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Research paper−124−Synthesiology - English edition Vol.3 No.2 pp.124-139 (Sep. 2010) different categories and scales, such as the safety issues, environment issues, and the system and the relationship of various elements that compose the system. It is necessary to grasp the relationship among the systems, to systematize the transdisciplinary academics to design a whole system, and to provide education from the perspective of the integration of the system. However, sufficient education has not been provided in Japan on the method of problem solving across several different disciplines that may occur in the development and the operation of the diverse products in industry.In Europe and the United States, systems engineering has played a certain role in problem solving across several different disciplines. In Japan, systems engineering is understood narrowly as engineering for the IT systems, but it is actually engineering for the analysis and synthesis of all systems including mechanical, IT, and social systems. According to the international society for systems engineering, International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), systems engineering is defined as “a method and approach that stretch across several disciplines to realize a system successfully”[4]. Particularly in the United States, the education for the systems engineering defined by INCOSE is systematically practiced in 75 universities and graduate schools including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Naval Academy, and Air Force Institute of Technology[5].In providing the education at universities and graduate schools, it is necessary to perceive the demands of the 1 IntroductionThe Japanese universities and graduate schools mainly provide “the education for single disciplines” and “Type 1 Basic Research, which is a research to strategically discover, clarify, and formulate universal knowledge by investigating an unknown phenomenon[1]”. The conventional education and research have been effective for training people with highly specialized knowledge over the years. However, the specialization and segmentation of discipline may not be appropriate for training people who can respond to issues that may stretch across different fields[2].On the other hand, some of the recently instigated systems are producing various problems that cannot be dealt with by specialized and segmented disciplines. For example, there are difficulties in dealing with the unforeseen accidents and failures that may occur in the power generation system and aerospace system, or there are difficulties in safety design in the development of automobiles and robots. These difficulties emerge because of the increased size and complexity of the systems[3]. At the same time, the issues of earth environment, which was created as a side effect of the culture of modern science and technology, have become the most urgent issues in modern society. This means that it is difficult to design a system appropriately, if the issues of safety in the individual system and the issues of earth environment are dealt separately. To realize a system that can concurrently solve the issues of different time-space dimension, as exemplified by safety and symbiosis, it is necessary to accurately understand the complex interaction between the diverse values that have - Developing leaders of large-scale complex systems -Naohiko Kohtake*, Takashi Maeno, Hidekazu Nishimura and Yoshiaki OhkamiKeio University Kyoseikan, 4-1-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8526, Japan *E-mail : Original manuscript received November 6, 2009, Revisions received March 23, 2010, Accepted March 24, 2010“System Design and Management” program, a study that integrates humanities and sciences by crossing many disciplines, is essential to foster talented persons who can lead in the development and operation of large-scale complex systems that are symbiotic, safe and secure. The subject of the new graduate school education is large-scale complex technological and social systems, with an education curriculum that provides practically oriented lectures through which students can acquire the capacity to consider systems, the faculty to design systems in line with system life cycles, and the ability for system management. By collaborating with industries and related stakeholders such as domestic and international educational research institutions, we designed an educational curriculum and recruited faculty members, developed educational facilities and research centers, recruited students, provided education, and moreover designed the method of publishing accomplishments. As for the establishment of the graduate school in April 2008, the educational curriculum was formed to provide students with opportunities to acquire must-learn capability and knowledge that were classified into six groups. The validity of the education method was confirmed based on verification of the students’ self-evaluation, evaluation by the external evaluation committee and accomplishments by students such as papers, after the first two years of graduate education.Graduate education for multi-disciplinary system design and managementKeywords : System design and management, large-scale complex system, multi-disciplinary[Translation from Synthesiology, Vol.3, No.2, p.112-126 (2010)]

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