Awarded 'Gold medal' among 79 Colleges of Engineering and Centers for Innovation of Engineering Education
'Beethoven' team awarded the 'KIAT Award' in the Creative General Design Contest
Ryu, Hyun-jung selected as 'Honorary Ambassador' / Power Supply, Chunma DM awarded medals in the 'Best Club'
[November 27, 2012]

 YU (president Lee, Hyo-soo) took first place in the 'University of the Year' at the '2012 Engineering Education Festa'. In addition, the 'Beethoven' team made up of Park, Jung-dal (25) a junior in the Department of Electronic Engineering and seven others also won the KIAT (Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology) Award with their song composition program using Windows 8 at the Creative General Design Contest, which is the highlight of the Engineering Education Festival. Over 300 works were submitted from over 65 colleges of engineering at the Creative General Design Contest and only the top 16 works were awarded.

 Furthermore, Ryu, Hyun-jung (22, female), a senior in the School of Chemical Engineering, was selected as the 'Honorary Ambassador', and the robot club 'Power Supply' and automobile club 'Chunma DM' received the silver and bronze medals, respectively, in the 'Best Club' awards in the 'Clubs Contest' in which 71 clubs participated in.

 On the 22nd and 23rd, the '2012 E2 Festa (Engineering Education Festa) was held at KINTEX Convention Hall 1 in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do. This event, which was hosted by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and sponsored by KIAT and the Engineering Education Innovation Association, was held as a festival to build the cornerstone to promote the fostering of outstanding engineer talents and to activate the science and engineering sector of Korea, which has recently been on the decline. Over 10,000 people, including middle and high school students, engineering college students, professors, and veteran engineers visited the event.

 The theme of the festival was 'Dream of Engineering Education Innovation'. This festival was held to check the achievements of the first stage engineering education innovation project (2007-2011) and the government's will for promoting the science and engineering sector and YU took first place in the 'University of the Year'. Among 79 colleges of engineering and centers for innovation of engineering education (65 participating colleges, 14 cooperating colleges) in the nation, YU won the highest honor, the 'gold medal'. Following YU for silver were Chonbuk National University and Dankook University (Cheonan), and for bronze were Sungkyunkwan University, Pukyong National University and Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology.

 YU Chunma DM Team that won the bronze among 71 clubs of college of engineering around the nation

 Since implementing the engineering education certification program, YU was recognized as an exemplary case for domestic engineering certification. After acquiring engineering education demonstration certification for three programs for the first time in the nation in 2001, a number of programs passed the engineering education certification procedure. In result, among the 65 universities selected nation-wide for the second stage of center for innovation of engineering education support project (2012-2021), YU was selected as an 'engineering education hub' that will play a leading role among the universities. Thus, centering on the 'hub centers' of the 6 universities such as YU, Korea University, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Chonbuk National University and Pusan National University, 65 centers for innovation of engineering education will be organized around the nation.

 In particular, YU will focus on not a regional hub center, but a hub center by function according to the area of specialty ('fostering good engineers with creativity and convergence'). For this, partnerships with fifteen universities around the nation including Kangwon National University, Kunsan National University, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Andong National University and Hall University were made and currently, a wide array of projects is underway.

 The theme of the hub project being pursued by YU is the 'Realization of 4Cs for innovation of engineering education'. It is to △ lead Creative engineering education, △spread Convergence engineering education, △ provide support for Communication engineering exchange, in order to △ Cultivate capable engineers. In order to achieve this, YU is planning to proceed with various events such as △ creative problem solving skills contests, △ outstanding nearby companies among participating universities contests, △ overseas on-site studies, and △ science concerts in remote areas. Through this, YU is planning to share excellent innovation programs among participating universities and is expecting that it will enhance the quality of education.