Affordable robotics toolkits for equitable and interdisciplinary education, transformable to searching nodes for disaster onsite investigations
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Baltimore , Maryland
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June 25, 2023
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June 25, 2023
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June 28, 2023
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)
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16
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10.18260/1-2--42596
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https://216.185.13.131/42596
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92
Paper Authors
Hiroyuki Ishizaki
Shibaura Institute of Technology
orcid.org/0009-0008-7482-2038
Hiroyuki Ishizaki is a Visiting Professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT), a leading Japanese engineering school. His research interests include multidisciplinary teaching and learning, cross-cultural competence, collaborative online international (COIL), technopreneurship, and project/problem-based learning methods. As a Director of the Malaysia Office, he has been expatriated in Malaysia since 2014 and leading the internationalization of SIT and its partner universities throughout the Southeast Asian region. Under his initiatives, various short-term mobility programs and student exchanges have been started. He is also Chair of the Mobility Special Interest Group of Asia Technological University Network (ATU-Net) and initiated a COIL program called Virtual Asia Exploration (VAx) by orchestrating the collaboration of six Asian universities.
He is also an entrepreneur through his consulting company established in 2004, and has been rendering management consultation services to both small-medium size companies and multi-national enterprises such as global strategy planning, cross-border business entry, middle manager training, and partner development. These business achievements are reflected in his academic activities through the designing of lectures and mobility programs with practical implementation perspectives.
Ishizaki has been actively presenting and publishing his academic achievements at international conferences in the Asia Pacific region and North America such as APAIE, WERA, and NAFSA.
He earned a Master of Business Administration majoring in international business at the University of Southern California in the United States of America, and a Bachelor in Law at Hitotsubashi University in Japan.
Sumito Nagasawa Shibaura Institute of Technology
Dr. Sumito Nagasawa received Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2001. He is a Professor in Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at SIT. His research interests include miniaturized robots using Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems technologies and robot education for STEM.
Hatsuko Yoshikubo Shibaura Institute of Technology
Dr. Hatsuko Yoshikubo is currently an Associate Professor and a deputy director of the Innovative Global Program, a research-based full English degree engineering program at the College of Engineering at Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT), Tokyo, Japan. She is a Principal Investigator of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Grants 20K02943 and the AY 2022 SIT Grants for Educational Reform and Research Activity. She obtained a Ph.D. in English Literature from Chiba University in 2002. Her current main research interests are: 1) how including humanities courses in an engineering education curriculum can help students to gain flexibility, and an appreciation of equity, and a greater richness of ideas; 2) finding and solving the systematic issues impacting the effectiveness of engineering education, specifically in the context of project-based learnings; and 3) assessing the impact of interdisciplinary engineering project-based learnings. Below are her recent presentations at international conferences: WERA 2022, APAIE 2022, IIAI DSIR 2021, IIAI DSIR 2020, WERA 2019. She obtained the Outstanding Paper Award in DSIR 2021.
Hitoshi Nakamura Shibaura Institute of Technology
Dr. Hitoshi Nakamura received Ph.D. in Urban Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2006. He is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Planning, Architecture and Environmental Systems at Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan. His research interests include Planning for Urban and Regional Resilience focusing on multidisciplinary studies across architecture, civil engineering, environmental studies, and social sciences.
Abstract
A cross-department research team at Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT) a Japanese leading engineering institute, has initiated an ambitious project to develop and implement multi-dimensional robotics toolkits which are effective for facilitating engineering education for all generations – from K-12 with no programming knowledge to working professionals – by combining technopreneurship for commercializing robotics learning tools with below US 100 dollar affordability enabled by rapid technological advancement and multidisciplinary engineering education methodology theming robotics as knowledge integration of various engineering aspects. Moreover, these robot tools are equipped with practical functions to be deployed for earthquake survivor rescue by taking advantage of swarm technologies utilizing mesh-net mutual data communication among multiple nodes. Through this project and related research activities, the project team aims to promote solutions for each country’s natural disaster profile by interconnecting the above-mentioned factors, pragmatic social issues, and the global project/problem-based learning (GPBL) method, which the authors are also passionately working to develop. This article also discusses the benefit of starting interdisciplinary robot education in early age, the necessity of an entrepreneurial mind amongst teachers, and the Robotics Learning Roadmap as a whole picture of lifelong learning.
Ishizaki, H., & Nagasawa, S., & Yoshikubo, H., & Nakamura, H. (2023, June), Affordable robotics toolkits for equitable and interdisciplinary education, transformable to searching nodes for disaster onsite investigations Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--42596
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