International individual internship based on research collaboration on engineering education and academic science

The authors have conducted the mutual exchanges of the students and professors between the universities in Japan and Germany, discussing the topics on the engineering education. On the platform, the international collaboration on the engineering education researches in assistance of the educational reform program have been carried on by the grants-in-aid of Japanese government. Since the current issues on engineering education are generally common in every country, it is beneficial for us to discuss the educational information with foreign faculty. Since the experiences of collaboration with foreign universities are profitable for students, we have been conducting the individual student exchanges on the scientific research areas with each other by the mutual contracts of MOU with German institutes. The individually-dispatched students showed us that the experiences of collaborations were will beneficial for their career-design as well as the enhancement to motivate their scientific researches. The individual internships thus processed have resulted in some academic paper publications on the collaborative researches. 21 Japanese students have studied abroad and 10 German students have studied in Niigata. 13 scientific papers co-authored by the students have been published in a decade.