POSTECH’s College of Convergence Science and Expertise (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 endeavor to pursue numerous options to the widespread challenges going through humanity by convergence analysis, and to lift inventive convergence skills with experience. The key is ready to open with two tracks – POSCO and SK Hynix. We converse with Kun-Hong Lee, the Dean of College of Convergence Science and Expertise, to get the small print.
What’s the College of Convergence Science and Expertise and how much analysis and training will it present?
The College of Convergence Science and Expertise was established to offer and conduct the world’s finest convergence training and analysis primarily based on a variety of educational data to foster inventive 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 purpose of this main is to lift leaders who can remedy social points by systematic training primarily based on information science. Below this main, POSCO and SK Hynix have opened their tracks and we’re discussing opening extra tracks with further firms. We additionally plan to supply majors with the AI + X idea, which is the analysis of a discipline mixed with AI reminiscent of AI + medication, AI + finance, and AI + different industries.
That is POSTECH’s first try at convergence training which mixes the liberal arts with the sciences. It should be a big transfer for POSTECH.
In as we speak’s world, the normal boundaries of a nation – reminiscent of politics, tradition, expertise, economic 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 approaching space-age.
It’s an period the place it’s not possible to elucidate one discipline of research with out mentioning different fields, and solely a fraction of the entire may be totally understood and never the entire. It’s an period that calls for convergence. Convergence is just the creation of a brand new discipline that mixes and applies every separate discipline 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 big selection of functions important to the development of Korea and the world, and coaching a choose pool of gifted college students to turn out to be future world leaders by high-quality training. I believe convergence training is the very key to appreciate POSTECH’s founding tenet to steer the change that mankind will expertise as we speak and into the longer term.
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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 training has collectively centered on elevating consultants. This pattern has led to a specialised society centered round consultants, nevertheless it has revealed its limits. These consultants are oblivious to fields outdoors their specialty – They wrestle to make complete choices or judgments. This is the reason many are leaping on the convergence training wagon. Nevertheless, there isn’t 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 accrued 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 enlargement by accumulating a lot data below every main through the years. POSTECH is an open discussion board the place 300 of the best consultants have gathered. Each knowledgeable within the discussion board will focus on, talk, share data, and discover the inventive methods to maneuver in direction of the fitting route. Convergence is the widespread language that makes this doable. It’s about acknowledging one’s experience and including a brand new discipline to it to create one anew. Isn’t POSTECH already demonstrating this functionality by pulling down partitions by the Mueunjae College of Undergraduate Research and the College of Convergence Science and Expertise?
How will the SCST be operated?
SCST presents a brand new paradigm within the discipline of future main research crossing the scholastic and industrial boundaries. For this, the varsity will tackle the position of an incubator for improvement and activation of convergence training and analysis applications inside POSTECH. We are going to totally help these efforts by rearranging organizational buildings, creating working applications, appropriately allocating areas and funds to stimulate convergence training and analysis.
For example, at SCST, professors from completely different departments are free to assemble to make new applications inside the college at any time. That is an open strategy to get rid of obstacles between particular person departments. We additionally plan to function every program flexibly relying on the success of the applications. As well as, we plan to safe a convergence area on the university-level by rearranging areas in new or present buildings.
