Balanced activities in all sectors such as creative total design, club contests, engineering college student presentation contest, etc
Proving the power of YU's College of Engineering after winning 'Grand Prize' in 2012
Annual evaluation of the engineering education innovation center support project 'very good'
[December 3, 2014]

The YU Engineering Education Innovation Center (Director Kang Dong-jin) took home the silver medal at 'This Year's University' Award during the '2014 Engineering Education Festival'.

The '2014 Engineering Education Festival' that was sponsored by the Ministry of Education (Minister Hwang Woo-yeo) and co-hosted by the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (Director Jung Jae-hoon) and the Engineering Education Innovation Association (Chairman Jang Dong-shik) at the Ilsan KINTEX from November 27 to 28 celebrated its third year this year as the biggest engineering festival with the goal of sharing and spreading the achievements of engineering education innovation and presenting a vision for the future and development direction of engineering education.

In this year's event that was held under the theme of 'Engineering, the prism that colors the world with happiness' was joined by 25 YU students in fields such as the creative total design contest, club contest, engineering goodwill ambassador, engineering student presentation contest, and the portfolio contest.

This Year's University is selected by assessing student participation and awards in various contests such as idea contests, goodwill ambassador activities, and presentations among the engineering education innovation centers of 65 universities participating in the engineering education festival.

The YU Engineering Education Innovation Center received good marks by staying active in all sectors of the '2014 Engineering Education Festival'. In the creative total design contest, the 'EESOFT-PANORAMA' composed of nine students from the College of Engineering and School of Fine Arts such as the Department of Electronic Engineering and the Industrial Interaction Design Department won the KIAT Director's Award with 'Multi-perspective All-round Video Filming System'. The 'Good Engineer Corps' club of the Engineering Education Innovation Center won the 'gold prize' through the 'Lego Studio' activities for making bracelets and key chains in the club contest. Over 600 people visited their Lego Studio during the festival.

Lee Hyeon-jin (21, junior in the Department of Mechanical Engineering), the team leader of the 'Good Engineers Corps' in the club contest, said, "We thought that non-majors might feel intimidated by the word engineering so after much consideration on allowing the general public to access it easily, we opened the 'Lego Studio'." He added, "I think we received good reviews by operating a hands-on booth where anybody can easily access and give a shot at making Lego."

Also, in the Portfolio Contest where college life is given a general assessment through projects, grades and extracurricular activities while students attend school, Choi Jong-yoon (24, senior in the Department of Civil Engineering) won the 'Gold Medal'. IN the foreigner sector of the engineering student presentation contest, international student from China Cao Yazhi (22, senior in the YU Department of Computer Engineering) who made a 5 minute presentation on the life and experience of an engineering student under the title 'My Engineering Travel' won the 'silver'.

YU Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor and Engineering Education Innovation Center Director Kang Dong-jin said, "By winning the silver after taking the grand prize at the 2012 Engineering Education Festival, we once again showed the power of the YU College of Engineering." He added, "I will do my best to foster creative technical human resources who will lead the technological innovation of the national industry through the creative-convergence engineering human resources fostering education system of YU."

Meanwhile, YU was selected for the first phase of the engineering education innovation center support project that was carried out from 2007 to March 2012 and then for the second phase from April 2012 to March 22. YU received 'very good' rating in the first year annual evaluation of the engineering education innovation center support project carried out in April of last year and 'good in the second year annual evaluation this year.