Pukyong National University

Operation of a joint degree program at a graduate school of both Pukyong National University-Pusan National University
New establishment of 'Convergent Major of Industrial Data Engineering '... Signed an agreement with Busan National University on 2nd of July

△ Participants in the agreement ceremony, such as Kim Dong-joon, Vice President of Academic Affairs at Pukyong National University, and Park Hong-won, Vice President of Education Affairs at Pusan National University, have completed the event and are taking group commemorative shoot.

Pukyong National University (President Kim Young-seup) and Pusan National University (President Cha Jeong-in) will start the program in September, when they finish establish a 'Convergent Major of Industrial Data Engineering', a joint degree program at graduate school in both national universities.

Kim Dong-joon, the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Pukyong National University and Park Hong-won, the Vice President of Education at Pusan National University, held  agreement ceremony for joint degree program on the afternoon, 2nd of July in the conference room on the 3rd floor of the main building of Pusan National University.

The newly establishing  'Convergent Major of Industrial Data Engineering' is jointly organized by the Department of System Management, Department of Management of Technology from Pukyong National University and Department of Industrial Engineering from Pusan National University, and a total of 25 professors, including 15 from Pukyong National University and 10 from Pusan National University, will form a curriculum.

50 students (39 masters, 11 doctors) who are admitted to this major will be able to freely choose various major classes from both Pukyong National University and Pusan National University and receive joint degrees from both universities.

These two universities plan to focus on the theory of the big data field through this major, where social demand has recently increased rapidly, and the application of the logistics and manufacturing fields, which are regional industries in Busan and Gyeongnam.

In particular, it analyzes actual data produced in logistics and manufacturing using convergence technology between big data and industry, and based on overall basic studies and new technology-based industrial application studies, industry-academic cooperation, and practice to increase production efficiency of logistics and manufacturing. Jointly operating a convergent major.

Kim Dong-joon, the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Pukyong National University, said, "We expect that this joint degree program will provide an opportunity to cultivate on-the-job talents in the big data and industrial fields by actively utilizing the excellent faculty and infrastructure of both national universities. Both universities will actively strive to build a foundation for fostering regional R&D competitiveness and development capabilities through active industrial-educational cooperation as well as producing outstanding individuals."

Park Hong-won, Vice President of Education Affairs at Pusan National University, said, "The establishment of the 'Convergent Major of Industrial Data Engineering'  jointly operated by representative national universities in Busan is meaningful in that it has presented a new model of regional university development, which is inferior in terms of budget and scale to metropolitan universities." and he explained additionally, "The two universities will make more efforts to promote the successful operation and development of convergent majors through BK21, the government's representative support program for graduate school." <Pukyong Today>