Feature Classes (Design Project, SDM Special Lecture)
Design Project
Design Project, which was called "ALPS"(Active Learning Project Sequence) projects until 2011, provides 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), Stanford University in the USA, and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands.
We examine products and services related to a project, define the problems, learn the requirements of the interested parties, set system requirements, design concepts, propose architecture, repeatedly test and prototype, and then verify our recommendations. Design Project participants gain real-life experience in the design of totally new business models and innovative systems.
For details, see the Design Project page.
SDM Special Lecture
The "System Design Management (SDM) Special Lecture" (2 credits) is included in the curriculum as one of major subjects for the concentration. Students are strongly encouraged to register for it.
For the "SDM Special Lecture," we invite leading authorities from around the world to lecture on their perspectives on "system of systems." It is one of the most important lecture classes in the Keio SDM. This is the first graduate school in Japan to have been established specifically to study massive, complex, high-tech systems of today's society. More than just book learning and everyday experiences are needed to tackle this subject. There is much to be learned from the insights of those who are in the forefront of contemporary society, actually creating, and sometimes failing to create, massive systems.
In this series, we bring these authorities to campus and provide students with an opportunity to discuss and debate ideas with them. It is not just a "lecture series" from big names. Rather, it is an opportunity for personal interaction and for students to absorb insights and motivations of those trailblazers.
Students who register for the course must attend all of the lectures. The class can also be audited by unregistered students upon application.
Examples of special lectures by leaders in their fields:
- Special Lecture Schedule (Japanese only)
Intensive Lectures
Keio SDM invites leading expertise in various areas as lectures in addition to regular lectures. These intensive lectures are either offered as official subjects or special lectures between the regular lecture schedules.
The latest intensive lectures/ Special lectures
- System Architecting & Design
Prof. Rashmi Jain(Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
- System Integration
Prof. Rashmi Jain (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) - Collective Dynamics of Firms
Prof. Dr. Frank Schweitzer (ETH, Switzerland) - New Cooperation between Japan and the U.S
- Reliable Embedded Systems
Niels Malotaux (Project coach, the Netherlands) - Technical Entrepreneurship & Management
Prof. Duncan Moore (University of Rochester, US) - System Engineering and Architecture Framework
James Martin (Aerospace Corporation, US)
- Stanford Center for Design Research Workshops
Dr. Larry Leifer (Stanford University, US)
- Business Games - Supply Chain Management in a Nut Shell
Prof. Dr. Paul Schoensleben (ETH, Switzerland) - Object-Process Methodology (OPM) with application to Systems Engineering
Prof. Dov Dori(MIT, US)
- Requirements Engineering
Robert Halligan (PPI, Australia)
- Predictable Projects - Delivering the Right Result at the Right Time
Niels Malotaux (Project coach, the Netherlands)
- Holistic Thinking
Joseph Kasser (NUS, Singapore)
- Multi-Objective Optimization
Prof. Olivier L. de Weck (MIT/ESD,US)
- Industrial Safety Engineering
Prof. Gillet Motet (INSA Toulouse, France)
- Model-Based System Development
Prof. Laurent Balmelli (Watson Laboratory, IBM)