Majors connected to nuclear power wins every year since 2011 for a total of 7 winners
Kim Da-hye (School of Mechanical Engineering, junior) runner-up from 66 students from 33 colleges including Seoul National University and KAIST
Wins full scholarship for 2 semesters
[August 14, 2014]
<Kim Da-hye who won the grand prize at the 7th 'Power Engineering School' received a scholarship and trophy.>
<From left to right, Professor Kim Jae-geun (Major in Nuclear Engineering), Professor Jang Young-seon (KEPCO E&C HR Development Center), Dean of College of Engineering Jung Hyeon-yeol, Kim Da-hye, Lee Chang-yeob, Professor Hong Seung-ryeol (School of Mechanical Engineering)>
YU (President Noh Seok-kyun) won another grand prize at the 7th 'Power Engineering School (PES)' hosted by KEPCO E&C.
YU celebrated their first winner at the 1st PES held in 2011 and won the grand prize and top finisher continuously to the 6th PES held in 2014. At the 7th camp, they also won the grand prize demonstrating once again the talents of the students majoring in nuclear engineering.
The honors went to a junior in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Kim Da-hye (21). She is currently double-majoring in nuclear engineering and won the grand-prize, which is the runner-up award, at the 7th PES Camp held at the 'KEPCO E&C HR Development Center) in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do from June 30 to July 9 and received a full scholarship for two semesters.
PES is a specialized education program held by KEPCO for college students in order to foster creative and competitive engineers in the power technology sector. A total of 66 engineering students from 33 universities in Korea including YU, Seoul National University, KAIST and POSTECH participated.
The participating students completed focused hands-on education to become energy experts for nine nights and ten days on the introduction to nuclear energy and thermal power, lectures on renewable energy plant environment facilities and power plant design, as well as comprehensive evaluation on experimentation, presentation, discussion and attendance on their major, as well as making field trips to the Hadong Thermal Power Plant and Hanbit Nuclear Power Plant.
Thus, the YU major in nuclear engineering has a total of two first place and five runner-up winners at the 'PES' Camp hosted by KEPCO. At the PES '1st Camp' held in July 2011, Park Hyeon-jae (25), who was a junior at the time in the Department of Electrical engineering, won first place for the first time. In the '3rd Camp' held in July 2012, Park Min-woo (25), who was then a junior in electronic engineering, won the runner-up award, and at the '4th Camp' held in February 2012, Jung Yong-won (26), who was then a junior in electronic engineering won first place. Then, in July 2013 at the '5th Camp' held in July 2013, Song Hoon-young (23) who was then a junior in the Department of Civil Engineering and Shin Nam-jin (23) who was also a junior in the School of Mechanical Engineering won the runner-up awards, while at the '6th Camp' held in January 2014, Jung Won-seok (23) who was then a junior in the School of Mechanical Engineering won the runner-up award.
The YU Major in Nuclear Engineering was newly established in 2011 and is under the School of Mechanical Engineering. It is a convergence and integrative major in which the Department of Civil Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and the School of Chemical Engineering all participate in. A minimum of 35 credits related to the major must be completed and at least 16 credits in major core classes must be completed as efforts to raise expertise. Upon graduation, two bachelor's degrees in engineering are given such as their original major and the affiliated nuclear engineering major.
