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Holding regular conferences for international students
A meeting of foreign students for the second semester was held at 12:00 on September 19th at the Space Lounge on the first floor of the Aerospace Center. The event was attended by faculty members, including President Huh Hee-young, and more than 50 freshmen from open major departments from China and Uzbekistan who entered this semester. The meetings with of foreign students are a regular event hosted by the International Exchange Center every semester, but this was the first time that the president personally participated in the meeting. President Huh Hee-young promised, "As the proportion of foreign students is expected to increase, we will plan more diverse types of meetings to listen to foreign students' opinions in the future." During this meeting, international students shared lunch with the faculty members and shared their difficulties while studying abroad and their suggestions for the school in an open atmosphere, and a new department, the department of international exchange (Service Management major/Aviation Operation management major) was introduced. This new addition has been created to support foreign/international students outside the quota starting next year. In addition to regular meetings, the university holds various events such as the global buddy program, regular counseling, special lectures on foreign employment, and meetings with foreign graduates to help international students adapt to studying abroad life smoothly and prevent dropping out.
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Awarded as the highest grade of A for the university innovation support project
Our university received the highest grade of A in the performance evaluation of the Ministry of Education's University Innovation Support Project in the first year (2022). Accordingly, the project cost for the second year (2023) will receive a significantly increased government subsidy compared the previous year. The university innovation support project is a university-led government financial support project that allows universities to set and achieve development tasks on their own to support the strengthening of basic capabilities and strategic specialization of universities. The project period is a total of three years from 2022 to 2024, and from the second year onwards, the project cost is determined based on the results of annual evaluations categorized into grades A, B and C. The Ministry of Education said, "We properly derived the goals and strategies of educational innovation, established the relationship between the high-tech industry sector reflecting regional characteristics and the university's specialization sector," and 'provided comprehensive and systematic education considering the life cycle of students.' 'By organizing the program, efforts were made to guarantee students' choice of major and to improve career support.'
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Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan University official visits
While Yasir Osman Alumayyan, chairman of Aramco, the world's largest oil company, and president of Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund (PIF), visited Korea from the 6th to 8th, an official from the Prince Sultan University (PSU) of Saudi Arabia visited our university on the 6th. PSU is Saudi Arabia's first private university located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with a Department of Aviation Management. The official administrator, who visited our university, is an official in the aerospace, defense, and economic fields of Saudi Arabia. This official is in charge of developing cross-border cooperation projects based on his extensive network with PSU and with Saudi Arabian government agencies. Later that day, the PSU visiting team met with President Huh Hee-young and other faculty members and toured the micro satellites and drone research laboratories, the Air Traffic Control Education Center, and the Goyang Drone Anchor Center facility where our university is an operating service provider. "We expect to be able to pursue joint projects in various fields with the Korean government, academia and industry in the future," they said, asking the visiting laboratories and facilities to actively propose future projects, while hinting that they will also consider student and teacher exchange programs. The two universities are expected to sign an MOU between late October and early November and promote multilateral cooperation projects.
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Visit by the Dean of Naresuan University, Thailan
The dean of Naresuan University's Faculties of Logistics and Digital Supply Chain visited our university on August 31. On this day, four faculty members, including dean Vatcharapol Sukhotu, met with our university president Huh Hee-young and faculty to discuss ways to cooperate between the two universities and give special lectures to students in the Department of Air Transportation and Logistics. Naresuan University is a state university located in Meang Fit Sanulok County, Pitsanulok Province, Thailand. Founded in 1969, it is a prestigious university based on Pitsanulok School of Education and ranked 10th among Thai universities in this year's US News & World Report. It has 25,000 enrolled students in 15 undergraduate departments. It signed an agreement with our university in July last year and agreed on student exchanges, including exchange student programs, and academic and research exchanges. Dean Sukhotu said it was his fourth visit to our university due to his long relationship with Professor Chae Jun-jae of the Department of Air Transportation and Logistics, who studied under the same advisor during his college years. "The main purpose of this visit is exchange between faculties, but we look forward to further strengthening cooperation at the school level," he added. In response, our university proposed that both institutions promote student exchange through an exchange student program and decided to discuss it. It was discussed that students from Naresuan University will take classes in the Department of Aviation Management or the Department of International Exchange for foreigners, which will be opened as an undergraduate program at our university in March next year, and that students from our university will visit Naresuan University as exchange students. President Huh Hee-young, expressed expectations for exchanges between the two universities, saying, "Thailand has Naresuan University, a prestigious university, and the Asia-Pacific branch of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Bangkok, so our students can expand their knowledge through exchange student programs."
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