Pukyong National University

Chairman of Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
Professor Lee Hwan-woo

Professor Lee Hwan-woo (Department of Civil Engineering) became the 18th president of Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea. Beginning as an academic organization of the first structural engineering in Korea in 1988, it is now known as the "platform of convergence technology" for over 2,000 nationwide structural engineers in civil engineering, architecture, machinery, shipbuilding, and this is the first time that a local university professor has taken over the chairmanship. He is a veteran of 35 years’ career in Civil Engineering. It was him, the ’expert’, who ran to the scene immediately after the Gwangan bridge collision of the Russian cargo ship in this February 2019. He has been a member of the safety advisory committee for bridge structure at the Busan Infrastructure Corporation. He has been involved in technical consulting for construction of large bridges such as Gwangan Bridge, Geoga Bridge, Busan Port Bridge, Namhang Bridge, Hwamyeong Bridge and Youngdo Passway.
After graduating from Seoul National University in 1984 and receiving his master’s and doctoral degrees from KAIST, he became a professor at Pukyong National University in 1993 after having spent four years in design and construction experience at Samsung General Construction. He is a structural engineer who is proficient in both theory and practice. In relation to the activities of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea, he said, "It is the only organization in Korea that conducts multidisciplinary academic activities in the field of structural engineering. It has been researching the convergence study that has been emphasized today for 30 years.", and he stressed that "Structural engineering is also essential for making machines or making ships or aircraft, so academic cooperation between different sectors is important for co-development." He emphasized, "We will strive for academic development in this field by fusing information and communication technology (ICT) into structural engineering based on more diversified computer-based technology in the changing times of transition to the 4th industrial revolution technology environment.“ <기사 보러가기(클릭)>

10 April 2019