SNU College of Engineering (Dean Lee Kun-woo) stated on 6th that Department of Materials Science and Engineering Professor Joo Young-Chang was nominated as 10th President of University Industrial Technology Force (UNITEF).
 
Professor Joo was recommended as a candidate for the president at the regular meeting of UNITEF held on last February 23rd and was nominated unanimously. The term is 2 years.
 
Professor Joo is an expert in semiconductor and electrical reliability. He received the bachelors and masters degree in SNU Metallurgical Engineering and received the Ph.D. degree at MIT Electronics Materials. After, he worked in Max-Planck-Institut fuer Metallforschung (Stuttgart, Germany) and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) and served as a faculty and SNU Materials Science and Engineering since 1999. He was awarded of LS Academic awards, Sinyang Engineering Academic Awards, and etc.
 
Also, in 2008, he served as the director of Materials Research Society (MRS), the most authoritative conference in material science and this was the first time for the domestic scholars. In 2015, he was nominated for the board member at the conference. This was second time for the Asian board member since Japan was nominated.
 
Professor Joo said, “I feel obligated to develop new ideas for academic and business cooperation to make UNITEF meet the needs of the times and lead future cooperation. I will work my best to make UNITEF contribute to win-win relationships of universities and businesses and make university professors and laboratories to develop innovative technologies for the smaller enterprises.
 
Meanwhile, UNITEF is the first brain pool system which was spontaneously developed by 573 professors among 45 colleges of engineering in 1996 to develop technology competitiveness for smaller businesses. It have been working as a hub for academic-business networks and helped bottleneck techniques site visits, technology commercialization, and development of new products for the smaller businesses.