Mokpo National University Sweeps Awards at ‘X-Corps Plus Festival’

Implementation of the Future Leading Talent Development Support Project

The Practical Problem Research Group at Mokpo National University (President Song Ha-cheol) announced on the 3rd that it received the Grand Prize, Excellence Award, Merit Award, and Encouragement Award at the ‘2024 X-Corps Plus Festival’ held recently at the Saecheonyeon Memorial Hall on the Seoul Campus of Chung-Ang University.

The event was hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and organized by the National Research Foundation of Korea and the Practical Problem Research Group Council. It was a research performance competition for the field-linked future-leading talent development support project, aimed at sharing research achievements of the X-Corps Plus practical problem research teams, awarding outstanding projects, and promoting exchange and dissemination among nationwide project groups.

Students who received the Grand Prize, Excellence Award, Merit Award, and Encouragement Award at the X-Corps Plus Festival are taking a commemorative photo. Photo by Mokpo National University

The Mokpo National University Practical Problem Research Group sent four research teams selected through the university’s final performance presentation. The awards included one Grand Prize team (Department of Advanced Materials Engineering: Lim Ki-hyun and three others, supervised by Professor Lee Seong-hee), one Excellence Award team (Department of Advanced Materials Engineering: Go So-young and three others, supervised by Professor Lee Sang-jin), one Merit Award team (Department of Mechanical, Naval, and Ocean Engineering: Park Shin-woo and four others, supervised by Professor Song Chang-yong), and one Encouragement Award team (Department of Chemistry: Park Yong-woo and three others, supervised by Professor Kim Tae-woo).

The competition featured 36 research teams in four research fields selected in the first round from 170 practical problem research teams across nine universities nationwide. Awards were given based on strict evaluation: the Grand Prize (Minister of Science and ICT Award), Excellence Award (Chairman of the National Research Foundation Award), Merit Award, and Encouragement Award (Chairman of the Practical Problem Research Group Council Award).

Since 2022, Mokpo National University has been successfully conducting the field-linked future-leading talent development support project as a consortium called the ‘East-West Convergence Smart Technology Practical Problem Research Group’ together with Pusan National University, Pukyong National University, and Kunsan National University.

A representative of the Practical Problem Research Group stated, “We lead regional industrial and R&D ecosystems and specialized fields to promote regional industrial development. We support education and performance dissemination programs to enhance the capabilities of participating students through active problem-solving led by undergraduates, and we are producing excellent research results linked to industry-academia cooperation.”

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