SNU College of Engineering and UTokyo Faculty of Engineering Operate Simultaneous Video Lectures

- Launch Lectures on Energy Policies and Irregular (Natural) Disasters


▲ (From Left to Right) Professor Suh Kune Yull of Department of Nuclear Engineering and Professor Song Junho of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

 
SNU College of Engineering (Dean Cha Kook-heon) announces on 22^nd that the two special lectures targeted and opened for SNU students have been filmed and delivered to the Faculty of Engineering at University of Tokyo (UTokyo) as part of the two schools’ simultaneous video lecture program.
 
These are courses covering the topics of energy policies and irregular disasters. SNU has signed a 10-year contract with the Faculty of Engineering of UTokyo for a decade-long, systematic operation of simultaneous video lectures. These lectures are taught in English and students of both schools are eligible to earn corresponding school credits for their completion of the course.
 
Recently, there is a climbing interest on nuclear plant closure, energy policy, and future energy. As a feedback to this interest, Professor Suh Kune Yull of the Department of Nuclear Engineering has opened a course titled “Special Energy Lecture for Future Leaders,” which involves handling 10 different topics via leader forums and roundtable discussions.
 
Along with a thorough lecture on the future of coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear energy, and renewable energy, the course compels students to look into specific instances in US, Germany, Russia, China, Japan, and Korea. It shall also be a chance for SNU and UTokyo students to share their different perspectives and viewpoints.
 
On the other hand, Professor Song Junho of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering handles structural vibration due to nonuniform load like earthquake, wind, and automobile and its possible solutions under the title of “Structural Random Vibrations.” Song lectures on the probabilistic analysis of unpredictable random vibrations including natural disasters like large-scale earthquakes and super typhoons and superposition of automobile vibrations.
 
Professor Tsuyoshi Takada of Utokyo takes a keen interest in these topics, too, and has willingly accepted to help the UTokyo students who are registered in these courses. Takada plans to open a course on structural seismic design plan and risk analysis that he has developed after his visit to SNU coming year.
 
Dean Cha states, “This interaction between two representative Asian colleges, SNU and UTokyo, is one of mutual help. The cooperation must be maintained for both colleges to strengthen their power of being collegiate universities of high stature in all fields of study.”