YU Selected for ‘HuStar Innovation Academy’... Fostering Future Automobile Professionals! N
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- Date : 2019.08.14 13:31
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Collaborate with research centers and companies to foster customized experts in the future automobile sector
Total of 170 students to be selected to provide outstanding human resources for local companies and to create high quality jobs
[July 23, 2019]
In this project, university research centers will enter agreements with companies through the supervision of research and support agencies of Daegu and Gyeongbuk and operate graduate school-level field work education meeting corporate demands for five months, and students who complete the education will undergo a three-month internship at the company with the goal of finalizing employment at the corresponding company.
Gyeongbuk selected project teams in the four fields of future cars, AI-SW, bio and robots. The YU Industrial Technology Research Center (Project Supervisor, Department of Automotive Engineering Professor Hwang Pyeong) was selected as the institute in charge of the future automobile sector. YU is planning to collaborate with the Gyeongbuk Hybrid Parts Research Center and the Gyeongbuk Automobile Embedded Technology Research Center to incubate personnel customized to the future automobile sector equipped with practical skills.
With the selection for this project, YU will receive 3.4 billion KRW from Gyeongbuk starting from August of this year until April of 2023 for this project. YU will complete organization of the curriculum, confirm student selection plans, and select students by September for customized education for corporate needs and in the future automobile sector and begin full-fledged operation of the innovation academy from October. Students will be selected from technical colleges, universities, graduate school graduates and soon-to-be graduates, and a total of 170 students are scheduled to be selected in total after selecting 20 for this year.
Gyeongbuk selected project teams in the four fields of future cars, AI-SW, bio and robots. The YU Industrial Technology Research Center (Project Supervisor, Department of Automotive Engineering Professor Hwang Pyeong) was selected as the institute in charge of the future automobile sector. YU is planning to collaborate with the Gyeongbuk Hybrid Parts Research Center and the Gyeongbuk Automobile Embedded Technology Research Center to incubate personnel customized to the future automobile sector equipped with practical skills.
With the selection for this project, YU will receive 3.4 billion KRW from Gyeongbuk starting from August of this year until April of 2023 for this project. YU will complete organization of the curriculum, confirm student selection plans, and select students by September for customized education for corporate needs and in the future automobile sector and begin full-fledged operation of the innovation academy from October. Students will be selected from technical colleges, universities, graduate school graduates and soon-to-be graduates, and a total of 170 students are scheduled to be selected in total after selecting 20 for this year.
YU President Sur Gil-soo said, “As the future of local development depends on the HuStar Project, it is imperative that the local government, universities and relevant research centers and companies gather their capacities.” He added, “We will focus on fostering outstanding personnel for future growth industries to continuously supply excellent human resources to local companies, while also constructing a virtuous circle system in which high-quality jobs lead to regional development.”