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Research paper : Graduate education for multi-disciplinary system design and management (N. Kohtake et al.)−130−Synthesiology - English edition Vol.3 No.2 (2010) knowledge learned in the lectures to this course. The details of the ALPS course are presented in Reference [12].3.1.6 System design and management researchThis corresponds to the research for the master’s thesis. However, unlike conventional individual research, the group conducts the transdisciplinary research in project format, and the students are encouraged to engage in research that matches the social demands such as safety, symbiosis, and social coexistence. Each student writes a thesis for the part of the project that he/she is responsible.3.2 Faculty memberTwelve full-time faculty members for the Graduate School of SDM as well as dozens of special research faculty and invited faculty members are employed. One of the characteristics is that there are many members with business experiences in industry. The faculty members employed include people with business experiences and advanced knowledge and abilities in large-scale complex systems in technological systems such as aerospace, nuclear power, automobile, information, and precision machines, as well as social systems such as finance, policy, treasury, and agriculture. The requirement for recruitment is that they must be able to give lectures in English to give courses for foreign students and to promote collaboration with educators and researchers of overseas education and research institutions.To provide students the global trend of the academic world related to SDM science and to increase the knowledge of the faculty members as part of faculty development, about 10 lecturers are invited from abroad. These lectures are mostly on core subjects and can be heard as intensive courses or as remote conference lectures.3.3 Preparation of educational facilitiesTo promote communication and group learning among students and faculty members, the classes are set up in the free seating styleTerm 5, and each student is given a personal locker to store educational and experiment materials. Unlike the conventional laboratory where the spaces between the students and the faculty members are divided by partitions, there is no specific seat for any student, and the students use the rooms and seats according to their purpose such as communication and group learning. The faculty room is concentrated in a segment of the floor to enhance frequent communication among the faculty members.An e-learning system is set up where all lectures are recorded on video by staff members, and these can be delivered online along with the lecture materials. This will enable education opportunities to students who cannot be physically present at the lectures. The teleconferencing system is introduced in several conference rooms to enable discussions and meetings with students and faculty members in remote areas and with other institutions.To handle large-scale complex systems, it is necessary to improve the abilities in simulation and modeling technologies to support system design and system management. Therefore, the environment where the student can freely use the software for such technology through the network is offered. Also, large-scale workstation for concurrent designTerm 6 and concurrent design room composed of several high-definition displays are prepared (Fig. 7). There, the students can bring their own terminals to create designs for various systems through the network.3.4 Research centerThe SDM Research Center of the Graduate School of SDM was established as a research center to advance the SDM science by solving the diverse issues in the industrial world by application of SDM science and to accumulate the findings obtained. This center was established to solve the various issues through the collaboration of industry and academia, and the faculty members can establish a laboratory in the Center to solve some specific issues. The collaborator can obtain the information related to SDM science and may use the facilities of the Graduate School of SDM.To solve the issues of large-scale complex systems, collaboration with education institutions transcending the framework of disciplines and international collaborations are necessary. Therefore, in collaboration with the Graduate Fig. 6 Work flow of group training in the annual workshopFig. 7 Concurrent design roomFinal PresentationShow case PrototypeElevator PitchSystem ArchitectureQuality ScorecardingNet Present Value AnalysisConcept PresentationTeam FormationSetting the ThemeStakeholder IdentificationScenario GenerationInterviews, ObservationQuality Function Dev.Concept DevelopmentPrototyping RapidlyTowards Robust DesignDesign of ExperimentsDesign for VarietyDecision under UncertaintyKickoffVisit1Visit2Visit3Visit4Visit5Mid-TermReviewFinal ReviewJune 25 & 26, 08Sept. 24 & 25, 08May 19 & 20, 08Nov. 17 & 18, 08Feb. 18 & 19, 09Team Project

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