Science Tokyo Academic Affairs News (June 2025 issue)

(1) Entrepreneurship (Leadership, Value Creation courses) Courses and Workshops offered by ToTAL
Regardless of whether you are an undergraduate or a graduate student, students in the science & engineering fields may register for entrepreneurship courses that consist of a combination of various workshops to earn credits, or apply to join a single workshop. Credits and points will not be granted to students in the medical & dental fields, but those students are also welcome to participate in individual workshops.
[Details]

- JOIN A WORKSHOP!

(a) <Tsutaeru Lounge>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
-Date, time and venue:
<Option 1 (Held at J3-309A, Suzukakedai Campus)>
Wednesdays, June 4, 2025 and July 2, 2025, both from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
<Option 2 (Held at S6-309A, Ookayama Campus)>
Wednesdays, June 18, 2025 and July 16, 2025, both from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
-Outline: This peer-teaching workshop is proposed by international students from ToTAL and led by students. Students learn how to construct a persuasive opinion and aim to be able to logically convey their opinions in a discussion through lectures and games.
-Details and application

(b) <Debate Club>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
-Date and time:
Wednesdays, June 11, 2025; June 25, 2025; July 9, 2025; July 23, 2025, all classes from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
-Venue: S6-309A, Ookayama Campus
-Outline: This peer-teaching workshop is proposed by international students from ToTAL and led by students. Participants can join any session freely, where they will engage in debate skill-building games and debates on specific topics.
-Details and application

(c) <Empower You Program>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
-Date and time:
Monday, June 9, 2025, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, June 19, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Monday, July 7, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
-Venue: S6-309A, Ookayama Campus
-Outline: This peer-teaching workshop is proposed by international students from ToTAL and led by students. This class uniquely combines reflective activities and skill-building exercises in an interactive format, allowing participants to dive deep into understanding themselves and enhancing their interpersonal skills.
-Details and application

(d) <Leadership for creating a Collaborative Research Environment (series of 6 classes)>
-Date and time:
Mondays, June 16, 2025; June 30, 2025; July 14, 2025; July 28, 2025, all classes from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
-Venue: S6-309A, Ookayama Campus
-Outline: Research outcomes are not solely determined by individual effort; they are also greatly influenced by the environment of the research lab and the dynamics of the team. Using project management methodologies, participants will analyze challenges in their own research projects, exchange insights with peers, and learn practical approaches to advancing their research more effectively through hands-on exercises.
-Details and application

(e) <Effectuation Workshop>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
-Date and time: Saturday, June 7, 2025, 1:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
-Venue: S4-202, Ookayama Campus
-Outline: Many of the methodologies for creating innovation and new businesses to date have been based on clarifying the "goal". In reality, the "effectuation" problem-solving approach, which is the opposite approach to the conventional approach, of creating new possibilities from the means currently available rather than setting a goal first, is actually occurring quite often. Students will explore this effectuation approach in this workshop.
-Details and application

(f) <Graphic Facilitation (Series of 2 classes)>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
-Date and time: Sundays, June 8, 2025; June 15, 2025, both from 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
-Venue: S4-202, Ookayama Campus
-Outline: Graphic facilitation is a technique that visually organizes and shares the content of meetings and workshops. Visual expression may seem like a skill suited only to those skilled at drawing, but actually, anyone can learn and utilize it. This class covers the basics and practical techniques of graphic facilitation and introduce ways to apply them in daily life.
-Details and application

(g) <Developing Creative Thinking through Art (Series of 4 classes)>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
-Date and time: Tuesdays, June 10, 2025; June 17, 2025: June 24, 2025; July 1, 2025
All classes from 5:15 p.m. - 6:55 p.m.
-Venue: S4-202, Ookayama Campus
-Outline: Through the creation of art (abstract paintings) based on a theme and appreciation of other members' works, students will improve their "creative thinking skills" and "creative communication skills" and acquire the basic skills to creatively carve out their own future while collaborating with a diverse range of others.
-Details and application

(h) <Enneagram Workshop>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
-Date and time: Saturday, June 21, 2025, 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
-Venue: S4-203, Ookayama Campus
-Outline: The Enneagram is a diagnostic test to help you learn about yourself and explore what you want to achieve in life. It divides a person's innate temperament into nine personality types and illustrates the potential and essential traits each possesses. By knowing these, we can better understand how we and others are.
-Details and application

(i) <Peer-Coaching Workshop>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
-Date and time: Sunday, June 22, 2025, 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
-Venue: S4-202, Ookayama Campus
-Outline: Peer-Coaching is a communication method that draws out the strengths of others through dialogue. By coaching with your peers or someone in "horizontal connections", you can deepen your understanding of your intrinsic motivation and relationships. This class is recommended for students who want to improve their communication and coaching skills.
-Details and application

(j) <Expanding Interpretation Workshop>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
-Date and time: Sunday, June 29, 2025, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
-Venue: S4-202, Ookayama Campus
-Outline: In this class, participants will explore cutting-edge prototypes and ideas emerging from Silicon Valley while experiencing the process of "expanding interpretation" to develop new solutions. Additionally, participants will receive insights and practical tips on creating visual prototypes.
-Details and application

(k) <Professionals and Value Creation Course: Guest speaker sessions>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))　

Guest speaker session dates, topics, etc.:
[Class #3] "The barriers of adolescence: seen in the examination room - hints for overcoming turning points from a doctor's perspective-"
-Date and time: Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
-Venue: S6-309B, Ookayama Campus and Online
-Guest Speaker: Dr. Yuda Miyamoto (Doctor, Himawari Clinic and Japan Primary Care Association)
[Class #5] "Dreams expand beyond desk work - Life for young professionals at Accenture and Recruit"
-Date and time: Friday, July 11, 2025, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
-Venue: S4-201, Ookayama Campus
-Guest Speaker: Shintaro Nagayama (Solution Planner, Recruit Management Solutions Co., Ltd.) and Haruna Haraguchi (Accenture Co., Ltd.)
[Class #7] "A practical case study of smart agriculture R&D through industry-academia collaboration"
-Date and time: Wednesday, July 23, 2025, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
-Venue: S4-201, Ookayama Campus
-Guest Speaker: Kentaro Matsuura (Sony Corporation)
[Class #9] "Risk-taking professionals - the ability to grasp uncertainty and create value"
-Date and time: Friday, August 1, 2025, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
-Venue: S4-201, Ookayama Campus
-Guest speaker: Yuichiro Watanabe (Lead Counsel, Airbnb)
[Outline] In this class, we invite guest speakers who are currently "developing and setting new values" in society to share their background and their current circumstances, as well as the challenges they or their organization are facing.
-Details and application

(l) <Dialogue of Inquiry - p4c>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))　
-Date and time: Friday, July 4, 2025, 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
-Venue: Room S6-309A, Ookayama Campus
-Outline: Philosophy for Children (p4c) is an innovative method originally developed to cultivate reasoning and discussion skills in younger learners. Over time, it has been widely adopted as tool for creating spaces where participants think together through dialogue, making it highly applicable in adult learning environments. In p4c, participants will express their initial sense of wonder as questions, which become the foundation for discussion.
-Details and application

(m) <Experience and Learn UX Design!>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))　
-Date and time: Saturday, July 5, 2025, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
-Venue: S4-201, Ookayama Campus
-Outline: Many companies are adopting "UX design" to win the daily competition. The user-centered design approach applied in UX design is useful in solving issues including research activities you tackle every day, and should become one of your weapons when you enter society in the future.
-Details and application

(n) <Design Thinking for Beginners (Series of 3 classes)>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))　
-Date and time: Tuesdays, July 8, 2025; July 15, 2025: July 22, 2025, all classes from 5:15 p.m. - 6:55 p.m.
-Venue: S4-202, Ookayama Campus
-Outline: Many start-ups and large corporations, including Google and Apple, have been adopting "Design Thinking" as a basic approach when developing new products and services. Experience "Design Thinking", which can be said to be the global standard for a way of thinking that creates innovation, by starting with learning its processes.
-Details and application

(o) <Scenario Planning Practice (Series of 2 classes)>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))　
-Date and time: Saturday, July 19, 2025; Sunday, July 20, 2025, both from 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
-Venue: S4-202, Ookayama Campus
-Outline: Scenario planning is not about predicting the future but about envisioning multiple possibilities and expanding our thinking. Instead of assuming a single, fixed future, this class encourage participants to create various scenarios, enhancing their adaptability to change. Through this process, participants will explore different futures, reflect on their options, and connect them to present actions.
-Details and application

(p) <Thinking Through Hands and Brains: Product Design with Material Study>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))　
-Date and time: Sunday, July 27, 2025, 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
-Venue: S4-202, Ookayama Campus
-Outline: This class combines design thinking with material studies (exploring the characteristics of materials) to develop ideas for improving everyday products. By experiencing how working with hands stimulates the brain, participants will explore a variety of design and idea-generation techniques while enjoying a hands-on approach.
-Details and application

(2) [Science and Engineering] Looking for interesting courses to take?
ToTAL offers ALL students (including students not registered in ToTAL) various kinds of courses which enhance your abilities, and those curricula must be worthwhile to experience. Take our courses if you are interested!
The following are some of the courses to be offered in Q2.

-TAL.C502-01 Multicultural Collaborative Leadership S*
*International students: Please take "LAJ.C502 Japanese culture 4: Multicultural collaboration" of Japanese Language and Culture Courses.
-Language: Japanese
-Quarter/day/period: 2Q/Fridays/Periods 3-4
-Classroom: W9-201, Ookayama campus
-Course description: Through text readings and discussion, students will learn the current situation of exchange between Japanese students and international students, and conditions and theories of cross-cultural contact for prejudice reduction. Students are also expected to deepen mutual understanding through exchange and collaborative experiences with Japanese students, and to acquire multicultural communication skills and leadership from cognitive, emotional, and behavioral perspectives through this course.
*This course is an entrepreneurship-related course.

-TAL.C602 Leadership in Conflict A
-Language: English
-Quarter/day/period: 2Q/Thursdays/Periods 5-6
-Classroom: M-134, Ookayama campus (HyFlex)
-Course description: In this class, students will learn how to establish better relationships through discussions with people whose opinions and stances differ on complicated issues, deepen understanding about diverse ways of thinking and learn necessary communication techniques, attitudes, and expressions in English. Students will read from books on creative conflict facilitation and practice new skills using challenging topics they select. This course is a HyFlex lecture that includes online classes.
*This course is an entrepreneurship-related course.

(Reference) Entire course syllabi of ToTAL
*Note: ToTAL students take precedence when the seats are being allocated. For more information and latest information, please check our website, Graduate Course Timetables and the syllabus.

[Contact]
Academy for Leadership (ToTAL) Office
e-mail: total@adm.isct.ac.jp

- [Call for students] Registration in Fall 2025 -
Academy of Super Smart Society (WISE-SSS) will accept applications for those who wish to enroll in this program in Fall 2025.

Notice: This will be the final opportunity to enroll in WISE-SSS.

[Important] For Master's Students and Academic Supervisors:
In principle, students entering the doctoral program in April 2026 or later are expected to leave WISE-SSS upon entering the doctoral course and join the Graduate Major in Super Smart Society to complete the equivalent curriculum.

For further details, please refer to here.

Application period: 22 July 2025 (Tue.) - 5 August 2025 (Tue.) at noon

Application guideline

Student Interview

--- WISE Program for Super Smart Society ---
The program's objective is to help students develop competence and skills they will need to become "knowledge professionals" ("super PhDs"), integrating physical space technologies with cyberspace technologies as well as combining advanced sciences and technologies, such as quantum science and artificial intelligence.
Academy of Super Smart Society (WISE-SSS)

Contact: Office of Academy of Super Smart Society
E-mail: wise-sss@jim.titech.ac.jp

-- 2Q On-demand Courses of SSS Innovation A5: Production Process Innovation --
*Applicable to Entrepreneurship (GA0M)

Students can watch lecture videos provided by leading companies and institutions in their respective fields at any time.
A5：Production Process Innovation

Lecturers: Fujitsu Limited, Yokogawa Digital Corporation, JTEKT CORPORATION, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., TOSHIBA CORPORATION, Mazda Motor Corporation

Contact: Online Education, Academy of Super Smart Society

E-mail: sss-online@wise-sss.titech.ac.jp

[Super Smart Society Promotion Consortium]

--- Site Visits of Consortium Participating Institutions ---
The Super Smart Society Promotion Consortium will hold site visits of the Consortium participating institutions for SCIENCE TOKYO students including but not limited to WISE-SSS students and master's or doctoral students who wish to get enrolled in WISE-SSS, to gain deeper understanding of the companies and research institutions participating in the Consortium, to deepen mutual cooperation between the organizations and us, and to exchange opinions with SCIENCE TOKYO former students who work for such institutions.

Two institutions will hold the events in June.
- June 11th, Wed.
Azbil Corporation
- June 18th, Wed.
AGC Inc.

For more information, please click here.

<For Adult students>
For working, used to work students who belong to Science Tokyo's graduate programs of all graduate schools (master's degree program, professional master's degree program, and doctoral degree program), Academy of Energy and Informatics will recruit and select students for registration as "Associate-member students" from August 2025.

About Associate-member students' system:
This program is designed to enable adult students to acquire the latest energy and information knowledge, improve their own skills, and relearn as members of society through participation in events, etc. organized by the InfoSyEnergy Research and Education Consortium and Academy of Energy and Informatics as associate-member students in the Academy of Energy and Informatics. This will enable us to widely develop human resources in energy and informatics fields, thereby contributing to the building of a sustainable energy society.

Targets:
- Adult students (Working/used to work students) in the graduate programs of all Science Tokyo's graduate schools

*An Adult student is a student who falls into one of the following categories.
(1) Those who are currently be employed
(those who are currently working at a job that earns salary, wages, remuneration or other ordinary income).
(2) Those who have already retired from a job that earns salary, wages, remuneration, or other ordinary income.
(3) Housewives and Househusbands

Please select and apply for either of the following courses.
1. InfoSyEnergy Special Certificate Program for adult students (Pursue to get certificate)
2. InfoSyEnergy Free Participation Program for adult students (No certificate)

If you wish to apply, please submit application form to us by the deadline.

Deadline: June 30 (mon), 2025 17:00 Sharp

For details, please check our web site.
Academy of Energy and Informatics (ISE) web site

1. [Science and Engineering] Entrepreneurship Courses offered in 1-2Q, AY 2025

Entrepreneurship is the mindset and skills that is required not only in starting a business, but also in various organizations in society, including companies, academia/research institutions, government agencies, international organizations, and NGOs/NPOs. The following are some of the Entrepreneurship Courses/workshops offered in 1-2Q. Take the courses and workshops if you are interested!

- ENT.L201 Bachelor's Fundamental Group Work for Leadership A (Intensive course)
-Language: Japanese
-Course description: Foundational elements of entrepreneurship are classified into three categories; INNOVATION, INITIATIVE and MOTIVATION. Various types of workshops will be offered each semester to train the foundational elements corresponding to each category.
Students enrolled in this course will be able to deepen their understanding of entrepreneurship by experiencing and practicing the elements of entrepreneurship above by selecting and attending 2 or more workshops, including a workshop from the "INITIATIVE" category and earning 13 points or more for attendance.
-Reference (syllabus and workshops)

- ENT.V201 Bachelor's Fundamental Group Work for Value Creation A
-Language: Japanese
-Course description: This course is positioned as the first step in building a foundation for entrepreneurship, and within that foundation, we would like students to understand; (1) MOTIVATION: recognizing the source of one's own interests and recognizing unconscious bias, and (2) INNOVATION: basics of "Design Thinking", including the 5-step process of empathy, issue identification, ideas, prototyping, and testing, through the following 2 workshops.
-Workshops: Developing Creative Thinking through Art (4 sessions) and Design Thinking for beginners (3 sessions)
-Reference (syllabus)

- ENT.V203 Bachelor's Fundamental Group Work for Value Creation C
-Language: Japanese
-Course description: Foundational elements of entrepreneurship are classified into three categories; INNOVATION, INITIATIVE and MOTIVATION. Various types of workshops will be offered each semester to train the foundational elements corresponding to each category.
Students enrolled in this course will be able to deepen their understanding entrepreneurship by experiencing and practicing the elements of entrepreneurship above by selecting and attending 2 or more workshops, including a workshop from the "INNOVATION" category and earning 13 points or more for attendance.
-Reference (syllabus and workshops)

- ENT.B201 Introduction to Entrepreneurship
-Language: Japanese
-Quarter/day/period: 2Q, Tuesdays, Periods 3-4
-Classroom: M-101 lecture room, 1st floor, Main Building (Ookayama Campus)
-Course description: This course is a fundamental course for understanding entrepreneurship in the broad sense as defined by Science Tokyo. It broadens your comprehensive understanding of entrepreneurship, including startups. It also focuses on examining the impact of social systems on entrepreneurship from an interdisciplinary perspective. Specifically, the course will cover the fundamentals of systems surrounding entrepreneurship, such as economics, politics, geopolitics, security, marketing, and management.
-Reference (syllabus and workshops)