Dong-A University Selected for 'Sinpyeong and Jangnim Industrial Complex Smart Manufacturing Advanced Workforce Training Project'

Busan Plays Key Role in 'Smart Manufacturing Transition' in Strategic Industries

Dong-A University (President Lee Haeu) announced on the 30th that it has been selected for the "Shinpyeong-Jangnim Industrial Complex Smart Manufacturing Advanced Workforce Training Project," a project in the machinery parts and robotics sector promoted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and Busan Metropolitan City.

The "Shinpyeong-Jangnim Industrial Complex Smart Manufacturing Advanced Workforce Training Project," hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and supported by Korea Industrial Complex Corporation, aims to provide education, training, and dissemination for smart manufacturing innovation. It will build practical infrastructure tailored to specialized industries in Smart Green Industrial Complexes and foster advanced smart manufacturing personnel by strengthening the capabilities of current employees.

In addition, it is expected that educational support for university engineering students will create new job opportunities.

Dong-A University, together with the Busan Institute for Industry-University Convergence (the lead organization), Busan Institute of Science and Technology, and Busan Economic Promotion Agency (participating organizations), applied for the "Shinpyeong-Jangnim Industrial Complex Smart Manufacturing Advanced Workforce Training Project." A total of approximately 7.3 billion KRW, including 6 billion KRW in national funding over three years, as well as municipal and private funding, will be invested in this project.

Previously, in April, the Shinpyeong-Jangnim General Industrial Complex, a representative industrial complex in Busan, was finally selected as a "2024 Aging Key Industrial Complex and Smart Green Industrial Complex," making the "Smart Manufacturing Advanced Workforce Training Project" responsible for cultivating core talent suitable for the Smart Green Industrial Complex.

Dong-A University will operate advanced workforce training programs (degree courses) for enrolled students, run industry-academia joint project labs based on the needs of smart manufacturing companies, and build educational infrastructure.

By 2026, the university aims to train more than 150 undergraduate and graduate students from the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Management Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Food and Biotechnology, and Fashion Design.

In addition, in cooperation with the lead organization, a platform (practical testbed) for smart manufacturing advanced workforce training will be established to lay the foundation for talent development.

Choi Jaeyoung (Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering), Director of the Smart Manufacturing Advanced Workforce Training Project Center, stated, "We will do our best to play a key role in ensuring a stable supply of material and human resources for the transition to smart manufacturing in the core strategic industries of Shinpyeong-Jangnim Industrial Complex, such as the root industry, seafood processing and food industry, and fashion color (dyeing and textiles)."

Dong-A University has been selected for the Busan Sinpyeong Jangnim Industrial Complex 'Smart Manufacturing Advanced Workforce Training Project' and will begin full-scale training of specialized personnel.

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