Improvement of Motivation of the 5th Year Students and Advanced Course Students under the Influence of Researcher of Another Organization

他機関研究員と共に席を置くという新しい環境が学生の学習意欲に対して変化を生じさせた。学生は他機関研究員の行いの一つ一つに興味を持ち,あらゆることを吸収しようと試みていった。初期の他機関研究員と専攻科生とのこのような関係は,縦のつながりとして卒研生に波及し,研究室内に活気を生み出した。このように,連鎖的によい結果が引き出されてきた感はあるが,この根本には学生が「学びたい」という欲求をもって本校に在籍していることを我々も再確認する必要があると感じている。教員側が研究に関する環境整備等のバックアップに努め,さらに他機関研究員を置くなど新しいチャレンジも継続的に行っていくことが大切であると考える。The purpose of this paper is to describe the influence of graduate students from other university on fifth-year and advanced course students’ motivation. The authors have accepted students of the doctoral program at Nagaoka University of Technology. They stayed at Kagoshima National College of Technology for some time and conducted research with our students. Meanwhile, our students watched the graduate students conduct experiments by themselves, check literature eagerly and study for qualification tests.As a result, our students were motivated to study and do research on their own and achieved some goals. For example, some of the students passed both the first-step test for professional engineer and the test for pollution prevention management. Moreover, their respect for the graduate students enabled them to grow up both socially and humanly