Subject Introduction / Information Systems Architecture Course

In this class, students work on a project in a group of several students to design and build a small-scale network system with the aim of acquiring the process of building network systems. With the acquisition of the building process as the primary objective, students follow a predetermined process to perform tasks to obtain the skills to execute a project for building a network system.

To cope with information security threats, it is effective to take approaches in daily operations by collecting the latest security information and understanding the system status in ordinary times. In this class, students are introduced to system operations by simulating attacks on information system and handling methods in the event of threats through case studies. In addition, students work on a group project on the theme of information security to make proposals and reports on methods of investigation and countermeasures using a presentation format.

The field of embedded systems, which is attracting attention with the Internet of Things (IoT), is becoming a more important part of the software industry with more and more information architects involved, similar to the fields of large-scale system and core system development. In recent years there has also been a focus on robots and auto driving etc. In this class, you will learn about software platform technologies used in IoT and embedded fields and various devices, background requirements, actual systems and industry trends. More specifically, this includes various embedded operating systems and processors, peripheral technologies, and smartphone and mobile phone software technologies. It will also touch on sensor robots and 3D printing.

For efficient programming, it is essential to understand programming languages and the development environment. There are a few hundred of programming languages with strengths and weaknesses. It is difficult to use a single language to resolve different problems. Depending on the language, the handling of problems changes. In addition, when implementing a practical program, the efficiency of execution and development needs to be considered. This class allows students to acquire the different types of programming languages (i.e. script languages) through lectures and exercises about the development environment in addition to programming techniques. What is more, for improved execution efficiency, the class covers data structure, algorithms, and calculation amount. Excellent data structures and algorithms dramatically improve execution efficiency. For improved development efficiency, students work on API programming using system calls and libraries. The utilization of API is equivalent to the re-use of programming benefits from excellent forerunners. The utilization of libraries is effective for efficiency in execution and transplantation.

Computer networks have become an essential part of our lives, playing an important role as the foundation for various services. The main purpose of this class will be to acquire foundation knowledge necessary to the study of computer network courses in this major, learning the foundation of network and server construction and management methods. This class will consist of lectures and practical exercises, and in the lectures you will learn the foundation of TCP/IP networks. The practical exercises are designed to establish foundation knowledge through experiments and assignment project etc., with the aim of acquiring the ability to apply knowledge and also the direction for continued study after this class is completed.

Students will learn the basics and practical skills of object-oriented software development. Java, which is classified as an object-oriented language, is a programming language that is widely used to develop software that runs on servers, cloud services, desktop, and so on. In the first half of the class, we will learn the background and essence of how object-orientation has developed up to this point. Object-orientation is an essential concept for writing programs that are highly scalable and maintainable. In the lectures, the active learning method will be employed, and students will actually create a program during the class. As such, the knowledge is established by learning independently and actively. In the latter half of the class, students will use what they have gained through active learning and learn how to deploy it on a system. This will give students the practical skills necessary to create programs using Java in professional environments.

This class is intended for students who have acquired the ability to code in at least one programming language other than Java, and the class will be about programming using the Java programming language. The lectures will briefly summarize intermediate level knowledge of Java programming.

We are using software in various scenes, i.e. office applications, e-mail, web-site. On the other hand, behind such services, system software represented by OS is working to bridge between software and hardware for human’s easy operation, processing, management of a computer, and the understanding of the structure and characteristics makes us to use computer efficiently. Particularly, the Unix-compatible operating system has a root of Open Source Software (OSS) culture, and understanding its simplicity and reasonability helps to build software at higher levels.

This classwork picks up Unix-compatible operating systems as a representing system software and helps students understand the mechanism of how the system process, accumulate, and communicate information, obtaining effective methods of use, through practical learning.

In this master’s degree course, students gain a wide range of knowledge and skills on information system development from classes designed systematically. Since each class offers lectures at the graduate school level, students must have adequate knowledge as a prerequisite. To study in this course, students can understand the class content even at a high level if they have a firm knowledge base. In addition, having full understanding of basic IT knowledge is essential in the actual workplace for information system development. This class aims to organize and equip students with basic IT-related knowledge by teaching the basic theories and system configuration required for each master’s degree course.

Information security is related to a broad range of interdisciplinary fields that include encryption (common key, public key, digital signature and PKI), network (data security and application security), organization management (risk analysis and internal control), International standards (ISMS and CC certification) and law and ethics. In this class, students study the knowledge system of information security technology and information ethics on information security from the perspective of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, which are the functions of information security.

Open source software (OSS) represented by Linux kernel, GNU software, and Apache HTTP server software are widely used on internet-based servers. At the same time, these OSS fundamentally transformed the old software industry until around 2000. This class covers (1) the ideas, background, and history of OSS; (2) the definitions and of license agreements of OSS; (3) the development regimes of OSS (Bazaar style); (4) the case studies of OSS; and (5) different trends related to OSS.

In the recent information processing system typified by Web 2.0, the paradigm shift from traditional information distribution environment to the environment of information automated acquisition systems centered on the collection of contents is on the way of progress. Because of this, the sophistication of database functions is becoming increasingly more important. Under such circumstances, this class aims to equip students with the basic knowledge of databases necessary for database engineers. The class teaches related theories that form the basis of relational models and SQL in a systematic manner.

Nowadays Business Intelligence (BI) for making quick decisions using conventional business data is growing further to become Data Intelligence (DI) targeting large capacity and diverse data. Regarding to the data analyzing technology that draws the most attention now, this class aims to offer systematic explanations on the statistical analysis targeting large capacity and diverse data, knowledge acquisition technology by data mining and the basic machine learning technology. For data mining technology and machine learning technology, in particular, the students are presented with the content of technology as specific cases to cover operating principles as well as the knowledge obtained from the lectures. In addition, students can actually understand specific operating conditions and become able to understand the foundation of practical data analysis.

In the current society, data is growing explosively with the development of the Internet and the popularization of mobile digital devices and centers. By accumulating diverse and an enormous quantity of data and putting together unconventional data in unconventional perspectives, new knowledge is derived for application in the real world, driving the transformation of today’s information-intensive society including businesses (big data).

This class covers the technology of analyzing big data, which has been receiving the most attention in today’s information processing industry. Students are introduced to the analysis of the data characteristics of big data, explanations of the analysis elements, and interpretation methodology of analysis results. In addition, one of the driving forces that generate big data, Social Network Services (SNS), is focused about methodology of collecting data and processing data in the lecture and exercise. Furthermore, students are also introduced to a machine learning system, which is widely used for big data analysis processing, as well as a parallel processing technology supporting big data processing called HaDoop in the basic exercise. By picking up topics of rankings and recommendations, collective intelligence, etc. as samples of interpretation of results of big data, data science is surveyed for gaining a better understanding of the general trend in big data.

In recent years, as server clusters connected to networks are becoming commoditized, there is a need for a method to manage hardware resources in large quantity efficiently at a fast speed. To embody this method, the idea of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is attracting attention in the context of cloud computing. This class will call it the cloud infrastructure. The mechanism of managing hardware resources by software as a distributed system, equipped with a Web API, virtualizes the overall hardware resources to automate management. In this class, students will understand the structure of software to achieve IaaS by exercising software design and implementation. The class ensures that students have a better understanding for the utilization of the cloud infrastructure.

In this subject, lecturers of Information Systems Architecture Course give a lecture of his/her own field of research and development, so that students can understand current and future trends in technology from the lecturers, as well as looking at the career of the lecturers for hints to their own future career design.

The lectures will be held over two consecutive periods (90 minutes × 2 = 3 hours), with a lecture by the lecturer, and then taking a longer time for Q & As and discussion about the content of the lecture, to deepen understanding.

For comtemporary business persons, logical thinking is essential and necessary. Not only to create related work documents, but also to build a structure of presentation content. This class aims to equip students with the logical approach necessary for information system architects through specific and practical training. The goal is to provide students with the skills to take a logical approach for organizing and systemizing the structure of information processing systems.

Standardization is not only recognized as a mechanism for the spread of conforming products and industrial development, but also at a government-policy level. This suggests that it is also extremely important as a corporate strategy, which links the strategy for products and intellectual properties. The class covers (1) the concept and importance of standardization, the de jure and de facto standardization process, how to create an organization and the rules, trends of software-related standardization organizations (ISO, IETF, OMG, OASIS, W3C, JCP, OMA, etc.), and examples of standardization strategy linked to the business strategy. (2) For the intellectual property, the class covers the concept, trends, and importance of patent rights and copyrights with examples of the business strategy for using patent rights and copyrights. In addition, students will deepen their understanding of the standard strategy by conducting a trend survey on standardization and intellectual property as a group exercise and then make a presentation.

This class is for understanding business analysis and for acquiring basic skills as a business analyst. Business analysis is defined by the International Institute of Business Analysis as “the practice of enabling change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders. ” 　Due to changes in the business environment and advances in technology, it is necessary to “change” the way business and work are done. What is needed in order for companies to change will be presented in the form of best practices from a business analysis perspective. The tasks in business analysis are organized into six knowledge areas and organized as a knowledge system, which is published as A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide) .

In this class, students study modeling at a conceptual level, which is necessary for information system modeling. Modeling is a technique to describe information system architecture in a logical and systematic manner. The technique can be applied from the upper process of the information system development to the business domain called super upper process. To acquire the techniques, students must cultivate the skills to generalize the elements obtained in the analysis result of modeling target domain, combine an inductive and deductive technique, and to adjust the level of abstraction and grit number. Students are required to obtain the ability to manipulate and build the concept as a sophisticated, intellectual activity. To systematically equip students with the ability, the class covers the notation convention for describing a model. Next, students will specifically practice to describe information system architecture. By repeating these process, the class aims to improve modeling skills.

The class objective is to learn the ways of thinking, methods of brainstorming, and conceptual skills required for those who aim to change how they do their jobs as CxO or management or propose Business Process Reengineering (BPR) to their clients as consultants.

In this class, you will propose and design business development and transformation for current problems in each field. New ways of doing business (working) are needed to fulfill stakeholder needs as the business environment changes. Advances in IT are making it possible for disruptive technologies to do things that could not be done in the past. You will design new businesses that fit the evolving business environment utilizing such technologies and identify where current ways of working should change. You will construct the logic to persuade management about the changes and give a presentation to convince specified management.

The lectures will cover important basic knowledge in areas such as personal data protection, privacy, information laws, copyright laws, company laws, and the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, which are considered to be particularly important laws for information architects.

The Act on the Protection of Personal Information, which was established in 2003, was significantly revised in 2017. The Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures established in 2013 was the first act passed in Japan to have a PIA clause.

In the EU, the “General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)” has been applied since May 25, 2018, in place of the EU Data Protection Directive 95 that had been applicable since 1995. The GDPR is applicable to most Japanese companies, institutions, and organizations that exchange personal data with the European Economic Area (EEA, 28 EU member states, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein). There is also a risk of incurring high financial penalties for violating the rules.

In this class, we will focus on the latest domestic and international legal trends, while examining case studies, to conduct participatory classes and to foster the legal thinking of students.

Corporations are strongly calling for the management skills to use IT strategically and effectively in businesses. In this class, students acquire the strategy of IT and marketing systematically and practically to understand to manage them. Beginning with the basic conceptions, i.e. STP, 4P, then proceeding to higher level, i.e. competing strategy, product development, marketing research, marketing communication, etc.. And in the 2nd half of the class season, also including Digital Marketing, which is evolved rapidly in current days. Particularly, by learning within a systemized and exhaustive curriculum based on actual cases, students acquire the knowledge necessary for executives for IT strategy and marketing, IT directors in charge (CIO), directors in charge for business, and entrepreneurs.

In this class, we will examine irrationality in human decision-making, consumer behaviors, and industrial psychology. We will also explore cases of these phenomena and identify the characteristics of each one. Presently, services and markets where customer satisfaction is the objective are in demand, while service provider satisfaction is not a priority. In the first part of the class, we will investigate services and consumer behaviors that have been receiving attention over the past few years, as well as with service science, service economics, service marketing, and service management. Building on these studies, students will go through individual- and group-based training exercises.

Students will systematically study a method and technique for developing high-quality software efficiently. First, the normative process and the agile process will be picked up as major software development processes. Then, basic knowledge required for main activities through software lifecycle will be learned on the basis of understanding of developing processes. Students’ understanding will be deepen through exercises and specific development samples by outside lecturers. Thus the class aims to make students attain knowledge and skills to be leaders of software development, systematically grasping major concept of software engineering.

For developing practical web applications, the skills to develop requested systems swiftly by utilizing advanced frameworks and supply to users are required. The lecture picks up Rudy on Rails as a typical web application framework. Specifically, students study hands-on development skills of web applications by building SNS(Social Networking Service) utilizing the framework.

Now that the Internet has become an essential social infrastructure in our daily lives and operations in corporations, different types of software are used by many users via networks today. Attacks targeting vulnerable information systems are becoming worse every year. This class provides explanations on the technology and knowhow for developing safe software without vulnerabilities. Specifically, students are given specific cases of software vulnerabilities developed with the C language involving string operation, dynamic memory management, and file input and output. This class also presents measures to reduce threats by using static analysis tools, dynamic analysis tools, and address space layout randomization.

The goal of this class is to equip students with the knowledge and skills to build a cloud environment by mainly using Amazon Web Services. To build a cloud environment, the cloud design pattern (CDP) is used, which is a technique for cloud design. Students also study typical problems of system design using clouds, as well as coping solutions and design method through CDP. As a method of conducting the class, at first students gain general knowledge about cloud systems. Subsequently, students are provided with a lecture on the design and building of a cloud environment using CDP. By adding exercises, they acquire practical skills of building servers and infrastructures by using the characteristics of cloud systems. In the 2nd half, students are introduced to the deployment of an application on the cloud and exchange opinions by conducting a discussion on measures such as load dispersion and disaster tolerance.

The class helps students acquire practical skills in the implementation and guarantee (design method of secure system) of information security functions based on the international standard, ISO/IEC 15408 for the development of software and systems in consideration of security function. Adding to understanding the historical background and framework of ISO/IEC 15408, students will acquire an understanding of IT security assessment and the certification system.

As the international standard, ISO/IEC 15408 employs many technical terminologies and it has a formal linguistic structure for secure design. For this reason, the lectures focus on case studies to equip students with execution skills and accurate interpretations of technical terminologies.

The speed of recent changes in the business environment is causing major and behemoth long-term plans to become obsolete and shrinking the effective period of business models and project plans. For the need to respond to such circumstances, the method of agile software development is attracting attention because it creates value by taking a flexible approach to a business while meeting changing needs. Furthermore, the effective software development by the self-organized team that can continues to learn and grow is sought from the perspectives of collective intelligence and practical wisdom. This class focuses on teaching students with the scrum, which is one of the agile software development methods, about the agile team to be a core of agile development, high-valued software products and methods to offer value continuously.

The agile software development is attracting attention as a method to develop software. This class focuses on the skill set for the software development collaboratively done by a team among various elements to consist of the agile software development. The modern engineer of software development must be familiar with highly developed circumstances such as cloud technology and virtual environment, and then the development team have to build the system through collaboration. Students study how to carry on those collaborative development work smoothly and promptly through the group exercise.

In This class, students study the basics of project management based on ISO 21500, which is the international standard for project management, and the PMBOK Guide®, which is the de facto standard. And related exercises are also incorporated to help them to understand project planning and management method.

This class uses the standard curriculum of the development of human resources for advanced informatization for project manager, published by the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan, as a benchmark to acquire ways to proceed with project management in information system architecture. This class teaches specific methods of project planning and management by incorporating actual case studies while exhaustively covering knowledge of project management in the systematic curriculum of information system architecture projects. In addition, students work on exercises to determine how to apply the knowledge of project management at a practical level to deliver an intermediary for knowledge and execution ability.

Various tools and techniques are used to improve the reliability of information systems. In addition, smooth cooperation between users and vendors is necessary to ensure reliability. In this class, we will learn, through lectures and training exercises, work breakdown structure (WBS), earned value management (EVM), Function Point Analysis, quality control, conflict management, etc., for the purpose of transaction visualization, clarification of division of roles, and clarification of responsibility.

In order to make a project successful, it is important to apply the knowledge of project management to actual project activities. In this class, students will learn about the importance of project management, the role of the project manager, and the points of judgment when a problem occurs by going through a simulated experience from the project plan to practice, from the project manager’s point of view. The simulator incorporates project management performance indicators (cost, schedule, quality, motivation) and obstacles during project execution, so that students can experience project execution with a sense of reality that is close to that of an actual project.

IT Service Management refers to general management activities to provide suitable and stable IT services necessary to business departments. As businesses diversify, IT departments need to have an IT service management perspective with an understanding of business to not only play a role in the development, construction and operation of conventional systems, but to also contribute to business development from an IT standpoint. In this class, students will first learn about what service management is. The class will be based on the ITIL, best practice for IT service management, together with the practical knowledge required for system operation management, to consider how IT service management should be carried out in various cases of IT services.

Considering the current corporate environment, it is necessary for IT workers to have a good sense of how to utilize accounting information and how to establish an organizational system in relation to the strategic management of the organization. By doing so, IT workers can have a significant impact on business strategies. In this class, as a method of managing the strategy of an organization, we will learn the construction of an execution system for a management strategy and the management of intangibles (intangible assets) by reviewing the method of management accounting.

In this class, students acquire risk management techniques, the methodology for establishing information security management system (ISMS) for organizations, and the ISMS conformity assessment system through lectures and case studies from a practical perspective based on the international standards of ISO/IEC 27001. The case studies help students learn through hands-on exercises by following steps from the settings of security policies, conducting risk analysis, and applying management measures in a simulated corporate organization. It also covers the PDCA model, which is a core approach in management, and a risk management methodology, which is a core task for building ISMS.

To execute the project under the instruction of faculty members of Information Systems Architecture Course. Each project is offered in a Project-Based Learning (PBL) format led by a team of students and let them acquire the competency in the practical world. For details on each project, refer to the instructions for PBL projects, which are distributed separately.

Currently most countries around the world, including those in Asia and Africa, are experiencing rapid economic growth. On December 31, 2015 the AEC (ASEAN Economic Community) was started. Steady economic growth continues, even in sub-Saharan Africa, which was known to have been “left behind” throughout the twentieth century (Japan is one of very few “clever” countries that has seen its per capita GNI lowered in the last quarter century.). The 21st century has been an era of rapid growth throughout the whole world. In the “Transforming our world:the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” statement, which was adopted by UN General assembly in 2015, there simply stated as “Leave No One Behind”, let all the countries and areas in the world take economic growth.

This class will provide students with the knowledge and capabilities they will need to become entrepreneurs and to develop businesses in Asia and Africa today. That is, this class forms part of an “entrepreneurial support class”, but has the following specific features.

First, it is premised on business being carried out in Asia/Africa, and not within Japan. There are many amazing business opportunities today in some of the fastest growing Asian/African countries. It would be disappointing to not take advantage of them. Of course, things are not done the same way as in Japan. There are likely to be many difficult and unpredictable issues. But standing tall to confront such issues is also noble human life. This class will give you the necessary knowledge and skills to do so.

Secondly, the class will focus on the finance side as a specific method of entrepreneurship. And, in Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0, the finance industry itself will be the source of leading this next generation of innovation. There are few choices for financing for entrepreneurs/businesses in Japan (in the end, we all bow our heads to the banks (indirect finance)). But if you take a step outside of Japan these days, there are many different people offering a variety of different finance options, and there are a lot of people that have seen explosive success. In other words, in today’s world business success hinges on whether you can get “good financing”. Financing should be given at least as much attention as considering methods of manufacturing and business content etc.

The creativity in financing includes not only creativity of finance itself, but also includes the expansion of business fields. For example, the idea of PPP (Public Private Partnership), which will be lectured in the class, is the method to do a business where ordinary business cannot be organized due to “market failure”, and well developed for infrastructure development in Asia/Africa countries in 21st century.

In this Class, we are forcusing to the method called "Development Finance". It is a concessional finance method in the field of, so called, "market failure". Because it is in market failure field, it was considered as the task of the government, and rarely the business object. But, in the 21st century, there are many explosive technical developments, and it is expected to become a big business oppotunity. On the other hand, untill now, there are still only few persons to be specialized to "Devolopment Finance" in the world. So, now is the time of good chance. After 10 years, or to say after 5 years, many persons may know about this fact, and you will not be able to get the early benifit.

The modern world itself is certainly undergoing a major transformation centered on nation states. In such circumstances, why should we limit the business that we spend our entire lives to build to Japan, where opportunities are narrow, and the growth rate of the national economy is “one of the lowest in the world”. We should look broadly at Asia/Africa. There are wonderful opportunities in this vast world. The keys to grasping these opportunities are first, to understand current trends in Asia and Africa, and second, to gain insights on financing ahead of the competition.

Development assistance (economic aid, international development) is various types of economic growth support which developed nations (generally a per capita GNI of $14,000 or more) provide to developing nations (per capita GNI of less than this). This class contains two main focuses regarding this. It will be wonderful to learn about both things in the one class (two birds with one stone…).

First, we will focus on regular, orthodox development assistance theory. We will discuss the history of development assistance around the world from World War II to today’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the history of Japan’s experience from 1950s to 1990s as the world’s largest patronage of ODA (Official Development Assistance) development assistance, and neo-classical growth financing theory(development economics), which forms the theoretical basis for authentic development assistance theory. This provides essential knowledge and skills for students aiming to work in development assistance related fields in the future (government agencies, international organizations, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), NPOs etc.).

Second, we will look at content which cannot be heard anywhere other than an AIIT. That is, the knowledge and skills to take advantage of completely new business opportunities in development assistance, ahead of competitors around the world. Many people around the world see development assistance as “justice to save poor people in developing nations”, making them hesitant to make a business out of it. However, as you will learn in this class, the reality of development assistance is that it is a “flow of money” (from developed nations to developing nations).

Where there is a “flow of money”, there is business. And where there is business, there is a “flow of money”. Students will learn the ability to see development assistance as a “flow of money”. With this ability, they will have an overwhelming advantage over the few competitors in the world that understand this.

In addition, in relation to this second point, that is, an attitude of seeking business opportunities by seeing development assistance as a “flow of money”, we will take the position that the first theme, that of orthodox development assistance theory, is not a bad thing. Unlike in the 20th century, almost all developing nations have been successfully industrialized, and the promotion of economic growth is the core engine of proper business development in the 21st century, which is clearly captured in the SDGs (2016 to 2030), the successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs, 2000 to 2015). This is also expressed in the concepts of Private Public Partnerships (PPP) and Base of the Pyramid (BOP) explained in this class.

It is only natural to ask, “If this is so advantageous, why do universities other than AIIT not teach this?” The answer is simple. The flow of money for development assistance is so specific that it is difficult for anyone who has never experienced it firsthand to understand it, and even for those who have, there are few if any people that have been paying attention to its nature as a “treasure mountain” for businesses with keen perception.

12 of the 15 sessions will be lectures. In the final 3 sessions, students will conceptualize actual development assistance projects. Perhaps you have never conceived a development assistance project, but do not worry. Sufficient time has been set aside for the interim presentation and guidance for it.

Regarding the supporting methods for advancement of developing countries through business, students will acquire practical skills to contribute to economic growth and industrialization through a combination of lectures and exercises. Through the lectures, in addition to the principles of ordinary development economics such as the basic concept of development assistance and neoclassical economic growth theory, students will learn a wide variety of material such as viewpoints of international relations like developmentism and the influence of the Cold War. In the exercises, based on this knowledge, students will devise a development assistance project in a developing country, formulate a plan for the project, present it, and receive guidance. Since the planning of a development assistance project will be the basic training for business project planning, students will also acquire the knowledge necessary to start a business in a developing country.

This lecture series will provide students with an introductory knowledge of and practical exercises for writing logical compositions.

Things such as social media have grown in recent years, enabling anyone to share their thoughts and plans with the world while bringing people together more than ever before.

On the other hand, it is now accepted practice to publish writings without them first being checked by anyone else, which has led to a decline in people's ability to construct logical compositions.

With a focus on the fact that one's ability in a second language will not exceed that of one's native language, this lecture series will teach how to write logically in Japanese and will examine the differences between Japanese and European languages while showing how to write well in English.

In recent years Design Thinking has gained legitimacy and popularity as a method to develop design and business processes.

Design Thinking is based on few simple principles, such as learning by doing, learning by failing, collaborative thinking and solution-oriented approaches. Although in many cases Design Thinking has proved itself valuable, the design community has also raised doubts and objections to its unconditioned employment. This class investigates Design Thinking, but it also leaves space to critically reconsider and improve its principles

In this class, we will investigate various laws and regulations, guidelines, rules, manners, and etiquette all related to information engineers, using the question, “why do information engineers need ethics?” as a starting point. While we consider its importance and social background, students will examine how it should be applied to their own work. Also, the material explored in this class will pose various dilemmas for systems developers and promoters of information technology, placing these phenomena in conflict with business rules, in which the development of information technology has taken root. These conflicts should always be considered when seeking solutions.

Monozukuri architects need to make decisions without error. For this type of decision-making, students need to have a deep understanding of ethics issues to be able to make a judgmental decision about engineering ethics.

This class particularly simulates potential problems to obtain the problem-solving skills related to engineering ethics through training where the answers are provided in advance.

Students need to participate in debates and submit reports on the exercise assignments.