Coming July a group of 20 honours programme students from Delft University of Technology will visit Tokyo to find out how Japanâs engineering education is keeping up with the rapidly changing engineering world. They will visit and interview technical companies and Tokyo Institute of Technology and will deliver a report to 4TU.CEE with their findings.
Tokyo
Sander Leussink, Board member of Honours Platform Delft, is looking forward to the trip. âEvery year our platform organises a study tour. This year we wanted to visit Tokyo since it is the biggest and one of the most advanced technical cities in the world with thriving engineering businesses. We did not just want to go and have a fun trip, we also wanted to make ourselves useful by doing research. This is where Birgit de Bruin of the TU Delft University Fund brought us into contact with Aldert Kamp, 4TU.CEE coordinator for TU Delft and Director of Education at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. With his booklet âEngineering education in a rapidly changing worldâ he inspired us to find out how Japan is dealing with future challenges in engineering education, to discover whether they are coping with similar issues as we are hereâ, says Leussink.
Research subjects
During a project kick-off day, to be held on 20 May, the selected students will get to know each other, dive into research topics and draft research questions. All faculties are represented in the group of students that will be looking at five research themes, such as âinterdisciplinary system thinkingâ and âintrapreneurshipâ. Leussink: âWe hope to give insight in what technical companies in Japan, or even broader in Asia, are looking for in future engineers and how Asian universities of technology are responding to thisâ.