Boeing Higher Education Program
Boeing Externship Program 2018 Contest on the theme of "New Technologies and Business Proposals f... October 01, 2018 |
During the 5 days from September 25 to 29 of 2017, the American aviation tour was held with 17 st... September 30, 2017 |
*Visiting Japan Business Association of Seattle* The fifth day was finally the US aviation tour.... September 29, 2017 |
*Visiting Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake* This time we visited the site of MRJ... September 28, 2017 |
*Visiting Boeing's Everett factory* On September 27th we visited Boeing’s Everette factory which... September 27, 2017 |
*Visit to Toray* On the first day of this tour, we visited the Tacoma factory of Toray Composi... September 26, 2017 |
*Visit the Consulate-General of Japan in Seattle * On the first day, we visited the Consulate-Ge... September 25, 2017 |
We planned and carried out a study tour of various important sites for the Europe aerospace indus... September 15, 2016 |
Since 2012, Boeing Japan has held a so-called "externship" program in which university students c... September 09, 2016 |
This summer again, we held a summer intensive course “Aviation Technology Innovation” where about... August 04, 2016 |
In March 2016, we visited factories of Yamanouchi Seisakusyo Co.,Ltd. located in Niigata, and dis... March 06, 2016 |
On December 25th, we held special winter workshop at Hongo campus and invited professionals of av... December 25, 2015 |
Since 2012, Boeing Japan has held a so-called "externship" program in which university students ... October 02, 2015 |
We planned and carried out a study tour of various important sites for the US aerospace industry... September 17, 2015 |
We planned and carried out a study tour of various important sites for the US aerospace industry... September 16, 2015 |
We planned and carried out a study tour of various important sites for the US aerospace industry... September 13, 2015 |
This summer again, we held a summer intensive course “Aviation Technology Innovation” where about... August 05, 2015 |
We Tokyo-U students visited Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA), with headquarter in Narita Internationa... September 11, 2014 |
As an activity of “Aviation System International Project Based Learning” class, we are investigat... August 14, 2014 |
The Aeronautics Innovation Course was a summer intensive course opened for the third grade of the... August 04, 2014 |
To deepen the understanding of the aviation industry by knowing the field of Japan airline, we v... July 09, 2014 |
As an activity of “Aviation System International Project Based Learning” class, we visit compani... July 07, 2014 |
Participating to the idea contest of the Boeing seminar, we have a series of discussion about ne... August 02, 2013 |
We have a series of discussion about new business models and aircraft technologies for the futur... July 11, 2013 |
In 2012, the University of Tokyo received a grant from The Boeing Company for a project to foste... April 26, 2013 |
Boeing Externship Program 2018 Contest on the theme of "New Technologies and Business Proposals for Boeing" was held at Tohoku University on Friday, September 21, 2018. The team of university of Tokyo won the championship.
The Boeing Company has been providing Boeing Externship Program to Japanese universities including the lecture at the forefront of aircraft industry since 2012. Currently, the 7 universities (the University of Tokyo, Hokkaido University, Tohoku University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagoya University, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Kyushu University) are participating in this program and contest.
At the University of Tokyo, “Project Based Learning of the international aviation system” ( in charge: Shinji Suzuki Professor, Hiroko Nakamura associate Professor) is held under the subject of “Creative Monozukuri Project" at the Faculty of Engineering and “Creativity Engineering Project” at the for Graduate School of Engineering.
The regular lecture was held at the office of the Boeing Company jointly with the other 5 universities via communication in English.
The Employee of Boeing Company in America or in Japan lectured not only the technology of aircraft but also "the history of Boeing and the philosophy of Boeing company", "Brand strategy of the company", "Future of the aircraft industry", and "Efforts for the environment problem". It was wonderful lectures that we can catch aircraft industry diversely. After the lectures in the summer semester, the members of the participating universities prepared for business contest that proposes new aeronautical business freely with sharp observation eyes.
Many creative and inventive solutions were proposed in this contest.
Hokkaido University presented "Proposal of development of new software by using RISC-V", Tohoku University did "Proposal of air taxi which examined profitability", Nagoya University did "Proposal of new air travel with windowless airplane equipped with a thin display to provide entertainment", Kanazawa Institute of Technology did “Proposal of electric landing gear to reduce CO2 , and Kyushu University did “Proposal a creative ingenuity solution "optimizing passenger guidance to reduce the boarding time.
UTokyo Team researched eVTOL. The team was divided into two teams because of the number of members. We focused on so called “flying cars” which gets into a hot topic in the world recently. We made a proposal on "Social Implementation of eVTOL in Japan". We questioned the eVTOL industry in Japan which is late for the world as the public and private council about flying cars in japan was held recently. We also investigated the demand on eVTOL in Japan where public transportation has developed. We proposed a business model for eVTOL that can be implemented within five years in Japan, and a business model in the future for focusing on the lack of local transportation in Japan. Until the proposal, We repeated discussions in the team in order to consider many factors such as law, aircraft design, technology, business, and world trends.
As a result, UTokyo Team got the evaluation from the president of Boeing Japan that we considered feasibility of the proposal in detail, and the proposal of the University of Tokyo was chosen to win the championship.
Written by Daisuke Fujiwara (3rd Grade)
2018年9月21日(金)に、東北大学にて『ボーイングへの新たな技術及びビジネス提案』をテーマとしたBoeing Externship Program 2018コンテストが開催され、東大チーム(機械工学専攻博士2年:中井佑、航空宇宙工学専攻修士1年:松崎洸季、池田有空、山名創、藤田拳斗、Franco M. Staub、4年:眞木俊弥、3年:大宅匠、佐野翔子、都市工学科3年:冨士原大介)が見事優勝いたしました。
The Boeing Company は、2012年より航空機産業の最前線のレクチャーを含むBoeing Externship Programを日本の大学に提供しており、現在東京大学、北海道大学、東北大学、東京工業大学、名古屋大学、金沢工業大学、九州大学の7大学がこのプログラムとコンテストに参加しています。 東京大学では、工学部・工学系研究科の共通科目「創造的ものづくりプロジェクト」、「創造性工学プロジェクト」の下で「航空システム国際PBL(Project Based Learning、 問題解決型授業)」(担当:鈴木真二教授、中村裕子特任准教授)として本プログラムに参加することができ、通常の講義は、ボーイングジャパンの本社にて通信を介し、他5大学と共催で行われます。アメリカの現役スタッフとは英語でのディスカッションも行われ、技術としての航空機だけではなく、『ボーイングの歴史と企業理念』『ブランド戦略』『航空機産業の未来』『環境のための取り組み』というように、多角的に航空機産業を捉えることのできる講義です。
夏学期に講義と並行して行われた学生プロジェクトで、新しい航空ビジネスを自由に提案するというビジネスコンテストでは、参加大学の学生はいずれも鋭い観察眼で航空機産業における問題点を提示し、北海道大学は『RISC-Vによる新たな提案』、東北大学は『ビジネス化を精査したエアタクシーの提案』、名古屋大学は『薄型ディスプレイを搭載した窓なし飛行機による新たな飛行機旅の提案』、金沢工業大学は『CO2削減のためのランディングギアの電動化』などの複合案、九州大学は『搭乗時による旅客誘導の最適化と、機内の荷物入れや胴体変更の提案』いう、創意工夫に富んだソリューションが提案されました。
東大チームは参加人数が多かったことから、2つのチームに分かれて考案した提案を一つにまとめて発表を行った。最近話題に上がっている空飛ぶ車に注目して、『日本におけるeVTOLの社会実装』について提案を行いました。
日本では先日官民協議会が行われたばかりで、eVTOLの産業では世界に遅れを取っていることと、公共交通機関が発達した日本におけるeVTOLの活路に着目して提案しました。前者に対しては、日本で5年以内に実装可能なビジネスモデルの提案、後者に対しては、日本の地方の交通手段の不足に注目したビジネスモデルの提案を行いました。提案に至るまで、法律・機体設計・技術・ビジネス・世界の動向など多くの要素を考慮するため、チームで何度も議論を重ねました。
その結果、提案の具体性と実現性を詳細まで考慮に入れたことをBoeing Japan社長から評価を頂き、東大チーム案が、見事優勝に選ばれました。
冨士原大介(都市工学 3年)