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GSEP Study Trip 2018: A Visit to the Kyoto Railway Museum

May 15th, 2018

During the 2018 GSEP Kansai Study trip, we were given the wonderful opportunity of visiting the Kyoto Railway Museum. Constructed in 2016, the museum was built to celebrate Japan’s first step towards embracing modernization through the development of the nation’s railway system. Right after entering the gates, we were greeted face-to-face by actual train cars […]

GSEP Study Trip 2018: A Visit to the Entrepreneurial Museum of Challenge and Innovation

May 11th, 2018

We came to Osaka, which is the 2nd large city of enterprises and where the continuous sounds of productions have been very apparent. Constructions standing up high in the blue sky, infrastructure with impressive architecture and the good sense of humor of Osaka citizen are all apparent in Osaka. We had the chance to go […]

GSEP Study Trip 2018: Company Visit to Torishima Pump Mfg. Co., Ltd.

May 9th, 2018

During my GSEP Trip, I and the other GSEP students got an opportunity to visit Torishima Pump Mfg. Co., Ltd. It was a pump manufacturer located in Osaka. We visited this company to get insights about working in Japanese Industry. Firstly, we gathered in a room to listen to a brief introduction about the company. […]

GSEP Study Trip 2018: A Visit to K-Supercomputer Facility

May 7th, 2018

  In 2006, Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science and Fujitsu, started to work together to make the Japan’s fastest supercomputer at Kobe. In 2011, their supercomputer was among the computers ranked in the top 500 of the world’s fastest computer”. In 2012, they officially made it available for use by researchers from outside. Today, […]

Student Reports : GSEP 2018 Study Trip

May 7th, 2018

Recently, the current 2nd year students of the Global Scientists and Engineers Program (GSEP) had the chance to go around the Kansai area (Kobe, Osaka, and Kyoto) for their study trip. Accompanied by the GSEP faculties, they went to different museums, a super computer facilty, and an actual Japanese manufacturing factory. The study trip aims […]