Sookmyung University joins hands with POSTECH to cultivate converged engineering talents
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- Writer 커뮤니케이션팀
- 보도일자 2015-06-24
Our university has partnered with POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) to cultivate global women engineering talents. President Hwang Sun-hye and visitors from our university visited POSTECH on June 23 and signed an academic agreement to strengthen cooperation in education and research between the two schools.
In accordance with the agreement, our university plans to collaborate in the following areas with POSTECH for the next 5 years: △ mutual exchange of faculty, △ student exchange and mutual credit acceptance, △ joint research and joint sponsoring of academic conferences, △ mutual exchange of academic materials, publications and information, △ joint degree in master's program, etc.
As our university is newly establishing an college of engineering next year, the strategy is to facilitate knowledge transfer concerning education and know-how from one of the most prestigious engineering schools in the country through this agreement so that we can successfully establish our college of engineering early on. In addition, while our university and POSTECH are to design an education curriculum that can cultivate creative engineering talents equipped with humanistic imagination and engineering research capability, there are also plans to create new areas of research that can converge the strengths of each university in humanities and science & technology by conducting researches that enable complementary and sustainable cooperation.
President Hwang Sun-hye said, "Although women have advanced into various sectors of the society, many more women are still needed in engineering" and "I will give my best efforts so that the college of engineering of Sookmyung University can lead women's advancement into science & technology sector and bring a fresh breath of wind."
President of POSTECH, Kim Yong-min, said, "We welcome the new challenge of establishing a college of engineering by Sookmyung University at such times of scarcity in excellent women engineers" and "while POSTECH and Sookmyung University prepare a foundation for mutual growth through close cooperation and converged research, we will also contribute to expand the base of women workforce in Korea's science & technology sector."