Innovating on Japanese Cooperative Education in Miyagi National College of Technology
Innovating on Japanese Cooperative Education in Miyagi National College of Technology
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宫城工业专门学校的中日合作办学创新
DOI:
10.4307/jsee.56.3_74
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发表时间:
2008
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通讯作者:
Y. Utsumi
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作者:
S. Ikeda;M. Itoh;Tomio Nakamura;Katsuhiko Suzuki;Y. Utsumi
The work integrated learning (WIL) is quite essential for students of engineer education to solve the various problems in manufacturing products. The term of the Japanese internship for students is too short to bridge the gap of “School to Work” . As the cooperative education (CE) systems, like the German “Dual-systems” , in western countries are very different from the internship in Japan, there are many kinds of difficulties to be overcome before adopting them. Miyagi National College of Technology (MNCT) has innovated in a new program to establish CE systems regularly in Japan. This time, two teams, made up from not only the institution but also administrations and companies, were delegated for benchmarking after European WACE (World Association for CE) countries, i.e. UK, Sweden, Finland, and Germany. The concept of the Engineer Training Center (ETC, or “TORESEN” ) , that will be offered thorough CE in order to bring up students to “expert engineers” , was proposed. This has another major scheme that is a grassroots program to produce “good teachers” as a faculty development (FD) program.