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Hosted ‘YU Future League’… Prompt interest in employment among younger students, while strengthening competence Enhancing capacities of students through the college job center and customized employment programs Setting career paths in advance and showing interest in employment also important [January 4, 2019] <‘YU Future League’ Employment Camp (Gyeongju Hanwha Resort)> YU (President Sur Gil-soo) has stepped up to strengthen employment capacities of students early on. Younger students are also encouraged to explore career paths and participate in work education programs. This aims at enhancing the interest level of students for employment and to improve employment competitiveness. The YU College Job Center (Director Lee Seung-woo), together with the consulting institute Expert Consulting, held the employment camp ‘YU Future League’. Many students attended despite the fact it was being held during winter break. A total of 90 people participated in the tree sessions held from December 26 to January 3. Education was offered for one night and two days for 30 students for each session. Unlike recent employment camps being held for juniors and seniors, this program included freshmen and sophomores. YU School of Chemical Engineering freshman Song Byung-jae (19) who participated in the second camp said, “I participated in the program at the recommendation of an upperclassman in my club. I am not yet too interested in employment so I am not very keen about the company names and contents, but it was an opportunity for me to become more interested in employment and career development.” Despite the busy schedule from early in the morning to late at night, students exhibited high levels of concentration with no signs of tiring. It mirrors the fiery passion of students to pass the difficult gateway to employment. There were a barrage of questions asked as well. The questions were on detailed procedures for specific positions such as HR and marketing, as well as questions on work aptitude tests of different companies, internships, and acquiring certifications. Department of Family and Housing Studies sophomore Sohn Yu-gyeong (20) said, “I applied for the camp because I will have to become more interested in employment once I become a junior. This is the first employment program that I am participating in offered by the school, and I am very satisfied as the contents were well arranged and the program was highly systemized. I hope to participate in another program later as well.” This employment camp included basic information for exploring employment information such as employment trends, hiring processes, hiring ad analysis, etc. As well as corporate and job analysis, and work contents and preparations for the fields of application. In particular, management simulation for experiencing different jobs by designing and producing bridges, as well as group projects of completing team missions using drones enhanced the immersion level of students on the second day of the sessions. Participating students said, “The session offered basic employment information to teamwork programs to build actual work analysis, collaboration and creativity, thus being helpful for preparing for employment with the short, yet full programs. The YU College Job Center Director Lee Seung-woo said, “It is very important for students to set the career goals early on and become interested in employment.” The university is operating various employment support programs to help students explore careers and duties fitting them and to actively prepare for employment. We hope that students will actively participate in employment programs offered by the school to improve their competitiveness.“ The YU College Job Center is operating customized employment empowerment programs from younger students to seniors who are scheduled to graduate. This winter break also offers not only the ‘YU Future League’, but also focus education on conglomerate aptitude tests, focus education for public institute NCS (national competence standards), employment camps for foreign companeis, and other customized education for employment demands, as well as work empowerment education such as financial and production quality expert fostering courses and work clubs, etc.
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‘Rural home fixing’ activities held every summer vacation since 2012 Nine persons receive citations from the government and local authorities including the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Medal [January 2, 2019] <YU School of Architecture students who have been donating their talents for the seventh straight year> The ‘talent donation’ volunteer activities of students of the YU School of Architecture that has been ongoing for seven years became known. Students received citations and awards from the government and local authorities for their volunteer services. They were recognized for their efforts to improve vulnerable resident environments such as rural areas by utilizing their specialties learned from their majors in architecture. The Dasom House Welfare Foundation and the Korea Institute of Rural Architecture has been engaged in college student volunteer activities called ‘Fixing Rural Homes’ since 2008. The YU School of Architecture also started in 2012 at Uiseong-gun, followed by Ulleung-gun in 2013, Yeongyang-gun in 2014, Yeongju-I in 2015, Goesan-gun in 2016, and Muju-gun in 2017, and this year, they are offering their services in Gyeongsan-si of Gyeongbuk for the seventh year. Every summer break, students stay at rural villages from a week to about two weeks as they work hard to renovate old homes for persons with poorly maintained homes. Last summer, volunteer activities were offered for six homes in Sinweol-ri in Apnyang-myeon, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongbuk. Professor Do Hyeon-hak and 20 students from the YU School of Architecture participated. The students visited each of the homes that would be renovated in advance for inspection, and they met with the village foreman and residents to listen to their opinions to make repair plans. The students drew the blueprints of the homes they would repair and come up with actual construction plans to begin their volunteer activities. They manually removed and repaired old parts, painted, performed pipework and tiling of the homes, while also upgrading old bathrooms into modern bathrooms, as well as other tasks requiring professional skills. They used what they learned in school, while also referring to the internet and professional books to complete the job. Kim Joon-gi (25), a fifth-year student at the School of Architecture who headed the volunteers, said, “This is my fourth year taking part in volunteer activities. Volunteering is very fulfilling, but also, it is also advantageous in that I can use what I learned from my major and gain on-site experience.” He added, “Volunteer activities have been ongoing for the seventh year, and so it naturally became an annual event for our school.” Yoon Mi-gyeong (24, 5th year student), who participated in the volunteer activities for the first time, “I was unable to participate in the volunteer activities before because I always had other schedules to tend to. I regret not being able to participate in the volunteer activities earlier. I hope that my juniors at school will actively take part in this.” Kim Young-il (25, fourth year student) said, “It was tough because we had to stay up all night and work towards the end of the volunteer activity schedule, but I felt a sense of pride after seeing the elders like their newly repaired homes and being thanked by them. I have some regret because I think we could have done a better job. I have now gained experience so next year I hope to participate as a team leader to engage in the volunteer activities with my juniors.” Meanwhile, at the 2018 Rural Home Fixing volunteer activities performance report held in November of last year, nine YU students in the School of Architecture received citations.Kim Joon-gi received the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs medal, Kim Young-il and Kim Ji-ho received the Governor of Gyeongsangbuk-do medal, Lee Seok-min and Kim Ji-yoon received the Korea Rural Community Corporation President’s Medal, Park Soo-cheol and Woo A-rah received the Chairman of the Korea Institute of Rural Architecture medal, and Yoon Mi-gyeong and Park Ha-eon received the President of the Dasom House Welfare Foundation medal.
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YU Gyeongbuk Big Data Center Leads ‘Data-based Local Pending Issues’ Signed work MOUs with four big data centers designated by the Ministry of Science and ICT [December 21, 2018] <Four big data centers in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk region such as the YU Gyeongbuk Big Data Center teamed up to solve pending local issues based on data> <?xml:namespace prefix = "o" /> The YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team Gyeongbuk Big Data Center (Center Director Park Chang-hyeon) signed an MOU with the big data center located in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk regions at the head office of the Gimcheon Korea Transportation Safety Authority on the 20th. This MOU was joined by four institutes in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk region designated as big data centers by the MInistry of Science and ICT in May ((1) YU Gyeongbuk Big Data Center (Gyeongsangbuk-do Big Data Center), (2) Daegu Digital Industry Promotion Center Big Data Center (Daegu Metropolitan Big Data Center), (3) Korea Transportation Safety Authority Traffic Big Data Center, (4) Daegu Gyeongbuk Research Institute Spatial Big Data Center). The main contents of this MOU are the ▲ joint excavation of national policy projects for big data in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk regions ▲ information exchange, education and technical support for big data ▲ providing support systems for fostering big data personnel, ▲ sharing data possessed by institutes and joint research, etc.. The four institutes that signed this MOU agreed to utilize the infrastructure, data, and professionals possessed by each institute to solve local pending issues based on data. Furthermore, they will also jointly participate in big data projects being pursued by the government or local authorities to create a leading model for the development of big data in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk region. Gyeongsangbuk-do and the Gyeongbuk Big Data Center were designated as big data centers by the Ministry of Science and ICT and it is engaged in various policy projects for promoting regional big data by analyzing regional big data status analysis, establishing mid- to long-term development strategies, and also establishing incubating plans for big data companies and human resources. The Gyeongbuk Big Data Center is carrying out the ‘Small and Medium Business Big Data Utilization Support Project’ supported by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Agency (NIA) for improving the competence of local big data solution companies and companies that use big data as the supervising institute of the Gyeongbuk IT Convergence Industry Technology Institute and the Gyeongbuk Technopark consortium. It supported the use of big data by selecting 20 small and medium-sized company possessing proprietary data such as big data solution companies and for process, CRM and marketing for companies that use big data, while selecting five outstanding cases. Meanwhile, the Gyeongbuk Big Data Center is planning to spend 200 million won in provincial funding by Gyeongbuk to select 10-20 local small and medium businesses in 2019 to provide support so that they may use big data. It is also planning to put aside 100 million won to support big data education for relevant employees in Gyeongbuk, college students and graduates, and students at specialized high schools.
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President Sur Gil-soo visits the Chengdu University in China to induce international students to pursue multiple degrees in the Republic of Korea. President Sur Gil-soo, one of invited speakers at the International Presidential Forum, gives a talk at the forum in an effort to extend its international exchange partnership [Dec-14-2018] <President Sur Gil-soo speaking at the International Presidential Forum> “To think of the time to see you as students of YU in a couple of years, I am thrilled even now with the feeling this moment is so precious! Though a short meeting with you, I wish you to cherish this moment as a precious memory together with me until we meet again at YU and let us make our dream come true then! See you again(再见)!” YU President Sur Gil-soo stood at the platform of International Education College, Chengdu University in China on the seventh to personally explain merits of YU to students of Architecture & Civil Engineering College which is under the joint operation of both universities. About 100 students of Chengdu University, filled the classroom, introduced themselves in Korean though poor, and earnestly asked the president several questions. They stayed in the classroom even quite some time after the buzz to end the class. The special lecture by President Sur couldn’t stop actually until after the buzz to start the following class. The students had to keep their enthusiasm and expectations in their memorial photos. <A Memorial Photo of New Students of Architecture & Civil Engineering College, Chengdu University> YU President Sur Gil-soo visited Chengdu University, located in Chengdu, the capital city of Sutuan Province, China, three nights four days the sixth to ninth day of December, this year as YU President Sur Gil-soo was invited as a speaker at the International Presidential Forum, hosted by Chengdu University, established in 1978, to celebrate its fortieth anniversary. YU President Sur Gil-soo took this opportunity to meet with the president, professors and students of Chengdu University and personally highlight the international student exchange program of YU in addition to his speech. President Sur actually advertised the exchange program to the students so that they can come to study at YU. Especially, the goal of his visit was to glean an actual achievement of the Joint Collaboration for Abroad Study which has been in operation by YU and Chengdu University since September 2016. The Joint Collaboration for Abroad Study is a core education policy of Chinese government in an effort to make Chinese education advanced and internationalized. This education program is promoted jointly by Chinese and foreign education institutes to educate Chinese students abroad. This preprogram is approved by the Education Department of China and continually supervised by the department. YU received approval of the Education Department of China on ‘Architecture & Civil Engineering College’ to be jointly operated by Chengdu and YU in September 2015. 60 new students joined this college for the first time in September 2016. As of December 2018, a total of 150 students are studying at this college under the education collaboration program. They will join YU so as to further their studies two more years after studying their majors and Korean language three years at the college. They can earn two degrees, one from Chengdu University and the other from YU. Thus, YU is expected to produce its first fruit of this program in September 2019. President Sur had a successful meeting with President Wang Qing Yuan of Chengdu University to extend the education collaboration program, thereby jointly operating the Korean Language Institute and promoting Chinese students, graduating from Chengdu University, to further their studies at YU. President Wang Qing Yuan agreed to a positive support for various suggestions of YU President Sur Gil-soo. He was recommended to serve as a member of the Chengdu University Improvement Policy Committee. All these efforts consolidated their trust and collaboration. <President Sur Gil-soo (left) and President Wang Qing Yuan (right) Standing in front of the information board of Chinese Abroad Education Collaboration in the campus of Chengdu University> The visit of President Sur was an opportunity to extend international exchanges with about 20 universities of 18 countries. This fortieth anniversary of Chengdu University and the international presidential forum provided a place of meeting with presidents of universities abroad. Especially, the speech of President Sur on the contribution of the regional base of the university to the society drew lots of attention and interest from universities. As result, many universities offered exchange collaborations. The speech of President Sur was known to be carried as an article of the Newspaper of Chengdu University, which will surely advertise YU more. He invited Doctor Erwin Neher, an awardee of Nobel Prize in the field of Medicine, who was invited to the anniversary of Chengdu University. Furthermore, YU has been operating ‘2+2 Food Engineering College’ since 2017 collaborating with Tonghua Education University in China. Currently 42 students, having completed two years course, will join YU to further their studies. Hence, the number of students, who will join YU to further their studies under the Chinese Abroad Education Collaboration program, will reach 100 in September 2019.. YU President Sur Gil-soo highlighted the international student inducing program, saying “exports of excellent education courses abroad not only raise the international reputation of the university but achieve two ends because they induce more excellent students as well,” and added “I will step up my effort to induce international students more positively.”
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YU – Zambia – GSDN (global ‘Saemaul’ development network), three parties made business MOU’s. Established ‘Saemaul Economic Development Curriculum’ and Support for spreading of Saemaul Movement Spirit. Requests for teaching ‘Saemaul Movement’ rush in from developing countries abroad such as Tanzania and Kenya. [Dec-13-2018] <On the 12th, Yeungname University, Zambia Embassy in Korea, and Global ‘Saemaul’ Development Network made business MOU’s between three parties. YU President Sur Gil-soo (5th from left) of YU, Ambassador Wylbur Chisiya Simuusa in Korea and Chairman Choi Oe-chool, of Global ‘Saemaul’ Development Network> YU (President Sur Gil-soo) supports the establishment of ‘Saemaul’ Economic Development Curriculum in Zambia, Africa. On the 12th, Ambassador Wylbur Chisiya Simuusa in Korea paid a visit to YU. It was Mr. Ambassador’s second visit this year after his first visit. Mr. Ambassador visited to request for know-how and expertise of YU on ‘Saemaul’ Movement and its international development activities. Ambassador Wylbur Chisiya Simuusa who visited in last July has met with YU President Sur Gil-soo, Director Kim Gi-su of Park Chung-hee Saemaul Graduate School, and Chairman Choi Oe-chool of Global Saemaul Development Network (GSDN) shared academic systems on Saemaul Movement and its international development and discussed mutual collaborations. At this visit, they discussed methods for specific collaboration to share Saemaul Development experience with Zambia. On this day, YU, Zambian Embassy and GSDN made business MOU’s to establish Saemaul Economic Development Curriculum of Zambia University and to teach Saemaul Movement in Zambia. According to this MOU, YU will take the lead together with GSDN in the establishment of Saemaul Movement Curriculum at Zambia University and support economic and cultural exchanges. YU President Sur Gil-soo said “Developing countries visit YU from abroad such as Africa to learn about ‘Saemaul’ Movement” and added “I am sure that accumulated experience and expertise in ‘Saemaul’ Movement and its international developments will be of big help to developing countries. I hope that economic and cultural exchanges and so forth will be extended to various other fields, starting with sharing of ‘Saemaul’ Development experience. Recently requests for teaching ‘Saemaul’ Movement and its development experience are rushing in to YU from countries of Africa. In July, the international cooperation organization LVRLACC (Lake Victoria Region Local Authorities & Counties Cooperation) of three countries (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda) dispatched its delegation to YU to learn experience of ‘Saemaul’ Movement and economic development of the Republic of Korea.
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Winning ‘5 gold prizes, two silver prizes and 1 bronze prize’ to achieve ‘Championship’ three years consecutively. Athlete Kim Ha-neul won the Best Prize, Director Kim Ik-hee won the Coach Prize [Dec-11-2018] The Wresting Department of YU (Kim Ik-hee, Coach) won the championship at the 29th Autumn National University Wrestling Competition, proving the strongest in the university wrestling field by the consecutive three years’ winning. At the competition, held from November 30 to December 4 at the Indoor gymnasium in Cheolwon, the Wrestling Department of YU won 8 medals such 5 gold prizes, 2 silver prizes and 1 bronze prize, etc., achieving the championship of the competition. At the competition, Ahn Jae-yong (21, 3rd year of Sports Department, 57 kg), Kim Ha-neul (21, 3rd year of Sports Department, 70 kg), Mun Jin-woo (18, 1st year of Sports Department, 74 kg), Park Cheol-wung (21, 4th year of Special Sports Education Department, 97kg), Han Hyun-soo (20, 2nd year of Special Sports Education Department, 125 kg) grabbed gold prizes, and King Yong-hak (21, 3rd year of Special Sports Education Department, 79 kg), Ban Chang-whan (20, 2nd year of Special Sports Education Department, 92 kg) grabbed silver prizes, and Gong Ji-min (19, 1st year of Sports Department, 61 kg) grabbed a bronze prize. Especially, Kim Ha-neul who grabbed a gold prize at the 70 kg weight competition won the best prize, and Coach Kim Ik-hee won the coach prize for leading to the championship. In addition, Han Hyun-soo jumped up to the 3rd place in the 1st National Wrestling Team competition to participate in 2019 World and Asian competitions. Coach Kim Ik-hee, who is leading the Wrestling Department at its best days, “trained all wrestlers from 1st year to 4th year” said “ Persistence and hard training of wrestlers result in producing fine fruits”, and expressed his determination saying “We will challenge for 4rth straight championship as well.”
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Supports Stat-up education with Gyeongsangbuk-do Province. Held the 1st Business Start-up launching ceremony for SNS Start-up Academy. 105 students taking the course in September… 58 succeeded in start-ups in Gyeongsan, Andong, and Pohang, etc. Start-ups registered as the family members of YU, supporting ‘Academy-Industry Cooperation Program" [Dec-10-2018] YU supports start-ups of students and citizens through SNS utilization education. On 10th, LINC+ Project Team of YU (Bae Cheol-ho, leader) held the launching ceremony of the 1st Business Start-up Cooperation, SNS Start-up Academy of YU and Gyeongsangbuk-do Province. 80 people such as YU President Sur Gil-soo, Vice Governor Jeon Wu-heon of Economic Department and graduates from the SNS Start-up Project attended the launching ceremony. ‘SNS Start-up Academy’ helps pre-starters, small businessmen, etc. who want to start up a new business. This is a joint project by YU and Gyeongsangbuk-do Province, providing free education to support their start-ups through the use of SNS fitting for the IT technology and mobile environment for start-ups. LINC+ Project Team of YU provided its academic support to Gyeongsan, Andong, and Pohang, etc. from September to November, and 105 graduated from the education course. Till now, 58 of them succeeded in start-ups. On this day, YU conducted a workshop to support the sustainable management of start-ups in connection with the launching ceremony of the 1st SNS Start-up Academy. As 58 graduates of this program registered as the family member, YU will continue its bidirectional Academy-Industry Cooperation program. Team Leader Bae Cheol-ho of LINC+ Project said “YU will be able to contribute to the success of start-ups based on the accumulated know-how and experience”, added “YU will continue standing at the front of the success and activation of regional economy through strengthening its competitiveness and enhancing cooperation of Industry, Academy and Government” Moreover, LINC+ Project Team of YU is now promoting various Academy-Industry cooperation programs such promotion of employment and start-ups and regional academy-industry cooperation, education and support for bidirectional academy-industry cooperation regional businesses, and creation of social value sharing to lead mutual developments in the society. These programs are conducted with the support of government from March 2017 to February 2022 as an effort of the Ministry of Education to provide financial assistance.
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Bazaar held by the Department of Saemaul and International Development, IDEA, and Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul Donated all proceeds to practice the ‘global Saemaul spirit’ [November 29, 2018] Students at YU stepped up to help victims of the earthquake that shook Indonesia in September. Students of the YU Department of Saemaul and International Development and IDEA (International Development Expert Association) and international students at the Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul (PSPS) held a fund-raising bazaar to support victims of the earthquake in Indonesia. They held bazaars at the ‘YU Cultural Festival’, which is a festival for international students at YU, on November 8 and at the Global Saemaul Lounge on November 19. They met with YU President Sur Gil-soo in the afternoon of the 29th and delivered 1,304,860 won raised through the bazaar stating their intent to help the Indonesian earthquake victims. <Fund-raising bazaar for victims of the earthquake in Indonesia held during the ‘YU Cultural Festival’> The students that hosted the bazaar all study ‘Saemaul’ in undergraduate and graduate school. Events are held every year to share the global Saemaul spirit of industriousness, independence, cooperation, sharing, volunteering and creation. This year, this event was held targeting all YU students to help the victims of the earthquake that hit Indonesia. IDEA Chairperson Park Moon-shik (21, Department of Saemaul and International Development, junior) explained, “IDEA donates all proceeds from bazaars held every year. This year, we organized this bazaar to give courage to the citizens of Indonesia who suffered from an earthquake. Many people participated in our event and we thank them very much.” Student president Dela Reyna Paulyn Alexis (27, Department of Saemaul and International Development, master’s degree third term, Philippines) at PSPS that prepared for the event together with undergraduate students said, “At PSPS, we are learning the Saemaul spirit and are studying hard to become warm-hearted Saemaul and international development experts.” She added, “I am well aware that as efforts to return the aid received from the international community 60 years ago, YU established PSPS and international students like us are given this opportunity. This bazaar was a meaningful event for us to return, however little, what we received from YU.” Students at PSPS also held a bazaar to help the victims of the earthquake in Nepal in 2015 where they gave all proceeds to the Nepalese embassy to fulfill their role as members of the international community. IDEA, which is comprised of students who dream of becoming Saemaul and international development experts, is enhancing their capacities to solve common issues of the global community through various efforts such as internships at international organizations, hosting bazaars, etc. The YU Global Community Coexistence Human Resource Fostering Project Team Director Kim Jung-hoon (professor at the Department of Saemaul and International Development), said, “The global community lives as a single community. We should try to understand the pains of those in our neighboring countries devastated by unexpected natural disasters and work together to overcome such issues. Such bazaar is a place of learning by exercising the global Saemaul spirit of industriousness, cooperation, sharing, volunteering, creation, etc.”
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‘Top 1% citation of thesis’ in math... World-class quality for papers Continuously recognized by fellow researchers around the world for 10 years Published 150 SCI papers in the past 5 years, number of citations reached 13,500 [November 29, 2018] <Department of Electrical Engineering Professor Park Joo-hyun (left) selected as world’s top 1% researcher for fourth consecutive year> YU Department of Electrical Engineering Professor Park Joo-hyun (51) was selected as the world’s top 1% researcher once again. He was selected for this honor for the fourth consecutive year since 2015 and he continues such world-class research. The global information analysis company Clarivate Analytics announced its ‘2018 Most Influential Researchers in the World’, or the list of the ‘Highly Cited Researchers (HCR)’. There were over 6,000 people around the world who were named in the HCR this year. YU Professor Park Joo-hyun was selected for the fourth straight year in the mathematics sector. There were 90 researchers around the world included in the list for mathematics. Clarivate Analytics analyzed the ‘web of science’, which is the world’s most massive academic information database, to select researchers based on the top 1% highly cited papers in each academic sector. He has been continuously recognized from fellow researchers around the world for the past 10 years. This means that the quality of the paper was outstanding. In 2018, over 4,000 researchers in a total of 21 fields such as science and natural science were selected as HCR. Approximately 2,000 researchers were included in the ‘cross-field’ (researchers exhibiting research capacities in multiple fields among researchers who did not meet the criteria for selection in each academic sector in terms of top 1% cited papers in 21 fields) and so worldwide, over 6,000 were selected for the HCR. 22 Koreans were included in the cross-field, thus placing 50 Koreans on the list. Professor Park has been actively engaged in research publishing about 150 papers in SCI academic journals as the main author in the past five years. Among them, 60% of the papers were published in top 10% JCR (Journal Citation Reports) journals. He has been cited 13,500 times as of current. Professor Park’s papers were cited in total 19,300 times in Google Scholar. Professor Park is acknowledged as a global authority in the nonlinear control system analysis using fuzzy theories. In October, he was appointed as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems’, which is a world-acclaimed academic journal published by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). The global academic publication company Springer Nature also paid attention to the research outcomes of Professor Park. At the suggestion of Springer Nature, Professor Park published ‘Recent Advances in Control and Filtering of Dynamic Systems with Constrained Signals’ in September.
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Home repair volunteer club visits homes to help put up new wall papers, flooring and replacing lights Students donate to purchase goods for volunteering and receive support from Hope Bridge “It is more fulfilling as the objective of volunteering is more concrete and clearer” [November 26, 2018] The YU student club, ‘Youngjihoe’ was awarded in the group sector of the ‘1st Korean Residential Welfare Culture Awards’. The ‘Korean Residential Welfare Culture Awards’ selected and awarded organizations and institutes that work on making a residential welfare community and citizens who practiced residential welfare cultures at the National Assembly Library’s main auditorium on November 2. This event was hosted by the Residential Welfare Culture Movement Center and sponsored by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and the National Assembly Traffic Committee. Most of the winners this year were part of volunteer centers, organizations, companies and institutes, and only two school clubs including YU were selected. <Youngjihoe volunteer work> Youngjihoe is a home repair volunteer club and is made up of 80 students. They visit homes with poor residential environments in Dong-gu, Suseong-gu and Gyeongsan in Daegu to offer their volunteer services in placing wall paper and replacing floors and lights. Youngjihoe, with the support of the legal disaster relief organization ‘Hope Bridge’, purchases their own goods for volunteer activities with money from the pockets of the student volunteers. The residential areas to receive volunteer services are selected with help from local volunteer centers. Youngjihoe Vice-president Park Sung-joon (23, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, junior) said, “House repair work may be a bit unfamiliar and difficult for students, but members of our club make up teams of about 10 students each and enjoy volunteer activities.” He added, “Thanks to continuously volunteering every month, our skills with wall papering improved significantly.” Youngjihoe engages in volunteer activities every month, whether during the semester or during vacation. About 100 homes were repaired since 2014. About two volunteer activity projects are held every month on weekends and club managers have higher responsibilities having to participate in volunteer activities mandatorily. Youngjihoe President Park Jin-seok (23, School of Materials Science and Engineering said, “Unlike other common volunteer clubs, Youngjihoe has a clear and concrete objective for volunteering. It is very fulfilling as we can see for ourselves the fruits of our volunteer work.” He added, “If you want your college life to be more meaningful, we invite you to come to Youngjihoe.”
