‘Where Will IoT be Used in the Future?’ College Students from Four Nations Work Together N
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- Date : 2019.07.26 15:30
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Engineering students from 13 universities in four countries such as Korea, Thailand, Singapore and Japan gather their ideas
Filled with creative ideas such as feces analysis health care, crosswalks that protect the weak, etc.
Improving global communication and problem-solving skills through collaboration of various nationalities and majors
[July 19, 2019]
<Students and products participating in the ‘2018~2019 International Capstone Design Program: Global CDP’>
College students from Korea, Thailand, Singapore and Japan gathered in one place. They came to share ideas on new fields where IoT can be used to and produce their own protypes and models.
The YU Hub Center for Engineering Education (Center Director Song Dong-joo) held the ‘2018-2019 International Capstone Design Program: Global CDP’ at the Gyeongju Suite Hotel for five nights and six days from the 15th to 20th where various IoT devices were introduced.
The theme of this program was ‘IoT Device for better life’. Over 40 students from foreign colleges including Thailand’s Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Singapore Polytechnic, and Japan’s Kanazawa Institute of Technology, and YU and Kumoh National Institute of Technology for a total of 79 students from 13 universities both in Korea and abroad participated. Eight professors from four overseas universities and nine domestic university professors exchanged ideas with students during the camp and helped them build IoT devices. The students were in charge of establishing concepts and producing their works, while professors played an advisory role.
Participants were divided into 12 teams by equally mixing universities and majors to create their products fitting to their majors and personality. As various countries, universities and majors were combined, there were floods of creative ideas. Ideas included personal health care products that could be used conveniently and IoT that can be applied to public facilities closely associated with our everyday lives.
Yang Jin-hyuk (24, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, senior) who led the three-nation team said, “Unlike traveling abroad or simply interacting with foreign students, we were able to work and sleep together in Thailand and Korea to share various opinions and exchange knowledge in our majors, and I think this helped us to upgrade to the next level.” Eom Chan-ho (24, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, senior) in the same team said, “By exchanging various ideas from different countries and majors, we were able to come up with completely unexpected ideas. Through the brainstorming process, we were able to check each other’s strengths and weaknesses, learn from each other’s strengths, understand each other’s cultures and throught process, and learn how to communicate with each other.”
Taloengrat Poomchaiya (21, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Department of Computer Engineering, junior) said, “The best thing about this was sharing knowledge of our majors and interacting internationally. I also learned the importance of teamwork by sharing and concretizing each other’s ideas.”
Kang Dae-wook (24), a junior at the YU School of Architecture who served as the team leader, said, “We had some trials and errors in gathering and materializing ideas because of our differences in nationality and majors. However, despite the fact that it was only for a short period, being able to gather opinions of different majors and creating a model served as an opportunity to gain more insight on each other’s majors and I felt that my spectrum of knowledge expanded.”
‘Capstone Design’, which means ‘comprehensive creative design’, aims at fostering engineers with practical abilities and creativity. This is an engineering education program with the goal of improving creativity, practical skills, teamwork, and leadership by having students design, produce and assess products that could be used in industries, etc. based on what they learned in the majors.
<‘2018~2019 International Capstone Design Program: Global CDP’ (January 2019, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Thailand)>
YU Hub Center for Engineering Education Director Song Dong-joo (Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering) who oversaw the program said, “The students were able to naturally improve their skills in their majors by brainstorming ideas on IoT devices that will be used in everyday life of the future, while also working on designing the concept, programming and producing prototypes on their own.” He added, “It will be a valuable experience to improve their global communication skills and problem-solving skills by collaborating with students having different majors and studying in various countries to complete the project.”