George Mason University 갈등분석·해결연구소(Institute for

George Mason University

갈등분석·해결연구소(Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution)

컴퓨터정보과학연구소(Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics)

조지메이슨대학교

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New frontiers

The convergence of information technology and the automobile industry is one of its latest priority areas. The Department of Automotive Engineering signed in 2011 an agreement with Hyundai Motor Group, the country’s biggest automobile company, to establish a joint research institute at the Seoul campus.

The school earlier this year secured government funding worth 3.4 billion won ($3 million) to open the IT and Automobile Center at its main campus in Seoul.

HYU is also planning to run two new majors; actuarial science and robot engineering, from next year at its campus in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province.

The actuarial science major, which applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in the insurance and finance industries, is already popular among European and American institutions, but HYU is the first Korean university to introduce such a course, according to Lim.

“There is a greater need for experts who are capable of analyzing probability and statistics for business. Also considering the greater needs of robot engineering in various fields, we decided to set up a Department of Robot Engineering,” Lim said.

HYU has been expanding partnerships with the country’s leading business firms, such as Samsung Electronics, to train students to meet the needs of business.

Samsung Electronics, for instance, helped open a software research course in 2011, offering full scholarships upon admission and opportunities for graduates work at its companies.

As part of its effort to become a world-class research institution, HYU launched the Industry University Cooperation Foundation in 2003 to create a more cooperative environment for research and high-quality professional training.

The IUCF currently operates various entities for industry collaboration, including the Center for Business Incubation and the Technology Transfer Center, which has been responsible for producing R&D achievements through collaboration with prominent companies such as LG, Hynix and Samsung, he said.

One of the Hanyang’s strengths is proximity and accessibility, said the president. The HYU’s main campus located in Sungdong District, central Seoul is directly linked to Hanyang University Station on Subway Line No. 2. In fact, the subway exit is within the campus, offering accessibility to anywhere in the city.

Hanyang’s second campus, the ERICA campus, is located in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, some 40 kilometers south of Seoul.

As the name ERICA ― short for Education, Research and Industry Cluster at Ansan ― suggests, the campus is in an ideal locale for cooperation between business firms and universities, the president said.

More than 150 business firms and institutions, such as Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Gyeonggi Technopark Korea Testing Laboratory and Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, are located at the ERICA campus, he said.

“The ERICA is leading the way in creating an industry-university-research cluster,” he said.