International joint research between research labs from 2011, publish research achievements such as annual seminars and journals
Visited prestigious universities in 4 countries such as the US, Brazil, Columbia and Chile to pursue exchange
Increased global network, provide world-class education and research foundation
[June 22, 2016]
<YU signed an academic exchange agreement with the University of Delaware in the United States>
YU (President Noh Seok-kyun) signed an academic exchange agreement with a world-class university as it expands its global network for world-class education and research.
Mr. Noh set off for a two week trip starting on the 19th to enter exchange agreements with prestigious universities in the United States and South America, as well as with major institutes such as the embassies in those countries. Mr. Noh and his team visited the University of Delaware on the morning of the 20th, one day after arriving in the United States, and met with University of Delaware President Dennis Assanis and signed an exchange agreement between the two universities.
YU and the University of Delaware has continued exchange between their research institutes since 2011. With this agreement, the two universities agreed for full-fledged exchange. In 2011, the YU Green Energy Education & Research Center signed an MOU for joint research on solar cells with the University of Delaware Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC). Since then, the two institutes put forth various research achievements such as publishing joint research results every year in international journals and seminars through their international joint research. In November of last year, a professor and IEC researcher at the University of Delaware visited YU and held an international joint workshop. Furthermore, YU School of Chemical Engineering Kim Woo-gyeong served as an IEC researcher and continued the partnership with the University of Delaware, leading to this agreement.
In addition, YU has been dispatching a graduate school student as an IEC visiting researcher to conduct joint research every year since 2012. Immediately after entering the agreement, YU President Noh Seok-kyun met with Moon Gyeong-chan (25), who is in his master's degree program at the Graduate School of Chemical Engineering serving as a visiting researcher at IEC, to encourage him (right on photo). Mr. Moon was among the first batch of students majoring in the interdisciplinary green energy as an undergraduate and graduated in February of 2014. Last year in August while enrolled in a master's degree program, Mr. Moon became the fourth YU student to be dispatched to the IEC to conduct research on the solar cell sector.
With this agreement, the two universities are planning to first work out an exchange student and visiting professor program for the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Chemical Engineering, and School of Materials Science and Engineering. Moreover, the two universities also agreed to work on projects such as dual diploma programs for graduate schools, internship programs during vacations, and international joint academic events.
The University of Delaware is a research-oriented university located in Newark, Delaware in the United States, and it is globally acclaimed for its engineering and business administration programs. It is in the top 10 in the United States for chemical engineering. In particular, University of Delaware President Dennis Assanis who pursued this agreement is a new president of the university who began just 11 days ago. The first foreign guest that he hosted was Mr. Noh for this agreement. He pushed behind his busy schedule as the new president of the school and met with Mr. Noh to sign this agreement with YU.
Mr. Noh said, "In order to manifest global research and education capacities, continuous exchange with world-class universities and research institutes is necessary," and added, "We will expand exchange through exchange researcher and exchange student programs in various academic fields with world-class universities and engage in practical exchange cooperation to meet prestigious universities of the world at eye level."
During his visit to the US and South America, YU President Noh Seok-kyun and his team also visited Brazil's most prestigious university, Universidade de Sao Paulo that graduated 13 presidents of Brazil and eight governors of Sao Paulo to begin exchange discussions between the two universities. They also visited other top notch universities of Brazil such as Universidade de Brasília and Universidade Estadual de Campinas, as well as Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Duoc UC in Chile. He thus visited seven universities in four countries, as well as other educational institutes and embassies in a rigorous schedule to discuss exchange and cooperation in order to expand YU's global partnerships.
<YU-Universidad Nacional de Colombia signs MOU (left), Mr. Noh Seok-kyun introduces YU to Universidad Nacional de Colombia President Prada and Director of External Affairs Ferro (right)>
Meanwhile, YU was recently ranked 128th among Asian universities (22nd in Korea), which is a seven-place hike compared to the previous year in the QS2016 Asia University Rankings. In particular, YU rose from 188th to 145th for international student ratio, while the number of exchange students going abroad (36th to 32nd place) also rose, thus demonstrating surprising growth in the internationalization index.
