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CEP2024 @UMinho 
 

It was with great pleasure that we hosted in our university @UMInho the special event – Cross Cultural Engineering Project organized by distinguished professors from Japan @Hiroshi Hasegawa and @Manabu Ichikawa from College of Systems Engineering and Science; Shibaura Institute of Technology.

The goal was to foster an environment of mutual learning and cultural exchange. The engaged discussions, collaborative activities, and the opportunity to build lasting connections were achieved between students from Japan, Thailand and Portugal. Thailand students were accompanied by their professor Surapong Rattanakul - Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi. Their unique perspectives and expertise greatly contributed to the success of this event, promoting an enjoyable time in our university.

The Cross-cultural Engineering Project (CEP) is implemented in Japan, Southeast Asia, and Europe. The Japan region is held at the Omiya Campus of SIT, where participants from various countries and fields deal with issues related to industry-academia-region collaboration. The Southeast Asia region is held in Bangkok, Thailand, and targets glocal issues. The European region is held in Portugal, and focus on innovation creation. Participants can earn credits by taking courses in any of these three regions.

CEP@UMinho was held at Universidade do Minho in Guimarães, Portugal from July 8 to 16. The number of participants was 33 students from Portugal, Thailand and Japan, in 5 groups. CEP@UMinho is a PBL on the issue of innovation creation, and value creation was conducted based on the thinking process of Creative and inventive Design Support System (CDSS) for DX.

First, in the Problem-Understanding process, Empathy Map by Public Narrative (Story of self & us) and Inspiring stories by scenario graph were derived as Strategy Responses Objectives, needs, and solutions were organized and analyzed using the QFD matrix (quality requirements and solutions). In the Problem-Solving process, top-down thinking by particle method, contradiction resolution by TRIZ, and bottom-up thinking using UML were applied to derive a solution to the problem from the QFD matrix.

The problem solutions were reviewed to Design Review (DR) by professors from UMinho, KMUTT, and SIT, using A3 materials. Based on the results of the DR, the proposal was redefined and revised, business models were created, and a final presentation was performed. In the final presentation, a Q&A session was held with the participants of company person as well as professors.

As a result, the 1st place project, “Improved accessibility to medical and welfare,” was awarded to the free theme group, and the 2nd place project, “Team1 KEIKYU”, a project of Keikyu Corporation, achieved excellent results.

Thanks to all professors, teaching assistants, students and staff that made possible this event! We also thanks to @Vimagua by providing the bottles for the refilling water and to our colleagues of @Human Engineering group by providing the bags and to help to turn this event a more sustainable event!




















 
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