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Cross-Disciplinary Technology and the Importance of Collaboration for Notebook PC Development

March 31, 2025 (Monday)

Hiroko Fukuda

Graduated from the Department of Electronic Engineering in March 2018
Mar 2020 Completed Master's program in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering

Panasonic Connect Corporation

Job description (entire company, your department, etc.)

We are a B2B solutions company that supports the corporate and social scene. We are engaged in product development for corporate customers, especially in the development of embedded software for microcontrollers that control the power supply and battery of notebook PCs.

What are you actually doing as a cross-disciplinary approach in society, or what do you need to do to cross-disciplinary?

Since we are developing embedded software, we need knowledge of software, but at the same time we need knowledge of circuits. Battery control also requires knowledge of chemistry to understand the characteristics of batteries.
In addition, in order to make this kind of cross-disciplinary work, it is important not to stick only to one's own specialty or work, but to embrace other fields on a zero-based basis.

Message to Shibaura Institute of Technology Students

When you enter a university, your world will expand, unlike when you were in high school, and I encourage you to be interested in a variety of things and challenge yourself without being timid. You will surely make use of this experience when you become a member of society.