The Benifits Being A CIGRE Member For Doctorate Student

Being a student and researcher, I have to read a number of research results and discussion by other researchers. This is more important in the case of a doctorate student as the student needs to produce journal papers in order to have originality in the idea for the paper to be accepted as article of the journal. That is not to repeat other's research. Intensive literature review is needed to ensure that we do not repeat whatever others has done in our pursit of the degree.

So, the starting point of a doctorate student is search of papers or literature review and over the years, I have obtained a lot of articles in IEEE website, through Uniten's library subscription of IEEE journals.

However, since Uniten did not subsribe to CIGRE journal, I had missed the opportunity to obtain the knowledge and resources free of charge. In addition, Tsukuba University which I am affiliated now also do not subscribe to CIGRE.

CIGRE journals are expensive. It costs a minimum of 25 Euro for one journal and a maximum of 40 Euro on the expensive side. So, I decided to become a member of CIGRE -Japanese National Comittee in order to try my luck in getting any discounts for these journals. So, I wrote an email to Ms. Naomi Kanechika , visited her to pay the registration fee of CIGRE and I am now a CIGRE member.

I did the search on CIGRE website today - It is to my surprise that I can now download all the journals for free !

A great addition to the invitation as a young delegate to CIGRE conference this August 2008 !

My First Examination in Risk Engineering.

Last Friday I went through an examination in Soft Computing subject which was taught by Prof. Miyamoto Sadaaki. The lessons were in Japanese, but mathematics being a universal language has helped me to understand the concepts of fuzzy logic, modal logic, rough sets and fuzzy sets.

In my opinion, a student with limited knowledge in Japanese can do well in his studies if the lessons are 100% mathematics and logics, but will have big problems if the lessons are social and human studies, law or etc.

It is exhilarating to have finished an exam of which the lesson was taught mostly in Japanese language. Prof. Miyamoto Sadaaki has really help by writing quotes and formulaes on the board in English language.

I think I have done well in answering the questions except there is one silly mistake that I spotted after the examination. Silly it is and clumsy I was. Nevertheless, as I did in most of my Master's degree examination, I finished early and went out of the examination hall about 30 minutes before time.

Exhilarating it was and with the knowledge that Prof. Miyamoto has imparted enabled me to understand the journals which was previously understood by a distant. I still have to submit a report to him by next Friday.