JUNE, 2014 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology JULY, 2014

& Tasks
Goal & Strategies
Professors
Academic Programs
Research Infrastructure
Achievements
International Collaboration
Vision Accomplishment

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national university, at the city of Ulsan, the capital of

Korean industry in 2009.

◎ Ulsan

◎ Daegu

◎ Daejon

◎ Gwangju

◎ Pusan

◎ Seoul

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Ulsan produces 16.4 % of Korean annual export ($ 92

billion/$ 559 billion)
Ulsan is the cradle of the modern Korean industries







Ulsan needs a world-leading university in science and technology
to potentiate her industrialization
UNIST started on March 2, 2009
※ Benchmarking Univ.
Undergraduate : Olin College / Graduate : MIT
Globalization : HKUST / Academy-Industry Cooperation : Georgia Tech

Ulsan & UNIST

Ship Building (#1)

Automotive (#5)

Oil Refinery (#5)

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Secondary Battery (#1)

entrepreneurship

To provide leading-edge
interdisciplinary

research
to create a new paradigm

World-leading university to advance science and

technology for the prosperity of humankind

Education

Research

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University
By 2030
Main Strategies
World Top 20
Research University
By 2020

Creativity
Multidisciplinary Study
Globalization

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Dr. Moo Je Cho as the first president of UNIST

Nov.

1, 2007
- Ground-breaking ceremony at the UNIST campus

Mar. 02, 2009
- The 1st Matriculation Ceremony

Mar. 02, 2012
- The 4th Matriculation Ceremony

Feb. 26, 2013
- 1st Commencement Ceremony

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500 (2020)

- 2/3 Foreign Ph.D : Harvard,

MIT, Stanford, UC-Berkeley, Oxford, Max-Planck, etc

• All faculty members have international experience as post-doc., university
faculty or scientist at various companies



 

the classes conducted in English (only university in Korea)

- Plan to recruit up to 20% of foreign professors and international students

Creative Education

- All the courses are designed with IT-intensive LMS (Blackboard)

- Discussion-oriented classes with Wi-Fi/Smart Phone/LMS connected m-campus

Interdisciplinary Education

- 9 Schools and 20 Major Tracks (all the students have to take 2 tracks)














- Mandatory split appointment of faculty between two schools

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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Art and Creativity • Literature and Creativity
• Music and Creativity • Globalization and Economy
• Society and Culture • Evolution of Civilization
• What is I • Effective Communication


Curriculum for Leadership Education
• Leadership and Teamwork • Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Biological Sciences

Biomedical Engineering

Life
Sciences

Nano Materials Engineering

Materials Science Engineering

Industrial Design

Human & Systems Eng.

Design & Human Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Computer Science & Engineering

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Environmental
Sci & Eng.

Disaster Management Engineering

Urban Infrastructure Engineering

Urban & Environ. Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Nuclear
Sci. & Eng.

Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering

Finance & Accounting

Business
Admin.

Management

Physics

Chemistry

Mathematical Sciences

Natural Science

Energy Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Energy & Chemical Engineering

Advanced Material Engineering

and Chemical Eng.
- Division for Mechanical and Nuclear Eng.
- Division

for Life Sciences
- Division for Natural Sciences
- Division for Design and Human Eng.
- Division for Urban and Environmental Eng.
- Division for Business Administration
- Division for Electrical and Computer Eng.
- Division for Materials Sci. and Eng.

Core facilities (World Class)
- UNIST Central Research Facilities (UCRF)
- UNIST Olympus BioMed Imaging Center (UOBC)
- Super Computing Center, Machine Shop
- Class-100 Clean Room
- Environmental Analysis Center

Research Infrastructure

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International Science/Business Belt Project
- $

1.4B for seven years in D.U.P Combined Campus : DGIST, UNIST, POSTECH

3 Campus Research Centers from Institute for Basic Science
- 1st Research Center : Professor Steve Granick
- 2nd Research Center : Professor Rodney S. Ruoff
- 3nd Research Center : Dr. Kyungjae Myung
- $100M for ten years for a center

The New Growth-Engine Research Grant
- Flexible Film Batteries : $16M for five years, Technology (Patent) Transfer : $5M

KIER-UNIST New Generation Batteries Research Center
- Investment of $2M and $39M research grant for five years


Science Research Center (SRC) / Basic Research Lab (BRL) / IT Research Center (ITRC)
- $8M for ten years / $4M for five years / $4M for four years supported by NRF

Graphene Research Center
- Led by Honorary Director Dr. Konstantin Novoselov (2010 Nobel Laureate in Physics)

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Science (1), Cancer Cell (1), Nature Materials (1), Nature Communications

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- Nature Nanotechnology (2), Nature Photonics (1), Nature Geoscience (1)
Imagination Olympiad 2nd place winner : LAON Team (6 sophomores)
- International Tournament Supported by NASA (800 teams and 18,000 people participation
in June, 2012)
Journal publications by undergraduate students:
- Boyeong Seo (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Journal of Applied Physics (June, 2012)
- Moongon Jung (Nano-Bioscience Chemical Engineering), Chemical Communications (Apr., 2012)
- Minju Park (Nano-Bioscience Chemical Engineering), Nanoscale (Oct., 2013)

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UC-Irvine, UT-Dallas, Univ. of Manchester, Max-

Planck

Institute for Molecular Medicine

Faculty and Student Exchange

- Georgia Tech., Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Virginia Tech., U Penn,

Univ. of Cambridge, IIT-Kanpur, UC-Irvine, Eindhoven Univ. of Tech.

- SPIKE@UNIST: Summer Coursework and Research Internship

(Participants from U of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Columbia Univ., HKUST)

Matching with summer sessions of foreign universities

Dual Degree Program (planned)

- Univ. of Manchester

for core research areas
Promotion of interdisciplinary cooperative research
Extensive

commercialization of research outcomes

World Top 10
Research University in 2030

Vision Accomplishment

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