Research Activities in Materials Science and Engineering with Academic-Industrial Alliances during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hideyuki Kanematsu; Dana M Barry; Nobuyuki Ogawa; Shin-Nosuke Suzuki; Kuniaki Yajima; Katsuko T Nakahira; Tatsuya Shirai; Masashi Kawaguchi; Takehito Kato; Michiko Yoshitake

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2021.09.146

Research Activities in Materials Science and Engineering with Academic-Industrial Alliances during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Procedia Comput Sci. 2021:192:3722-3728. doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2021.09.146. Epub 2021 Oct 1.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Suzuka College, Shiroko-cho, Suzuka, Mie 510-0294, Japan.
² Clarkson University/SUNY Canton, Potsdam/Canton, New York State, the United States of America.
³ National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Gifu College, Kami-Makuwa, Motosu, Gifu, 501-0495, Japan.
⁴ National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), 624-1, Numa, Tsuyama, Okayama 708-8509, Japan.
⁵ National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Sendai College, 4-16-1, Ayashi Chuou, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 989-3128, Japan.
⁶ Nagaoka University of Technology, 1603-1, Kami-Tomioka, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2188, Japan.
⁷ National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1, Namiki, Tsukuba, Igaraki 305-0044, Japan.

Abstract

During the COVID 19 pandemic, the importance of global academia-industrial alliances has increased. It is hoped that the alliances will help us to solve the current problems caused by the pandemic. In this paper, we introduce the application of IT tools and communication skills utilized in a special educational project for an academia-industrial collaboration. Some concrete examples from 2020 are provided from the viewpoint of the national alliance project in Japan. A discussion is included that describes the plans available to increase and strengthen the national project in the future.

Keywords: GEAR 5.0; IT tools; academia-industrial alliances; complete distance research; distance research; half distance research; smart society.