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CHOI Ji-woong and SEONG Min-gyu, classmates of the department, acceptance of the potential of scientists Development of a startup item with unique ideas, preparation of about KRW 270 million of business fund including government subsidy Robot scientists concentrated in development of “smart crutches” … “We will conduct researches to help society and to be shared.” [January 17, 2023] <CHOI Ji-woong (left) and SEONG Min-gyu (right) from YU Department of Robotics Engineering selected as Presidential Science Scholarship Students> YU Department of Robotics Engineering produced two Presidential Science Scholarship Students. Presidential Science Scholarship Students is a system to excavate excellent students in science and technology area and to support them with scholarship so that they grow to be future scientists. Since 2003, about 150 domestic and foreign science and engineering university students have been selected every year in the first and third grades of undergraduate studies. Up to now, more than 2,800 scholarship students were produced. Scholarship students are selected based on their academic performances, personality/aptitude, social responsibility, and scientific debating ability, etc. and the selected scholarship students receive full tuition and KRW 2.5 million of learning support money every semester until graduation. Considering that scholarship students are selected from all students at domestic and foreign universities, it is unusual that a department of a university produced two students. It means that their potential was recognized as scientists to lead Korea to that extent. The heroes of the honor are CHOI Ji-woong and SEONG Min-gyu from YU Department of Robotics Engineering. They are the classmates of a same department and entered in YU Department of Robotics Engineering in 2018. CHOI Ji-woong is an engineering talent who has entrepreneurship for R&D of startup items with a unique ideas. He has been working for Entrepreneurship Project Team (startup group) of YU LINC3.0 Project Team Startup Education Center and served as the 10th representative. The representative item is “Pooping Hero” which is a pet bowel pad made of scraps of masks. With the item, he won 15 support projects and contents including pre-startup package of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and prepared KRW 269 million of business fund last year. The marketability was also verified with KRW 5 million of sales for two weeks in cloud funding platform WADIZ. This year, he plans to expand the business by obtaining sales routes and strengthening PR, marketing, and branding, etc. CHOI Ji-woong developed “Feature point-based drowsiness detection system” based on his major as an engineer. With this system, he received Grand Prize in “2021 SW OPENBANK Project.” Many graduate students participated in the contest at that time but he won the first place with recognition of excellence of his idea and his research power. CHOI Ji-woong said, “I will develop AI behavior analysis solutions to be used in various areas including national defense, security, leisure, and medicine, etc. by analyzing human behaviors. I am accumulating research performances and know-how on sleepiness. I’d like to conduct in-depth researches on related academic areas including computer vision, video processing, and control after entering into the graduate school.” SEONG Min-gyu is a robotic engineer to dream wearable robots for the disabled.He is an undergraduate research student of Human Robot Convergence Lab (HRC Lab, Tutor CHOI Jeong-soo) of YU. He is developing “Smart crutches” to help the disabled for walking with free hands by guaranteeing users’ convenience and safety, in order to manufacture wearable robots for the disabled. SEONG Min-gyu said, “I am concentrating on R&D of 'dynamic force measuring device' in order to know the force by wearing the information on current physical movement only. As the information on various motions which could not be measured in past may be measured, there is the advantage that users’ intentions may be identified and information may be analyzed in order to be used for diverse purposes. I am pleased to be recognized of the potential of my research with selection for Presidential Science Scholarship Students. I’d like to make R&D activities to help our society and to be shared by us through in-depth researches after entering into the university.” Meanwhile, the students selected for Presidential Science Scholarship Students participated in “Talk with future scientists” held in Blue House Guesthouse on the 22nd December and received scholarship certificates and medals.
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100 persons from 12 universities completed on/off-line training and enhanced theoretical/practical capability for autonomous driving. A part of Local Government & University Cooperation Based Regional Innovation Project (RIS) [February 07, 2023] Students from 12 universities in Daegu/Gyeongbuk areas including YU and Kyungpook National University gathered to perform model electric vehicle autonomous driving missions. YU’s Future Car Conversion Component Project Team held “1st university students’ model electric vehicle autonomous driving contest.” The contest was provided for local university students to get professional knowledge and strengthen practical capability through short-term concentrated training and contest on autonomous driving that is the core technology in the 4th industrial revolution era. The contest is a part of Local Government & University Cooperation Based Regional Innovation Project (Regional Innovation System, hereinafter referred to as RIS) for which KRW 331.2 billion of budget was input for recent five years. YU is the central university of RIS Project being implemented by Daegu-Gyeongbuk RIS and leads Future Car Conversion Component Project. The contest was held in Daegu/Gyeongbuk Training Center of Small and Medium Business Corporation in Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongbuk on the 3rd February and 100 students of 28 teams from 12 universities participated. The participants obtained the theoretical and practical knowledge on manufacture of autonomous driving vehicles through on/off-line training before the contest. They completed training on basic theory of autonomous driving vehicles, practice for disassembling and structuring model electric vehicles, autonomous driving sensors and data, and autonomous driving algorithm and programming, etc. and each team designed autonomous driving programs using model electric vehicles. Especially, for four days before the contest, they enhanced completion levels of their designed autonomous driving model electric vehicles and finished driving tests on the tracks installed in the training center through camp training. In the contest held for three days, final ranks were determined by summing mission performance points for lane driving, signal lamps, dynamic obstacles, and walkers, etc. as well as track driving records of autonomous driving model electric vehicles manufactured by the teams. The team of Kyungpook National University took the 1st place, two teams from Daegu University took most excellence awards, and three teams from YU took excellence awards. Manager SA Jong-yeop of YU’s Future Car Conversion Component Project Team (Professor of Department of Future Car Engineering) said, “Students would have the opportunities to obtain basic and professional knowledge through the busy schedule to receive theory training and design autonomous driving electric vehicles in a short time. This is the 2nd RIS Project and the program is being systemized. I will try so that RIS Project of YU becomes the success model of local innovation project by making clear performances of the project year by year.”
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YU Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul (PSPS) held “National/Regional Development Action Plan Contest for Students” Participation of 11 teams from 19 countries including Zambia, Indonesia, and Malawi to share local community development plans through localization of “Saemaul” Foreigner students from 71 countries studied “Saemaul Studies” and returned to work as Saemaul international development experts [January 13, 2023] YU PSPS (Dean LEE Hee-wook) held “National/Regional Development Action Plan Contest for Students.” This is the 8th contest for foreigner students studying “Saemaul Studies” in Korea to apply Saemaul development in their own countries and prepare plans for local community development. In this contest, 43 foreign students from 19 countries who are enrolled at YU Park Chung-hee Graduate School of Saemaul participated in 11 teams. Last December, the final 8 teams selected through the review of action plan proposals and research reports for each team participated in the presentation contest held at Sapphire Hall, Cheonma Art Center, YU at 2:00 pm on the 12th. Foreigner students made presentations with such subjects as ▲A plan to develop rural communities through environmental protection (Myanmar), ▲An inclusive social project for people with albinism (Tanzania), ▲A sustainable community-based tourism industry project in Lombok (Indonesia), ▲A project to improve meal and guarantee healthy life (Congo), ▲ A plan for further expansion of cooperative rice value chain in Ponga and Khapro (Malawi), ▲ A plan to increase community income through degradable plastic products made from cassava husk waste (Indonesia), and ▲ A child education project in rural areas (Guinea) and shared their opinions. In the contest, Zambian Team won first place with a presentation on “Youth Saemaul Education and Fisheries Project in Kapu.” Siame Jairous (41, Department of Public Policy Leadership, Master’s 3rd term), representative of Zambian team, said, “I came to study at YU PSPS with the conviction that Saemaul Undong, which was the foundation of Korea's economic development, would also help the development of Zambia. Preparations for this event gave me an opportunity to deeply think about the strategies and plans for community development with application of Saemaul Undong. After graduation, I hope to have an opportunity to apply it in practice after returning to my home country.” Dean LEE Hee-wook of YU PSPS managed the contest and said, “Saemaul Studies” established by YU through decades of education and research has great value as a practical study. This is why it is most important for foreigner students majoring in Saemaul Studies and International Development to think about establishment of action plans that may be applied for development of their own countries based on their theoretical knowledge. The knowledge and experiences obtained in YU PSPS will help development of their countries and communities." YU PSPS was established in 2011 to cultivate Saemaul leaders of developing countries. Foreigner students studying in PSPS consist of public officials planning policies in respective countries, employees of public institutions, social activists, and professional workers, etc. differently from students of faculties or graduate schools. Until 808 students from 71 countries entered PSPS and 724 students from 66 countries received master’s degrees of “Saemaul Studies,” etc. and are working as main policy drafters, international development professionals, and Saemaul Undong leaders in central ministries/offices, public organizations, and international development NGO, etc. Currently, 43 international students from 19 countries are studying. Meanwhile, Rotary International District 3700 Cheongdo Rotary Club (Chairman KIM Byung-soo) sponsored scholarships to encourage foreigner students who participated in “National/Regional Development Action Plan Contest for Students” of PSPS
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Praise for suggested direction and strategy for global pharmaceutical companies Acceptance of outstanding ideas to express future pharmacies and pharmacists through webtoon [January 12, 2023] <YU Pharmacy Students won at National Contest for Pharmacy Students> (From left: SONG Hae-rin, SHIN Ji-hyeon, SOHN Sang-ah, and KIM Sang-wan) YU (President CHOI Oe-chool) Pharmacy Students won awards successively in the countrywide idea contest for pharmacy students and were recognized for their competence. In the 2022 HanAll Biopharma’s National Pharmacy Student Idea Contest held by HanAll Biopharma, a company specializing in pharmaceutical R&D and manufacture, “Han Sweat Team” consisting of SONG Hae-rin and SHIN Ji-hyeon, 5th year of YU College of Pharmacy, won the grand prize. The contest was prepared to seek for creative ideas of pharmacy students for direction of enterprises to enhance global competitiveness as professional new drug development companies through open collaboration, new drugs to be developed, and values to be possessed by global bio companies. YU students presented the direction and strategy of companies with the subjects of open collaboration by submitting “HanAll Care Proposal for Rare and Intractable Diseases” and won the grand prize. The suggestion included deep agonies to relieve difficulties of patients with rare and incurable diseases to be faced in the process of deriving integrated solution ideas in the range from diagnosis of diseases to new drug development and treatment. The two students who won the grand prize are given the right to participate in a local tour camp in the US where a global bio company is located for 6 days and 5 nights. In the 2022 2nd Daily Farm Pharmacy Student Content Contest which was held earlier, YU Pharmacy 5th year KIM Sang-wan and SOHN Sang-ah won the Excellence Prize. They expressed Sangsangyi, a pharmacy students, in a webtoon under the title of “Pharmacy Student Sangsangyi’s visit of pharmacies” to show future pharmacies and pharmacists and got good evaluation result. Their work showed the functions of future pharmacists and features of future pharmacies including counseling pharmacy, smart pharmacy, and healing pharmacy. Dean KIM Jong-oh of YU College of Pharmacy said, “Students of YU College of Pharmacy are recognized for their creativity and unique ideas. We will actively support students to grow to be pharmaceutical talents having creative and original capabilities in various fields as well as major knowledge by providing differentiated and unique education and research curriculum of YU College of Pharmacy.”
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YU Social Contribution Group held an event for “Sharing Rice-Cake Soup of Love.” More than 70 students and faculty volunteers participated preparation of rice-cake meal kits for 900 servings. Connection of Gyeongsan-si Volunteer Center & Red Cross Volunteer Corps to practice sharing with local community [January 18, 2023] “Eat rice-cake soup fulfilled with love, Happy New Year!” YU (President CHOI Oe-chool) held an event for “Sharing Rice-Cake Soup of Love” on the 18th. The purpose was to expand contribution in local community by sharing warmth through the service activity for sharing rice-cake soup in order to ensure that no neighbors are left out during the Lunar New Year holiday, which begins on January 21st. <YU students are packing rice-cake soup meal kits> In the event, rice-cake soup meal kits for 900 servings were prepared by more than 70 persons consisting of students, staffs, and volunteers from the YU Social Contribution Group and students from Club Association. TheKN Co., Ltd which is operating the University Student Restaurant Sympathized with the purpose of the event and participated in the event. Rice-cake soup meal kits prepared on this day were delivered to corresponding places in the local community through cooperation by Gyeongsan-si Volunteer Center and the Red Cross Volunteer Corps. Manager KIM Jeong-hun of YU Social Contribution Group prepared the event for sharing rice-cake soup and said, "I hope that students may have an opportunity to feel the value of sharing with the start of the new year by practicing loving neighbors. The Social Contribution Group will do its best to develop more diverse programs that can foster a sense of community as a member of the society and basic knowledge as a global citizen, by providing opportunities for all local residents as well as university members to participate.” Meanwhile, the YU Social Contribution Group, which was launched in November last year, provides university members with regular volunteer opportunities every month, such as campus cleaning activities and kindergarten education volunteer activities. Various social contribution talent training programs, such as dispatching students to Cambodia, are being promoted.
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YU Social Contribution Group Global Volunteer Team launching ceremony - Start of Post-COVID-19 global activity Dispatch of 44 volunteers to Cambodia twice in January for voluntary services and cultural exchange Aiming at the cultivation of talents to contribute to the common prosperity of human society... Development of basic refinement as global citizens [December 27, 2022] <Launching ceremony of YU Social Contribution Group Global Volunteer Team> YU (President CHOI Oe-chool) Social Contribution Group started an activity for global volunteer work. YU held the launching ceremony of the 39th Global Volunteer Team at the Student Support Center on the 21st. YU Global Volunteer Team is a representative volunteer service team for the overseas dispatch of students of YU. Since 2001, they have been dispatched to many places around the world and making volunteer activities and about 2,800 people have been dispatched until now. YU Global Volunteer Team has a special meaning. Due to the spread of COVID-19, this is the first volunteer tram dispatched overseas in three years after the 38th Global Volunteer Team dispatched in the 2019 winter vacation and this is the first overseas dispatch activity of YU Global Volunteer Team organized by YU this year. Last November, YU held the launching ceremony of the YU Social Contribution Group with the attendance of President CHOI Oe-chool, students, professors, and staff, and started regular social contribution activity. In order to realize “'Creative Innovation University” to contribute in prosperities of human society with a new vision declared by YU in celebration of the 75th anniversary, a social contribution group was launched with the will of the whole university members. YU Global Volunteer Team consisting of 44 volunteers is dispatched to Cambodia in January 2023. The volunteer team will be divided into two teams and each of the teams will dispatch to Phnom Penh and Kampong Cham in Cambodia, respectively, to make service activities and cultural exchanges with local students and residents in order to let them know about Korea. YU students dispatched to Cambodia plan to visit educational institutions including local orphanages and make educational services and to visit Western University and make cultural exchanges including mutual traditional plays with the students. On January 9th, HAN Hee-soo (3rd grade of Department of Mechanical Engineering) in charge of the leader of the 2nd dispatched volunteer team said, “I felt that I had grown by myself when learning and gaining unexpected things in the process of educational volunteer activity at night schools. I decided to participate in the Global Volunteer Team to prepare for an opportunity to grow one step further over sharing in a wider world. I prepared hard with my teammates and will enhance the prestige of YU and Korea by making fruitful volunteer activity in Cambodia.” Especially, YU Medical Center will support this global volunteer activity. A medical team consisting of physicians, nurses, and nutritionists will make medical volunteer activity at local hospitals in Cambodia with health authority personnel and medical staff. The medical team also plans to provide local residents with health education on disease control and prevention. <President CHOI Oe-chool makes a special lecture at the Global Volunteer Team launching ceremony> President CHOI Oe-chool of YU said, “I think that it is the basic refinement of global citizens and the role and responsibility of advanced countries’ peoples to aggressively lead global social contribution activity. YU will provide all support to cultivate the elegant talents to lead Korea to an advanced country and the talents to contribute to the common prosperity of human society. I hope that YU students go to a wider world, develop global minds, and grow to be the talent to contribute in human society.”
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5,517 people applied for 926 people, the highest competition rate of 13.7:1 for the Department of Cultural Anthropology High competition rates for new departments, such as the Faculty of Global Translation & Interpretation and the Department of Global Business [January 2, 2023] YU (President CHOI Oe-chool) closed 2023 Regular Recruit at 6:00 pm on the 2nd and the highest competition rate, 5.96:1, was recorded. 5,517 people applied for the recruitment of 926 people (within the quota). This year, YU renewed the highest competition rate for consecutive two years next to 5.13:1 of the regular recruit competition rate (1,146 for 5,880) last year. Department of Cultural Anthropology showed the highest competition rate (13.7:1) and was followed by Department of Global Translation & Interpretation (12.3:1), the Department of Urban Engineering (12.1:1), the Department of Environmental Engineering (11.8:1), the Department of Global Business (11.4:1), the Department of Chinese Language & Culture (10.8:1), and Faculty of Free Major Selection (10.8:1). Especially, most of newly established departments such as the Department of Software Convergence (9.8:1) and the Department of Global Education (7.5:1) including the Department of Global Translation & Interpretation, the Department of Global Business, and the Faculty of Free Major Selection recorded high competition rates. President CHOI Oe-chool of YU said, “Applicants’ YU preference was clearly identified with the highest competition rate in this recruitment next to the 1st place in Daegu-Gyeongbuk in registration rate of applicants for regular recruitment in 2023. Such a high registration rate and competition rate show that all departments are competitive, regardless of specific departments. In particular, this is the result of Yu’s endeavors to get the sympathy of students and their parents to meet social changes and educational demands. We will continue to promote innovation in order to be equipped with differentiated educational competitiveness preferred by students and their parents who are the consumers of education.
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Received 5 awards including the grand prize in a contest hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Korea International Trade Association Operation of Youth Trade Expert Training Project for 21 years … Accumulation of professionalism and know-how for practical capability education [January 6, 2023] <Students of YU GTEP Project Team who won awards in major academic conferences and contests related to trade> YU (President CHOI Oe-chool) is recognized as the birthplace of young trade experts. The Students of “the Regional Specialized Youth Trade Expert Training Project Team (GTEP Project Team)” were recognized for their expertise and practical capabilities by sweeping top prizes in major trade-related academic conferences and contests held in 2022. They won a total of 5 awards including 2 grand prizes in “the University Student FTA Utilization Conference,” “Undergraduate (Graduate) Student FTA Utilization Promotional Content Contest,” and “16th GTEP E-Commerce Contest” held by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and Korea International Trade Association this year. First of all, in “2022 University Student FTA Utilization Conference” held last November, BAEK So-min (4th grade of the Department of Trade), PARK Soo-hyun (3rd grader of the Department of Trade), and BAE Su-jin (4th grade of the Department of Chinese Language and Culture) of YU GTEP Project Team participated in the video section and won the top prize. This contest is a competition for thesis and video content production on policy measures to support the use of FTA (Free Trade Agreement) and on business models to use FTA. In “2022 Undergraduate (Graduate) Student FTA Utilization Promotional Content Contest” held the same month, PARK Da-eun, KIM Seong-min, and KIM Jae-won (4th grade of Faculty of International Trade) and LEE Tae-ho (4th grade of Department of English Language and Literature) from YU GTEP Project Team won the grand prize in the utilization idea category. The contest is a competition to produce promotional content in all areas of FTA agreements such as tariffs, services, investments, intellectual property rights, and non-tariff barriers in order to publicize the importance of the use of FTA. In particular, the students of YU GTEP Project Team won the grand prize in this competition in 2021 and this is the honor of the award for consecutive two years. In addition, in the 16th GTEP E-Commerce Contest for the students of GTEP Project Teams from countrywide universities, the students of YU GTEP Project Team won three prizes including Excellence Award, Special Selection, and Honorable Mention. The students of YU GTEP Project Team are improving their capabilities through theories of foreign trade including market analysis, foreign marketing, buyer counseling education, etc. as well as education for languages and foreign trade practice and through visits to foreign EXPO with staff of small and medium enterprises. YU implemented TI (Trade Incubator) Project of the Ministry of Industrial Resources in 2002 as the start and has been operating GTEP Project for 21 years now; it is now operating Class 16 of GTEP Project Team. LEE Hee-yong, the head of YU GTEP Project Team, said, “Students of YU GTEP Project Team are building not only trade-related expertise but also a wealth of practical capabilities and field experiences required by companies through dispatch to various overseas fairs. They stand out in various competitions based on strong basic skills and practical capabilities.. I hope that students may evaluate their own skills by participating in various competitions and realize their dreams as trade experts step by step.”
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Selection as the best in civil engineering area (Department of Construction System Engineering) in “2022 Industrial-Perspective University Evaluation” Continuous production of the best industrial-perspective departments since 2009 Biopharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, electronic semiconductors, IT, machinery (vehicles), architecture (construction), and environment, etc. [December 13, 2022] YU Department of Construction System Engineering was selected as the best department by companies. According to the results of “2022 Industrial-Perspective University Evaluation” announced by the Korea Engineering Education Accreditation Institute, YU Department of Civil Engineering was the best department in the field of civil engineering. YU Department of Construction System Engineering was selected as the best department for the second time after 2012 and the excellence of its curriculum was recognized once again. Industrial-Perspective University Evaluation is done by companies. It has been held since 2008 to expand communication between industry and universities and to cultivate manpower to meet industrial demands. In particular, new industries were added to cultivate future talent and endeavors to vitalize universities’ own industry-university cooperation models such as on-the-job training in connection with companies, the establishment of employment-linked training courses, and business agreements with industries were reflected in the indexes. This year, 26 universities and 42 departments were evaluated in four areas including IT, civil engineering, artificial intelligence, and smart factory. The evaluation was conducted by an evaluation committee consisting of industry and university officials, including 22 companies such as LG U+, LG Chem, SK Telecom, Kakao Enterprise, and Hyundai Engineering. The evaluation committee evaluated three areas: industry-based curriculum design, curriculum operation, and performance. The university that received the best evaluation result is awarded a certification plaque jointly named by the Ministry of Education, 5 economic organizations, and the Accreditation Board of Engineering Education of Korea. In the Industrial-Perspective University Evaluation, YU has been continuously producing the most excellent departments since 2019 in various academic areas such as metal steel, new materials, architecture (construction), general machinery, machinery-automobiles, electronic engineering-semiconductors, IT, computer software, petrochemicals, environment, biopharmaceuticals, and food, etc.
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