"Opening the Path for High-Skilled Technical Experts" ... Yeongjin College Graduates First 28 'Professional Technical Masters'

Yeungjin College of Technology (President Choi Jae-young), which pioneered the first path for training meister-level highly skilled technical talents, is successfully operating the 1st Professional Technical Master’s program and producing graduates.

At the 2023 academic year degree conferment ceremony to be held on the 16th at the International Seminar Room of Yeungjin College of Technology’s Bokhyeon Campus in Buk-gu, Daegu, the college will award formal Professional Technical Master’s degrees to 28 individuals who have obtained the Professional Technical Master’s degree in the field of Precision Mechanical Engineering.

Students in the Professional Technical Master's program at Yeongjin College are practicing aluminum corrosion surface treatment at the Kanto Gakuen University Research Institute in Japan.

Yeungjin College of Technology was the only institution selected in Daegu and Gyeongbuk for the Ministry of Education’s core project introduced in 2021, the ‘Meister University Pilot Operation Project.’ Accordingly, the college established the ‘Precision Mechanical Engineering Department (2-year program),’ a ‘High-Skilled Professional Technical Master’s Program in Ultra-Precision Mold Field Linked to New Industries,’ in the 2022 academic year.

The education was conducted through element technology-specific project labs such as optimal molding, thin plate processing, micro component molds, intelligent mold processes, and composite advanced materials, enabling learners to solve on-site technical difficulties of their affiliated industries.

The training for cultivating ‘meister-level high-skilled professionals in ultra-precision molds linked to new industries’ extended beyond domestic education to overseas.

An ‘Overseas Intensive Study Program,’ an opportunity for benchmarking advanced overseas technologies, was arranged, and the first cohort participated in a 6-day ‘Advanced Mold Technology Training’ in Tokyo, Japan, during the 2022 summer vacation.

The first step of the highly skilled Professional Technical Master’s program, ambitiously promoted in the era of digital transformation, is being evaluated as a ‘success.’

As evidence of this, the first graduates of Yeungjin’s ‘Precision Mechanical Engineering Department’ have produced remarkable ‘results.’

One of the first graduates of this department, Bae Jae-sang (CEO of Moldwin), received support for industry-academia joint R&D under the Meister University pilot project and, as a result of designing and manufacturing mold products, expanded not only to domestic company deliveries (Koberie) but also to overseas markets.

CEO Bae said, “Participating in the Meister University pilot project while enrolled in the Professional Technical Master’s program was like laying a stepping stone for our company’s growth. Thanks to the advanced equipment owned by the university and the support of professors composed of field experts, we developed mold products and achieved remarkable results, including sales of 100 million KRW by delivering to Japanese companies, recognizing the excellence of our products. Yeungjin College of Technology’s AI Convergence Mechanical Department, which operates the Precision Mechanical Engineering Department, has been a strong supporter in my growth as a highly skilled professional.”

Graduate Nam Kyung-hyup (CEO of DH) also solved technical difficulties of his own business with the guidance of project lab professors and wrote a thesis to obtain his master’s degree. He said, “Through the Professional Technical Master’s program, I was able to grow into a skilled field expert by developing a smart robot system for die-casting process automation and a heat sink die-casting mold. Applying these technologies to my company led to increased sales.”

President Choi Jae-young of Yeungjin College of Technology said, “As a result of over ten years of dedicated efforts to introduce the so-called ‘Industrial Technology Master Graduate School,’ our university has opened the path to producing meister-level highly skilled professionals and is now seeing the light of producing the first Professional Technical Master’s graduates this year. We will further strengthen the organic cooperation system with Daegu City, Daegu TP, Daegu Machinery Parts Research Institute, Korea Mold Industry Cooperative, and others to actively contribute to the technological advancement of the automotive parts industry, a key local industry.”

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