Han Mun-sik, who is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, was awarded a presidential citation at the 10th Automobile Day held at COEX Intercontinental Hotel on May 10. Professor Han received the citation in recognition of his work for the automotive industry. He contributed to the development of components and vehicles for the automobile industry while serving at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials. He carried out a large amount of government and academic research. He has also contributed to regional development through his work in human resources a
Keimyung University announced that the Department of Police Administration distinguished itself in the recent police test and national examination on April 29. The 62nd police cadet test was the first exam in which the Department of Police Administration produced 3 successful students, Jeon Yujeong (28), Kang Cheongil (27), and Kim Minjeong (26). Also, it was the first time that Keimyung produced a female police cadet (Kim Minjeong). Keimyung students declare over 10% of the successful candidates.The Department of Police Administration produced 67 police officers (including 1 police cadet), 1
Professor Choi's research team from Keimyung University has developed the Desorption Portable Electric Wheelchair. This is affordable and changeable between electric-powered and hand-operated. Also, this solves the electric wheelchair’s problem that it can’t be loaded into a car because of its weight and volume.The wheelchair was made by three students who have worked on it since July 2012. The research team made two test products funded by the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation and donated one to our university and one to Dongsan Hospital.The benefit of this is the total weigh is less t
Keimyung University hosted an awards ceremony for the best part-time instructors on February 26. The 15 best part-time instructors were awarded a certificate of award and prize money of 1.5 million won.The best part-time instructor is a teacher who has taught for 2 years in Keimyung University and got good evaluations from students. The instructors of major subjects have to get a lecture evaluation of over 4.0 on average in the last year. The instructors of liberal art subjects have to get a lecture evaluation in the previous 4 semesters of over 4.0 on average and a lecture evaluation in the l
Park Jong-bum, whose major is Japanese Studies in the Graduate School of Keimyung University, has been selected to study abroad on a National Scholarship. The scholarship offers students who want to study in Japan tuition and living expenses until they finish their doctoral programs. With this, students can study without burden of tuition and living costs. Because of these benefits, a lot of students apply for this scholarship program every year.In a fierce competition, Park was chosen to study in Japan on a full scholarship. He is going to study Japanese literature in Nagoya University from t
On February 26, Tanzanian locals completed the 2nd Korean education elementary course which KMU established last October. 50 locals have completed this course since July last year. The number of enrollees in short-term Korean courses which KMU offers also has increased to 230 people in 5 months in the National Zimbabwe University Korea Center. There are over 200 locals studying Korean at Zimbabwe University Korea Center. KMU officials said, “We are operating Korean education course by dispatching teachers to Dodoma University and Zimbabwe University. Korean textbooks and instructional material
On February 15, KMU students were awarded the grand prize in the Spark Design Awards held in San Francisco. They are four students from the Department of Industrial Design: Hyuntae Kim, Hyuntae Roh, Seungmin Bak, and Khanyoung Kong. The Spark Design Awards are an international design award. The awards have six sections: Apps, Concept, Communication, Mobility, Product, and Space.The students submitted a Multi Wrench, a wrench that can be used with 5 different bolt measures, to the awards. With this wrench, people can use 5 different bolts with one wrench. Their entry won the grand prize in the
Park Sang-won, a professor in the Department of Environmental Science in Keimyung University, was honored by the Ministry of Environment at the opening ceremony for the recyclable resources market at the Korea Environment Corporation in Incheon.Prof. Park has worked as a consultant for the Ministry of Environment and contributed greatly to opening the recyclable resources market. A recyclable resources market is an online market to enable people to trade secondhand goods. He got credit for opening the recyclable resources market from the Ministry.A recyclable resources market is a good example