SNU Engineering Alumni Association Annual Meeting and Yearend Party was held in Engineer’s house in last 21st, December. More than 100 alumni attended the party and had an enjoyable time. Mr Yoon Woo Seok, the SNU College of Engineering’s Alumni Association President started the meeting with welcoming speeches followed by Mr. Lim Gwang Moo, the president of SNU Alumni Association.  Mr. Lee Won Bok from the class of 1950 proposed a toast and the banquet started. Alumni association’s affairs in 2012 and planning as well as budget for 2013 were reported and SNU Quartet Choir performed for the party. At the end of the event, alumni won prize for 3D SMART TV, Galaxy Note, a year’s worth of subscription to journals, coupons for dinner, gift cards for department store and gift card for stem cell storage through drawing.

 

Prof. Naehyuck Chang from Department of Computer Science and Engineering of SNU has been selected as distinguished member of Association for Computing Machinary(ACM) in the United States.
ACM, which was established in 1947, is a representative global academic society in electrical engineering and computer science area along with Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE). It also supervises Turing Award, the most prestigious prize in computer science academic society. Under the Association for Computing Machinery, 38 SIG(Special Interest Group)s including SIGPLAN related to programming languages and SIGARCH related to computer structure exist. The academic journals published by them are known for conveying the most cutting edge research results.
Distinguished membership is only granted to the member that has established contribution to computer science society among experts with more than 15 years of career and 5 years of ACM activity. Although it announced distinguished members can be chosen from only top 10% members in the society, only around 50 members are selected every year. Currently, 400 scholars among a hundred thousand members act as distinguished members. Professor Naehyuck Chang is the first and only distinguished member of ACM and he is a fellow member of IEEE which is only granted to scholars in top 0.1% of society.  He is only Korean chairperson in ACM as well.
 
He is a representative researcher in Korea in the field of low power system. He graduated SNU Control and Measurement Engineering and received Ph.D in same school. After working as a post-doc in University of Michigan, he came to Computer Engineering department in SNU and has taught students since 1997. He leads Low Power Laboratory and is in office of Information department in SNU College of Engineering.

SNU College of Engineering has held the ceremony of Sinyang Academic Awards on 12th, December at the Engineer House. This award was founded by SNU Engineering alumni, Chung Suk-Gyoo who is the president of Sinyang Cultural Foundation. It was named after Mr. Chung whose penname is Sinyang. The prize acknowledges outstanding young professors who show the most distinguished research achievement. The award, established in 2005, has been given to 46 professors until now and it has motivated young professors to put more effort in research.
This year the awards were granted to Prof. Kwon Sunghoon from Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Prof. Kim SeungHoy from Department of Architecture & Architectural Engineering, Prof. Kim Young Oh from Department of Civil Engineering, Prof. Min Dong-Joo from Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Prof. Rhee Shin Hyung from Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, and Prof. Hong Seong-Hyeon from Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The six recipients were given a ten million won research funding from the foundation.
The president of the foundation, Mr. Chung graduated from SNU Chemical Engineering in 1952 and established the Sinyang Culture Foundation in 2001 after selling his company he had lead over 50years. He built ‘Sinyang Library 1’ which has high tech information retrieval system and studying room and donated the library to his alma mater in 2004. In 2005, he moved his foundation office to 4th floor of Sinyang Library in order to manage scholarship better. He has built two more libraries which were named Sinyang Library 2 and 3.

(From left, Prof. Min Dong Joo, Prof. Rhee Shin Hyung, Prof. Kim Young Oh, the president Mr. Chung Suk-Gyoo, Dean of College of Engineering, Lee Woo il, Prof. Kim SeungHoy, Prof. Hong Seong-Hyeon, Prof. Kwon Sunghoon)
 

<Congratulatory address by the president Mr. Chung Suk-Gyoo>
(Mr. Chung cannot speak after his laryngeal cancer surgery)
I am glad to meet you all in this awards ceremony and I would like to congratulate the professors who have established great achievement and won this award today as well as appreciate their effort to research and junior training.
When I look my life back, I realize I am a lucky person to be showered with honors. After I started my career in 1951, I received the first prize in industrial exhibition in the Park regime for saving foreign currency spending by reducing the amount of import of natural rubber. It was possible because I received six months of training in natural rubber factory in US though ICA technical training program by US government, wrote my master thesis and established a factory for reclaimed rubber by PANPROCESS for the first time in Korea. Second prize was from the Economic Planning Board for developing the first Korean rubber product for spinning machine. Moreover, I won the Order of Industrial Service Merit from Korean government, prizes from Korean Chemical Society, the Rubber Society of Korea and the National Academy Engineering of Korea. I also received the five most prestigious prizes from Seoul National University as well as honorary doctorate degrees in 2010. I have been honored to receive those prizes.
Such establishment of mine attributes to my consistent effort but it was not made by myself only but by many other people. I believe that putting consistent effort in one’s area with vision to become the top is the only way to success.
As a member of Korea Engineering Club, I often participate in field inspection by big companies. Whenever I participate, I am surprised by industrial development we have made in such a short period of time. Although a few industries are ranked in global top ten in terms of size of facilities and total output, technology and added value needs more development to keep up with developed countries.
Last time I visited Yeosu Expo, I was guided by an executive of GS Caltex in observatory deck for which this company is famous. I saw two skilled workers working in control tower. I hear they only graduated high school and I realized the importance of support for those workers. Therefore I built Shinyang building and scholarship foundation in Busan Industrial high school.
Since we do not have enough natural resource and tourism revenue, it is essential to create wealth through intelligence and talent. Therefore, professors’ job to bring up those young talents is very important. Although we export a lot, large amount of money is spent on knowhow and loyalty in our industry structure. To solve this problem, specialization of small and medium-sized companies and structuring should be carried out. To do so, young talented engineers should enter into small and medium-sized companies and talent should be fostered in that way. Currently, we have not produced any Nobel Prize winner yet. I heard Seoul National University established awards to cultivate such talent, so I started to help this award from two years ago with a billion won. I would like to continue support and I hope other alumni and leaders participated in this support as well. I know the awards that I support has not much of prize, but if that can reward your contribution and motivate for your future research, I would be happy. Once again, I appreciate and congratulate your establishment and I wish the best for your future. Thank you.
 
2012. 12. 12. The President of Shinyang Culture Foundation, Cheong Suk Gyoo.

Professor Park Jong Keun from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor Park Chongwoo from School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering were named as fellows of IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IEEE is the most distinguished society in electricity, electronics, computer, communication and many fields worldwide and has more than 385thousands members in 175 countries. The society publishes 30% of papers and books in electrical engineering, computer science, communication and established 900 industry standards.
Fellowship is conferred to the members who are in 0.1% of all members in terms of achievement. Among the senior members who have been in the field for more than 10years, the board of directors annually confers the fellowship considering 7 criteria including personal achievement, technology achievement and overall professional career. Fellow conferment is held in annual meeting.
SNU Electrical Engineering department has IEEE fellows including these three professors who were named this year. Thus more than 10% of whole faculty is in 0.1% of 385thousand researchers worldwide. This is very rare and extraordinary case in Korea for a school to have a half of Korean fellows overall.
Professor Park Jong Keun is an outstanding researcher in electric power, policy and electrical system technology field who graduated from Electrical Engineering at Seoul National University and received master and Ph.D. degree from Tokyo University. He lead technology development in electrical power in Korea and application of academic knowledge in industry and now he plays a major role to establish green development and electrical engineering’s future. He had been in the office of Korean Institute of Electrical Engineer, Power systems and Reliability Committee’s Chairman, Research Affairs Chief in SNU, and president of Korea Smart Grid Institute. Now he is the chairman of University Senate of SNU. Acknowledged his contribution to electrical power market design, he has become fellow of Power and Energy Society for the second time in Korea following Professor Park Young Moon from SNU.
Professor Park Chongwoo from School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering graduated MIT and received master and Ph.D degree in applied mathematics in Harvard University. After teaching in UC Irvine’s department of mechanical engineering, he has taught in SNU from 1995. He is the first professor from Mechanical Engineering to become IEEE fellow in Korea.

SNU College of Engineering had a ceremony for ‘Great Engineering Professor Awards’ on last 28th, November at Engineer House. The award is for encouraging researches by professors and advancement of technologies. Since it was established in 1992 by funding from 15th class alumni, it has been given out as ‘Engineering Academic Award’ and ‘Technology Award’ until 1994. After setting up additional fund from 15th class alumni in 1994, it changed its name as ‘Great Engineering Professor Award’ in two main parts including education and research.
The education award acknowledges a professor who has devoted oneself to progressive education while research award goes to a professor who has shown eminent research achievement including research paper publication, technology development or patent application contributing industry development.
 Professor Kwang Hyun Kim who has won education award has taught Architecture Design Theory, and Architecture Design from 1993. Especially he has put effort to establish 5 year program of Architecture major and with his decent philosophy in architecture and experience, he wrote “the Charter of Architecture Major Education.” For last 19 years, he has directed annual exhibition which is a major element of architecture education. He changed the course Architecture Design Theory for students to understand cultural meaning of architecture and basic concepts and opened Architecture Theory Seminar for the first time in Korea for undergraduate to establish incorporated thinking in architecture. He founded ‘Association of Architecture Education in Korea’ and ‘Environmental Friendly Architecture Design Academy’. As he lead legislation of Basic Architecture Law, he reminded importance of basic architecture education and developed curriculum and practice program.
Professor Whang Ki-Woong from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering introduced low temperature plasma engineering in Korea 30 years ago and through creative research, he fostered students and contributed to industrial development of Korea by active industry-university research. Especially, through his plasma etching and evaporation, he introduced the theory in Korea when Korean semiconductor industry had just started and it helped many engineers from Samsung, LG, Hyundai and other device suppliers. PDP research focusing on high efficiency developed technology to achieve two times more efficiency and Professor Whang was invited to many prestigious international conference and gained attention from academic society and industry. Acknowledged his performance in PDP research, he was elected as fellow member of USA information display conference and directed display research center established by Samsung SDI for four years.

On November 27^th, SNU College of Engineering held an event to express gratitude and respect for donors of development fund. Thanks to the attention and help from the donors, College of Engineering at Seoul National University has developed to globally leading creative school that it has ranked 32^nd in QS world university ranking.
The event has been held in Haedong Academic Culture building in Multi-purpose room in 4^th floor. Dean of the college, Mr. Lee Woo Il, the president of alumni association of College of Engineering, Mr. Yoon Woo Suk and the president of alumni association, Mr. Lim Kwang Soo and more than 20 alumni who have supported College of Engineering participated in the event.
In the first part of the ceremony, the dean’s welcoming speech and presentation for overview of College of Engineering, and the presidents of alumni association delivered celebratory speech. Prepared banquet was served and in the second part of the event, students in STEM(SNU Tomorrow's Edge Membership) and GLP(Global Leadership Program) who are supported by the fund had a presentation and delivered gratitude to alumni. At the end of the event, student band from Nuclear Engineering who has won the competition in Gong Myung event played for celebration. Finally, after taking a commemorative photograph, the event ended officially.

Fuel efficiency competition to find the most energy saving driver was held from November 12 to 16 as the Seoul National University College of Engineering’s Student Culture Center ‘Gong Myung’s event. Among many of challengers, 48 students who survived from preliminary round compete for the grand prize. Students from Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department who study automobile has won the grand prize and the second prize.
If you drive like the winners from Seoul to Indukwon, you can save the oil by half. The winner, Lee Choong Hee from Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering says, “The most important thing is slow speed and safety distance. Minimizing the number of stepping on a pedal and a brake pedal, you can exploit the power of inertia and gravity.” The second grand prize winner, Lee Joon Yong says, “I tried to use my knowledge from classes on my major, mechanical engineering, I missed out the prized since I was not used to energy saving driving habit.”
The vice dean of College of Engineering who has held this competition, Professor Kim Min Soo, also studied automobile engineering as his major. However, what you learn in class is not what you can do in daily lives. Especially it is common to accelerate fast while it is recommended to accelerate slowly to make 20km/h about five seconds after starting to move. In this competition, Sonata Hybrid, jointly offered by Hyundai Motors and LG Chemistry, was used in order to promote the environment friendliness and outstanding technology used for hybrid car. 

The Certificate Conferment Ceremony for 11th Tutor and Inauguration Ceremony for 12th Tutor·Tutee was held in October 4th at the Conference Room, College of Engineering. 23 teams from 11th and 12 teams from 12th participated in this Ceremony with the Dean and the Associate Dean of Students Affairs of College of Engineering.
Tutor Activity Certificates were awarded to 11th Tutors who had served faithfully for the last semester and Wonjae Choi(Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) received the Best Tutor Award for his excellent tutor activity. Then the 12th Tutors and Tutees took the Oath that they will carry out their duties faithfully during Fall Semester 2012 as a Tutor·Tutee of College of Engineering, Seoul National University.

Academic Excellence Award Ceremony for Fall Semester 2012 was held in October 8th at Conference Room, College of Engineering. 29 Students out of 40 Participated in this Ceremony with the Dean and the Associate Dean of Students Affairs, College of Engineering.

SNU College of Engineering (Dean: Mr. Lee Woo-il) has held Creativity Design Fair from September 24^th to 26^th. As a part of ‘Resonance Fall Festival’, Creativity Design Fair took place in new Central Square in College of Engineering. Detailed programs include Architecture Fair, Aerospace Fair, Electronics Fair, Creative design competition. Especially in Creative Design Competition, many teams including Hands, Hanaro, Worknine, Robot Whale, Tatooist and Kadooinno participated with their commercially launched products. Winning team will be awarded opportunity to study abroad with funding by Dongbu Group.

Previously taken place by each department respectively, those fairs were integrated and open to all the students in College of Engineering and ordinary people including high school students.

In Aerospace Fair, Boolnabi, Hanaro, Icarus, SMERF, SNUSAT, Polaris and many teams participated and Hanaro and Icarus won the competition. In Architecture Fair, 18 teams participated and ‘Guard the planet’ team(Yooun Yeo Choon, Park Ji Hyoung) won the first place. In Electronics Fair, Worknine has won the first prize while ‘Anguish Triangle’, ‘Midas’, ‘Worknine’,‘Momo’ and other teams participated.

In Creativity design competition, many teams including Scuba, Robot Whale, Flying Whale, Hanarao, Bakus participated and Robot Whale, Kandroino, Artisma won the prizes. These three teams are going to participate in national creativity design competition and compete with other teams from other universities. Every year, teams from SNU have won prestigious prizes. Winning teams in this competition are going to receive opportunity to participate in International Creativity Design Competition. Last year, SNU team has won the best prize in international competition as well.
 
In award ceremony, presidents and partners of Dongbu Culture Foundation, Dongbu Metal, and Dongbu Hightech which funded the programs participated and encouraged students.