Kobe University

Engineering Summer School

2 – 9 July 2020-Feel the sea breeze and technologies of Kobe-

1. Field of study

* Architecture * Civil Engineering

* Electrical and Electronic Engineering

* Mechanical Engineering

* Chemical Science and Engineering

* Computer Science and Systems

Engineering2. Number of Participants

Up to 30 students will be selected

to participate

3. Eligibility

1) Outstanding undergraduate students, majoring

in science and engineering-related fields

2) Students with an interest in enrolling in the master’s

or doctoral program at Kobe University in the future.

4. Program Fee

1) Students from partner universities: Free

2) Other students: 70,000 JPY

Note: Airline tickets, local transportation, travel insurance,

lunch and dinner are at participant expense for all

students. The accommodation will be arranged and

covered by Kobe University.

5. Application Deadline: March 16, 2020(Japan time)

Please visit our website and submit the required application documents.

http://www.eng.kobe-u.ac.jp/en/summer_school/index.html Photo ©KOBE TOURISM BUREAU

Check our program!

Application

Deadline

16 March

Selection

result

3 April

Preparation

for arrival

April -June

Arrival

1 July

The program is

taught entirely

in English.

July

1(Wed)

July

2(Thu)

July

3(Fri)

July

4(Sat)&5(Sun)

July

6(Mon)

July

7(Tue)

July

8(Wed)

July

9(Thu)

July

10(Fri)

Morning

Arrival

Hotel

Check in

Opening Ceremony

Orientation

EE Lecture

“Introduction to

Wearable Computing

Technologies and Its

Applications“

Field work in

KANSAI

Study Excursion

Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge

Lectures

* Maintenance of bridges

* State of the art in

long span bridges

* Nondestructive

testing technologies

* Anticorrosion

technologies

Break

Tower Top Tour

Visit Akashi Kaikyo Bridge

Exhibition Center

MM

Introduction to

Mechanical

Engineering

(1)Short Lectures:

- Heat Transfer and

Fluid Engineering

- Material Physics

and Mechanics

- System Design

(2) Lab tour

CX Lecture

“Introduction to Materials

Chemistry (TBC)"

CS Lecture

“Emotional Robots”

Departure

Hotel

Check out

AA Lecture

“Drift-Hardening

Concrete Structures -

Development of

earthquake-resilient

infrastructures”

EE Lab tour

- Nano-Structure

Electronics Laboratory

- Computer Engineering

Laboratory

CX Lab Tour

Laboratory of

Inorganic Materials

Chemistry

Break Break Break Break Break Break

Afternoon

AA Lab Tour

Environmental

Acoustics Lab

CE Lecture

"Introduction to Civil

Engineering"

MM

[Factory tour]

Kawasaki Heavy

Industries, Ltd.

(TBC)

CX

[Study Tour]

Panasonic Museum

CS Lab Tour

- Applied Optics Lab

- Media Informatics

Lab

AA Study Tour

“The Great Hanshin-

Awaji Earthquake

Memoriam Museum”

CE Lab tour

(Visit two different labs)

Wrap up

Explanation on

exchange and

postgraduate

programs

EveningWelcome event with

KU students

Closing Ceremony

& Farewell

Program 2020

Kobe University’s official mascot character, Shindai Uribo!Shindai Uribo (or “Uribo” for short) became Kobe University’s official mascot

character in September 2017. Its name comes from a shortened version of KobeUniversity (神大 pronounced “Shindai”) and “uribo”, the Japanese word for wild

boar piglet.

Contact:

Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University

1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501 JapanPhone: +81(0) 78-803-6350

E-mail: eng-kyomugakusei (at) office.kobe-u.ac.jp

AA: Architecture, CE: Civil Engineering, EE: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, MM: Mechanical Engineering

CX: Chemical Science and Engineering, CS: Computer Science and Systems Engineering