The questionnaire survey on Japanese engineering education was rearranged in order to analyze present status and problems in it. It had been put by the Committee for discussing on the engineering ...education program in Japan which was composed of fifteen universities with eight national universities as leaders. A hundred questions on engineering education brought about interesting results. The engineering education programs, systems and the facilities are in the progress of drastic improvement. Double major system, supplementary lesson and some similar trials, which have been popularly adopted in engineering education in U.S.A. and Europe have been not popular in Japan yet. On the other hand a professor enthusiastically supports a graduation thesis as a traditional and the most effective system for it. However, the method how a professor educates students' creativity and flexibility is shown little sign of improvement. The survey also suggests that the popularization of Japanese university will bring more complicated problems to engineering education.
In this paper, processes of the graduation study and educational effects obtained by introducing the history of industrial technology are explained. The main object of our trial is to make students ...understand the industrial technology through the trial manufacturing of bow drills. Students came to grips with this theme positively, and they made efforts to clear some problems by themselves with a great interest. It is concluded that our trial had educational effects successfully.
The objectives were to analyze 1) the research methodology of graduation theses, 2) the result of graduation theses, 3) problems on commodity production adhering to government designated standards, ...and 4) synthesis of guidelines on the development of commodity production adhering to government designated standards. The sample population was 58 graduation theses agricultural extension and development in agricultural commodity production adhering to government designed standards. Twenty-six samplings were determined using purposive sampling methodology.The findings were as follows: 1) All the research methodology of the graduation theses followed quantitative research. Seventy percent studied by determining the sampling, and all the theses followed sampling methodology using Taro Yamane formula. Ninety-five percent selected sampling using the simple random sampling methodology. 2) Fifty percent of the theses were completed during the academic years 2001-2005, 34% were completed during years 2006-2010, and 16% were completed during years 2011-2015. Ninety-two percent studied good agricultural practice (GAP). Regarding agricultural commodities, 38.5% studied the production standards of fruit plants, 26.9% vegetables, 15.4% cattle, 11.5% rice and corn, and 7.7% flowering plants. In the academic aspect of agricultural extension and development, 38% studied the usage of agricultural production standards, 30% studied the adoption process, and 15% studied the learning process. 3) Regarding problems, most were at low level with agricultural commodity production adhering to the designated standards, and 4) To syntheses guidelines, related sectors should transfer knowledge and examine production regularly to comply with designated standards and reinforced them to create brand recognition and increase market opportunities.
Both Andreas Libavius and Heinrich Khunrath graduated from Basel Medical Academy in 1588, though the theses they defended reveal antithetical approaches to medicine, despite their shared interests in ...iatrochemistry and transmutational alchemy. Libavius argued in favour of Galenic allopathy while Khunrath promoted the contrasting homeopathic approach of Paracelsus and the utility of the occult doctrine of Signatures for medical purposes. This article considers these differences in the two graduates' theses, both as intimations of their subsequent divergent notions of the boundaries of alchemy and its relations with medicine and magic, and also as evidence of the surprisingly unstable academic status of Paracelsian philosophy in Basel, its main publishing centre, at the end of the sixteenth century.
The citation usage in 35 selected graduation theses in Humanity and Social Science (from four faculties of four universities) was analyzed, in order to develop teaching methods based on real cases. ...The survey showed that the indirect citations were much more frequently used than the direct citations. Further, as a special feature of this survey, the indirect citation patterns such as the entire paragraph was observed. In comparison with Yano's(2014) results, which surveyed the citation usage in research papers by international undergraduate students, a wider variety of purposes were observed in the citation usage, such as &ldquoindicating a perspective in analyzing the issue&rdquo and &ldquoindicating literature interpretation.&rdquo Significantly, 17 out of 20 theses of Faculty of Foreign Studies and of Faculty of Sociology employed the purpose of &ldquoindicating a perspective in analyzing the issue.&rdquo The Faculty of Sociology also used the purpose of &ldquoemphasizing own assertion.&rdquo Regarding theses of the Faculty of Business & Commerce and the Faculty of Business Administration, they primarily used citations for &ldquoindicating prior research.&rdquo
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