A Study on the New Engineering Education with the Local Community

New Engineer Education’s keyword is collaboration with community residents. "New engineers" can understand the region’s culture and history as software in addition to the conventional hard technology. Students meet real life complex problems in the community and students solve them and propose an innovative concept and an architectural design in collaboration with community residents, municipal officers, city planners and architects. Local region is an ideal educational place and collaboration experience is the most important fact to develop students’ potential. This book shows a lot of concrete examples of collaboration with community residents and discusses possibilities and challenges for approaching project based learning in National Institute of Technology, Kumamoto College, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering.