College of Mechanical and IT Engineering holds ‘IoT Contest’ displaying unique ideas converged with majors
Total of 23 teams participate including information communication, computer, electric and electronics, and 8 teams win YU Presidential Award
Excellent creativity displayed with ‘Smart LED Mirror’, ‘Smart Tent Infrastructure Platform’, etc.
[January 17, 2020]
<2019 YU IoT Contest winners>
The YU College of Mechanical and IT Engineering (Dean Kim Young-tak) held the IoT contest. This contest aims at heightening interest in IoT, which is one of the core technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, and to improve practical abilities in ICT.
A total of 23 teams made up of students with various majors including information communication, computer, electronics, electric, mechanics and business administration participated in this contest. Creative ideas converging various majors such as smart LED mirrors, smart tent infrastructure platform, mobile air pollution measurer, etc. were displayed to attract attention of participants.
<IoT work demonstration and poster presentations>
The participants submitted reports, actual products and videos of demonstrations from November of last year and after the preliminaries, a total of eight teams joined the finals on January 10. At the finals, the students demonstrated their ideas in works that they produced and held poster presentations, and the top four teams received the YU Presidential Award.
YU College of Mechanical and IT Engineering Dean Kim Young-tak said, “This has served as an opportunity to share the ideas of students in different majors on the field for utilizing IoT, which is a core technology of the future, and to make their own products by applying such ideas to improve their practical competencies.” He added, “I hope that they will take part in not only intramural contests, but also in various domestic and foreign contests to check their skills and improve their capacities.”
