POSTECH’s Faculty of Convergence Science and Know-how (SCST) will formally open with its first main in social information science in February 2021 following its institution in October 2020. It’s POSTECH’s newest enterprise to pursue varied options to the widespread challenges going through humanity by means of convergence analysis, and to lift artistic convergence abilities with experience. The key is ready to open with two tracks – POSCO and SK Hynix. We converse with Kun-Hong Lee, the Dean of Faculty of Convergence Science and Know-how, to get the small print.
What’s the Faculty of Convergence Science and Know-how and how much analysis and schooling will it present?
The Faculty of Convergence Science and Know-how was established to offer and conduct the world’s greatest convergence schooling and analysis primarily based on a variety of educational data to foster artistic convergence expertise with sensible experience and to create new industries by securing key applied sciences primarily based on convergence expertise.
We’re beginning off with the social information science main that mixes humanities and sciences. The objective of this main is to lift leaders who can remedy social points by means of systematic schooling primarily based on information science. Below this main, POSCO and SK Hynix have opened their tracks and we’re discussing opening extra tracks with extra corporations. We additionally plan to supply majors with the AI + X idea, which is the analysis of a area mixed with AI reminiscent of AI + medication, AI + finance, and AI + different industries.
That is POSTECH’s first try at convergence schooling which mixes the liberal arts with the sciences. It should be a big transfer for POSTECH.
In in the present day’s world, the standard boundaries of a nation – reminiscent of politics, tradition, expertise, financial system, and nationwide safety – are disappearing. Particularly, humanity now faces main transformations that they’ve by no means skilled earlier than, such because the COVID-19 pandemic, local weather change, AI improvement, and the upcoming space-age.
It’s an period the place it’s unattainable to clarify one area of examine with out mentioning different fields, and solely a fraction of the entire could be totally understood and never the entire. It’s an period that calls for convergence. Convergence is solely the creation of a brand new area that mixes and applies every separate area of science, expertise, and humanities – and it is usually the method of such endeavors.
POSTECH’s founding tenet bids us to contribute to the nation and humanity by conducting in-depth science and engineering analysis on the profound theories and wide selection of functions important to the development of Korea and the world, and coaching a choose pool of gifted college students to change into future international leaders by means of high-quality schooling. I believe convergence schooling is the very key to appreciate POSTECH’s founding tenet to steer the change that mankind will expertise in the present day and into the long run.
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POSTECH is an establishment with experience in science and engineering – additionally a latecomer the scene. Isn’t {that a} drawback?
For the previous 20 to 30 years, greater schooling has collectively targeted on elevating consultants. This development has led to a specialised society centered round consultants, however it has revealed its limits. These consultants are oblivious to fields outdoors their specialty – They battle to make complete selections or judgments. Because of this many are leaping on the convergence schooling wagon. Nonetheless, there is no such thing as a set path in convergence.
Getting a head begin doesn’t essentially assure getting forward simply as beginning late doesn’t result in falling behind. It signifies that POSTECH has amassed ample information to hunt new paths and decipher a greater route. We are able to forego that a lot trial and error.
POSTECH has meticulously ready for this growth by means of accumulating a lot data below every main over time. POSTECH is an open discussion board the place 300 of the best consultants have gathered. Each skilled within the discussion board will focus on, talk, share data, and discover the artistic methods to maneuver in the direction of the correct route. Convergence is the widespread language that makes this attainable. It’s about acknowledging one’s experience and including a brand new area to it to create one anew. Isn’t POSTECH already demonstrating this functionality by flattening partitions by means of the Mueunjae Faculty of Undergraduate Research and the Faculty of Convergence Science and Know-how?
How will the SCST be operated?
SCST presents a brand new paradigm within the area of future main research crossing the scholastic and industrial boundaries. For this, the varsity will tackle the function of an incubator for improvement and activation of convergence schooling and analysis packages inside POSTECH. We’ll totally help these efforts by rearranging organizational buildings, creating working packages, appropriately allocating areas and funds to stimulate convergence schooling and analysis.
As an illustration, at SCST, professors from completely different departments are free to collect to make new packages inside the faculty at any time. That is an open strategy to eradicate boundaries between particular person departments. We additionally plan to function every program flexibly relying on the success of the packages. As well as, we plan to safe a convergence house on the university-level by rearranging areas in new or present buildings.
