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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Selected 2 times consecutively since 2008 After completing corporate-customized curriculum, guaranteed employment [February 13, 2009] Yeungnam University Department of Family and Housing Studies (dean Sang-wook Hong) was selected as the \"Design Department Contract Operation Project\" hosted by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Korea Institute of Design Promotion. Thus, Yeungnam University Department of Family and Housing Studies was selected consecutively since 2008 and will receive government funding worth 12 million won. The \'Design Department Contract Operation Project\' is a program for training and employing company-customized design experts that perform practical education for seniors in design-related majors at 4 year universities. Thus, Yeungnam University Department of Family and Housing Studies operates a course that focuses on practical education needed by companies and gives 2 credits to students that complete the class. In addition, the top students also have the benefits of given priority for employment at the corresponding company when they graduate. This year, 6 students were selected from seniors in the Department of Family and Housing Studies. During this semester, they will be working with the interior design of a finance institute that are being performed by Daehan A.I and the interior design projects of expressway rest areas that are being performed by Won International, respectively. These 6 who possess design-related national certificates and computer certificates will have the opportunity to test their abilities in the real world before they graduate in June. They will also receive compensation for their work for the project. Professor Ok-hee Ahn (48) who is supervising this project states, \"We will get feedback from the previous year\'s performance in order to run a stronger program this year.\" She also added, \"Since we\'ve been selected for the program that ensures full-time employment in times where it has become difficult for college graduates to find a job, we will focus on training general specialists that have a wide range of knowledge on various fields, while specializing in one, so that they could be utilized by companies.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> KAIST, Korea University, SNU, POSTEC, Yeungnam University Professor Hwa-jo Lee of the school of Mechanical Engineering, Instructor Award [February 12, 2009] Yeungnam University (president Hyo-soo Lee) had 4 winners in the \'2008 Campus Patent Strategy Universiade\' and placed 5th overall. According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office, Yeungnam University had 4 winning teams including 3 awards of excellence and 1 honorable mention in the patent strategy sector. Yeungnam University had the most winners following KAIST (18), Korea University (7), SNU (7) and POSTEC (6). Professor Hwa-jo Lee (54, photo) of the school of Mechanical Engineering won the Instructor Award. Kwak Gyeong-cheol (25, Mechanical Engineering, junior), Kim Sang-deok (23, Mechanical Engineering, sophomore) and Choi Young-seok (26, Electric Engineering, senior) made a team received a award and 7 million won for their paper on \'IT Technology, Ship Building, Safe Navigation and Intelligence\'. Park Joo-han (29, Mechanical Engineering, senior), Lee Woong-hee (27, Mechanical Engineering, senior) and Kim Ji-hoon (28, Mechanical Engineering, senior) wrote a thesis on \'Waste Heat Recovery Device and Environment-Friendly Performance Improvement Systems\', while Lee Seung-hyub (28, Mechanical Engineering, senior), Ryu Tae-ha (25, Mechanical Engineering, senior) and Lee Jung-hyung (24, Mechanical Engineering, junior) wrote a thesis titled, \'CO2 Reduction Technology\' to win the CEO award and 5 million won. Kwon Hyun-i (25), Sohn Hee-dong (25) and Kim Jong-yeob (26), who are all juniors in Mechanical Engineering, won 1 million won for their paper on \'Waste Heat Recovery Device and Environment-Friendliness Performance Improvement Systems\'. Professor Hwa-jo Lee stated, \"I am very proud of my students who had great results while competing against graduate-level students.\" He also added, \"I hope that their creative ideas will be utilized on site by companies.\" The \'Campus Patent Strategy Universiade\' has been hosted by the Korean Intellectual Property Office and the National Academy of Engineering of Korea for college of science, college of engineering and graduate school students since last year in order to broaden practical patent education and to procure man power and ideas fitting to the needs of companies. The \'Campus Patent Strategy Universiade\', which is an industry-academy open innovation conference where companies give the patent-related problem and university students find the solutions, has 2 different sections: establishing patent strategies and investigating preceding technologies. In the patent strategy establishment sector, there were a total of 19 problems given, while there were 10 problems in the preceding technology examination sector in which judgments were to be made for possibility of patenting following examinations of preceding technologies. This year, 2050 students from 68 universities participated in the event and it was judged by literary reviews, document interviews and presentations. 89 teams (172 students) from 34 universities were awarded as winners. In the Daegu and Gyeongsangbukdo areas, winning universities were Yeungnam University, POSTECH (6), Daegu University (1) and Kumoh National Institute of Technology (1). The awards ceremony will be held at the Korea Technology Center (Yeoksam-dong, Seoul) at 11 am on the 13th (Friday). Winners will be given priority for employment at prominent companies such as LG Electronics, LG Display, LG Chemical, Siltron, Honam Petrochemical, Hyosung, DC Chemical, Hanwha Chemical, Hyundai Steel, Jusung Engineering, DSME, Samsung Heavy Industries, Hanjin Heavy Industries and STX Shipbuilding.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> MEST scores best among the 10 e-Learning Support Center Universities [2009-2-10] <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_03909555984933497 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2009-04-30_10-29-24_469.jpg\" target=_blank> Recording internet class at the e-Learning Support Center \'3D Virtual Studio\' The \'Daegu-Gyeongsangbukdo universities e-Learning Support Center (director Gwang-su Sung, hereinafter \'e-Learning Support Center)\' operated by Yeungnam University was scored the nation\'s best. According to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (minister Byeong-man Ahn, hereinafter \'MEST\'), after evaluating the 2008 performance of e-Learning Support Centers in 10 universities across the nation, Yeungnam University was ranked \'Best\'. In result, Yeungnam University will be provided with funding worth 115 million won for developing contents. Evaluation was conducted on a total of 35 indexes in 5 different evaluation areas such as strategy, organization, contents, operations and consortiums. Results showed that Yeungnam University had outstanding facilities such as the 3D virtual reality studio, high financial independency and the highest level of joint use of the system. In addition, it was judged to have outstanding performance because it had driven the credit exchange with other universities and institutes in order to improve utilization of contents and because it had developed contents fitting to the various studying types such as simulation, repeated studying and lecturing. In particular, its high assessment was because of the school taking the initiative in the military service credits through internet courses for soldiers in uniform. Furthermore, it placed great efforts to develop and operate customized contents based on industry-academic cooperation by binding an \'e-Learning Technology Agreement\' with Gumi Samsung Electronics, and it developed the contents called \'Facts About Dokdo\' together with the province of Gyeongsangbukdo in both Korean and English. It also received the highest scores for the e-Learning institute certification screening sponsored by the Korea U-Learning Association in 2008. The e-Learning Support Center director, Professor Gwang-su Sung (School of Electronic Engineering, Communication Engineering and Computer Science, 43) at Yeungnam University stated, \"These are the results of our efforts to become a central base for promoting customized education services fitting to the ubiquitous era by constructing online lifelong learning systems and OJT (On-the-Job Training) education systems with businesses\". He added, \"This year our goal is for \'globalization of e-learning\' and we will focus on developing history and cultural contents, supporting language selection functions for contents, standardizing contents, global e-learning course development such as understanding Korean language, Korean culture and Dokdo.\" Meanwhile, since opening its first internet courses in 1998, Yeungnam University has recently been opening an average of 120 internet courses per a semester in order to provide educational services that surpasses time and space. In July 2005, it was selected as an administering university for \'Daegu-Gyeongsangbukdo university e-Learning Support Center\' by MEST, and it is pursuing the \'e-Learning Cluster Construction Project\' to share credits with 40 universities in the region.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Vision proclaimed on the 4th, create growth power for Daegu and Gyeongsangbukdo Focus research on intelligent LED-IT light source systems for automobiles, mobile phones and displays [February 5, 2009] <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_09696866365556739 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2009-04-29_13-31-24_466.jpg\" target=_blank> A bold attempt at greater synergy effects by tying together IT, automobile and display industries is unfolding. At 4pm on the 4th, the \'Daegu-Gyeongsangbukdo LED-IT Fusion Industry Development Vision Proclamation Ceremony\' was held at the Daegu Inter-Burgo Hotel hosted by Yeungnam University (president Hyo-soo Lee) and sponsored by MEST, Gyeongsangbukdo and Daegu city. Assemblywoman Geun-hye Park and sssemblyman Gyeong-hwan Choi made a congratulatory speech and Lee Yoon-ho, minister of MEST, gave the keynote address. Professor Ja-soon Jang of Yeungnam University followed up with a speech on the \'Daegu-Gyeongsangbukdo LED Fusion Industry Development Strategy\'. The \'LED-IT Fusion Technology Research Center\', which will lead the future of Daegu and Gyeongsangbukdo, will be located at Yeungnam University. Construction of the center is expected to be completed by 2018 costing 43 billion won near the Gyeongbuk Techno Park. This will be a local hub for training human resources for next generation LED-IT fusion technology R&D. In addition, various business plans are also being pursued in order to create more demand for LED. Meanwhile, MEST announced that it will open the doors of 4 LED fusion technology support centers at Yeungnam University, Gwangju KOPTI, Gyeonggi Gwanggyo Korea Advanced Nano Fab Center and Chonbuk University, in order to develop LED fusion technologies and foster human resources. For this, 76.5 billion won (national funds, provincial funds, private funds included) will be invested in the 4 centers by 2013.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> ‘Daegu-Gyeongsangbukdo Solar Cell RIC’, President of KEMCO, Tae-yong Lee, Speaks at special seminal Meeting with congressman Won Hee-ryong this month [February 3, 2009] Since the government announced the \'5+2 Metropolitan Economic Area\' development plans, Daegu and Gyeongsangbukdo quickly designated the green energy industry and the IT fusion and integration industry as the main development industries. Recently, the government announced the \'Green New Deal Policy\' and there has been an increased amount of interest in the area for new renewable energy. Thus, Yeungnam University (president Hyo-soo Lee) invited Lee Tae-yong (54), president of Korea Energy Management Corporation, to discuss new driving forces for the local economy through \'Green Energy Industries\'. At 10:30am on the 4th, Yeungnam University hosted a special seminar for the Daegu-Gyeongsangbukdo Solar Cell/Module Process Regional Innovation Center (director Jae-hak Jung, hereinafter \'Daegu-Gyeongsangbukdo Solar Cell RIC\'). In this special seminar for New & Renewable Energy industries in Daegu and Gyeongsangbukdo, Lee Tae-yong announced the \'New & Renewable Energy policy and industrialization strategy\'. In addition, there are plans to make time for discussing the current issues and demands of the region through debates with companies, professors, experts and graduate school students. In this special seminar, Jeon Chan-wook RIC center vice director is expected to speak on \'the Corporate support for Daegu-Gyeongsangbukdo Solar Cell RIC\'. Professor Jae-hak Jung (47, School of Display and Chemical Engineering) stated, \"I hope that this special seminar will be an opportunity to foster the local industry related to New & Renewable Energy such as the solar energy industry and to create jobs in the future.\" The \'Daegu-Gyeongsangbukdo Solar Cell RIC\' was opened last year in July with the designation of MEST for RIC and for 10 years until 2018, 16.6 billion won, including 7 billion won from national funding, will be invested in solar energy research and industry support. In addition, it is acting as a strategic base for fostering the local New & Renewable energy industry by holding meetings with assemblyman Hee-ryong Won (Grand National Party, Yancheon Seoul) who is the representative of the Climate Change and New & Renewable Energy Research Association.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Speaking at University of Oxford and University of Manchester Internationally accredited expert on \'Webometrics\' [February 2, 2009] Professor Han-woo Park (38, Department of Media and Communication) of Yeungnam University, who is one of a handful of \'webometrics\' experts in Korea, has been recently invited by prestigious universities in England as a guest speaker one after another. \'Webometrics\' is a new academic field for analyzing social networks through website contents and hyperlinks. Professor Park was invited to the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at University of Oxford on the 27th of last month and made a speech titled ‘Social Hyperlink Analysis, Webometrics, and Digital Networks in South Korea’. He is also expected to speak at the University of Manchester in England on the 18th. The title of the lecture is ‘Peeling off the Layers on Knowledge Networks in terms of Collaboration and Communication Relations in the System of Innovation: A case of South Korea\'. In this lecture Professor Park will reveal the knowledge-linkage pattern that connects universities, businesses and the government of Korea, and he is also expected to compare the knowledge-based innovation system of Korea with the system of Netherlands. For this, Professor Park will be using webometrics, scientometrics and technometrics as an index. In addition, Park is also scheduled to analyze the internet use methods as a method for interaction with the existing the Scientific Communication Pattern. Despite Park being a young scholar in his 30s, he is internationally recognized. He was also listed in the two most prominent who\'s-who books 4 times last year. Just last year, he published 7 theses in international journals for a total of 21 since 2002. Park has also been in the center of the limelight for his research achievements on \'Web Space Analysis on Political Websites\', which was performed in cooperation with the Korea Research Foundation. He is currently the co-editor the international journal, 《Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia》and is also active as an operations committee director of \'Information Analysis and e-Research Forum\', which is an industry-academic association. His books include 『Media Use in the Digital Age: White Book for the 21st Century Human』(Coauthor, 2006),『Internet and International Academic Information Network Hyperlink』(Asan Research Center Vol. 179, 2005), 『Media and Culture in Information Age』(Coauthor, 1998). He majored in Communications at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul National University Graduate School (Masters), New York State University (PhD). He also worked as a researcher for the Dutch Royal Association and is now a professor of Department of media and communication at Yeungnam University.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> [January 30, 2009] The Korean Council for University Education (KCUE) ranked Yeungnam University\'s physics the best in the \'2008 University Academics Evaluation\'. MEST and KCUE announced the results of the 2008 academics evaluation on 3 fields of economics, physics and oriental medicine on the 29th. According to the results, Yeungnam University was ranked \'best\' together with Konkuk University, Kyunghee University, Kongju University, Dankook University, Dongguk University, Myongji University, Pukyong University, University of Seoul, Sungkyunkwan University, Soongsil University, Ewha Woman\'s University, University of Incheon, Inha University, Chonbuk University, Chungang University, Hannam University and Hanyang University. The self-evaluation system for universities that MEST announced last December refers to self-evaluation of education conditions, facilities and curriculums, and disclosing them on the internet. Thus, all 4 year universities will have to evaluate their programs according to their own standards and disclose them on the internet by the coming December.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Send 50 Students for foreign exchange studies every year [January 30, 2009] \"It\'s extremely important for our future to learn about China in order to face off against China, which will be the 21st century \'black hole\'. With this the case, how can we not invest in our students?\" Professors of the School of Chinese Language & Culture has donated a heavy chunk of their personal money for their students. They want their students to study as much as they want without worrying about tuition. The group of professors in the School of Chinese Language & Culture visited the president of the university on the 30th and donated 300 million won from 13 professors for scholarships. Park Woon-seok (57), dean of the School of Chinese Language & Culture, asked, \"Why should we think twice about this money when we are educating young talent who will compete with the Chinese in the global arena?\" He also added, \"We will provide support for our students by sending 50 students to China as exchange students every year for 1 year so that they can learn not only the Chinese language but also the Chinese culture.\" The love of their students by these professors was also a big issue in 2004 as well. 5 professors of Chinese Language & Culture made dumplings and Chinese food during the Daedong festival and sold them to make 2 million won, which they donated as scholarship funds. Honorary professor Jang-woo Lee and Professor Woon-seok Park also donated 5 million won each by taking out part of their retirement allowances in advance. In addition, the professors also donated all royalty on their copyrighted documents as scholarships, which has amounted to 300 million won now. Based on this, Yeungnam University School of Chinese Language & Culture is planning to work harder on learning all about China. While sending 50 exchange students for 1 year to 15 universities in China annually, short-term education programs such as exploring China will be expanded in order to help all students in this school to experience the culture and lifestyle of China. Furthermore, over 50% of major-level classes are to be conducted in Chinese in order to help students attain HSK level 9 (equivalent to 900 on TOEIC) before they graduate. For this, 7 Chinese full-time professors from Beijing University and Fudan University have already been recruited. Moreover, the school\'s own scholarships are also to be paid in order to motivate students to pursue knowledge. Since opening its doors as the Chinese Language & Culture Department in 1975, the School of Chinese Language & Culture has graduated over 1,000 students and was promoted to an independent school in 2007. <See Related Articles> @Donga Ilbo (2009-2-2) http://www.donga.com/fbin/output?f=g__&n=200902020218 @Jungang Ilbo (2009-2-2) http://univ.joins.com/portal/news/article.asp?Total_ID=3477220&cloc=home%7Cbiz%7Cbiz_univ_article @Maeil News (2009-2-2) http://www.imaeil.com/sub_news/sub_news_view.php?news_id=4892&yy=2009 @Yeungnam Ilbo (2009-2-2) http://www.yeongnam.com/yeongnam/html/yeongnamdaily/subject/article.shtml?id=20090202.010250728450001 @Daegu News (2009-2-2) http://www.idaegu.co.kr/new_gisa.html?uid=181994&part=peo @Daegu Ilbo (2009-2-2)
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Screen theses on the international architecture and environment journal 《Indoor and Built Environment》 [January 22, 2009] Professor Sung-ok Baek (Department of Environmental Engineering, 53, Photo) of Yeungnam University will be on the editorial board for an SCI level international journal from January. Professor Baek was recently notified by 《Indoor and Built Environment》 journal of England that he is appointed in the editorial board. This journal is issued by \'The International Society of the Built Environment\' and is an SCI level international journal that has been published since 1992. Thus, Professor Baek will be reviewing theses on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) that are included in indoor air from around the world. In addition, Park will be in charge of reviewing theses from Korea, China, Hong Kong, Japan and the rest of Asia, while finding others to be in charge of reviewing. Professor Park holds a PhD from London University in England (Environmental Engineering) and focused on studying the causes, behavior and eradication of hazardous materials in the air, while especially concentrating on measuring and analyzing PAH and VOC in the air. Furthermore, Park is conducting in-depth studies on all sectors related to the atmospheric environment, including the environmental behavior and indoor ventilation of hazardous atmosphere pollutants (HAPs).
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> \"New Cultural Center for Great Performances and Deep Impression\" [January 22, 2009] Yeungnam University 60th Anniversary Monument <Chunma Arts Center> was completed after 16 months of construction. On January 16, 150 guests participated in the ceremony for the completion of the Chunma Arts Center that has a total floor space of 17,083㎡, spanning 2 lower level floors and 7 upper level floors. It is a high tech building equipped with performance halls, conference rooms and exhibition galleries. The Grand Hall has a capacity 1,899 and is square auditorium that represents Mother Earth. Because of its high tech design with the best audio system, optimal lighting system and stage system adaptable to wagon type boasts, the hall is the optimized facilities for performances of various genres such as symphonies, operas, musicals and concerts. Especially, the 3-level trust stage is very unique making it a \'stage of dreams\' for conductors, producers and choreographers. Futhermore, the more accessible large recital hall, the pleasant dressing room, the complete rehearsal room, and the 5 language simultaneous interpretation room also complete this facility. The 510 capacity Chamber Hall is a medium sized round auditorium in the shape of the Sky. Its angle is set for the most pleasant view of performances and the natural lighting system on the back side of the stage creates a unique nature-friendly atmosphere. The 3rd floor provides comfort as a convention hall for international seminars or performance receptions. The Grand Hall and Chamber Hall is connected to the 2nd floor creating a harmony between the earth and the sky. The 7th floor Tower Hall is a triangular building in the shape of the Man. There are various sized meeting rooms and a cafe where people can enjoy arts and culture. The Tower Hall\'s 1st floor has a double-layered structure and is home to the digital university PR hall where visitors can get a brief view of Yeungnam University\'s history and future vision. In addition to this, it is equipped with special exhibit halls in order to play the role of the new culture incubator for the Daegu and Gyeongsangbukdo regions. Yeungnam University is planning to utilize the Chunma Arts Center as an \'Open Campus\' for local residents. The sky lounge of the Tower Hall also has a 360 degree panorama view for a unique experience to visitors. The outdoor exhibition area and green area are expected to act as a community park while also serving as a monumental park for the 60th year of Yeungnam University. Constructino of Chunma Arts Center started on May 15, 2007 and it was designed by the famous Korean architect Chun-soo Ryu, while Hanjin Heavy Industry and Youngnam Construction\'s technology completed its construction.
