Introduction of adapting design thinking into the education in Kanazawa Technical College

Abstract

Design thinking is a popular method to make an innovation. It is a methodology of thinking as a human-centered experience. Japanese enterprises have a tendency to set a high value on students' innovative skills. This paper is an introduction to example of design thinking of Kanazawa Technical College (KTC) engineering education. KTC has several programs in its curriculum and extra-curriculum. “Design method” and “Engineering Management” are the subjects for learning the design thinking methodology. “Graduation research”, “Learning Express”, and “Mini-Hydro Power Generation Contest” are the programs for practicing the learned skills actually. Those programs received good response from the participated students and good result. In order to promote the design thinking, we disseminate it to all faculties, and made clear criteria for evaluating students' activities in the future.