Professor Shigehiro Hashimoto is Doctor of Medicine from Kitasato University in 1987, and Doctor of Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1990. He is the current Associate to the President and Dean of Admissions Center of the Kogakuin University (Japan).
Professor Hashimoto was Research. Associate at the School of Medicine, Kitasato University, (1981-1989), Asst. Prof. in the School of Medicine, Kitasato University (1989-1994), Assoc. Prof. Osaka Institute of Technology (1994-2001), and Professor at Osaka Institute of Technology (2001-2011). He also was professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Osaka Institute of Technology (2005) and Director of its Medical Engineering Research Center (2005-2011)
Professor Hashimoto held internship in Research Center for Artificial Heart in Free University in Berlin, Germany in 1977.
He is Doctor of Medicine from Kitasato University, Japan, in 1987, and Doctor of Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1990.
He was Assistant Professor, in Bioengineering, in the School of Medicine, Kitasato University, Japan, 1989-1994.
He was Professor in the Department of Electronics, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan, 2001-2004
Professor Hashimoto was the Department Creator of Biomedical Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan, 2005; and Director of Medical Engineering Research Center, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan, 2005-2011.
Professor Hashimoto is in the present:
Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kogakuin University, Japan, 2011-.
Associate to the President, Kogakuin University, Japan, 2012-.
Dean of Admissions Center, Kogakuin University, Japan, 2012
The way how to learn multidisciplinary idea will be discussed.
Biomedical engineering is exemplified for multidisciplinary field. “Biomedical Engineering” makes multidisciplinary research area, which includes biology, medicine, engineering and others. The cross-cultural student seminars on biomedical engineering have been exemplified as the case studies. In the group fieldwork, students divided into the small group. Each group visited the university hospital to find research topics related to biomedical engineering as the fieldwork by the cross cultural group. Students pointed out several topics related to multidisciplinary field, which includes mechanics, informatics, and systemics. They have learned how to communicate with people, who has variety of cultural backgrounds. Through the training, students realized another way of thinking, which stands on another base of idea. The process is effective to master multidisciplinary idea.
The World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI) gives good opportunity to learn multidisciplinary idea, because it welcomes not only variety of special fields of study, but also variety of researchers from variety of cultural backgrounds. Many academic conferences are concentrated into special field so that the number of participating countries is limited. Although the specialized group is convenient for peer review, it is not almighty for the global society. The global society consists of variety of elements. The single discipline is not enough for the application to the global society. Multidisciplinary idea breaks through the global problem, and creates innovation.
