‘AI-ga Ganghan Daehak’ … Dongmyeong University Innovation Strategy Announcement

The First Undergraduate College at a Regional University: Establishing the 'AI Convergence College'

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] ‘A university strong in AI (Artificial Intelligence)’! Dongmyung University unveiled a new direction and strategy for university innovation on the 9th.

Dongmyung University has set its specialization direction as an ‘AI university’ and formed the ‘TU-AI Specialization Strategy Promotion Team’ to engage in university innovation projects.

Last year, Dongmyung University gained fame as the top medium-to-large university in employment rates in the Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam regions. Recently selected by the Ministry of Education as a leading university for innovation in the 4th Industrial Revolution, the university plans to take a step further in its traditionally strong IT and employment fields to become a prestigious ‘AI university.’

Dongmyung University was the first university in the Busan area to establish an AI academic organization, the ‘AI Convergence College,’ in its undergraduate program starting in 2021, and from 2022, it plans to expand this to all colleges by establishing AI convergence majors.

Additionally, it has set up an AI Future Education Center on campus to serve as a university educational institution for the popularization of AI education nationwide.

The AI Convergence College is a reorganized and expanded college from the existing ‘SW Convergence College,’ implementing departmental restructuring for DNA (Data, Network, AI) education, which is the core driving force of the AI era.

In addition to the existing Computer Engineering and Game Engineering departments, the Information and Communication Software Engineering department was expanded into an AI undergraduate department (50 students) to establish a new AI major. The Information Security department was reorganized into the Software Convergence Security department, and the Data Science department was newly established (30 students) for the first time in the Busan area.

The College of Engineering’s Mechatronics Engineering Department was reorganized into the AI Automation Design Engineering Department. The Aviation Service department, a major that serves as the foundation for expanding aviation demand in the southeastern region and advancing Busan as an international tourism city, was newly established (30 students).

Recently, Dongmyung University set its specialization strategy goals and areas as ‘A future-oriented talent cultivation and industrial innovation hub university through strengthening AI-SW capabilities.’ The university direction is set with AI-SW convergence, marine logistics, Well life, and cultural contents, promoting AI specialization as the university’s key specialization strategy.

President Jeong Hong-seop said, “AI possesses far more diverse knowledge than we do, and the era of ‘lectures’ is over; it has changed to an era of openness, connection, and convergence.” He added, “We must cultivate talents who do not take orders from AI but give orders to AI. Dongmyung University will educate all students to become masters of AI in this AI era that has now become a reality.”

Vice President of Educational Innovation Park Nam-gyu explained, “Although many jobs will disappear due to AI, we will innovate all areas including curricula and methods to nurture talents who will enter newly created jobs by AI.”

Director of Strategic Planning Shin Dong-seok said, “Within this year, to innovate future education for students who will become protagonists of the AI era, we will transform all educational infrastructure and overall administration on campus into an edutech-based system capable of AI education.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.