Professor Shigehiro Hashimoto has been for a long time making inter-disciplinary research in Bio-Medical Engineering and teaching inter-disciplinary courses for multi-cultural audiences which also required inter-cultural communication. He 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.
Professor Hashimoto is author of the books "Introduction to Biosystems Engineering (1996)". "Introduction to Biomedical Measurement Engineering (2000)", "Introduction to Bio-mechanical Engineering (2013)" He is also the Editor of Special Issues on Bio-Medical Engineering in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics and published many articles in Bio-Medical engineering.
Professor Shigehiro Hashimoto collaborated with Chulalongkorn University (Thailand, Mahidol University (Thailand), Northwestern University (USA), University of Illinois at Chicago (USA) in his inter-disciplinary research, education and communication, as well as in the solution of multi-disciplinary real life problems and in producing multi-disciplinary based applications and implementation. In this sense, he is generating many input to technological innovations based on inter-disciplinary research.
Dr. Andrés Tremante is former president of a Multi-Disciplinary Organization oriented to 1) solve real life problems which mostly require multi-disciplinary teams and 2) to synergistically relate all disciplinary and inter-disciplinary departments of the University Simon Bolivar with the public and the private sectors as well as with business and the Venezuelan society at large.
Professor Tremante received both his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering (ME) from Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela, and his PhD from ENSAM in Paris, France. He remained there for post-doctoral studies in multi-phase flow and pumping. Presently he teaches courses in the fluid mechanics stem of the BSME program. Dr. Tremante began his stint at FIU working as a senior research scientist with the Applied Research Center before moving to the Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department in 2009. Prior to this he was Professor and Head of “The Mechanical Energy Conversion Laboratory” at Simon Bolivar University (Laboratorio de Conversión de Energía Mecánica. Universidad Simón Bolívar – USB) from 1992 to 2005 where his Undergraduate & Graduate courses and Research Areas included: Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics & Heat Transfer, Statics & Dynamics, Thermal & Hydraulic Turbomachines, Internal Combustion Engines, Energetic Systems, Hydro & Thermal Power Generation, Fossil & Renewable Energy, Oil Production & Multiphase Flow. In the recent past, he has been an editorial member of 23 journals and has published 125 papers in his area of expertise.
Dr. Nagib Callaos is the Founding President of a 32 years old Multi-Disciplinary Organization oriented to 1) solve real life problems which mostly require multi-disciplinary teams and 2) to synergistically relate all disciplinary and inter-disciplinary departments of the University Simon Bolivar with the public and the private sectors as well as with business and the Venezuelan society at large. He is also the Founding President of the IIIS and the Founding Editor in Chief of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI). He is former Dean of Research and Development of the University Simon Bolivar.
Professor Callaos was also the founding president of several organizations on research, development, and technological innovation, e.g. The Foundation of Research and Development of the University Simon Bolivar, the founding president of the Venezuelan Fund for Technological Innovations (created by presidential decree), which required the evaluation of projects from any discipline as well as technological innovations that required multi-disciplinary teams, The Venezuelan Association of Executives in Patents and Copyrights. As a professional, Dr. Callaos was for many years consultant in Information Systems in the largest corporations in Venezuela including its Central Bank. In this context he is the Founding president of a consulting 32 years old consulting firm in information systems and software engineering. His main research, academic, and professional activities, along almost 50 years were in the area of systemic Methodologies of Information System Development, Group Decision Support Systems, and Action-Research mainly via Operations Research. He tutored more than 100 undergraduate and graduate theses and produced more than 100 research papers and reflection articles. He has also edited, or co-edited many books, mostly conferences proceedings.
Taking into account that a discipline can be conceived as intellectual culture, is there any possibility of reciprocal learning, via analogical thinking, between studies and research in ‘Inter-Cultural Communication’ and ‘Inter-Disciplinary Communication’?” Is dialogue a necessary condition for making feasible both kind of communication? Is inter-cultural communication required for real life multiculturalism as inter-disciplinary communication is required for real life problems most of which require multi-disciplinary teams? Are skills in both kinds of communication required in Academic Globalization?
