香川高等専門学校と長岡技術科学大学が協働する国内外実務視点の学際的工学教育の実践

社会情勢がめまぐるしく変化する今日，学際分野に積極的に交わり相互理解を深める経験が，高等教育に求められている。このような背景の下で，香川高等専門学校（香川高専）と長岡技術科学大学が協働し，国内外の実務を念頭におく専門科目「技術科学フロンティア概論」の，10 年にわたる教育実践について報告した。その学習目標は，複眼的，国際的，戦略的視点を持った技術者の育成である。本協働科目は，工学の専門基礎知識を修得済みの高専4，5 年生を対象に，総合工学の立場で，講師の国内外の工学実務経験に基づいて，座学，演習，卓上実験，実践型ワークショップを取り入れた集中講義形式で実施された。

Active association with interdisciplinary fields and deepening mutual understanding are required in higher education in today’s fast-changing social situation. Thus, a special subject, “Introduction to Engineering Frontier” that is mindful of domestic and international business was created. The subject has been offered jointly by the National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Kagawa College (Kagawa KOSEN) and the Nagaoka University of Technology over the last decade. The aim of the course is to train engineers to think with multiple, global, and strategic viewpoints. The collaborative subject, offered as synthetic-engineering education, is intended for 4th and 5th-year students who have acquired credits for fundamental special knowledge of engineering. The subject is executed as a series of intensive classroom lectures with exercises, hands-on demonstrations, and practical workshops based on domestic and/or international engineering work experience of the instructors.