Course Objectives
Learning purposes:
Learn how to manage the product management system with understanding each control item and its applicable problems, and how to write the patent specification with understanding the importance of the patent.
Course objectives:
1. To be able to explain the role of the product management system in the company.
2. To be able to explain the fundamental methodologies of quality control.
3. To gain the manner of writing about the patent specification with the planning of the concrete patent application.
Rubric
| Excellent | Good | Acceptable | Not acceptable |
| Outline for the product management system | The student can explain the purpose and some methodologies for the product management system in detail. | The student can explain the purpose and some fundamental methodologies for the product management system. | The student can explain some fundamental methodologies for the product management system. | The student cannot explain any fundamental methodologies for the product management system. |
| Quality control techniques | The student can explain the purpose and some methodologies for the quality control in details. | The student can explain the purpose and some fundamental methodologies for the quality control. | The student can explain some fundamental methodologies for the quality control. | The student cannot explain any fundamental methodologies for the quality control. |
| Patent specification writing | The student can write the patent specification with understanding intellectual property rights and application process. | The student can write the patent specification with understanding fundamental thinking about intellectual property rights. | The student can explain the patent specification and fundamental thinking about intellectual property rights. | The student cannot explain the patent specification and fundamental thinking about intellectual property rights. |
Assigned Department Objectives
Teaching Method
Outline:
Connection to actual practice: The teacher has the expertise in product management and intellectual property rights with experience gained from designing electronic products in a company, conducts this class about the product management system and patent in a didactic manner mainly.
General or Specialized: Specialized
Field of learning: Basics of natural science
Foundational academic disciplines: Machine, Control, Electrical, Electronic, and Information engineering
Relationship with Educational Objectives: This class is equivalent to "(2) The student has acquired knowledge of the following specialized technical fields for designing, manufacturing, and operation of machinery and systems."
Relationship with JABEE programs: the main goal of learning /education in this class is "(A)" and "(D)."
Course outline:
Learn about product management that enhances the company's productivity by controlling production activities and patent specification writing.
Style:
Course method:
* Use a blackboard mainly. However, interactively learn through thinking the solution of concrete problems about each control item of the product management system.
* Give some reports for students' comprehension.
* Organize the student's presentations about the patent plan made by each of them to learn design skills.
Grade evaluation method:
Presentation (40%) + mini-exam(30%) + reports(30%)
* Evaluate submission date of each report strictly.
* No regular exams.
Notice:
Precautions on the enrollment:
This class is "Required outside of teaching hours course study." Therefore, this course consists of a total of forty-five hours of teaching and homework per one unit. The student should deal with the homework based on the instructions of the teacher.
Attendance advice:
Make sure to study voluntarily by using books about quality and reliability other than the textbook and read "｢産業財産権標準テキスト：特許編｣（発明協会）" thoroughly.
Foundational subjects: Applied Mathematics Ⅰ (4th)
Related subjects: All around subjects of advanced engineering course
Characteristics of Class / Division in Learning
Course Plan
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Theme |
Goals |
| 1st Semester |
| 1st Quarter |
| 1st |
Guidance / About intellectual property rights |
Understand terms about intellectual property rights
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| 2nd |
Patent systems |
Understand some patent systems
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| 3rd |
Discussion about patent seeds |
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| 4th |
Scope of claim for patent |
Understand the scope of claim in the patent specification
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| 5th |
Patent survey and map |
Understand the patent map
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| 6th |
Patent specification writing |
Understand the patent specification
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| 7th |
Presentation for the patents |
Make presentation about the essentials of the patent
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| 8th |
About product management |
Understand terms about product management
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| 2nd Quarter |
| 9th |
About company and organization |
Understand terms about company and organization
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| 10th |
About the product management system |
Understand terms of the product management system
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| 11th |
About process management |
Understand terms about process management
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| 12th |
About quality control |
Understand terms about quality control
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| 13th |
Statistical approaches in quality control |
Understand statistical approaches in quality control
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| 14th |
About cost control |
Understand statistical processing techniques in cost control
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| 15th |
About environment control |
Understand management techniques in environment control
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| 16th |
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Evaluation Method and Weight (%)
| Examination | Presentation | Mutual Evaluations between students | Assignment | MIni-examination | Total |
| Subtotal | 0 | 40 | 0 | 30 | 30 | 100 |
| Basic Proficiency | 0 | 20 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 50 |
| Specialized Proficiency | 0 | 20 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 50 |
| Cross Area Proficiency | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |