Pursuing industry-customized talent fostering projects

Newly establish College of Mechanic IT, Department of Automobile Mechanical Engineering, Department of Robot Engineering

Pursuing two-track plans to foster humanities and basic academics

[May 3, 2016]

 YU (President Noh Seok-kyun) for the Ministry of Education's PRIME (PRogram for Industrial needs - Matched Education) Project' (hereinafter 'PRIME Project').

 On the 3rd, the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation announced that they selected a total of 21 universities to receive support for the PRIME Project. According to this, YU will receive approximately 15 billion won in national funding annually amounting to around 45 billion won for three years up until 2018. In addition to YU, nine universities such as Konkuk University, Kyungwoon University, Dong-Eui University, Sookmyung Women's University, Soonchunhyang University, Wonkwang University, Inje University, and Hanyang University (ERICA) were selected as social demand leading universities (large-scale projects), while a total of 12 universities from the five regions of Seoul, Daegu/Gyeongbuk/Gangwon, Southeast, Chungcheong, and Honam/Jeju were selected as creation-based leading universities (small-scale).

 With the selection for this project, YU procured approximately 45 billion won in national funding and is planning to concentrate on fostering the smart robot, future automobile, convergence materials, and chemical sectors, which are future growth engine fields. In order to foster talents for these industries, YU is planning to separate the electric, electronics, computer, information communication, and mechanics majors in the College of Engineering to establish the College of Mechanics IT, while newly establishing the Department of Robot Mechanic Engineering and Department of Automobile Mechanical Engineering. Plans are set to increase the 1,100 newly admitted students this year in the College of Engineering to a total of 1,400 by separating it into the College of Mechanic IT and College of Engineering.

 YU is planning to increase the student quota in mechanics, electric, electronic, computer, and chemical engineering sectors, which the university has traditionally been strong in, while fostering departments related to convergence materials and renewable hybrid and accelerate reorganization of futuristic departments. Therefore, it is expected that they will realize college education that meets future industry demands, and create mutual growth and synergy among the departments. In addition to this, YU will foster talents in humanities to fit the changing times by completing reforming its humanities sector. In order to strengthen its humanities education, YU is planning to improve its school system and develop the so-called 'YU-MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)' contents to promote the humanities disciplines in its multi-faceted efforts to develop the humanities and basic academics.

 YU President Noh Seok-kyun said, "We will foster excellent human resources through educational reorganization that reflects social changes in connection with the major industries of the Daegu-Gyeongbuk regions. Furthermore, we will increase communication between the university and society by promoting research in the basic academic sectors and industry-academic cooperation."

 Meanwhile, the 'PRIME Project' is a large-scale national funding project beginning this year with the goal of resolving the mismatch of human resources through college reorganization to fit the social changes and industry demands. Starting with approximately 200 billion won in 2016, it will provide a total of 600 billion won by 2018.