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Sogang University Signs MOU with LG Electronics for Nurturing Smart Convergence Majors Sogang University and LG Electronics signed an MOU for opening and operating a track for nurturing a smart convergence-specialized department. Based on the MOU, the Engineering College at Sogang will open a track for nurturing R&D human resources for LG Electronics (LG Electronics Track) to foster specialized human resources in the fields of IoT, robotics, AI, and autonomous navigation vehicles at Sogang University. From June 2017 to May 2020, five to ten undergraduates and graduate school students will be selected annually for the LG Electronics Track. These students will be supported in their two-year graduate school courses through the industry-academy scholarship program, and junior-year students will be given an additional scholarship for their senior year. Furthermore, all selected students will have the option of working at LG Electronics after their graduation. Student selection for 2017 is slated to run from August to September.
2019.10.22
Prof. Jang Jin-ho’s Research Team at Sogang Institute Advanced TechnologySelected for ICT Creative Task at Samsung Science & Technology Projectto Receive Total of KRW 1.4 Billion for 4 Years Prof. Jang Jin-ho’s research team at Sogang Institute Advanced Technology (SIAT) at Sogang University has finally been selected for an ICT creative task at Samsung Science & Technology Project that provides support in the latter half of 2017. The Samsung Science & Technology Project which started in 2013 is a program to select excellent tasks three times a year in three areas of research of fundamental science, materials technology, and ICT, thereby supporting and nurturing future technologies in the Republic of Korea by providing a total fund of KRW 1 trillion 500 billion for 10 years. For the latter half of 2017, 14 tasks for the fundamental science and 23 tasks for the materials technology and ICT have been selected including the task of “development of ultrasound-assisted confocal microscopy for deep tissue imaging” by Prof. Jang Jin-ho, and a total of KRW 53.1 billion will be provided. The selected task of Prof. Jang is to develop an original technology to settle the issue of a low image depth which is an inborn limitation of the conventional confocal microscope, aiming to develop a technology to increase an image depth of a confocal microscope without a lowered image resolution by using ultrasound wave. A confocal microscope is a device that focuses and irradiates light to a living tissue and that uses a reflected light signal, thereby providing structure information of a microtissue such as a cell with a high-resolution, high-contrast image. Currently, the confocal microscope is the most broadly used as a three-dimensional high-resolution imaging technique for life science researches and disease diagnosis including images of cancer, brain tissues, etc. However, though a high-resolution, high-contrast image provided by the confocal microscope is available only at a depth in which light can be focused, the depth for focusing light is only hundreds of micrometers due to optical scattering in a living tissue. Thus, it is difficult to image a tissue in a deeper part. To resolve the issue, Prof. Jang Jin-ho’s research team will develop an original technology for a confocal microscope, a technique that is expected to increase a depth of light penetration by temporarily changing characteristics of a medium to minimize optical scattering in the medium in which the light proceeds, using an ultrasound energy recently developed by the team. The proposed technology is an original technology with a new concept, which can not only remarkably broaden an application area of a confocal microscope that has limitations triggered by a low image depth but also expand the application area of the conventional optical image and treatment technologies that have limitations in use because of a low depth of light focusing. Thus, the technology has a very great impact to satisfy unmet clinical needs. If the technology is commercialized, one can easily enter into and expand a share in the existing optical image market, an area that is mostly occupied by overseas technological leading companies, thereby creating a new market and leading the relevant industries in the whole world.
2019.10.22
Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Won the Bid for ‘2018 University ICT Research Center Project of the MSIT- Incubating Human Resources for Developing Intellectual Semiconductor for the 4th Industrial Revolution Era -- Aims to Foster 111 Masters and Doctors for the Next 4 Years - Sogang University was selected as the University ICT Research Center for incubating talents in the ICT sector by the Ministry of Science and ICT on June 10. The University ICT research center project is a representative project in the ICT sector that has supported the university-industry cooperation and the incubation of high quality human resources through technology development at universities from 2000. This year, eleven universities including Sogang won the bid in such strategic industries for the 4th industrial revolution as the intellectual semiconductor in which the industry empowers the core technology for the 4th industrial revolution, data, network, artificial intelligence, and software. The selected institutes will be given the government support of approximately 3 billion Korean won over the next four years and additionally, they will be supported by fund to respond to the private companies. Prof. Lee Seung-hoon of the Department of Electronic Engineering is the chief of the center and 17 professors, including prof. Kang Seokju, Kim Kwangsu, Beom Jinwook, Ahn Gilcho, Yoon Kwangsuk, and Choi Wooyoung from seven universities and 13 enterprises, including Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Silicon Works, participate in the Intelligent Semiconductor Design Research Center (ISDRC). The center aims to foster high quality human resources of hardware-software convergence who will take the initiative in this era of the 4th industrial revolution based on developing designing technology for super intellectual, super energy saving, and highly credible intellectual semiconductor platform and device-circuit. The ISDRC plans both to foster researchers, 98 master’s degree holders and 13 doctoral degree holders, over the next 4 years, and to conduct various cooperation programs of re-training of engineers working for the participating enterprises, when it is deemed required. Throughout the activities, the ISDRC will play the critical role of the pivot for academy-industry cooperation and the incubator for talents in order to promote a longer-term growth of the domestic intellectual semiconductor sector.
2019.10.22