Dong-Eui University Says "Thank You" to Professor Who Generated Over 18 Billion Won in Industry-Academic Cooperation Projects

Awarding the 'Seokdang Medal' to Faculty Leading Industry-Academia Cooperation
Professor Jeong Seok-chan Secures 18.7 Billion KRW Budget Including National and City Funds by Being Selected for the 'ICT Research Project'

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Dong-Eui University (President Han Su-hwan) held the “2020 Seokdang Medal Award Ceremony” on the 27th at 10 a.m. in the conference room on the 2nd floor of the main building, attended by academic officers.

The Dong-Eui University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation (Director Lee Im-geon) annually awards the Industry-Academic Cooperation Award to faculty members who have greatly contributed to increasing the university’s finances through industry-academic cooperation.

This year, Professor Jeong Seok-chan of the e-Business major and Professor Lee Won-jae of the Electrical and Electronic Materials Engineering major received gold medals weighing 10 don of pure gold. Silver medals weighing 7 don of pure silver were awarded to five professors: Son Jang-ho (Environmental Engineering), Choi Young-hyun (Korean Medicine), Kim Yi-seok (Film Studies), Yoon Hye-kyung (Basic Science and Liberal Arts), and Park Young-tae (Trade).

Jeong Seok-chan, director of the Dong-Eui University Artificial Intelligence Grand ICT Research Center, which received the Seokdang Medal, was selected for the “Grand ICT Research Center Project” announced by the Ministry of Science and ICT this year. Since July 1, he has laid the foundation for “AI Future City Busan” by developing AI-based intelligent innovative convergence technologies based on the demand of the Busan regional industry and fostering specialized personnel.

By 2027, a total budget of approximately 18.75 billion KRW has been raised, including 15 billion KRW from national funds, 1.5 billion KRW from Busan city funds, and 2.25 billion KRW from Dong-Eui University funds.

Director Jeong said, “The core of the 4th Industrial Revolution is AI. If the industry, academia, research, and government sectors in the region cooperate to develop AI technologies suitable for the Busan region’s industry and establish industrial development strategies, the potential is great.”

He added, “Through the Artificial Intelligence Grand ICT Research Center, I will try to lay the foundation for realizing ‘AI Future City Busan.’”

Director Lee Won-jae of the Core Research Support Center for Convergence Components and Materials was selected in June for the “Basic Science Research Capacity Enhancement Project” announced by the Ministry of Education. The center’s “Research Equipment Establishment Support Project” is currently building a “High Performance X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer.”

The “High Performance X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer” is equipment most widely used by researchers in NT fields such as semiconductors, displays, metals, oxides, powders, glass, plastics, polymers, carbon, ceramics, bio, textiles, coatings, and thin films for convergence components and materials. It supports fundamental core source technologies and functional organic (inorganic) nanomaterials research.

Director Lee said, “To improve the performance and price competitiveness of semiconductors and functional new materials, we are conducting research to reduce weight and size and accumulate more data. Many researchers synthesize nanoparticles smaller than the thickness of a human hair and coat these tiny particles as thin films on devices to develop more competitive components and materials.”

Since last year, Dong-Eui University has separately selected the top three faculty members with excellent industry-academic cooperation achievement scores and awarded them the president’s citation and prize money. Awarded faculty members also receive a benefit of a 3-hour weekly reduction in teaching responsibility the following year. This year’s outstanding industry-academic cooperation faculty members are Oh Soon-young (Human and System Design Engineering), Bae Hyo-jun (Mechanical Engineering), and Lee Sang-jin (Polymer Materials Engineering).

Since 2014, Dong-Eui University has awarded the “Seokdang Medal” to professors who have demonstrated outstanding research performance and whose indirect research expenses from external commissioned research funds exceed a certain amount. The award name “Seokdang Medal” was chosen to honor the late Dr. Kim Im-sik, founder of the Dong-Eui Academy.

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