SNU College of Engineering Team Wins Merit Award at ‘X-Corps Festival’


▲ Team ‘Enviro Lotus’ Wins Merit Award at ‘X-Corps Festival’

 
Team Enviro Lotus of the SNU X-Corps wins the merit award (also known as President of the Korean Professional Engineers Association Award) at the first ‘X-Corps Festival’ held at Gyeonggido Business and Science Accelerator on January 11^th
 
This event hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT is a competitive exhibition that aims to enhance engineering education and foster field learning. 416 teams consisting of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) major graduate and undergraduate students from 14 different universities performed out research tasks that demonstrated their challenge spirits and onsite problem-solving abilities.
 
Of all participants, only 40 teams that passed preliminary rounds held at each school competed at this festival. Team Enviro Lotus and Blue Observer participated as representatives of SNU. Strict judging recognized team Enviro Lotus, consisting of SNU’s graduate school of mechanical engineering student (Yu Sung-Geun) and department of naval architecture and ocean engineering students (Jung Jun-Hwan, Hong Il-Kwon), for the creativity, adequateness, and excellence of their research findings and prized them with the merit award. The SNU X-Corps (Head Professor Seo Eun-Seok of Engineering-Specialized Graduate School) is an enterprise organization composed of engineering-specialized graduate school and undergraduate engineering department professors. It manages and provides guidance to 20 teams of undergraduate and graduate students, including the two participants of this festival Enviro Lotus and Blue Observer.

The SNU Enviro Lotus team drew attention for developing a device that cleans up floating debris using vortexes. The robot prototype that the team built efficiently collects floating pollutants on rivers and lakes through utilization of the flow of stirred fluids.
 
Director-General Kang Byung-Sam of Future HR Policy Bureau of the Ministry of Science and ICT defines “this festival as a forum where youths of bold challenge spirits compete to unravel corporative issues with their creative ideas.” He adds that, “this experience through the three stages of research including problem definition, planning and execution surely enhanced students’ problem-solving abilities and prepared them for the coming 4^th Industrial Revolution.”
 
Meanwhile, researches of notable achievements from this event with high feasibility will devise for patent applications and industrialization support-plans through special consultations. Attempts will also be made for cooperation with the Ministry of Science and ICT’s start-up assistance program.