{"593257":{"#nid":"593257","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students in Japan Program Solve Real World Problems in Sustainability","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe 10-week Japan Summer Program is allowing Georgia Tech students to study sustainable development in Tokyo. This program provides students from across campus, many of them engineers, opportunities to solve real world problems in sustainability.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBrian Woodall, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in the Ivan Allen College is the program director. The program is generously supported through funding from The Coca-Cola Foundation and Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere are four courses taught in the Japan Summer Program and each of them utilizes problem-based learning (PBL), a pedagogy in which students are organized into teams tasked with solving real world problems of sustainability.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPBL requires that students become self-directed learners, ready and able to extend their knowledge through systematic inquiry. This means that students spend a good deal of time outside of class seeking reliable, up-to-date, and relevant information needed to solve the team\u0026rsquo;s problem.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo succeed in a PBL environment, students must hone their teaming, communication, and interpersonal skills. Because the Japan Summer Program is based at Tokyo Institute of Technology, it is a unique position to pursue PBL in multidisciplinary, cross-cultural teams composed of students from both universities. This creates terrific opportunities for students to deepen and broaden their conceptual base in engineering and social scientific analysis, while becoming disciplinary and cultural boundary spanners.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe 10-week Japan Summer Program, which is generously funded by The Coca-Cola Foundation and Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain, allows students to study sustainable development in Tokyo. This program provides students with the opportunities to solve real world problems in sustainability. Brian Woodall, professor from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is the program director.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The 10-week Japan Summer rogram allows students to study sustainable development in Tokyo."}],"uid":"34406","created_gmt":"2017-07-05 21:36:46","changed_gmt":"2017-09-05 15:59:28","author":"xyuan40","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"593258":{"id":"593258","type":"image","title":"Japan Summer Program","body":null,"created":"1499290666","gmt_created":"2017-07-05 21:37:46","changed":"1499290666","gmt_changed":"2017-07-05 21:37:46","alt":"","file":{"fid":"226133","name":"unnamed.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/unnamed_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/unnamed_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":145066,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/unnamed_1.jpg?itok=RXU8a-gM"}}},"media_ids":["593258"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/japanprogram.gatech.edu\/","title":"Japan Summer Program"},{"url":"https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/study-abroad-and-sustainability-worlds-largest-city?utm_source=dailydigest\u0026utm_medium=email\u0026utm_campaign=july20\u0026utm_content=tokyosustain","title":"More about the Japan Study Abroad - engineering perspective"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"174828","name":"Japan Summer Program"},{"id":"167657","name":"Sam Nunn School"},{"id":"13699","name":"Coca Cola Foundation"},{"id":"174829","name":"Georgia Tech;s Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nrebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu "],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}