DATE2025.06.30 #News from Academic Affairs

Attendance at STEAC 2025 Summer

Disclaimer: machine translated by DeepL which may contain errors.

Special Training for English Academic Communication (STEAC) is a daily on-demand English language training course (common to all Faculty of Engineering) offered by the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo to develop the skills of listening, pronunciation, and thinking while speaking English.
STEAC is an on-demand English training course offered daily by the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. Registration for the summer semester has already been completed, but students who wish to take STEAC are permitted to do so regardless of credit.
(For students only. (This course will be open to Academic and Administrative Staff after the summer break.)

For more information on STEAC, including application procedures for non-credit courses, please see this link (available only from @g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp) ↓
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_u5-NzpypesfeqnnC-4FWIyR7TG4bs-u/view?usp=sharing

STEAC offers English conversation using LLM in the second half of the course. In this case, the free account limits the amount of use (amount of conversation).

Google is currently offering "Google AI Pro" to university students for free for 15 months. (At least as far as we can tell from the announcement.
STEAC has been using ChatGPT, but may use Gemini this summer.

If you do not have a Google AI Pro account, please get one from the following link.
The deadline for application is 6/30 (Mon.), and if you can accept the application through AoE (Anywhere on Earth), the deadline in Japan will be 7/1 (Tue.) at 9:00 p.m.
Good luck!
https://gemini.google/students/?hl=ja

Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Attn: Nobuaki Minematsu (mine@gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp)