SDM is seeking project themes on the topic of "safe, secure system design." Is there a social or organizational problem if you wish to address? Something difficult that you can't take up in your normal, day-to-day activities? A medium or long-term task you need to accomplish? Would you be interested in working with our graduate students to find solutions? Click on the URL below for a pamphlet that will provide more details.
https://www.sdm.keio.ac.jp/news/2010/03/11-162714.html
ALPS (Active Learning Project Sequence)
"ALPS" projects provide recommendations on the design of innovative products, services and other systems using system design and management approaches developed in collaboration among Keio University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University. We examine products and services related to a project theme, defining the problems, understanding the requirements of interested parties, defining system requirements, designing concepts, proposing architectures, repeatedly testing and prototyping, and verifying our recommendations. ALPS participants gain real-life experience in the design of business models and innovative systems that could not otherwise have been tackled.
How ALPS works
Graduate students at the SDM form teams of six or so members and spend half a year working on projects that correspond to project themes you propose. Teams come from a variety of industries, jobs, areas of expertise and generations. They engage in repeated discussions as they attempt to incorporate the perspectives and requirements of a broad range of stakeholders and account for the entire lifecycle of the system. Faculty from MIT and Stanford visit the campus for a total of 10 days, divided up into five visits of two days each. Teams perform detailed analyses of project themes and provide you with reports that define products and services and the development process to achieve them. The goal here is innovation that will affect society at large.