Pukyong National University

PKNU's Engineering Education Innovation Center, has been awarded 'Excellent' for the send consecutive years
Result of 2018 project evaluation ... Secured 200 million won of program cost

△ Pukyong engineering students who participated in engineering festival event.

Pukyong National University Engineering Education Innovation Center (center director Bae Seong-yong) has been recognized as an excellent center for the second consecutive year by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MoTIE).

Pukyong National University Engineering Education Innovation Center has been awarded 'Excellent' in last year's evaluation in 'the 2018 Evaluation of the Project for Supporting the Development of Creative and Convergent Engineering Human Resources at the Center for Engineering Education Innovation' at the Seoul Olympic Parktel recently.

The project to support the development of convergent engineering talents is a project supported by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) to enhance the global competitiveness of engineering education and to develop creative engineering talents that meet industry needs. It is being implemented by 75 engineering education innovation centers nationwide.

In order to solve the difficulties of the local community last year, Pukyong National University's Engineering Education Innovation Center has been operating a community-contributing capstone design program linked with the engineering corps, including job competency enhancement training, entrepreneurial incentive programs. The center received a good reputation for running a variety of engineering education programs for technical college students, such as technology start-up camps and engineering camps, for the commercialization of works.

According to the results of the evaluation, the center will secure a project cost of 200 million won, which is 10% higher than the basic project cost, and begin the project this year.

Bae Seong-yong, director of the center said, "In order to lead the era of the global 4th industrial revolution by nurturing next-generation engineering talent, I will continue to pursue various customized projects centering on students from engineering colleges."

Meanwhile, Pukyong National University's Engineering Education Innovation Center is recognized as an outstanding achievement in the field of engineering education, receiving the "Grand Prize of 2018 Southeast Region College of the Year" as the most outstanding achievement of cooperation between any engineering and educational innovation centers of 14 universities in the southeastern region. <Pukyong Today>