Competency and PBL Education
The mission of AIIT is to develop Information Systems architects and Monozukuri architects. Consequently, students must possess a high level of business execution skills, that is, competencies. AIIT has categorized these essential competencies into Three Meta Competencies, Seven Core Competencies (for Master’s Degree Program for Information Systems Architecture), and Five Core Competencies (for Master’s Degree Program for Innovation in Design and Engineering). AIIT’s entire curricula are structured so that students will be able to enhance these essential competencies through the two years of education at AIIT. Each of these competencies is as shown below.
The Three Competencies
- • Communication skills
- • Continuous learning and research capability
- • Team activities
Five Core Competencies Necessary for Master’s Degree Program for Innovation in Design and Engineering
- • Idea generation ability (ability to plan and put into effect ideas, originality)
- • Ability to express ideas (ability to define requirements and make proposals, visualization skills)
- • Design skills (functional design skills, inspirational design skills, ability to integrate inspiration and function)
- • Development skills (development preparations skills, implementation skills, tests, problem solving ability)
- • Analytical skills (data analysis skills, usability assessment skills, market research skills)
Seven Core Competencies Necessary for Master’s Degree Program for Information Systems Architecture
- • Ability to generate innovative concept and ideas
- • Social and market-oriented viewpoints
- • Ability to analyze needs
- • Modeling and systems proposal
- • Management skills
- • Negotiation skills
- • Documentation skills
To help students acquire these competencies, AIIT employs Project-Based Learning (PBL) methods. In the PBL method, students jointly plan a project, set up clear project goals, and cooperate to achieve the goals and complete the project. Through the PBL process, students will acquire practical skills and expertise that would be truly useful in the InformationTechnology (IT) and Monozukuri industries. The PBL themes for the 2010 academic year are as shown below. The selected PBL themes are always realistic and not desk theories. In AIIT’s PBL program, students will be put into group of approximately five, and three instructors will be assigned to each group to provide intensive guidance.
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PBL Theme List for School Year 2010 (Master Program of Information Systems Architecture)
No． |
Theme |
|---|---|
1 |
Evaluation of Service Platform by Constructing Real-world Data Services |
2 |
Proposal for Business Improvement by an Education Service Company Using Concept Data Modeling. |
3 |
Immediate Context Service by Stream Processing of UGC Videos |
4 |
The Execution of the Privacy Impact Assessment and the Results Toward Developing the Groupware Systems with Cloud Computing in the Basic Design Phase |
5 |
Project for the Development of Scenario Training Material for PMs in the ICT Field |
6 |
Development of Web Auction System Using Open Source Software |
7 |
Planning an Internet Service Nezoo (Sleep Measurement Service) |
8 |
Improvement of Software Developers’ Design Skills Through Framework Design |
9 |
Business Process Reengineering for D&M Design Department |
10 |
Planning, Designing and Developing DoWMS Document Management System |
11 |
International Development and Management of Software: Joint PBL with VNU |
PBL Theme List for School Year 2010 (Master Program of Innovation for Design and Engineering)
No． |
Contents |
|---|---|
1 |
Proposal for a New Health Management Service Using Service Engineering |
2 |
Cost Reduction for Role-playing Training That Enhances Interpersonal Skills and Awareness |
3 |
Innovative Use of Urban Space?Materials and Activities Truly Needed in Daily Life |
4 |
Development of a System that Realizes a Safe Motorized Society |
5 |
The Pleasure of the Learning System for Operations: Understand by Watching and Enjoy While Learning |
6 |
Constructing a Sustainable Society by the Power of Light (Dye-sensitized Solar Cell) |
7 |
Message of Wind Chimes: Delivering the Wind of Sounds ? Creating a Seasonal Atmosphere from Weather Information - |
8 |
Development Project II of Artifacts Design Model for Small and Midsize Urban Manufacturers |
9 |
Study of Mobility in Urban Spaces |
10 |
Dynamic Design for Wonderful Ginza in 2025 |
