MOU with the Pan-East Sea Industry Research Institute to develop industry-academic cooperation research system customized to the Age of the Pan-Pacific Age
Operate field-work course to foster experts in the Department of Biotechnology, Department of Medical Biotechnology, and the Department of Life Sciences, etc.
Improving practical competencies during undergraduate courses such as accepting credits for students who completed course
Enhance satisfaction in major through field work that helps with setting career path such as employment, etc.
[January 17, 2020]
<The YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team signed an MOU with the Pan-East Sea Industry Research Institute to foster experts in the marine bio industry>
(from fifth from left to right: Pan-East Sea Industry Research Institute Director Kim Tae-young, YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team Director Park Yong-wan)
The YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team will kill three birds with one stone such as improving industry-academic research customized to the Pan-Pacific Age, improve capacities of majors in relevant departments, and increase student employment rates through industry-academic cooperation with the Pan-East Sea Industry Research Institute.
The two institutes entered a work MOU to foster marine bio experts at the YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team office in the afternoon of the 13th. The two institutes agreed on ▲cooperating in the marine bio expert fostering project ▲accepting credits for students who completed the marine bio expert fostering project ▲interaction of professors and researchers ▲promoting exchange of information and personnel in areas where mutual cooperation is possible ▲co-hosting information exchange events such as academic conferences, training, seminar and workshops, etc., and ▲mutual cooperation for joint use of facilities between the two institutes.
The YU Department of Biotechnology, Department of Medical Biotechnology and the Department of Life Sciences had operated field work programs with the Pan-East Sea Industrial Research Institute even before entering this MOU. From 2012 to 2019, a total of 117 students completed field work and the satisfaction of participating students were very high as well.
In particular, two of those students who completed the program are now employed at the Pan-East Sea Industrial Research Institute and four out of five students who completed a 24-week education course at the Pan-East Sea Industrial Research Institute last year have continued their education into graduate school. Field work at a specialized institute having close association with their major had a major impact on improving student capacities in their majors and for determining their career paths.
Students who participated in field work said, “I gained higher satisfaction on my major by receiving training at a specialized institute and learning practical work. My goal of studying my major in greater depth has become clearer.”
By signing this MOU, the YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team will be equipped with a cooperation system for not only the Department of Biotechnology, Department of Medical Biotechnology and the Department of Life Sciences, but also for offering field work courses linked with school credits in all departments related to life and environment. The reason for this is to enhance practical capacities in their majors during their undergraduate years so that they may find employment as soon as they graduate. Furthermore, departments that had cooperative relationships will continue to expand field work education courses with other specialized institutes.
YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team Director Park Yong-wan said, “Field work at specialized institutes will not only reinforce student capacities in their majors, but also help greatly in enhancing employment rates,” while adding, “We will reinforce industry-academic cooperation with biotechnology-related companies, in addition to research institutes, so that students will be able to enhance their practical capacities needed by companies, institutes and research centers, etc. so that they may have broader employment choices.”
