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Undergraduate Programs

School of Chemical Engineering

Major

  • Major of Chemical Engineering

Introduction

School of Chemical Engineering concentrates on educating students to make professionals required in the display industry, which is now the nation's most important industry, growing fast for the next-generation and the no. 1 exporting industry.

The school is currently consisted of twenty one full-time professors, three honorary professors, eleven international research professors, seven adjunct professor and three staffs. Their job is to train students to make ready-to-work engineers for the display and green energy-oriented industries as well as to other conventional chemical and materials-related industries.

All these efforts resulted in the Korea's first engineering education program accredited by ABEEK (Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea) in 2001. Since then, a lot of students have been educated in the most upgraded Korean engineering education system. Since 2007, graduates from this ABEEK program are acknowledged internationally in the most developed countries. Therefore, the door is wide open for them to prominent Korean or international companies. Furthermore, in 2004, this school was selected as one of the Korean Government-supported New University Regional Innovation(NURI) programs, receiving one billion won each year for the last five years to support the regional display industry technically and to supply well-trained engineers. More than 40% of students have been recepients of scholarships and the educational equipments and facilities have been upgraded to become one of the most prominent chemical engineering departments in the nation. In 2009, the school became the axis of four-departments coalition and was selected as the Green Energy Leading Regional-Industry Research and Education Center.

School of Chemical Engineering has achieved a lot of goals not only in its undergraduate program but also in its graduate program. About 80 graduate students including both M.S. and Ph.D. courses are studying in various research fields. The graduate program of the school has also made a rapid progress by being selected as the Korean Government-supported 2nd stage Brain Korea 21st Century (BK21) program on display materials. About 30% of the graduate students are from abroad and about 35% of graduate courses are being taught in English. Note that all the full-time students receive a full scholarship. Research covers every state of the art technologies closely related to NT, IT, ET and BT, which are expected to lead the 21st century.

This school was established as the Department of Applied Chemistry in Daegu University (one predecessor of Yeungnam University) in 1947, which was the second time in chemical engineering (or similar) department in Korea. In 1967, it became the Department of Chemical Engineering. From it the Department of Applied Chemistry (later Department of Industrial Chemistry) was separated but was unified into School of Chemical Engineering and Technology in 1996, which was re-named to School of Chemical Engineering in 2004. For more than 60 years, it has graduated more than 6,000 students, forming an axis of chemical engineering in Korea.

JOB FIELDS

Display and green energy materials, parts, elements, processes, process equipments, production, production management, quality control, environments/clean technologies, information-electronics materials and other new materials, polymers, energy, compound resins, compound fibers, plant engineering, petroleum and petrochemical industry, pharmaceuticals, foods, glasses, gun powder, dyes, paints, refined oil, etc.

CURRICULUM

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1 CURRICULUM
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CALCULUS I
Calculus(1) covers the following: Sequences, limits and continuity of functions of single variable, derivatives, properties of derivatives, differentiation rules, higher order derivatives, applications of derivatives, definite integrals, indefinite integrals, properties of integrals, integration rules, applications of integrals, infinite series power series.
1-1
UNIVERSITY LIFE AND MAJOR DESIGN
1. Summary of the course This course is to assist university freshmen in CRM designing to adapt university life well through the instruction and counselling of supervising professor. (This course is composed of self analysis, personality type test, career research, instruction for the success of university life, career plan and direction setting, CRM designing method and CRM designing. The course should be teaching in classes of the students by supervising professor.) 2. Course objectives This course is to motivate the students before the mid term exam and provide students with self analysis, personality type test (MBTI or TCI) and career research (YAT test). Also, this course shall has a plan to instruct the students to enhance the efficiency of university life through career and time management. In addition, this course is to make a chance for the students to have practical assistance to university life by providing study method, report designing strategy and the information on academic system and various kinds of internal programs of the university. After the mid term exam, the students will be instructed to set the direction of career designing through continuous counselling of supervising professor and the students will be able to establish CRM designing and execution plan.
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SOFTWARE AND AI
Software and AI (Artificial Intelligence) course aims to educate the basic concepts of software and computational thinking to use them in various applications. It allows students of various majors to experience the core technologies of the 4th industrial revolution, such as big data, machine learning, and AI. It also introduces various applications of AI so that students can easily apply these technologies to their field of study. This course classifies the lecture types into three categories, and adjust the lecture difficulty according to the student's academic ability.
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GENERAL CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT(I)
This is a laboratory course for the General Chemistry (1). Experience of the laboratory increases the ability of the application of the chemistry.
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GENERAL CHEMISTRY I
The General Chemistry(I) introduces the basic concepts of the properties, constitution, structure and the reaction of matters, which is essential in modern chemistry, physics, biology and engineering.
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GENERAL PHYSICS LABORATORY I
This course is designed to introduce the basic experiments in general physics. This course includes physical experiments related to classical mechanics ; Projectile Motion, Free Fall, Borda's Pendulum, Air Track, Resonance Tube App, force Table, Centripetal Force, Torsional Rigidity Pendulum
1-1
GENERAL PHYSICS I
Introduces classical mechanics. Space and time: straight-line kinematics; motion in a plane; forces and equilibrium; experimental basis of Newton's laws; particle dynamics; universal gravitation; collisions and conservation laws; work and potential energy; vibrational motion; conservative forces; inertial forces and non-inertial frames; central force motions; rigid bodies and rotational dynamics.
1-2
GENERAL PHYSICS LABORATORY �뀫
This course is designed to introduce the basic experiments in general physics. This course includes physical experiments related to electromagnetism ; Electromotive Force, Coulomb's Law, Equipotential Line, Inductance of Solenoid, Velocity of Light, Current Balance, Magnetic Field of Single Coil, Magnetic Field of straight Conductor.
1-2
SPECIALIZED ACADEMIC ENGLISH
The aim of the course is to help students increase their fluency and accuracy in English. The course will be co-taught by Korean and Native English instructors. Korean instructors will provide students with an opportunity to practice English structure, vocabulary, and expressions, and students will be encouraged to enhance their verbal skills by actively participating in classroom activities. Students will further practice expressing themselves in English with native English instructors.
1-2
PYTHON PROGRAMMING
The core competencies required in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is the ability to come up with idea for solving a given problem and realize it in software. In this course, as the first step this, we will learn Python programming language. This course aims to cultivate basic programming skills and problem-solving skills based on creative thinking. The topics covered in this course are as follows. - Python language grammar (basic and advanced levels) - Python library for GUI programming (tkinter) - Python library for image processing (pillow) - Python libraries for data analysis (Matplotlib, Numpy, and Pandas)
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SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION AND SERVICE
This course is to cultivate community sense as members of society and the global village for students in order to develop the basic knowledge required as global citizens. Especially, this course is to foster the spirit of cooperation, sharing, service, and creativity and study the social contribution and leadership to solving the challenges the global community faces. As a liberal arts course, it is centered to nurture a leader having the global capability to contribute to community development through learning the knowledge and the case on the value & logic of social responsibility focused on environmental preservation, social contribution, and good governance(ESG). This course aims to foster a generous mind, learn knowledge and technology and build the capacity to contribute to building a society towards a safer and happier world through the study of theory and practice.
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GENERAL CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT(�뀫)
This is a laboratory course for the General Chemistry (2). Experience of the laboratory increases the ability of the application of the chemistry.
3-1
MAJOR-LINKED CAREER DESIGN
1. Summary of the course This course is designed for third- and fourth-year undergraduate students to systematically explore career paths and establish employment strategies aligned with their academic majors. Students will develop an understanding of industry structures and job classifications related to their fields of study, set desired career goals, and create individualized career plans. Through activities such as job description analysis, guest lectures from alumni and industry professionals, and other practical exercises, students will strengthen their career competencies. The course aims to provide opportunities for self-directed career preparation. 2. Course Objectives The primary objective of this course is to help students articulate their career direction and establish customized job-seeking strategies based on their academic background and personal strengths. Students will be guided to accurately understand occupations and industries related to their majors and design career paths that reflect their capabilities. In addition, the course integrates university career support programs and co-curricular activities to enable students to prepare more effectively. Through systematic planning and execution, the course ultimately aims to enhance students��� employability skills and contribute to improved career outcomes.

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