Department of Chemical Engineering’s BK21FOUR Education Research Group holds Cooperative International Online Workshop with HUST of China

SKKU Department of Chemical Engineering Education Research Group (Sustainable Chemical Engineering Global Leader Fostering Education Research Group, Leader Jong Wook, Bae) opened the “7th SKKU-HUST Bilateral Graduate Student Workshop and Annual Academic Conference for Graduate Students” online for two days from April 18^th ~ 19^th with Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST) from Wuhan, China.

Since the first Cooperative Academic Conference in November 2015, this 7th international cooperative conference has been held online with about 400 participants, including Dean of Engineering College Nae Eung, LEE, Director of Planning and Coordination Jun Young, Lee, and numerous Chemical Engineering professors.

The speakers of this workshop were: Professor Young C. Jang (HUST, Georgia Institute of Technology), Professor Noritatsu Tsubaki (University of Toyama), Professor Michikazu Hara (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Professor Sae Byeok Jo (SKKU), Professor Soo Yeon Cho (SKKU), Professor Joshua Jackman (SKKU), Professor Woo Seok Yang (SKKU). There were also 68 oral presentations of graduate students, deep discussion about the latest research trends and results about bio, energy, the chemical process of information materials, and awards granted to excellent student speakers selected by examination according to each session.

There will be 8th workshop at SKKU in 2023, the two schools would be opening the Cooperative International Conference to sustain cooperative research and international communications of graduate students between SKKU and HUST.