April 8 th , KOREATECH Concluded an MOU with Korea Polytechnics
President of KOREATECH, Dr. Ki-young Kim signed the MOU with Korea Polytechnics on April 8 th , Wednesday in In-cheon where Korea Polytechnics is located. The MOU was about intensifying the IPP (Industry Professional Practice) program and realizing a competence based society.
On this day, both institutes decided to invigorate long-term work experiences, exchanges of information, running Meister tech, interchanges of expertise, and business collaboration.
IPP is one of the industrial-academic cooperation programs that KOREATECH has had since 2012. During this program, 3 rd and 4 th graders are sent to the companies which made an agreement with KOREATECH and students work there for 4 to 10 months. It is a system that helps students to have business practice experiences and employment capabilities.
There is also an educational system called Meister tech for students who graduated from Meister High School. After finishing high school, they get to study at Korea Polytechnics for 2 years and transfer to KOREATECH ’ s engineering major and complete 4 th grade course.
“ To materialize ability oriented society by sharing and enhancing strength of curriculums that both universities have, we will find the best way and make a greater effort to maximize our role as an educational institution affiliated with the Ministry of Employment and Labor. ” Said Dr. Ki-young Kim, the president of KOREATECH.
April 10 th , MOU was signed by KOREATECH and KEIS
Dr. Ki-young Kim the president of KOREATECH completed an MOU with KEIS (Korea Employment Information Service) on April 10 th , Friday in Eum-seong, Chung-buk where KEIS is located. This MOU was about IPP (Industry Professional Practice) program and interchanges of experts, and business collaboration.
Both institutions agreed to revitalize the students ’ long-term field training, cooperation in evaluating vocational competency development, as well as to interchange experts, online learning contents, employment information and infrastructure.
April 17 th , Ja-min Ahn, majoring EMC got Young Female
Researcher Award from KCerS Spring Conference
From April 15 th to 17 th , 2015 the KCerS(Korean Ceramic Society) Spring Conference was held in Alpensia resort, Pyeong-chang. Ja-min Ahn, who studies Energy∙Materials∙Chemical Engineering at KOREATECH received the WISET(Women in Science, Engineering and Technology) · KCerS Young Female Researchers Award in this event.
Her research paper “ Water Molecule Reaction on Ce 0.75 Zr 0.25 O 2 (111) surface by Density Functional Theory ” was about water molecule ’ s reaction process on Ce 0.75 Zr 0.25 O 2 (111) surface which can be used as an anode supporter of solid oxide electrolyzer cell(SOEC).
“ New regeneration energy such as solar cells cannot maintain the amount of power constantly. Therefore, a storing technique is needed for surplus energy that was produced during the day time to be used at night when power production stops. This research is related with an anode supporter of SOEC that can change surplus power energy into fuel. ” Professor Young-cheol Kim, her academic advisor explained.
April 23th, KOREATECH ’ s “ IPP Hub Business Group ” board hanging ceremony
KOREATECH conducted a signboard hanging ceremony on April 23 rd , Thursday. Approximately 70 people attended including President DR. Ki-young Kim, the head of business Chang-heon Oh, the officials from the Ministry of Employment and Labor, and the faculty members of university who accepted a system called “ Work and Study in Parallel ” with the type of IPP(Industry Professional Practice).
IPP Hub Business Group ’ s goal is early settlement and invigoration of “ Work and Study in Parallel with IPP ” business. Its main responsibility is to design a school system for universities that accepted the IPP program, a research about vitalizing education and business. These include consultation for IPP administrative control, monitoring of business management and evaluation of performance.
※What is Work and Study in Parallel with IPP?
It is new industrial-academic training for solving the employment problem of the young generation which resulted from hiring mismatches by universities and companies. It combines KOREATECH ’ s IPP program, and Work and Study in a Parallel System.
Work and Study in Parallel System is a Korean apprenticeship and IPP is an abbreviation for Industry Professional Practice program that KOREATECH has had since 2012. During IPP program, 3 rd and 4 th graders are sent to the companies which have made agreements with KOREATECH and work for 4 to 10 months. It is a system that helps students to have business practice experiences and employment capabilities.
April 23th, 4 students from CSE received Superior Thesis Award
Students of CSE(Computer Science and Engineering) received Superior Thesis Award from KIPS(Korea Information Processing Society) Spring Conference held in Sookmyung Women ’ s University from April 24 th to 25 th .
With their academic advisor Yeon-hui Han, Ju-seong Heo, Jang-won Seo, Tae-hyeong Kim, and Ye-yeong Lee gain the honor with their thesis “ Leading Character Detection Method from Importance in Social Relation Network between Movie Characters ” .
In this research they built a social network between characters and analyzed each episode ’ s scenario. Then they derived to an importance from social network centralities between characters and suggested certain methods to automatically detect the main characters in each movie. Also they estimated their method ’ s accuracy by comparing with real data of main characters in the movies.
One of KOREATECH ’ s professor said, “ I am proud that undergraduate school ’ s 4 th grade students achieved great things while competing with graduate students ’ theses from other universities ” .
April 28 th , SAMSUNG Technical Skills Competition held at KOREATECH
The 8 th SAMSUNG Technical Skills Competition was held in Dam Heon Sil-hak building, KOREATECH which is a technical contest between Engineers co-sponsored by university and enterprise for intensifying industrial-academic cooperation and developing lifelong vocational competency.
SAMSUNG skills Olympic Executive Office hosted this event sponsored by MOEL(the Ministry of Employment and Labor) and KOREATECH. It was held for three days - April 28 th to 30 th – and in addition to mechatronics, electrical facility, and mechanical CAD(Computer-Aided Design), CNC(computer numerical control) milling was newly included in this year ’ s competition.
This year marked the biggest competition by the increasing number of participants from overseas corporations, the newly participating KOREATECH students and specially invited national technician team in world skills competition 2015.
Participants were 26 teams from Mechatronics, 29 teams from mechanical CAD, 20 teams from electrical facility, 13 teams from CNC milling, 56 people from 4 domestic corporations (SAMSUNG electronics, SAMSUNG SDI, SAMSUNG Display and SAMSUNG Electro Mechanics), 60 people in 18 overseas corporation from 9 different countries (China, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland) and 6 students from KOREATECH.
※ What is SAMSUNG Technical Skills Competition?
It is an opportunity to upgrade engineers’ pride and capabilities as a professionals of equipment by getting their technical skills and their ability to solve problems of manufacturing techniques. It is called a Dream Stage among SAMSUNG engineers.
SAMSUNG autonomously held the competition until they advocated joint host with KOREATECH since 2010. Now it turned into a big party of SAMSUNG engineers celebrated with the university.
KOREATECH students joined together to compete with senior engineers from the industrial site suggesting Industrial-academic win-win partnership model. Moreover, this competition was upgraded to a global skills contest as the participation of overseas corporation expanded.
Especially on the first day of competition, KOREATECH arranged a great chance for education and communication through having a special lecture, watching competition and having a campus tour with 58 technicians who entered SAMSUNG in 2014 and 400 students from specialized high schools and Meister High Schools.
Additionally, through an information center for experiencing technics and skills, they provided a place where students can get vocational experience. Also the contestants of 2015 International Vocational Training Competition in Brazil demonstrated six kinds of events such as Mobile Robotics.
“ High-Technology Education Center which is an established partnership between SAMSUNG and KOREATECH in 2006 is now creating technical training model of coexistent cooperation for companies of any size. The SAMSUNG Technical Skills Competition will be the opportunity to make a competence-based society and raise professional technicians ’ status through practical school-industry links ” emphasized by Dr. Ki-young Kim, the president of KOREATECH.
May 12 th , THE HALL OF FAME OF KOREATECH’S
DEVELOPMENT FUND UNVEILING CEREMONY
Around 50 people including CEO course students and the president of alumni association participated in the ceremony.
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KOREATECH held “The hall of fame of KOREATECH’s development fund unveiling ceremony” on Tuesday May 12 th at the lobby of ground floor in Damheon buiding. There were 50 attendees including Oh, Seok-song (Director), Hwang, In-seong (KOREATECH’s CEO course students), Ham, Heung-jin (President of alumni association).
In ceremony, 180 of names were recorded for those who donated to the university development fund such as entrepreneurs, formal presidents of KOREATECH and employees, parents, alumni and clubs.
▲ KOREATECH (President Dr. Ki-young, Kim) held “The hall of fame of KOREATECH’s development fund unveiling ceremony” on Tuesday May 12 th at the lobby of ground floor in Damheon building.
May 14 th , KOREATECH Held the board of directors of corporation
in the middle of industrial site.
The KOREATECH board of directors of corporations was held after visiting industrial site of Meta-biomed co., ltd. in O-song, Chungbuk
KOREATECH (President Dr. Ki-young, Kim) held the board of directors of corporation in the middle of Meta-biomed co., ltd. industrial site and it is for the first time in KOREATECH history
On Thursday May 14 th , the 98 th board of directors of corporations was held at Meta-biomed co., ltd. in O-song, Chungbuk.
This company specializes in research and development • manufacturing • marketing of medical material and Oh, Seok-song (the president of Meta-biomed Co., ltd.) is one of the directors on the KOREATECH board of directors.
The pictures below were taken during the field trip of Meta-biomed Co., ltd. The field trip lasted approximately 30 minutes at 4 pm to 4:30 pm and after the field trip, the board of directors of corporation was held.
KOREATECH spoke about their purpose of the board of directors by saying “To correspond to KOREATECH’s ideals of education which are 실사구시 (Seeking Truth Grounded on Concrete Evidence) and fostering capable students who obtain executive ability, we held the board of directors on the industrial site.”
▲On Thursday May 14 th , KOREATECH (President Dr. Ki-young, Kim) held the board of directors of corporation in the middle of industrial site and it is for the first time in KOREATECH history. The pictures below was taken during field trip of Meta-biomed Co., ltd. located in O-song, Chungbuk.
May 27 th , KOREATECH grants scholarship to a Nepalese student
President Kim comforts the student whose family suffered by the earthquake crisis in Nepal
Dr. Ki-young Kim, the president of KOREATECH, granted a scholarship of 1.66 million won to Atmaram, a graduate student of KOREATECH, whose family was damaged by the earthquake crisis in Nepal.
This scholarship was created by the development fund and voluntary contribution of the teaching staff and students of KOREATECH.
Atmaram, a public official of the Department of Manpower Resources in Nepal, entered KOREATECH-KOICA Global Techno-HRD Program’s master course in February, 2014. His home in Nepal collapsed during the last earthquake and his family is now living at a shelter.
