Development and Practice of the Education Curriculum for the Department of Mechanical Engineering in Ibaraki University

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This paper describes an educational system which is based on the industry-university cooperation at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ibaraki University. Some courses with the practical application, such as Manufacturing Engineering Practices or Experiments in Mechanical Engineering, are redesigned with the support of the engineers in industrial circles. By introducing the improved courses, students are supposed to learn what is going on in the actual manufacturing industries and are expected to be highly motivated for studying mechanical engineering. The educational system in the cooperation with the engineers produces synergetic effect on the education of the students. After implementation of this new educational system, we have carried out several questionnaire surveys of the industry-university cooperation system for our students. The students' responses to the educational system are on the whole positive. We confirm that it is crucially important to meet the social needs and that the industry-university cooperation is very effective to stimulate the students' learning motivation.