Last summer a group of 20 honours programme students from Delft University of Technology visited Tokyo to find out how Japan’s engineering education is keeping up with the rapidly changing engineering world. They visited and interviewed technical companies and Tokyo Institute of Technology and discussed themes such as interdisciplinary systems thinking, intrapreneurship and personal leadership. The report with their findings is now available.
Western vision
Aldert Kamp, 4TU.CEE coordinator for TU Delft inspired the students with his booklet ‘Engineering education in a rapidly changing world’. It made them want to find how Japan is dealing with future challenges in engineering education, to discover whether they are coping with similar issues as we are here. Kamp: ‘Our vision on future engineering education is mainly based on knowledge and insights in the Western world. It is interesting to see whether and how this picture fits in with our diverse student population. In the coming years similar research might be carried out by honours students in different regions, that are not necessarily covered in our Western vision on a changing engineering world.’