SNU College of Engineering Rears Talents
for Space Development…
To Establish 'Space System Major '

SNU College of Engineering (Dean Cha Kook-Heon) proposes to establish an aerospace convergence curriculum that combines 8 different science majors to rear talented learners needed for Korea’s space development.
 
College of Engineering plans to implement a master’s and doctorate course on “Space System Convergence Curriculum” next March. A total of 8 departments including 5 departments from College of Engineering (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Department of Energy Resource Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Department of Computer Science and Engineering), 2 departments from College of Natural Sciences (Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Mathematical Sciences) and a Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology and 30 professors from those departments participate in this program.
 
The “Space System Convergence Curriculum” led by College of Engineering, has an entrance quota of 8 for master’s programs (24 credits), 1 for doctorate program (36 credits), and 1 for combined master’s and doctorate program (60 credits).
 
Although SNU already has a Department of Aerospace Engineering, considering the complexity and specificity required by the field of aerospace, its plan is to merge several studies to create a single specialized course.
 
Professor Kim Chongam who is the head professor of this new program explains, “We need an unconventional educational curriculum that focuses on the structure, propulsion, and control of rocket to rear talents that meet up with the Long-Term National Space Development Plan. An establishment of a convergence curriculum between fields of electrics, mechanics, materials science, and astronomy is mandatory to foster research and education on launch vehicles, satellite, hazardous area response, and space materials.”
 
This new major is open to undergraduates from aerospace and astronomy majors to anyone of space-unrelated majors that is interested in space development. The entrance quota is planned to gradually increase.