The College of Pharmacy of KMU will assign five more members from the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, in 2012. This will enable KMU to select up to 30 freshmen this year. On January 1, the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology decided that 15 new pharmacy schools would be assigned additional entrance quotas from 5 to 10 for the upcoming 2012 spring enrollment season. In this regard, these 35 pharmacy schools will select 1,700 freshmen from 2012.The Ministry also announced that they will check before March whether they have completed other plans, such as the number of p
On November 5, Hyundai-Kia Motors held the Autonomous Vehicle Competition. The Keimyung University team got the Yeol-jeong Prize worth five million won. 11 university teams were in this competition.An autonomous vehicle is a vehicle which does not need human control. The vehicle is equipped with a control sensor, GPS, and radar. The challenge of the Autonomous Vehicle Competition was to pass a 4km course consisting of a checkpoint, school zone, crosswalk, tunnel, and construction section within 30 minutes. If the autonomous vehicle left the course, the team received a penalty. In the crosswalk
On December 22, the “Gwanggotodaewang” team, composed of students from the Department of Advertising and Public Relations, won the grand prize at the '2010 4th Yonhanaro Communications Promotion Award', sponsored by Yonhanaro Communications.The “Gwanggotodaewang” team chose the subject, ‘Suggesting the promotion for developing the local region through the 2011 World Athletics Championships.’A member of the team, Jang Sung-jin (Senior, the Dept. of Advertising and Public Relations) said, “we sincerely hope that the 2011 World Athletics Championships will be a success, and thankfully we won the
Earlier this year, KMU got permission to establish the College of Pharmacy from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. In the first recruitment of new students for the College of Pharmacy, the competition rate was 11.4 to 1.According to the KMU Admissions Team, 285 people applied for the College of Pharmacy, which has an entrance quota of 25 students. The entrance quota for the Dept. of Pharmacy was 15, and 167 people applied. The competition rate was 11.1 to 1. Of the 15 successful applicants, the Dept. of Pharmacy will recruit 5 students from the Daegu-Gyeongbuk area through a sp
On December 22, the dispatch ceremony for overseas volunteers was held in the audio-visual room in Hengso Museum. The ceremony was composed of three parts. The first and third parts had special lectures, while the second part consisted of the dispatch ceremony for the volunteers. The theme of the first part was 'attitude as an overseas volunteer'. During the dispatching ceremony, everyone prayed for the volunteers to come back to Korea safely, and the volunteers took an oath to carry out their duties to the best of their ability. Finally, a lecture on leadership and getting a job took place.Ab
The healthy drinking club “Jujeolsajeol” of Keimyung University participated in a competition to form a healthy drinking culture. The name of the competition was 2010 Healthy Drinking Campaign Competition. This competition evaluated the club’s performance over a one-year period. In the competition, they were ranked first. Their slogan was “Healthy drinking culture with you.” As a result, they got an award from the Minister of Health and Human Services with a prize of one million won. In addition, the team received a good evaluation for the fresh ideas of the participants. For example, the team
On 3 December, KMU 'From Idea' team was awarded the grand prize in the contest, 'The first Charm soju marketing & design company KUMBOKJU.' They got the 2,000,000 won scholarships with the marketing idea, 'Creating new brand value strategy of Charm soju.'The contest, aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, has held from October, 11 to October, 21. In the contest, 159 teams competed. Seven teams passed the initial screening, and the grand prize team was selected from a presentation.A KUMBOKJU official said, "We will reflect the local university participants' attentions and passion to our
On December 3, Lee Un-koo, Hyundae automotive’s vice president, gave a special lecture in the engineering building. The topic was the expected attitude of engineers in the future. Many mechanical automotive engineering students and professors listened to the lecture. Lee Un-koo said that, recently, development of technology has been found to cause environmental change. In particular, carbon dioxide emissions have been linked to climate change. The environment should be protected by developing alternative sources of energy. Furthermore, Lee Un-koo explained that future engineers will need to be