This paper discussed achievements of active learning for 21 multinational students from Mekong countries and Japan to think about global engineers through lecture and group work (GW) on SDGs and Society 5.0, which took place in the academic year of 2018 at Niigata University. The active learning made the students increase their awareness of the importance for global engineers to develop knowledge and skills in science and technology, to learn social needs, to gain basic competencies for working persons and to have a positive attitude. In addition, it was the most significant change for students to gain SDGs, global engineers, Society 5.0, or other new information, as well as to have social contribution and wider perspectives. This result implicates that most of the students understood and emphasized the importance of the relationship between engineering and society. Furthermore, the students rated this active learning as useful as a pre-study for a global PBL-type GW internship.