Dong-Eui University LINC+ Project Group Creates New Value by Cultivating 'Innovative Talent'

Presenting a New Vision for Universities through Specialized Talent Development in the 4th Industrial Revolution

Director Kim Seong-hee (right) of the Dong-Eui University Big Data Artificial Intelligence Center is checking the system operation status.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Recently, natural-friendly living has been emphasized due to COVID-19. Dong-Eui University offers a "green campus in the city," surrounded by lush nature, providing an excellent environment for students to study.

The campus, located in the center of downtown Busan, benefits from convenient transportation, connected to Dong-Eui University Station on Subway Line 2 and a circular bus, making commuting easy for students.

Among its nine colleges, Dong-Eui University fosters engineering talents who will lead future society through three engineering colleges: the College of Engineering, the ICT College of Engineering, and the IT Convergence Materials and Components College of Engineering.

Through the LINC+ Project Group (Director Lee Im-geon), Dong-Eui University is bringing new momentum to the local community. Here, we introduce the talent cultivation sector of the university innovation projects by the Dong-Eui University LINC+ Project Group.

The Dong-Eui University LINC+ Project Group cultivates innovative talents required in the Fourth Industrial Revolution era through field-centered education, interactive industry-academia research, and innovation in industry-academia cooperation.

To respond to the recently spotlighted "New Normal," it is strengthening a specialized value-creation brand focused on nurturing industry-academia collaboration talents.

At the core are initiatives such as specialized big data and AI education, corporate exploration projects, and the establishment of a shared university platform, which the LINC+ Project Group is prioritizing.

Centered on the Big Data Artificial Intelligence Center (Director Kim Sung-hee), opened in October last year, the Dong-Eui University LINC+ Project Group is nurturing talents with specialized capabilities in big data and AI.

They are discovering and promoting tasks related to public and private data sharing cooperation and big data and AI technologies, focusing on building a foundation for technology and talent development to advance big data and AI collaboration, providing diverse content and networks.

For team projects in the Capstone Design course, they support the use of new issues and topics utilizing big data and AI technologies.

In the customized education curriculum (modules), they operate courses and extracurricular education based on big data and AI to cultivate excellent convergence talents centered on practical skills demanded by local industries.

For enrolled students, they operated an "AI Idea Competition" and special lectures on AI technology, deep learning, and data innovation to strengthen AI-based problem-solving capabilities.

They also collaborated with the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education to conduct AI project competitions and develop big data-artificial intelligence curricula.

Lee Im-geon, director of the Dong-Eui University LINC+ Project Group, said, "We are gathering capabilities to integrate and utilize big data and AI throughout lectures and expand them as a new specialized education brand."

He added, "We are also promoting data literacy education by major, data visualization education, and AI hackathon competitions to solve community problems for enrolled students."

The Dong-Eui University LINC+ Project Group is focusing on a corporate exploration project where students voluntarily explore companies to discover value and simultaneously create corporate promotional content.

This project connects companies participating in Dong-Eui University's industry-academia cooperation projects by field with students by major. The core is to create a win-win process for both students and companies through concrete outcomes such as understanding companies and corporate promotion.

Participating students are matched with desired companies through meetings with company practitioners, participate in education on promotion, marketing, and video editing for corporate exploration, enhance their capabilities, and are dispatched to companies for a certain period to produce corporate promotional videos through the corporate exploration process.

Afterward, promotional videos are shared together at a performance dissemination festival, and the results are uploaded to the corporate exploration portal to build a corporate database.

This project is characterized by students directly visiting companies to discover their value themselves. It holds a vision to realize company-close talent cultivation and Dong-Eui University's unique corporate information archive in the long term.

Director Lee Im-geon of the LINC+ Project Group emphasized, "We plan to expand practical industry-academia cooperation models based on various participants through the corporate exploration project," and "Students will be able to prepare various capabilities that can be applied to the workplace through a thorough understanding of local companies."

The LINC+ project groups of six universities in the Busan area, including Dong-Eui University, signed an agreement with Busan City to establish a shared university platform on the morning of October 28 at the Busan Lotte Hotel.

The Dong-Eui University LINC+ Project Group is also preparing a "shared university" that can bring innovation in curricula and teaching methods through a higher level of cooperation and exchange among local universities.

The shared university is a project where major universities in the Busan area jointly develop and operate common curricula through a new cooperation platform and jointly develop cooperative programs and content.

Six universities in the Busan area, including Dong-Eui University, Dongmyung University, Dongseo University, Dong-A University, Pukyong National University, and Korea Maritime and Ocean University, signed an agreement with Busan City on October 28 at the Busan Lotte Hotel to establish a shared university platform and agreed to officially operate the shared university starting in 2021.

With the promotion of the Busan area shared university, it is expected that technology, educational content, and know-how related to industry-academia cooperation capable of nurturing talents in new technology fields related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, such as AI, big data, next-generation semiconductors, and the Internet of Things, will be shared, creating various synergies.

"Starting next year, we are preparing to jointly open a course on 'AI-based Startup Marketing,' and we will actively promote the establishment of a shared university platform support system, joint curricula, and corporate support content development."

This is according to Director Lee Im-geon of the LINC+ Project Group, who said there is sufficient consensus that local universities must unite their efforts to achieve educational innovation through the shared university.

Director Im Geon Lee of Dong-Eui University LINC+ Project Group.

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