Professor Shigehiro Hashimoto is Doctor of Medicine from Kitasato University in 1987, and Doctor of Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1990. Professor Hashimoto was Research Associate at the School of Medicine, Kitasato University, (1981-1989), Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine, Kitasato University (1989 -1994), Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics, Osaka Institute of Technology (1994-2001), and Professor at Osaka Institute of Technology (2001-2011).
 
He also was the Creator of the first Department of Biomedical Engineering in Japan at Osaka Institute of Technology (2005) and Director of its Medical Engineering Research Center (2005-2011). He is the current Associate to the President and Dean of Admissions Center of the Kogakuin University, Japan (2012-) Professor Hashimoto experienced internship in Research Center for Artificial Heart in Free University in Berlin, Germany in 1977.

“Biomedical Engineering” is exemplified for multidisciplinary field.  “Biomedical Engineering” makes the 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 work, students are divided into the small cross cultural groups.  Each group finds a problem, methods to solve the problem, contribution to the society.  Presentations are made using information in the internet.  They have learned how to communicate with students, who has variety of cultural backgrounds.  The training awakes in students several points: thinking from a different point of view, variation of communication tools.  The process is effective to learn multidisciplinary design.