“A Department for Future Leaders of Overseas Development in the Smart City Industry!”Division of Smart Cities
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산학협력관 401호
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homepageIntroduction
A smart city is a sustainable city that provides a variety of progressive city services and can independently solve problems based on urban infrastructure that is built by converging or combining information and communication technology with high-tech elements in urban planning and design.
A smart city is a platform for the national future industry that can create new industries by improving the city's competitiveness and its citizens' quality of life by utilizing innovative technologies from the 4th industrial revolution, while also enhancing the city's sustainability.
Smart cities are one of the four policy directions and eight core leading projects according to the current government’s innovation and electricity investment plan. This is an area that is in desperate need of active human resources to solve various issues including convergence services, urban planning, infrastructure, safety, energy, environment, and governance. It is necessary to train people to meet the demands of the future industry by providing smart city education programs that consider domestic and overseas smart city policies and demands, breaking away from the existing limited and superficial education programs.
The Division of Smart Cities at Korea University Sejong Campus started its undergraduate program for the first time in Korea in March 2021, aiming to develop advanced human resources who will lead the smart city industry, which is considered a core platform of the 4th industrial revolution. Students in the Division of Smart City plan, design, construct and operate cutting-edge smart facilities and cities in accordance with the development of ICT technology, while playing the key role of leading the reorganization of the global smart city industrial structure and overseas expansion of the smart city industry as convergence specialists who will contribute to policy establishment.
Students in this Division are…
Creative, integrated, practical, global talents who respond to the current demand for a smart city industry and lead its creation
1. Creative and Integrated Thinking Abilities
Students with creative and integrated thinking will lead the technological revolution during the 4th industrial revolution which comprises ICT, big data, urban planning, design, transportation, energy, environment, urban economy, and governance.
2. Practical skills
Students who possess practical skills and a solid theoretical foundation for smart city planning, design, and operation that incorporate innovative technology to lead future innovation and demonstrate the ability to solve various urban problems.
3. Global competency
Ambitious students with outstanding talent and passion for foreign languages and global leadership to lead global smart city planning, design, and operation
Educational Goals
The Division of Smart Cities aims to develop advanced human resources who will lead the smart city industry with specialized skills in the design and operation of smart cities. To this end, we provide a variety of interdisciplinary convergence and complex curricula such as urban planning, urban design, traffic engineering, big data, ICT, AI, energy, environment, urban economy, welfare, and governance, while providing problem-solving living lab-centered classes and caps. Through practical training courses such as stone design and corporate internships, we aim to foster creative, convergence, practical, and global talents with both theory and practice to lead the era of the 4th industrial revolution.
Career Path for Graduates
There are various employment opportunities for a smart city integrated student who is expected to lead the technological revolution in the era of the 4th industrial revolution which will encompass ICT, big data, urban planning, design, transportation, energy, environment, urban economy, and governance such as: (1) Smart city construction and design-related career paths (2) information and communication technology-related careers, and (3) smart city policy establishment and operation groups in public corporations and public institutions.
1. Industry
- Smart city construction companies and design engineering companies: Samsung C&T, Hyundai E&C, POSCO E&C, GS E&C, SK E&C, Lotte E&C, Daelim Industrial, Hanwha E&C, Daewoo E&C and design and engineering companies, etc.
- Information and communication companies and related industries: KT, SK, Naver, Kakao, NCSoft, AhnLab, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Samsung SDS, LG CNS, Lotte Information and Communication, etc.
- Public corporations: LH Korea Land and Housing Corporation, SH Seoul Housing and Urban Corporation, Urban Development Corporation, Korea Electric Power Corporation, Energy Corporation, Korea Water Resources Corporation, Korea Environment Corporation, Korea Internet & Security Agency, Human Resources Development Service of Korea, etc.
2. Public institutions
- Central and local government public institutions: Public officials related to the establishment and operation of smart city development plan policies such as the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the Ministry of Environment, and each municipality
- National research institutes and regional research institutes: Korea National Land Research Institute, Transportation Research Institute, Construction Technology Research Institute, Electronics and Communication Research Institute, Energy Technology Research Institute, Environmental Policy Evaluation Research Institute, Seoul Research Institute, Gyeonggi Development Research Institute, Daejeon Sejong Research Institute, etc.
3. Graduate School
- Simultaneous acquisition of a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in 5 years through the bachelor's and master's linked program (7 semesters for the bachelor's degree program, 3 semesters for the master's degree program)