Except the language course held before the semester began, the first course that I took in TU Graz was “Creativity technique”, which let students master various idea-generating skills such as brain storming, mapping, or six hat thinking. The course lasted for three days from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M., and at the last day of the course, instructors and Philips manager gave each team one container for blender, and let teams propose at least five ideas to improve container. Just within five hours, each team had to generate ideas, make rough designs, and complete presentation material. I just thought that

Since 1987, the anniversary of the POSTECH, The Sunrise Festival has kept its status as POSTECH? representative festival. Because the history of POSTECH is quite brief, most students want to know our festival history. The Postech times interviewed three POSTECH alumnus professors, Prof. Sangmin Jeon (CE), Prof. Seong Jin Park (ME), and Prof. Kim, Byung-In (IME), asking about the festival in 1987 and the festival this year.How was the festival of the first year?Prof. Jeon: In that time the festival was proceeded between auditorium and Hogil Kim memorial hall. Even though there were few students

As new administration launches, Korea proposed new economic paradigm, the Creative Economy, then Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) was established. The creative economy is more advanced form of innovation economy. It is defined as an economy where creativity becomes more important than effort, and thus innovation becomes easier. So, the gist of the creative economy is, to support raising venture business in which individuals realize their creativity. Hence, MSIP hosted “Korea Science and ICT Conference 2013” in Coex, Seoul, during May 21st to 22nd treating the subjects RISE:

Director of National Center for Nanomaterials Technology (NCNT), Professor Chan Gyung Park (MSE) was appointed as the second president of Korea Infrastructure Organization for Nanotechnology (KION) and started his two year term on May 4.KION was founded gathering six nanotechnology research infrastructures supported by the government: NCNT, National Nanofab Center, Korea Advanced Nano Fab Center, Korea Printed Electronics Center, National Center for Nanoprocess and Equipments, and Nano Convergence Practical Application Center. By joint permission of Ministry of Knowledge Economy and Ministry o

On May 5, 6, and 10, disaster preparedness drills, hosted by Central Safety Management Committee and National Emergency Management to enhance the nation’s capability of disaster counter measure and to foster safety consciousness, were performed with people and disaster management organizations, including the central administrative agency, local government, and public institutions. This year 20, 474 organizations participated.On three days, each drill was practiced under specific scenarios that involve typhoon, infectious disease, and conf- lagration. The preparedness drills on the first day fo

Postechians learn the concept of volunteer work through many activities, from the volunteering in freshmen orientation to various off-campus volunteering activities and university volunteer groups. Based on the different attributes of volunteering, such as when they volunteer, characteristics of members, and type of work, there are many volunteer groups in POSTECH, but in the sight of outside, they seem to do similar activities. Then, are these volunteer groups operated well?There are four existing volunteer groups “GachiBaeum”, “Beautiful class”, “RC volunteer group”, and “Dasom”. Additionall

On Apr. 18, the President of Korea National University of Art, Park Jongwon, was invited to POSTECH to give special lectures. Embracing the lecture that KNUA President Park gave, The Postech Times asked him how art and science affect each other. His response is as below.Techne“In the Greek period, there was the word Techne, which embraced medicine, rhetoric, technology, math, art, and science. Science and art had passed the middle age and renaissance period together, but suddenly science steeply developed. After the Industrial Revolution, science has lead daily life, and art has kept a critica

President Park Jongwon of Korea National University of Arts (KNUA), which is considered the best art education institute in Korea, met POSTECH students through a special lecture titled “Do Science and Art Have Different dreams?” in an international conference room of the POSCO International Center on Apr. 18.Through this lecture, held as the part of the POSTECH cultural program, KNUA President Park emphasized that science and technology are not opposing but reciprocal. They make each other perfect. As an artist and educator of art, he wanted to give message that scientists and artists might ha

Professor Euiho Suh (IME) was appointed as an advisor of Thomson Reuters, a group that has global influence on media, consulting, scientific and technical information, and publication.The advisory board was set up this year to help develop strategic policy for major business, such as international institute evaluation and analysis of research results implemented by Thomson Reuters. Out of the advisory board including 25 worldwide experts in research policy and evaluation, Prof. Suh was selected as the sole Korean advisor.Prof. Suh said, “Until now I walked as advisor of The Times Higher Educat

National Center for Nanomaterials Technology (NCNT) plans to construct a nano-infrastructure that would be among the top ten in the world. NCNT announced vision “NCNT 2020” in order to develop nanotechnology area and technical standards. As NCNT completed phase 1 construction project, NCNT designed ?CNT 2020? which is the strategy to concentrate for diffusion of nano-convergence technology. It aims to support nanotechnology research at the world-class level, and become a specialized agency of industrialization. Major implementation strategies include education for professionals of nanotechnolo

Professor Yong Hoon Kwon (MATH) was awarded “The Third KRX Best Paper Award in Derivatives” that is sponsored by KRX (Korea Exchange). KRX held KOSDA (The Korean Swaps Dealers Association) Forum on Apr. 3 in Lotte Hotel Busan, and presented award ceremony.In this contest, that has been implemented since 2009 for the development of the domestic derivatives market and encouragement of research and development of derivatives, Prof. Kwon’s team presented the paper, “A Second-order Finite Difference Method for Option Pricing under Jump-diffusion Models”. KRX evaluated this paper as “It provides alg

At this moment right where we are, we can listen to justice of Michael Sandel, physics of Walter Lewin, death of Shelly Kagan, even Stanford University’s special lecture of the late Steve Jobs. The Open Course Ware (OCW) movement has enabled us to audit famous courses from anywhere in the world.The OCW movement was started by MIT in 2001. By publishing educational materials from its courses freely and openly on the Internet, it serves society, shares knowledge, and increases students’ learning ability and professors’ lecture competitiveness. Started from 46 regular courses, MIT OCW serves 2150

Youngwook Kim (PHYS Ph.D. candidate) and Seung-Geol Nam (PHYS M.S.-Ph.D. integrated) observed breakdown of the interlayer coherence in twisted bilayer graphene. Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Extreme Conditions (AMEX) confirmed that in the case of twisted bilayer graphene, despite interlayer distance is atomic length scale, the interlayer coherence breaks up at low temperature. This result runs counter to existing understanding that interlayer coherence in layer structure is mainly determined by interlayer distance. In addition, research also confirmed that although interlayer conductin

In 2007, the book named “Secret” sold like hot cakes. What a miraculous and charming sound that only imagining vividly without effortcan bring you what you want! To people, this book seemed “BibidiBabidi Boo” itself. Some people who doubted at first also gradually accepted this type of thinking as success stories like getting extra cash, a nice house, even a gorgeous husband emerged. Books with a similar theme were released and sold well. The keyword of those books is blissful. We can get everything we want! How? Be really eager, imagine, and visualize to such an extent that the visualization

Since POSTECH focuses on science and technology, most Postechians don’t know how professors of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences work and what processes are required in their research. Some students don’t even know professors are writing theses. By comparing humanities to science and technology, Prof. Jin Woo Lee, the chair of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, explained how and what humanities scholars research.What is the field of humanities? Humanities in a broad sense is the academic field studying the heritage of human civilization recorded in a language, researc

Every Sunday at 11 P.M., seeing people lie down on the bed and toy with their mobile phone is common nowadays. The thing they are looking forward to is the webtoon, ‘The Tower of God’. This webtoon is so famous that a new word was coined from the character of this. The golden age of the webtoon is upon us.The word “Webtoon” is the neologism combined ‘Web’ and ‘Cartoon,’ that means comic strip distributed via the internet. Webtoonists publish their webtoon weekly on a major portal site such as NAVER or Daum and readers look forward to that day of the week. At first the genre was limited to roma

Why did you select Japan to study?Stud : In engineering field, America may lead the theoretical phase, but technical phase are definitely leaded by Japan. In addition, when students enroll in graduate course in Korea, they have to do underworks of the professor. However, generally in Japan, each laboratory are consisted of four to five people : one professor, few associate professors, one assistant, and a secretary. So secretary or assistant treats the underworks, and students can concentrate their whole mind upon study without any other disturbance. I heard that if someone wants to research,

From Nov. 2012, POSTECH has enforced a spatial allocation policy on managing campus space to propel redistribution and the efficient management of this university resource. The policy is based on the public concept of using space and the principle of maximum benefit. Having been discussed and reported since 2008, the spatial allocation principle has been implemented since 2012. According to the policy, the university is in charge of supervising charged space as well as free allocated space. Free allocated space is classified as educational space, research space, administration basic space and

POSTECH held commemoration for the first anniversary of the founding chairman Tae-Joon Park’s passing, to remember his achievements and noble mind. A commemorative lecture was held in the POSCO International Center on Dec. 11. This was followed by a memorial ceremony, held on Dec. 13, and a floral tribute and incense burning, held in Nobel Garden, in front of the Tae-Joon Park statue on Dec. 13 to 14. In the lecture, Professor Bok Song of Yonsei University explained the life of Tae-Joon Park and the reason why he was considered such a great man. Prof. Song said Tae-Joon Park was a new type cla

Young-bin Song (CSE, B.S. candidate) and Eun-uk Lee (CE, B.S. candidate) won the gold prize by presenting HangulBot in “2012 Superstar V,” the national founding competitive exhibition held by the Small and Medium Business Administration. The robot that teaches Korean, HangulBot, can produce sounds of Korean by combining blocks of vowels and consonants. It has been acclaimed not only in Korea but also internationally, exhibited in many places including Gyeongbokgung and Beijing. The HangulBot is about to be used as auxiliary teaching material in Sejong School, a school that introduces Korea and