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Research paper : Graduate education for multi-disciplinary system design and management (N. Kohtake et al.)−125−Synthesiology - English edition Vol.3 No.2 (2010) industrial world. According to the “Result of Questionnaire Survey on the Human Resources Wanted by the Companies”[6] of the Educational Issues Committee, Nippon Keidanren, the items shown in Table 1 are given as expectations for the human resource training at the universities and graduate schools of sciences. This is a questionnaire result of 520 companies on what they expect in terms of human resource training by the universities and graduate schools (science departments, faculties, majors) from the standpoint of engineer recruitment. The top five items with most responses are shown. In this questionnaire, each company may select up to three responses. From this result, it can be seen that the demand is for the universities and graduate schools to produce people who are capable of utilizing advanced expert knowledge, responding to the rapidly changing social situation, creating and managing the next-generation systems.Given such a social background, the Keio University established the Graduate School of System Design and Management (SDM) in April 2008. At this graduate school, a unique, practice-oriented educational curriculum unseen in any other graduate school has been created to train people, who already are specialists or have business experience, to become capable of designing large-scale complex systems, taking in consideration the social demands such as symbiosis and safety. In other words, the people trained here will be capable of leading Type 2 Basic Research[1] and application research, and such human resources before could not be trained in conventional Japanese graduate schools. The large-scale complex systems include not only the technological systems such as power generation and aerospace systems, but also social systems such as the financial system, medical system, community, corporate organization, and NPO.Our objective is to build the system design and management science (SDM science), a discipline system to creatively design and thoroughly manage the large-scale complex systems, and to provide graduate school education to train people who are capable of leading the construction and operation of large-scale complex systems. In this paper, we present the scenario for establishing the graduate school to realize our set goal, the elements selected to provide the graduate school education, and the results of the integration of the elements. We shall also present the evaluations by the students and the external evaluators, discuss the evaluations, and address the future issues.2 ScenarioThe Keio University established a graduate school for SDM education after a long period of deliberation. In 1996, a system design engineering department was established in the Graduate School of Science and Technology, to conduct education and research on system design engineering transcending the framework of engineering disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, information, architecture, and others. It continues to train engineers with both the abilities for basic knowledge and integrated perspectives. In 2008, the Graduate School of SDM was established independently of the Graduate School of Science and Technology for the education and research on SDM science, a discipline that fuses humanities and sciences and surpasses the framework of technology and social sciences such as science, engineering, economics, and political science.In establishing the Graduate School of SDM, we interviewed the people involved in large-scale complex systems in Japan and abroad, on the current issues in developing and operating the large-scale complex systems, and also sought the demands of industry for graduate school education. As a result, we found that the demand for the graduate school education was almost the same as the ones described in Table 1. The format of the graduate school education was designed based on: the design method for large-scale complex systems such as automobile, robot, and plant that developed in the Japanese industry, as well as the systems engineering that developed mainly in Europe and the US; the system design methodology built by the Keio University in the 21st Century COE Program “System Design: Paradigm Shift from Intelligence to Life”[7][8]; and knowledge and methods necessary for the design and management of the social systems. The masters program was established with the educational objective of training people who can lead the construction and operation of the large-scale complex systems through a vocational graduate school type education, placing emphasis on interaction between the faculty and students or among the students themselves. The doctoral program was established with the educational objective of training specialists of SDM science with emphasis on research.To realize our goal of the graduate school education for issues that stretch across multiple disciplines, collaborations with various interested parties (or stakeholders) are important. The relationship between the scenario set to realize the goal and the major stakeholders are shown in Fig. 1. The input and output between the stakeholders and the Graduate School Table 1 Expectations for universities and graduate schools from industry119 companiesTo have the students experience working in teams on certain topics162 companiesTo provide education with relevancy to the real society, in addition to theories231 companiesTo have the students acquire basic knowledge of other disciplines related to their specialties287 companiesTo train the students to organize their thoughts by gathering knowledge and information 340 companiesTo have students acquire specialized knowledgeCompaniesResponse

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