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The contribution to international recycling environment standard standardization Training eco design specialists [July 19, 2011] Professor Lee, Hwa Jo of Mechanical Engineering (56) was nominated as a winner of ‘IEC 1906 Award’ IEC(International Electrotechnical Commission) was founded in 1906 as one of top 3 international standard organizations giving awards by selecting the specialists who have contributed to international standardization each year since 2005 as one of centennial anniversary events. The award winning field of Professor Lee is the recycling environment standardization. It is the contribution of making effort in designs considering environment and development of recycling technology such as the development and comparative evaluation on eco-friendly design guide for re-manufacture of cellular phones, research of standard estimation method on recycling possibility rate of electric & electronic products, data management on entire cycle of product for eco-friendly design, development of Enabling Technology for maximized product recycling, development of cathode-ray tube waste separation and cleansing system, development of scrap car dismantling evaluation software, research of home appliance waste handling process and the development of recycling characteristics evaluation on automotive parts & part categories, etc. Also, Professor Lee is leading in the training of eco design specialists as a person responsible for projects participated by graduate school Mechanical Engineering, Applied Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering as Yeungnam University was selected for 'eco design specialized graduate school' by the Ministry of Environment since 2009. Eco-design means design considering the influence of environment or designing by reducing the malicious effects on the environment from the design stage which is the source of product's birth. This field is getting the spotlight as high quality jobs of next generation as the importance of environment becomes highlighted. In addition, Professor Hong, Seung-Ho of Hanyang University (automated industrial communication), Director Kim, Young-Rok of Hex Power System Technology Laboratory (solar energy), Professor Lee, Jae-Ho of University of Seoul·Team Manager Choi, Sang Mi of Korea Electronics Association (electronic component library design automation), Team Manager Ahn, Hee-Seong of Korea Electrical Engineering & Science Research Institute (radio interference of extra high voltage power transmission), Team Manager Cho, Mi-Ryeong of KILT (backlight unit related display for LCD), Senior Researcher Kim, Jae-Hyun of Korea Institute of Machiner & Materials (semiconductor related to MEMS material compression characteristics), Professor Shin and Hyung-Seop of Andong University (room temperature tensile characteristics of super conductor), etc have received the honor of award. Accordingly, Korea has placed 5th followed by Japan, England, United States and Germany by producing 9 award winners among a total of 124.
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Participation of 41 teams, Successfully completes the 16th Baja Sae Korea on August 9th [July 9, 2011] The 'Baja Sae Korea' which Yeungnam University has opened up for the first time in 1996 with the purpose of raising creativity and spirit of challenge by engineers to apply the theory on the field was held for the 16th time this year. The festival of automotive engineering students which became a de facto international tournament by obtaining a certificate of United States SAE (Society of Automotive Engineering) in 2001 was started on July 6th and dropped the curtain of heated contest with the endurance race on the 9th. This contest where 41 teams participated has performed entrance of car shed on 6th, static inspection on 7th along with opening ceremony, Gyeongsan downtown car parade and dynamic inspection on 8th. Especially the ‘Rock Crawling’ attempted for 5th time this year had produced various things to see. While an elliptical shaped rock obstacle of 5m in width and 1.5m in height with course length of 10~15m is installed and the team that has passed through this within shortest period of time gets the highest score in order to test the transmission speed of engine power, there was an accident of all participants failing last year. This year, only 1 team has passed so that there is a criticism of 'difficult course' where safe passage itself is the key. On the 9th which was the last day, the ‘endurance race' which is the highlight of this tournament was held at the back hill of Yeungnam University filtration plant. In the middle of pouring rain started from early in the morning, the tournament continued as scheduled even in bad weather of pouring heavy rain accompanied by thunder and lightening. As soon as the start flag of tournament chairman was raised at 10:50 AM, the muddy water started splashing from all over as the self made cars lined up to wait their turns started running by gushing out their loud engine sounds. The 35 cars were started in order to spread the race of 180 minutes with Cheoma DM (Car No. 9) that had placed first in the 'acceleration' category of Dynamic Test performed on the previous day at the front. The endurance race is a category in which the victory is determined depending on who turns most number of 4km off-road track within given time. The drivers of self made cars are having quite a bit of difficulty in securing their field of vision from the goggles mixed up with muddy water and sweat. Also, the suspension system of car and driving skill are more important than simple speed because the surface of unpaved track is slippery, has a lot of steep turns and is a mountain trail with severe unevenness. Needless to say that the car must have good power of engine in order to finish three hour's race by crossing 5 layered obstacles with steep slope here and there. If there are small and large accidents such as engine stopping, deviating from the track or slipping from the hill in the middle of race, the referees stop the race for a moment by waving a red flag and the volunteers must run in immediately to push the car off the track for the race to resume. Although the cars that broke down resume the race after getting repaired from the pit, they naturally get behind in the race because they lost that much time. Therefore, the driver and all team members rush in to fix the car in order to reduce the time remained in the pit. So it is the moment when teamwork and promptness are also very important. At 1:50 PM of this day, the heated contest for three days has dropped the curtain with the flag to finish the endurance race. The closing ceremony was held at the main stadium of Yeungnam University from 5 PM. As a result of adding up the scores from all categories including static inspection, dynamic inspection and endurance race, the honor of overall victory given to the team with highest score went to the No. 29 MIRACLE-Blue team of Hanbat University. To the winning team, the Minister of Knowledge Economy award, championship flag, trophy and prize of 3 million won were given. In addition, the No. 6 T.E.M11 team of Ulsan University that has placed second received the Governor of Gyeongsangbuk-do award and prize of 2 million won and No.30 MIRACLE-Red team of Hanbat University that has placed third received President of Yeungnam University award and prize of 1 million won. The result of tournament will be announced throughout the world through official homepage of SAE (www.sae.org) and publications.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Yeungnam University, opens up \'UC Davis Oversea Summer Semester\' for the first time in Asia in the field of engineering 10 UC students‧14 Yeungnam University students, ‘study hard’ together for one month [July 5, 2011] “Welcome to the Material World. During this semester, we\'ll study on \'Materials for Future Energy Needs\' at Yeungnam University, Korea. UC Davis is one of the top Universities in the field of Materials Science and Engineering.\" <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_06946406434550019 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_176_2012-01-17_15-34-47_1705.jpg\" target=_blank> Professor Shackelford of UC Davis who is one of world\'s great scholars in the field of materials engineering is lecturing at the Materials Science & Engineering Department of Yeungnam University. At 9AM of the fourth, Professor Shackelford (James Shackelford, 66) of UC Davis who is a lifetime member of American Ceramic Society and one of world\'s great scholars in the field of materials engineering stood on the platform of Materials Science & Engineering Department of Yeungnam University. He is here to teach the basics of materials science and engineering for the students participating in the ‘UC Davis Summer Abroad 2011\' held at Yeungnam University until the end of July as the writer of 《Introduction to Materials Science for Engineers》 which is a famous introductory work in the field of materials science already translated in Chinese, German, Spanish and Korean while currently being translated in Italian. Yeungnam University (president Lee, Hyo-Soo) has invited the ‘UC Davis Summer Abroad 2011\' for the first time in Asia in the field of engineering. This program is one of main global programs of UC Davis and is a summer abroad system with UC (University of California) students as main target. While the program is opening up in various major fields in various countries of the world each year, the special feature is the UC Davis professors giving lectures directly. This year, a total of 38 programs will be operated in 25 countries. The fields are 29 majors including culture, history, literature, art, politics, economy, geography, mathematics, genetics and civil engineering including the materials engineering held at Yeungnam University. One of these programs is being held at Yeungnam University for about one mon from 30th of last month until coming 26th. In this program carried out with a title of \'Materials for Future Energy Needs\' by getting support from Green Energy Leading Industry Talent Training Center of Yeungnam University, 10 UC students (UC Davis, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, etc) and 14 Yeungnam University students are participating to explore the world of new materials. In addition, they even receive credit by having the opportunity of field study and culture experience for 4 weeks. <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_08183618716278866 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_176_2012-01-17_15-35-37_1706.jpg\" target=_blank> The professors and students participated in UC Davis Summer Abroad 2011 are taking photos. ▲ 2 UC Davis Professors‧4 Yeungnam University Professors, Gives Lectures and Guides Experiments The daily routine of these people living together in the life center of Yeungnam University is to take lectures for 3 hours from 9AM and preview-review or perform given experiment in the afternoon on weekdays. All lectures and experiments are performed in English. The score evaluation through mid-term exam and final exam is also entirely according to the evaluation standard of UC Davis. In a word, the entire chemical materials engineering lecture hall of UC Davis is moved to Yeungnam University for one month. The career of professor who are in charge of lectures and experiment guidance is also worthy of attention. Professor Kim, Sang Tae (46) who will be handed down with the baton of Professor Shackelford is working as a professor of UC Davis since 2004 after receiving Ph. D from the Univ. of Houston and going through post-doc at Max Planck Institute of Germany, he is especially considered as one of great scholars in the field of nano material and fuel cells that are getting attention as next generation materials. He introduced by saying “there is great demand of students in other major trying to learn material science through vacations because this is the field that all engineering students must study. So the summer abroad system of UC Davis providing high quality education and oversea culture experience opportunity at the same time is a very popular program” and expressed his expectations by saying “I\'m very delighted to carry out this program with Yeungnam University which is getting attention in the research in the field of green energy and advanced technology materials. Through this opportunity, I hope the exchange between two universities would spread to the entire university as well as engineering\". Professors Lee, Jae-Hyung, Kwon, Hae-Wook, Lee, Jae-Yeol and Ko, Young-Gun in charge of experiment guidance one week at a time are also people with great ability who have received the latest degree or post-doc at Ohio State Univ., Case Western Reserve Univ., Univ. of Texas, Austin or MIT. <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_09161086457112925 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_176_2012-01-17_15-36-06_1707.jpg\" target=_blank> Professors in charge of lectures and experiment guidance at UC Davis Summer Abroad 2011 (From left-Professors Lee, Jae-Hyung, Kim, Suk-Young, Han, Young-Hwan, Shackelford, Kim, Sang-Tae, Lee, Jae-Yeol) Field trips are also a part of program. while the students learn practical knowledge from practical workers by visiting the fields related to the major such as POSCO Power, POSCO, Hyudai Heavy Industries, Hyundai Motors, Millinet Solar, LG Electronics Solar Division (Kumi) and Daegutec, they will also have time to experience the history, tradition and culture of Korea by visiting, DMZ, Seoul, Jeonju, Andong and Gyeongju, etc. The determination and expectations of participating students are also extraordinary. Park, Hye-Jin who is enrolled in Materials Science & Engineering Department of Yeungnam University (20, female) said \"As I see the UC students who are feel free to ask questions even on very basic problems, I also get to make effort in having more active learning attitude\" and expressed her determination by saying \"I\'ll show the ability of Korean university students properly by previewing and reviewing thoroughly everyday\". Shawn who is enrolled in fourth grade of UC Berkely (Shawn Yeh, 21) said \" I\'m reconfirming on the fact that the developed standard of Korea in the field of advanced science & technology including the field of next generation energy\" and expressed his hope by saying \"I hope to find a job in Korea after graduating by finding out more about Korea and also building up a human network through this program\". The Dean of Material Science & Engineering Kim, Seok-Young (57) and Professor Han, Young-Hwan (54) who have went out on foot to invite the UC Davis Summer Abroad program said \"we have prepared and are carrying out the program with a though of representing entire Yeungnam University and furthermore, all universities of Korea which is not on the level of Yeungnam University\'s Material Science & Engineering department or School of Engineering\" and said \"as much as the interest and demand of American university students on studying or training in Korea are rapidly increasing as the Korean wave is causing a strong blast throughout the world, we\'ll make the best effort in providing the high quality program to become settled as a steady exchange program which is not a one time thing\". <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_022877826000445292 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_176_2012-01-17_15-36-44_1708.jpg\" target=_blank> <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_022877826099445292 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_176_2012-01-17_15-38-22_1709.jpg\" target=_blank> The students on a field trip to POSCO Power which has made the world\'s largest scale fuel cell power plant Meanwhile, UC Davis is a prestigious university evaluated as 6th among American universities in social contributions, 9th among American public universities, 5th among American universities in securing foreign teaching staffs and 46th among universities of the world in the research ability. It had signed an agreement for comprehensive exchange with Yeungnam University in April.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> UN affiliated OPCW Inspector Kim, Seup alumnus (Department of Chemistry, 81), special lecture at his alma mater [June 29, 2011] “While Korea is about rank 10 in the share of expenses by UN members in 2010∼2011, the number of Korean people who have advanced to world\'s international organizations such as UN with tens of thousands of people is merely about 300. This is ridiculously little number compared to our country\'s contribution to UN. So I stand here today. I ask all of you to raise the status of Korean people by making advancement to international organizations such as UN.” <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_07621608839138025 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_175_2012-01-17_14-50-19_1702.jpg\" target=_blank> At 10 AM of the 29th, At the Legal Building Room. 525 of Yeungnam University, a special lecture inviting Inspector Kim, Seup (50) of UN affiliated ‘Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’(OPCW) (50) (see photo) started. Despite the sign of heat wave recording 27℃from the morning, about 80 students dreaming of getting into UN affiliated organizations or international organizations have filled the lecture hall. Inspector Kim invited as speaker is Class of 81 who entered Chemistry Department of Yeungnam University and Class 23 of ROTC. He is standing in front of his younger alumni as he lives a new life of an international public official at Hague, Netherlands where OPCW is located since 2005 after wrapping up the life of a military officer for about 20 years. His main duties are to perform inspection and investigation activities related to chemical weapons by going around about 180 OPCW member countries. He says the days spent abroad are as many as 200 per year from performing important duties as an inspection team manager. The reason why he went through the trouble of visiting Yeungnam University in his busy schedule was because there was something he really wanted to say to the younger students. He wanted to let them know that opportunities come for sure if you draw a bigger picture toward a greater world by escaping from the \'frog in a small pond\' mentality. “You never know what kind of international organization will appear all the sudden within international state of affairs getting changed each day. The OPCW which I\'m working for is also the one created all the sudden as a result of Strategic Arms Reduction Talks between United States and Soviet Union in 1997. So the new employment reaching up to about 500 people took place at the time and the many people who were working in the field of chemistry caught the opportunity of getting into an international organization. So you should also prepare for this. The opportunity will surely come someday even if it might be right now.” The method of getting into an international organization he had presented was more simple than expected. In case of UN for instance, they give employment announcement for 2 months through internet homepage and all you have to do is submit an application through e-mail by selecting the area of work which is appropriate for your major. However, it is necessary to well package your experience and motive for applying according to the qualifications required by each organization. In fact, you can become an employee of international organization if you pass the first interview over e-mail or phone and the final interview on the spot after submitting the documents. He emphasized that it is worth the challenge by saying \"just being selected as a interview candidate is a great fortune because most international organizations pay for the flight and lodging as well as the daily wage for the interview period during the interview on the spot\". The employment of international organizations is limited to the citizens of member states. But it is same as having no entrance barrier since our country has joined most international organizations. Also, you can always catch the opportunity when it comes if you manage your social experience well under a long-term plan because most international organizations require social experience after graduating university. However, he emphasizes that you must keep practicing foreign language skills at all times. “English is a must. All you have to do is keep studying the English you have been learning to prepare for employment at the university without stopping after getting a job. And to acquire a little more advantage, it would be nice to learn one of French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese or Arabic.” He said it is still disappointing that there isn\'t much interest in the provincial areas yet although the interest is getting greater among the university students of metropolitan area such as the international organization employment study getting active due to the fact that UN Secretary General Ban, Ki-Mun has set a record of succeeding in becoming a first Asian to serve consecutive terms in 45 years. He wrapped up the special lecture of this day by saying \"International organization do not have unreasonable discrimination against people from provincial universities and also do not have discrimination on race or nationality. The opportunity is open as much as you are prepared. Prepare little by little starting now. And the competition is naturally always fierce as the opportunity gets better. Make the challenge until you succeed without being afraid of failure. Although I also a bitter cup of coffee in 2003, I could make the opportunity that came as mine as a result of keep preparing without giving up\" and \"Make the challenge by looking at the farther, wider and greater world. I\'ll be looking forward to meeting one of you in the international stage after ten years\".
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Team of Professor Yoon, Hyung-Don of Biotechnology Department Published on a famous international journal called 《Angewante Chemie》 of 11.8 impact factor in the field of chemistry [June 22, 2011] <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_06475108935408607 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_174_2012-01-17_13-43-34_1700.jpg\" target=_blank> The team of Professor Yoon, Hyung-Don that has developed a heavy metal bio sensor (Clockwise from the right-Professor Yoon, Prabhu, Deepankumar, Professor Ayyadurai) A bio sensor that can measure detect incurable diseases such as Alzheimer\'s diseases or Wilson\'s disease and promptly-simply measure the level of soil contamination has been developed by a Biotechnology Department research team of Yeungnam University. According to Yeungnam University on 22nd, the team of Professor Yoon, Hyung-Don of Biotechnology Department has developed a bio sensor to see the change of \'copper\' (Cu) content with your eyes by adopting unnatural amino acid ‘L-DOPA’ in Green Fluorescent Protein using genetic-code engineering. The thesis related to this was issued on June online edition of a famous international journal called 《Angewante Chemie》with impact factor as high as 11.8 in the field of chemistry. Copper is one of microelements playing an important role inside animals and plants. Especially, the deficiency of this causes anemia, bone disorder or nerve disorder, etc in human body and the intake must be limited in case of Wilson\'s disease. It also becomes a quite important index indicating the level of soil contamination. Therefore, while measuring the amount of copper contained inside the body or soil is very important for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases or improvement on soil contamination, a simple and prompt measurement is made possible through this research. Especially, the new technology of Professor Yoon\'s team is noteworthy from the fact that it has increased the utilization of Green Fluorescent Protein even more. Green Fluorescent Protein is widely used in measuring the revelation degree of genes in living cells, protein-protein interaction, structural change of protein and in measuring the location of protein, etc. It became a candidate for Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 due to such importance. But the research of Professor Yoon\'s team is primarily the bio sensor on a specific heavy metal called \'copper\' and the opened possibility of developing and utilizing as a bio sensor reacting to heavy metals other than copper. Professor Yoon, Hyung-Don (35) has expressed his expectation by saying “not only the research has illustrated a new methodology in the development of a bio sensor that can measure more promptly-accurately just with small amount of heavy metal content which is the main culprit of various diseases in modern people and environmental pollution, but it will also develop as a new technology of selectively extracting-removing only specific heavy metals in case of adopting the unnatural amino acid combining with other metals from its combining ability” <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_043505830601477885 style=\"FLOAT: left\" onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_174_2012-01-17_13-44-05_1701.jpg\" target=_blank> Meanwhile, Yoon, Hyung-Don had completed bachelor\'s, master\'s and doctorate at the chemical engineering department of Seoul National University and currently working as a biotechnology professor of Yeungnam University since September, 2007 after going through post-doc at the biology department of MIT in the United States. So far, he has presented about 20 theses on SCI level journals such as 《Chemical Communications》 or 《Bioconjugate Chemistry》 and was recognized for the outstanding academic ability as he received the \'rookie academic award\' from the Korean Society of Biotechnology and Bioengineering at the end of last year. This research was performed for 2 years as Professor Ayyadurai (N. Ayyadurai, 33) from India researching and lecturing at the Biotechnology Department of Yeungnam University , Prabhu (N.S. Prabhu, 26) of doctorate program, Deepankumar (K. Deepankumar, 24), Professor Lee, Chang-Su of Chungnam National University and Professor Lee, Seon-Gu of Pusan National University have participated as joint researchers since 2009.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Presidents of universities in Korea and China meet and adopt the \'Joint Declaration\' led by Yeungnam University Launched Glocal Initiative that opens possibilities for cooperation among Korean, Chinese and Japanese universities in light of the Asian Age [June 13, 2011] <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_09878330497908032 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_173_2012-01-17_11-07-01_1695.jpg\" target=_blank> University presidents from the two countries pose for a picture at the 3rd Korea & China University Presidential Forum. Yeungnam University (president Lee, Hyo-soo) played a leading role in winning the cooperation of universities in the three Northeast Asian countries in preparation of the start of the Asian Age, and once again demonstrated its leadership as a \'Glocal Initiative University (GIU)\'. With the attendance of university presidents of Korea and China at the YU Chunma Arts Center at 10 a.m. on the 13th, the \'3rd Korea & China University Presidential Forum\' was held. At this event with the aim of discussing the roles of universities and ways to come up with plans for cooperation in order to make the 21st century the Pacific Age and the Asian Age, Lee, Hyo-soo, president of YU stated in his keynote address, \"The Asian Age won\'t come up just by waiting for it. The 21st century will be particularly focused on knowledge so the roles of universities will be very important.\" He also added with emphasis, \"We should construct a closer mutual cooperation relationship among Korea, China and Japan, which make up to 74% of the GDP of Asia (as of 2010), hold regular forums for university presidents, and extend multilateral cooperation in joint research and education for the globalization of Eastern thinking, Asian culture and Asian values.\" Actual plans for this suggested were ▲ extending the \'Korea & China University Presidential Forum\' to the \'Korea-China-Japan University Presidential Forum\' or Northeast Asia University Presidential Forum\', and hosting them in link with the Korea-China-Japan Education Minister Meeting, ▲ announcing Asian issues and policies agendas annually at the university presidential forum, and establishing the \'Asia Future Conference: AFC, tentative name)\' under the forum, and ▲ implementing the Asian \'ERASMUS Program (the multilateral educational cooperation program of the EU) such as promoting joint research, exchanging university credits, operating a joint education program, and offering joint degree programs. <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_05578508189674802 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_173_2012-01-17_11-07-43_1696.jpg\" target=_blank> Zhao Ji (52) secretary of commerce of Jilin University, which is the managing university for China, stated in his congratulatory address on behalf of the universities in China, \"There are approximately 120,000 international exchange students between Korea and China. and through this, both of us are gaining very much,\" and added, \"Just as Europe is making preparations by signing the Bologna Process for the intelligence-based age that is becoming more global, I believe that we must strengthen our friendship and cooperation between not only universities of Korea and China, but among other Asian universities as well in order to open the Asian Age.\" Yuan Guiren, Minister of Education of China, stated in his congratulatory address, \"Cultural exchange focusing on education is an exchange of hearts of people, and therefore, it is much more significant,\" and added, \"The Chinese Ministry of Education will do its best to further promote the Korea & China University Presidential Forum in order to foster the human resources of Asia, create an awareness for common interest of the two countries, and to further strengthen cooperation.\" Under such objective, from Korea 21 university presidents including Yeungnam University POSTECH, Korea University and Yonsei University as well as the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, and from China, 18 major universities receiving national funding in pursuance of the \'985 Program\' such as Fudan University, Beijing Normal University, Xi\'an Jiaotong University, Tianjin University and Jilin University. The \'985 Program\' is a national project being commenced by the Chinese government since May 1998 and its official name is the \'World-Class University Construction Project\'. Thus, it is expected that this forum will go beyond exchange and cooperation between universities of the two countries and become the start of the age of inter-national and inter-continental cooperation. <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_025881076950380976 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_173_2012-01-17_11-08-13_1697.jpg\" target=_blank> <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_05524271629149211 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_173_2012-01-17_11-08-30_1698.jpg\" target=_blank> From left to right, Saeki, president of Hokkaido University of Japan, and Zhao Ji, secretary of commerce of Jilin University of China At this forum, Saeki Hiroshi, president of Hokkaido University of Japan, also attended. At the opening session following the opening ceremony, Mr. Saeki took the podium as the speaker and stated, \"Currently, we must not only foster expert human resources in specific fields, but also foster talents that can think about and contribute in pan-global and pan-human issues,\" while adding, \"The universities of Korea, China and Japan should gather our strengths and strive to foster the human resources needed by not only Asia, but the world.\" This forum, which discussed the roles of the universities and its presidents for the start of the Asian Age and which all searched for a new exchange and cooperation model focusing on undergraduate education and research exchange, was conducted all day long on the 13th. In particular, unlike the past, the participating university presidents freely expressed their opinions according to the sub-topics per session focusing on the practical tasks and the results of the discussions were promulgated as a \'joint declaration\' by all the participating university presidents. The joint declaration adopted unanimously by the participating universities were comprised of the following: ▲ pursue joint research for sustainable green innovation that can respond to climate change, air pollution, yellow dust, and environmental pollution, while concentrating efforts on joint research for the globalization of Oriental thoughts, Asian culture and Asian value. ▲ The participants also agreed to pursue the \'Green Innovation Movement\' for the students of the universities of the two countries in order to foster young leaders who could deal with climate change. ▲ In addition, they agreed to jointly pursue \'cyber education\' to foster global leaders of the 21st century, while sharing Asian values, and also pursue various exchange and cooperation programs including mutual exchange of students and professors. This was the result of gaining the full agreement and support for the joint declaration(agenda) presented by YU to the Korea Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Chinese Ministry of Education, and the participating universities from Korea and China. In addition to this, Lee, Hyo-soo, president of YU who directed the last session in confirming the contents of the joint declaration ▲ suggested to the Ministry of Education of each country to extend the forum into the Korea-China-Japan University President Forum, ▲ strengthen university president forum memberships and operation systems (organizing executive committees and international director working-level associations), ▲ and also led to the agreement of making a cyber space that makes sharing of information on research, education, and human resource pools possible, while foreshadowing the start of an era of cooperation among the three countries of Northeast Asia. <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_014297440992779203 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_173_2012-01-17_11-08-50_1699.jpg\" target=_blank> After announcing the joint declaration, Lee, Hyo-soo (right) is shaking hands with Kang Jing-woo, president of Southwestern Polytechnic University Meanwhile, the \'Korea & China University Presidential Forum\' is hosted by Korea Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the Chinese Ministry of Education, and it is held at each country in turns annually with the goal to foster human resources and improve research competitiveness to represent Asia through cooperation among the universities of the two countries. The first forum was held at Korea University, and the second at Jilin University in Changchun, China from June 9 to 11 with the participation of 19 Korean universities and 22 Chinese universities. The 4th University President Forum in 2012 will be held at Sichuan University in China. They agreed that Yeungnam University, Korea University, Jilin University and Sichuan University would be organized into the executive committee and oversee preparations for the next forum.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Ranked first in Korea in evaluation for leadership and expertise fostering for the \'Green Energy R&D\' with national funding worth 100 billion won [June 7, 2011] The government announced the \'Green Energy Strategy Roadmap 2011\' for fostering green energy on the 7th. They announced mid and long-term R&D guidelines in 15 main sectors in order to secure the future green energy market. A total of 26 trillion won will be invested to 2030 in 15 main green energy sectors including solar power, fuel cells, wind energy, green cars, and smart grids. The government\'s goal through this roadmap is to increase the current share of the global green energy market of 1.2% to 18% by 2030. In addition, it is planning to create 1.5 million new jobs. It is thus expected that the industry related to domestic green energy R&D will become busier and the demand for experts on green energy will also grow drastically. At such point, Yeungnam University (president Lee, Hyo-soo) is rising as a hub of South Korea for \'fostering experts and R&D in green energy\'. YU\'s \'Green\' specialization is finally coming into the limelight in research, education and globalization. <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_05830488719470259 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_172_2012-01-17_10-01-03_1692.jpg\" target=_blank> Researchers of the LED-IT Fusion Technology Research Center are operating the integrating sphere. First, in the R&D sector, YU is pursuing green research amounting to 100 billion won in national funding. Results of industry-academic cooperative research with companies in the green energy sector such as solar cells and green cars are scheduled to launch multi-purpose electric vehicles priced in the 2 million won range later this year, and likewise, it is reaping great achievements in green energy R&D and commercialization. Green research of YU are being carried out on three main points. ▲ development of energy conservation technologies in existing industry sectors (LED-IT fusion Technology Research Center, green car parts project team) ▲ development and commercialization of new green energy technologies (solar cell RIC, Institute of Solar Energy, TUV Rheinland test center, ISET solar cell Korea mass production line) ▲ and diffusion of energy-conserving culture (small & medium business HRD Agency). In addition, the CRC (Convergence Research Center) was established in campus and the building that was first completed is being used as a center for \'green research\'. This is because due to the characteristic that new high technologies must be discovered, with fusion and integration among related majors and organizations. Through this, it is hoping that its \'Global Frontier 10-3-10\' goal to be in the world\'s top 10 in the 3 major fusion and integration research areas within the years will accelerate the green sector (GIFT Plan). <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_031759045303389765 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_172_2012-01-17_10-01-30_1693.jpg\" target=_blank> The first building constructed in the YU CRC is where the green energy R&D and industry-academic cooperation-oriented research centers are gathered. YU stands out in \'green education\' as well. Recently, the YU Green Energy Education & Research Center placed first among the 21 centers nationwide in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology\'s (MEST) annual evaluation. Thus, YU was officially recognized as the best green education institute for two straight years. Just as last year, it will be receiving support from the national treasury as incentives. This center, which is fostering green experts with funding from the national government totalling 25 billion won for five years from 2009, is being participated by 92 professors and 1,403 students from four undergraduate organizations such as School of Chemical Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Major of Mechanical Advanced Engineering in School of Mechanical Engineering, and Department of Physics in the College of Sciences. In particular, an education system for majors in connection with the \'Major of Green Energy\' was constructed and programs for the three tracks of solar cells, hydrogen fuel cells, and energy systems are operated. At this evaluation, the excellence of the education system was officially recognized. Furthermore, it received top points for \'cooperation with companies and corporate support activities\' and \'activities in link with support for employment\' and it received high scores for industry-academic cooperation such as scoring max points in the index for the satisfaction and independence of participating students and businesses. In addition, the internship program for 30 graduates students who did not get jobs resulted in 23 of them being hired full time. On this, Lee, Hyo-soo, president of YU stated, \"YU killed two birds with one stone of research and education through its \'green specialization\' in just two years,\" and added with emphasis, \"YU will lead green research and green education that cooperates and competes with the world as the Korean hub of \'green innovation\'. Construction of GGECN, leading global cooperation through specialization of \'green energy\' Meanwhile, last November, YU constructed the GGECN (Global Green Energy Cluster Network), opening the \'global cooperate age\' in the green energy sector. Founding members are Korea\'s Yeungnam University, which is playing a key role, Province of Gyeongsangbuk-Do, Gyeongbuk Techno Park, Daegyeon Leading Industry Support Group, Daegyeong Regional Energy Climate Change Center, and ISET (International Solar Electric Technology), and US\'s FESC (Florida Energy Systems Consortium), the world\'s largest single consortium on green energy, Georgia Institute of Technology, and CRSP (Center for Revolutionary Photoconversion), a consortium based in Colorada. Also, University of Strasbourg of France, Germany\'s TUV Rheinland, and Australia\'s University of New South Wales also participated. <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_08933112160036896 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_172_2012-01-17_10-01-54_1694.jpg\" target=_blank> Last November, world-glass green energy research clusters met at YU and agreed upon constructing a network for global green cooperation Attracting world-class green energy research institutes and corporations. Earlier in August of last year, the \'TUV Rheinland\' test center, one of the most prominent international certification evaluation institutes for solar power modules was constructed within the campus, being the 7th in the world, and is planning to conduct certification evaluation tests from August of this year. For this, 900 million won in national funds and 2.1 billion in provincial funds for a total of 3.5 billion won will be invested in equipment and constructing systems for two years. And in February, 50 million dollars in investments for the solar cell mass production line was won from ISET (International Solar Electric Technology), which is a US company specializing in solar cells. In accordance with the direct investment plans in Korea by ISET, the YU solar cell/module RIC and Institute of Solar Energy, solar cell material process human resource fostering team, etc will participate jointly in the construction of ISET\'s low-cost, high efficiency CIGS thin film solar cell mass production line, and it is cooperating with YU for industry-academic research and R&D personnel employment.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> \'National Collegiate Green-Safety Creative Electric Vehicle Contest\' hosted by the Korea Transportation Safety Authority 30 university teams across nation participated, won Minister of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs award for \'best overall\' at first appearance [June 1, 2011] Yeungnam University School of Mechanical Engineering\'s automobile production club \'Chunma DM\' (Dream Maker, advisor Lee, Dong-joo) built their electronic vehicle and won first place in a national contest; they once again proved their reputation after receiving certification by the US society of automobile engineers (SAE) in 2001. <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_00904664193278728 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_170_2011-12-13_18-55-00_1653.jpg\" target=_blank> The Chunma DM Team, which won first place at the contest takes a photo with Kwon, Do-youp, Minister of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs (sitting in the driver\'s seat). The Chunma DM Team took home first place at the \'National Collegiate Green-Safety Creative Electric Vehicle Contest\' at the Korea Automobile Testing & Research Institute of the Korea Transportation Safety Authority for two days on May 27 and 28 under the motto \'green growth and automobile safety\'. This contest, which was hosted by the Korea Transportation Safety Authority and sponsored by the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs (MLTM), is in its second year this year and is prepared to foster and find next-generation talents to lead the future automobile industry. At this contest, 300 automobile fanatics from 30 university teams including YU, Korea University of Technology and Education, Sungkyunkwan University, Kyunghee University and Seoul National University of Science & Technology participated, and three high school teams also took part in this event. The contest was divided into the control and steering safety sector race, acceleration performance sector race, and driving performance sector race. The \'control and steering safety sector race\' checked the passing technologies and time for the slaloms (obstacles), and the \'acceleration performance sector race\' was conducted by measuring the driving time for a 200m interval. The \'driving performance sector race\' checked how fast a 45km distance was completed. In result, Chunma DM scored high in all sectors and won first place, despite it being the first time to compete in this contest and won the Minister of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs award. They also received prize money of 3 million won. Fitting to its team name, \'Dream Maker\', the Chunma DM team was able to take a step closer to their dreams in the future automobile sector. On this, Kang, Ji-won (junior; School of Mechanical Engineering) stated, \"We were able to train our field adaptability through the education curriculum that integrates theory into work, and we trained our global competitiveness by participating in many international contests in the US, England and Japan.\" He also added with a smile, \"The dream of Chunma DM is to display the strength of Korea in the electric vehicle sector, which is receiving a lot of attention as the next-generation \'green car\', and to contribute in creating sustainable green growth for the entire world.\" Meanwhile, following YU\'s Chunma DM team that won first place, the Korea University of Technology and Education\'s \'Driven\' team and \'Stardom\' team tied for second, followed by Chosun University\'s team for fourth, and the Seoul National University of Science and Technology placed fifth.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Expert in mobile communications, published 55 international theses and possesses 17 patents both domestic and abroad [May 30, 2011] Professor Choi, Kwon-hyu (41, photo) of the Department of Information and Communication Engineering was recently appointed as a senior member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), which is the world\'s largest organization specializing in electrics, electronics, telecommunications, and computers sectors. By being appointed as a senior member, Professor Choi was not only internationally recognized for his research achievements, but was also recognized for his qualifications to be active side-by-side with global scholars. He will participate in major panel meetings of the IEEE, while also being active as a recommendation and candidate screening committee member for new senior members. Senior members of the IEEE who have lifelong tenures are made up of IEEE members comprised of engineers, scientists and technology executives of companies having at least 10 years in specialized fields and are selected through strict screening processes for candidates with continuous and considerable achievements for at least five years. Five years or more achievements refer to IEEE international theses or international patents and one can only become a candidate with the recommendation of at least three IEEE fellows or senior members, making it very difficult to qualify. In result, IEEE senior members make up only 8% of the total members. Professor Choi published 55 international theses including the IEEE top journal (IEEE TCOM, IEEE TVT, IEEE CL, etc) in the mobile communications sector. He already registered 17 patents including six international patents through industry-academic projects with mobile communication businesses, and thus his academic contribution as well as practical research contribution was highly assessed. After receiving his PhD, Choi worked at the ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute) broadband wireless communication research team for three years and then became a professor at the YU Department of Information and Communication Engineering in 2003. He is currently the supervisor of the \'BK21 Personnel Fostering Project\' and has led the highest ranking in performance in Korea for two straight years. In addition, he is focusing on teaching students in the mobile communications sector such as winning the \'JCCI award\', the highest award in the Korea Information and Communications Society together with his students in 2007. Meanwhile, the IEEE is a non-profit organization with over 360,000 technical experts from 175 countries around the world as members, and it is also called Eye-triple-E. The activities of IEEE span from communications, computer parts, medicine, physics and atomic physics, and an independent committee for groups of three fields pursues standardization of relevant technologies.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Received \'best\' rating by MEST for 2 straight years, procuring additional national funding of 860 million won. Supply human resources customized to the work site in the green energy leading industry of Daegu and Gyeongbuk [May 26, 2011] The Yeungnam University Green Energy Education & Research Center (director: Professor Lee, Tae-jin, hereinafter called \'YU GEERC\') was ranked \'best\' for the second year since the first evaluation in the previous year for the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology\'s (MEST) metropolitan economic area leading industry personnel fostering project, and will thus receive an additional 860 million won in national funding. Since September 2009, a total of 25 billion won was planned to be invested at 5 billion won per year, but with the additional incentive from this evaluation, a total of 7 billion won will be invested for third business year. The MEST\'s metropolitan economic region leading industry personnel fostering project annual evaluation automatically provides additional incentive budgets according to the results of written and oral presentation evaluations for 21 centers in the nation\'s six metropolitan economic regions for the performance of projects for the second fiscal year (June 1, 2010 - May 31, 2011). <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_05849736367982505 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_168_2011-12-13_14-09-30_1651.jpg\" target=_blank> At this evaluation the YU Green Energy Personnel Fostering Center was judged to have constructed integrated/customized green energy co-majors and linked major education systems, while establishing and operating programs per track in solar cells, hydrogen fuel cells and energy systems. In particular, in the presentation evaluation that was subdivided into four parts, the \"cooperation with businesses and corporate support activities,\" and \"employment support activities\" block were ranked first in the nation among 21 centers, and it was also certified to have the best industry-academic activities. In addition, it also received perfect scores in the satisfaction of participating students and businesses and in the independent performance index, showing that its achievements in projects were excellent. In addition, it is operating various employment support programs to help graduating students land jobs, and also operated an internship program for 30 graduated students yet to have jobs, resulting in 23 of them getting full time jobs. On the development performance, Lee, Hyo-soo president of YU stated, \"We achieved great results in the R&D and HRD section in the green sector in just two years,\" adding, \"Yeungnam University will be a research and personnel fostering institute in the green sector that will represent Korea in the future.\" Currently, the YU Green Energy Personnel Fostering Center is being participated by 92 professors and 1,403 students from four undergraduate organizations such as the departments of chemical engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Major of Mechanical Advanced Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, and physics. Various education/research programs are being operated with the goal to foster site-customized fusion and integration personnel needed by the green energy leading industry of the Daegyeong region. In particular, it is aiming at strengthening global competitiveness of the green energy leading industry of the Daegyeong area by constructing an industry-academic-research-government cooperative system and cluster per sector, while fostering outstanding R&D personnel focusing on solar power/hydrogen fuel cell industry. <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_0562655306003068 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=yunoti_eng_168_2011-12-13_14-09-07_1650.jpg\" target=_blank> In particular, an expert research committee was launched and is operated on solar cells, hydrogen fuel cells, and energy systems in order to promote industry-academic-research-government cooperation. Also, questionnaire results collected from participating companies and curriculum improvement proposals were reflected in the green energy specialized education (green energy track, co-major, linked major) curriculum, and it is expected that it will establish itself as a hub that can foster outstanding personnel that can lead not only the green energy leading industry of the Daegyeong metropolitan economic region, but for the entire nation. Meanwhile, YU established the GIFT (Green Innovation for Tomorrow) Plan with the goal of :becoming a university that prepares gifts for the future of mankind through green technology innovation\" and is concentrating investments of 70 billion win in the green energy sector such as the \'metropolitan economic region green energy leading industry personnel fostering center\', and the \'LED-IT fusion industrialization research center\'.
