Gachon University Establishes Four New Departments Including Smart Factory

[Asia Economy (Seongnam) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Gachon University is establishing four new advanced departments to nurture talent that will lead future industries and will select new students starting from the early admission in September.

The newly established departments are ▲Smart Factory Major (50 students) ▲Smart Security Major (50 students) ▲Next-Generation Semiconductor Major (50 students) ▲Smart City Convergence Department (50 students).

The Smart Factory Major is designed as a curriculum to learn big data, AI, and machine learning to cultivate talent capable of implementing Industry 4.0 (Smart Factory). Students learn knowledge about production design and automatic control through machine learning and deep learning, and process automation through advanced robotics, focusing on programming-based and dynamics-based foundational major courses.

The Smart Security Major introduces project-based learning (PBL: Project Based Learning) operated in a team-teaching format with professors teaching basic theory and advanced knowledge alongside instructors with practical experience in the cybersecurity industry. Each course will be subdivided into basic, core, and applied subjects to interconnect them.

The Smart City Convergence Department sets four core areas related to smart cities: mobility, safety and disaster prevention, energy and environment, and meta-intelligence, and nurtures talent to realize meta spaces and meta cities through education. To comprehensively understand the characteristics of future cities, both theoretical classes and various practical training will be conducted.

Gachon University established the first Software College in Korea in 2002 and has led advanced education by mandating software education for all students in 2015 based on its software education capabilities.

In 2015, it was selected as a Software-Centered University by the Ministry of Science and ICT, establishing a software education paradigm.

President Lee Gil-yeo of Gachon University stated, "The industrial structure is rapidly changing day by day due to the Fourth Industrial Revolution led by artificial intelligence and big data," and added, "We will nurture competitive talent to lead the future through systematic education in advanced industrial fields."

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