Differences of Engineering Education Systems Between Japan and Germany - Consideration About Before and After Graduation

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2008-05-22Author
Sato, Takashi
Sobczyk, Christine
Sakamoto, Shuichi
Ishii, Nozomu
Tanabe, Yuji
Goda, Masaki
Maruyama, Takeo
Hasegawa, Tomiichi
Ohkawa, Hideo
Wisweh, Lutz
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Many Japanese universities normally have the educational system, which checks the
students’ "knowledge" about theories and answers, but engineering education in Germany
provides a system to check the students’ "understandings" instead of their "knowledge". So,
Japan has specialists; however, Germany has generalists, when students graduate from
universities in engineering fields. It is important that the graduates should understand and
improve their weak points by comparing themselves with students from different countries
and/or backgrounds.