Every year, Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering Science students go abroad to universities around the world to further their research projects, get first-hand experience at a renowned laboratory, take classes and get a taste of life as a student in a totally different environment. After returning from their study/research abroad, the International Planning and Promotion Office holds a presentation session where those students give a presentation on what they experienced both inside and outside the laboratory, how these differ from work done at Osaka University, the atmosphere, the people, the food, the culture etc. Almost all of the presentations go beyond the ten-minute limit as they have so much information to share!

This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this presentation session was done via ZOOM on October 7, 2020. There are usually around ten students giving presentations, but because of the border restrictions, we had two who were able to go and come back safely (Ms. Jin Han/UC Davis and Takuto Shimazaki/UofT), and one who experienced online presentation training (Naoki Ikushima/UC Davis) to explain to those students who are interested in studying abroad what they can expect to achieve, ending with questions about English proficiency, what they did on their free time, etc.

The presentation session for Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering Science students who went to study abroad from August 2019 to February 2020 was held on March 4, 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic was just starting to take form, we decided to hold this in a large classroom, with hand sanitizers and masks ready for those coming to listen. Students doing research at the University of Toronto (IESC), KTH (IESC), ETH, and universities in France, Germany, and Switzerland all gave truly interesting presentations, and each were asked questions about their experience and how they enjoyed spending a few months abroad.