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At Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, a corporate-wide educational system using satellite communications has been rapidly rein forced since 1990, to meet a wide range of various technical demands to its nation-wide entities including the affiliated ones. It mainly provides ‘knowledge-based’ courses, in parallel to the ‘discussion-based’ mid-level and/or advanced ones, long provided at three education centers since 1983. Over the last seven years, in the number of partickrants the satellite communications system achieved remarkable increase with minimum per-recipient cost.
A series of questionnaires made on the participants shows that, education through effective use of satellite communications is as effective as a center-based one. It has also revealed several distinctive features of the education using satellite communications, i.e. the importance of well-organized and suitable textbooks, and tailored lecturing materials provided by means of visual images such as in-house videos.
In recent years, the system has further adopted bidirectional communications by effectively implementing the fiber-optic corporate VAN. In order to satisfy the day-to-day educational needs in various engineering fields, which include information technology, the company has added providing the Intranet and mailing list services.
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Kouji Yoshida recieved the B.Sc.(1972) from Okayama Univ., Japan. He then went on to be a Computer Scientist in the Information Engineerig Works at Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Kamakura Japan. He took part in the development of CAD or CG on the large-sized computer. He is currently a Research and education Scientist in the Institute of Technology. His major research includes Internet/Intranet, distance learning and information gathering on the Internet. He is one of the members of IPSJ, IEICE Japan.
Asako Nishio received B.A.(1991) from Kyoto Univ., Japan, in psychology. since then, she has been engaged in the education of corporate engineers using satellite communications at Mitsubishi Electric's Institute of Technology.
Hiroshi Hisha received B.Sc. (1973) from Hiroshima Univ., Japan, M.Sc. (1975) from UMIST, England, and Ph.D. (1983) from Univ. of Canterbury, NZ, in power systems engineering. He then joined Mitsubishi Electric's Itami Works, to pursue diagnosis application of microelectronics to gas-insulated switchgears. His main interests include the career development of corporate engineers through the Institute of Technology. Members of IPSJ, IEICE Japan and IEEJ.
Harumasa TOHDA received B.Eng.(1974) from Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, inMechanical engineering. He then joined Mitsubishi Electric's Central R and D Lab., to the pursue developpment of practical structural analysis methods to turbo-generators and large ntennas. His main interests include the education of corporate engineers through the Institute of Technology. A member of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Tadashi ODAKA received B.Eng.(1966) from Osaka Univ., Japan, in electric engineering, and M.Sc.(1969) in physics from Kobe Univ., Japan,. In 1971, after two years research work in Kobe Univ., he joined Mitsubishi Electric's Central R and D Lab., to pursue materials characterization using electron beams. His main interests include education of the corporate engineers through the Institute of Technology. A member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics.
Masahiro KASUGA received B.Sc.(1992) from Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan, in ergonomics. He then joined Mitsubishi Electric's Institute of Technology, to pursue multimedia-based practices in engineering education. His main interests include multimedia service systems and new business development currentl at the Kansai Branch Office.
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Yoshida, K., Nishio, A., Hisha, H., Tohda, H., Odaka, T., Kasuga, M. (1999). Seven Years Experience and Analysis on Corporated-Wide Distance Learning for Engineers Using Satellite Communications. In: Juliff, P., Kado, T., Barta, BZ. (eds) Educating Professionals for Network-Centric Organisations. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 17. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35393-7_15
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