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A joint seminar was held in October 2025.
August 2025, 10 | Joint Seminar
The October 2025 Co-Learning Seminar was held on Thursday, October 23rd from 4:50pm to 6:30pm in the Etchujima Hall Assembly Room on the Etchujima Campus with the aim of broadening the perspectives of project students on future career choices and reaffirming their own aptitudes and aspirations. Professor Etsuro Shimizu (Marine Electronic and Mechanical Engineering Department) from our university gave a lecture entitled "Research Introduction and Career Development" in which he spoke about his own research and career development experiences to date, followed by a question and answer session.
Associate Professor Shimizu began by talking about his social contribution activities as an extension of his research activities, explaining how he provides opinions and coordinates on various policies and social issues at the request of committee members of the government and public interest organizations. He then gave a presentation on 1. his current research, 2. his experiences in career development, and 3. his research methods. Regarding 1., he spoke about MASS (Autonomous Navigation Ships), and regarding 2., he talked about his decision to go on to graduate school and find employment after graduating from high school, noting that he did not initially aim to become a researcher, and about his research activities after finding employment, and the influence his research in Norway had on him. Regarding 3., he explained his basic approach, and the students asked many questions about the content of his research, including about the status of discussions at committee meetings, which went beyond the scheduled time. This provided an opportunity for students to reflect on their own research and their realizations about social contribution, as well as their own research attitudes.