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

“Biomedical Engineering” makes multidisciplinary research area, which includes biology, medicine, engineering and others.  Communication training is important for students, who have a potential to develop “ Biomedical Engineering”.  Communication is not easy in a multidisciplinary research area, because each area has its own background of thinking.  Because each nation has its own background of culture, on the other hand, international communication is not easy, either.  A cross-cultural student program has been designed for communication training in the multidisciplinary research area.  Students from a variety of backgrounds of research area and culture have joined in the program: mechanical engineering, material science, environmental engineering, science of nursing, dentist, pharmacy, electronics, and so on.  The program works well for communication training in the multidisciplinary research area of biomedical engineering. Foreign language and digital data give students chance to study several things: how to make communication precisely, how to quote previous data. The experience in the program helps students not only understand new idea in the laboratory visit, but also make a presentation in the international research conference. The program relates to author’s several experiences: the student internship abroad, the cross-cultural student camp, multi PhD theses, various affiliations, and the creation of the interdisciplinary department.