the Institute of Continuing & TESOL Education (ICTE) and Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI). With this support the academics were able to experience high-quality training.

On the first day at UQ there was a welcome party at the school of mechanical & mining engineering, then every afternoon there were intensive classes on two-way communication style teaching. During the mornings visits to view two lectures at UQ were arranged, as well as a workshop from ITaLI faculty entitled “A blended approach to teaching and learning” and other demonstrations about cutting-edge e-learning methodologies from the Centre for eLearning Innovations and Partnerships in Science and Engineering (eLIPSE). On the final day all 12 academics were given the opportunity to demonstrate what they had learned by conducting a demonstration lesson.

Other areas of education training ongoing in partnership with the University of Queensland include the Q²PEC program, running since 2015, where Japanese students have the opportunity to stay at UQ for English-language training, and the University of Queensland-Japan Program for Industry Experience (UQ-JPIE), where UQ students visit Kyushu University and nearby industry, providing a wide range of opportunities for international exchange.

2017 UQ-JPIE

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The University of Queensland-Japan program for Industry Experience (UQ-JPIE)

Overview

This was an intensive 2-week program supported by the New Colombo Plan of the Australian government and held in July 2017, designed to give selected Australian student engineers from the University of Queensland the opportunity to learn about the world-leading research and industries of Japan. During this program, 15 students attended seminars on cutting-edge engineering research at Kyushu University and conducted visits to leading Japanese industries, either based or with a large presence in the Kyushu area, such as TOYOTA MOTOR KYUSHU,Inc. and YASKAWA Electric Corporation. Furthermore, the students had the opportunity to study about Japanese Business Culture and become familiar with the Kyushu area in general.

Opening Ceremony

The opening ceremony was held on Monday 3rd of July. Distinguished guests present included Prof. Chiharu Kubo, president of Kyushu University and Mr. Ian Brazier, Australian Consul-General Fukuoka.

(left) President of Kyushu University, Dr. Chiharu Kubo, gives a speech at the opening ceremony; (middle) Dean of the School of Engineering, Prof. Hiroshi Takamatsu, gives a speech at the opening ceremony; (right) A small lunch-party held after the ceremony to welcome the students.

Lectures: Industry pre-visit seminars

To prepare students for site visits, a series of 4 lectures from faculty specialist in relevant areas were given, such as a seminar about the Steel Industry by Prof. Ko-ichiro Ohno and Prof. Noritaka Saito. Here students were able to gain important background understanding to enable them to get the most out of their industrial visits.

(left) Students with Prof. Ryo Kurazume and a robot during the robotics pre-visit seminar; (right) A demonstration during the seminar by Prof. Katsuro Hayashi about ceramic technology.

Prof. Koji Gotoh gives students an introduction to LNG carriers and hull construction, prior to the visit to the Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

Lectures: World-leading research at Kyushu University

To exemplify the world-leading research being carried out at the School and Faculty of Engineering, students attended a number of seminars and lab visits with leading faculty members, including an introduction to urban Engineering and management with Prof. Shunsuke Managi and an overview of the mining history of Japan with Prof. Koichiro Watanabe.

(left) Dr. Potscavage explains to students during a tour of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA); (right) Prof. Syo Matsumura gives a lecture about electron microscopy research being carried out at Kyushu University.

Students have a lab tour with Assoc. Prof. Stephen Lyth, including a visit to Hydrogen storage facilities.

Special lecture series on Japanese industry

In addition to lectures related to the specific industries to be visited by the students, Prof. Kazuhide Ohta gave a 5-part mini course covering the history of Japanese industry and its context in the modern era.

Professor Kazuhide Ohta gives a lecture on Japanese industry.

Special lectures on Japanese business customs

As part of its rich cultural heritage, Japan has developed a somewhat unique approach to inter-personal communication during business. In order to give students an in-depth understanding of the business customs of Japan and insight into their origins, Ms. Miwa Gen from the Association of Independent Entrepreneurs gave a double-lecture including many hands-on practise activities. The students were then able to apply the skills learnt when interacting with company representatives during site visits.

Ms. Miwa Gen (center) with the University of Queensland students following their lecture on Japanese business customs.

Visit to the Kyushu Economic Federation

In order to gain in-depth knowledge about industry in the Kyushu region, students were kindly welcomed by the Kyushu Economic Federation in Tenjin to take part in the Kyushu Experience and Explore Program. Here the students had the opportunity to learn important background information not only about the Kyushu area and its industry but also its links to Australia, as outlined including a lecture by Mr. Ian Brazier of the Australian Consul-General Fukuoka. Time was also given over to free discussion and networking.

Mr. Masaki Nishi from Kyushu Electric Power Co., INC., gives a short lecture on the energy services business sector.

Students gather for a group photo with the Mr. Yutaka Aso, Chairman of the Kyushu Economic Federation (front row, third from left), Mr. Masaki Nishi of Kyushu Electric Power Co., INC. (far left) as well as Prof. John Chen, director of the International Education Support Center for Engineering at Kyushu University (far right).

Industry visits

In order to expose the visiting University of Queensland students to the wealth of industry that Japan, and particularly the Kyushu area, has to offer, a number of industry visits were arranged, including Hitachi Ltd. Rail System Company, Kasado Works and TOYOTA MOTOR KYUSHU, INC.

(left) Students compete against a robot in the YASKAWA Electric Corporation Miraikan; (right) Group photo at Hitachi Ltd. Rail System Company, Kasado Works.

TOYOTA MOTOR KYUSHU, INC. is home to the Lexus, and students had the opportunity to see this car being produced and learn about the philosophies underlying the construction process.

Students not only had the opportunity to visit the TOTO LTD. to see the ceramic products being built, but also had a tour of the recently-opened  TOTO museum, showcasing the history of TOTO LTD. since its founding over 100 years ago.

Students pose with large cranes at the Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
Students also had the opportunity to visit NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION YAHATA WORKS in Kitakyushu city.

Introduction to the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering course at Kyushu University

In addition to learning about the wide variety of industry in Japan, students also learned about the host institution, Kyushu University, and the courses and laboratories in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

Prof. Shigero Aso gives an overview of the Mechanical and Aerospace course on offer Kyushu University

Special lecture by Prof. David Mee of the University of Queensland

Prof. David Mee of the University of Queensland gave a special lecture to Kyushu University Aerospace students.

Prof. David Mee gives a special lecture to Kyushu University students.

Group presentations and closing ceremony

University of Queensland students were given the opportunity to make a short presentation about their thoughts and experiences during their two week stay in Japan. In addition, a closing ceremony was held and certificates of participation were awarded by the Director of the International Education Support Center for Engineering, Prof. John Chen. This was followed by a short farewell party.

(left) Students from the University of Queensland reflect on their 2-week experience on the JPIE program; (right) One of the University of Queensland students receiving their certificate of participation from Prof. John Chen, Director of the International Education Support Center for Engineering.

Farewell party

To mark the end of two busy weeks and celebrate the strengthened bond between parties in Japan and Australia, a farewell party was held.

Students share their experiences and thoughts with each other during the buffet lunch.
The farewell party marks an opportunity for new friends to exchange gifts.
Participants of the farewell party gather for a final group photo.

Thanks

The staff of the International Education Support Center for Engineering would like to sincerely thank the lecturers for their kind support of this program and the companies involved for allowing us to visit their factories and museums, helping to make this program a great success. We also thank the representatives and tour-guides for taking the time to introduce the facilities and answering questions from students. Special thanks are also directed to the distinguished guests and members of the Kyushu Economic Federation who made time in their busy schedules to help inspire the visiting students and ensure that all could take home comprehensive understanding of Kyushu; both the University and the region as a whole.