KAIST
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KAIST is located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon
, South Korea
. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the nation's first research oriented science and engineering institution. The QS-The Times World University Rankings in the year of 2009 placed KAIST 69th overall and 21st in technology. The most recent 2011 QS World University Rankings
however, ranked KAIST as 90th overall, and 27th in Engineering and IT.
The University's some 540 faculty conducts research in cooperation with academies and industries all over the world. KAIST offers grants and fellowships to international students.
KAIST president, Nam Pyo Suh, is an authority in axiomatic design technology. Soon-Heung Chang, a nuclear scientist, serves as provost and Ji-won Yang, a chemical engineer, as vice president for external affairs.
The University has for many decades, recruited faculty from overseas. Current president Nam Pyo Suh taught for many years at MIT. His predecessor, Robert Laughlin, a Nobel
laureate and a physics professor at Stanford University
, was the first non-Korean to head a Korean university.
The vast majority of professors come from US higher education institutions. The school engages in many international programs with leading European and Asian universities. The university is a member of LAOTSE, an international network of universities in Europe and Asia. It is also a member of the Association of East Asian Research Universities
.
KAIST was established under the name of Korea Advanced Institute of Science (KAIS) under a special law on February 16, 1971, as the first research oriented graduate school in science and engineering in Korea. In 1989, KAIST established the education/research system of special talents in science and engineering fields in bachelor, master and doctoral degrees. Students accepted into the extraordinarily competitive program, were exempt from military duty, but required to remain in Korea for 5 years following graduation, to prevent brain drain
. All other Koreans, of college age, are required to do military duty, unless they are in college, then they must report for military duty soon afterward.
KAIST has led other colleges and research institutions in Korea and was verified by the ABET
assessment (graduate course is within 10% of top US college level) in 1992, evaluation of nationwide colleges by Joongang Ilbo (1995, 1998–2001, 2006, 2008-2010: number one in overall rank, and evaluation of Asian colleges by Asiaweek (1999~2000: Number one in science and technology), Chosun Ilbo evaluation of Asian colleges(2009,overall rank number one in the nation, 7th in Asia, world university ranking of The Times newspaper(2008: 34th of Top 100 world university in Technology) and others.
Over the past 30 years, KAIST has produced 8,453 bachelors, 17,762 masters, 6,726 doctorate holders (doctors under 30 years of age were 2,920, 43.4%) giving a total of 32,941 alumni. The thesis published in SCI (US, Science and Technology Quotation Thesis Search) journals reached approximately 4 articles per each faculty member, and the commissioned research grant was approximately 200 million won per each facility, which is world-class level. The famous scientific publications such as「Nature」 (GB, July 1993) and 「Science」 (USA, October 1993) have assessed that, “KAIST has the potential to be the world best level education institution.”
It founded the National Nano Lab in 2002 and established the KAIST Institute in 2006.
The first act of President Suh upon his inauguration in July 2006 was to lay out the KAIST Development Plan. The ‘KAIST Development Five-Year Plan’ was finalized on February 5, 2007 by KAIST Steering Committee after a thorough examination. The goals of KAIST set by Suh are to become one of the best science and technology universities in the world, and to become one of the top-10 universities by 2011.
In January 2008, the university dropped its full name, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and changed its official name to only KAIST.
Governed by a special law, KAIST has an autonomous and flexible academic system. Other South Korean colleges and universities are required to abide by the government-directed admissions and curriculum requirements. Undergraduate students can join the school through an “open major system” that allows students to take classes for three terms and choose a discipline that suits their aptitude. In addition, undergraduate students are free to change their major anytime.
With Korea’s first test-free admissions system, the overall grades, the math and science grades, recommendation letters from the teachers, study plan, personal statements, and other data that show the excellence of potential students are evaluated for admission.
KAIST has produced many doctorates through the integrated master’s and doctoral program and early-completion system. Students must publish their papers in internationally renowned academic journals.
Scholarships are given to all students in the bachelor, master and doctorate courses, and doctoral students are given military-exemption benefits. On campus dormitories are provided to all those who wish to use them.
The College of Natural Sciences also holds the Natural Science Research Institute as an annexed research institute. The college has greatly contributed to academic-research-business exchange through cooperative studies with governmental research institutes and companies. In addition, it actively operates international cooperative projects through academic exchanges.
The College of Life Science and Bioengineering has developed a system that facilitates innovative convergence education and research in the field of bioscience and bioengineering through organic combinations or independent activities of its departments. With this system, the College hopes to contribute to enhancing health care and welfare around the world.
The College of Engineering aims to foster highly qualified science and technology personnel needed by industrial, research and government organizations and to build a harmonious structure of cooperation among industry, academia, research and government.
The College consists of 1 school, 4 departments, 3 divisions and 1 professional graduate school each with a unique domain and set of characteristics which maintain a system of mutual cooperation among them to engage in broad and systematic education and research. This will, in turn, lead to the advancement of science and technology as well as the industrial technology of the nation.
The KAIST College of Information Science and Technology is aimed at nurturing creative leaders equipped to address the world's complex problems by creating and developing information technologies. It will support pioneers of information technology through teaching and research within an environment where multidisciplinary research and education is encouraged.
The College of Information Science and Technology will pursue research and education for emerging and fusion information technologies including Bio-IT, Nano-IT, Contents-IT and Green-IT and, at the same time, will establish advanced education and research systems for this purpose so that it can further cement Korea's reputation as a leader of IT innovation and convergence. On top of this, it will pioneer new fields of intelligent service for the 21st century and thereby transform Korea into one of the strongest powers in the future knowledge-based society.
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences offers students an undergraduate education in a range of courses in the humanities and social sciences. The Graduate School of Culture and Technology also provides master and doctoral degree programs for the purpose of producing manpower of the nation’s cultural industry with support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences has about 75 faculty members (3 professor emeritus, 18 full-time faculties, 13 visiting professors, 1 research professor, 40 lecturers), the Graduate School of Culture and Technology also has 4 full-time faculties, 5 visiting professors, 7 adjunct professors, and 89 master students and 36 doctoral students. The Graduate School established the Humanities and Social Science Research Center and the Culture and Technology Research Center, and has carried out various research projects.
In 2006, the 3 graduate schools of KAIST were combined under the single name of KAIST Business School. Whilst still maintaining a degree of autonomy, this move has allowed for increased cooperation between the schools in working towards the common goal of developing a world renowned technology-based management school. The 3 separate schools are the KAIST Graduate School of Management, KAIST Graduate School of Finance, and the KAIST Graduate School of Information & Media Management.
KAIST Business School provides general MBA programs (Techno-MBA, IMBA, Executive MBA), specialized MBA programs (Finance MBA, Information & Media MBA) and MS/Ph.D.
, 150 kilometers south of the capital Seoul
. Daedeok is also home to some 50 public and private research institutes, universities and high-tech venture capital companies.
KAIST has two campuses in Daejeon
and one campus in Seoul.
KAIST Daejeon campus (besides Daejeon Expo Park) plays main roles including lectures, research activities, housing services. It has total twenty nine dormitories where all students wishing to reside can stay. Twenty three dormitories for male students and four dormitories for female students are located on the outskirts of the campus, and two apartments for married students are located outside the campus.
KAIST Munji campus, KAIST Information Technology Convergence Campus near main campus, has total two dormitories. One for undergraduate students and the other for graduate students.
KAIST Seoul Campus is the home of Business Faculty of the university. Graduate school of finance, management and information & media management is located there. The total area of Seoul Campus is 413,346 m2. Its primary goal is to achieve an optimal combination of engineering and business studies which will make engineers more effective at their craft.
KAIST digital science library was established in 1971 as KAIS library, and it went through a merge and separation process with KIST library. It merged with KIT in March 1990. A contemporary 5 story building was constructed as the main library, and it is being operated with an annex library. The library uses the American LC Classification Schedule.
KAIST always does its best to provide optimal facilities to create a cozy atmosphere where students can complete their courses satisfactorily.
, OLEV) where the vehicles get their power needs from cables underneath the surface of the road via non-contact magnetic charging, (where a power source is placed underneath the road surface and power is wirelessly picked up on the vehicle itself. As a possible solution to traffic congestion and to improve overall efficiency by minimizing air resistance and so reduce energy consumption, the test vehicles followed the power track in a convoy
. In July 2009 the researchers successfully supplied up to 60% power to a bus over a gap of 12 cm (4.7 in) from a power line embedded in the ground using power supply and pick up technology developed in-house.
ranked KAIST 90th overall in the world, coming 27th in Engineering & IT. In the 2009 THE-QS World University Rankings (in 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings
and QS World University Rankings
parted ways to produce separate rankings) for Engineering & IT, the University was placed 21st in the world and 1st in Korea and was placed 69th overall. KAIST was again recognized as a number one University in Korea by Joong Angh Ill Bo Review. In the year of 2009, KAIST's department of industrial design has also been listed in the top 30 Design Schools by Business Week. KAIST ranked the best university in Republic of Korea and the 7th university in Asia
in the Top 100 Asian Universities list, the first regional ranking issued by THE-QS World Unkings.
Daejeon
Daejeon is South Korea's fifth largest metropolis and the provincial capital of Chungnam. Located in the center of the country, Daejeon had a population of over 1.5 million in 2010. It is at the crossroads of Gyeongbu railway, Honam railway, Gyeongbu Expressway, and Honam Expressway. Within the...
, South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the nation's first research oriented science and engineering institution. The QS-The Times World University Rankings in the year of 2009 placed KAIST 69th overall and 21st in technology. The most recent 2011 QS World University Rankings
QS World University Rankings
The QS World University Rankings is a ranking of the world’s top 500 universities by Quacquarelli Symonds using a method that has published annually since 2004....
however, ranked KAIST as 90th overall, and 27th in Engineering and IT.
Institutions
KAIST was founded with government funding and was initially staffed with a number of Korean engineering and science talents educated in the United States. From the onset, the emphasis has been in theoretical as well as applied research. KAIST continues to be Korea's foremost center of strategic research and development (R&D) projects. The University helped pioneer the establishment of competitive research oriented graduate school programs in Korea.The University's some 540 faculty conducts research in cooperation with academies and industries all over the world. KAIST offers grants and fellowships to international students.
KAIST president, Nam Pyo Suh, is an authority in axiomatic design technology. Soon-Heung Chang, a nuclear scientist, serves as provost and Ji-won Yang, a chemical engineer, as vice president for external affairs.
The University has for many decades, recruited faculty from overseas. Current president Nam Pyo Suh taught for many years at MIT. His predecessor, Robert Laughlin, a Nobel
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
laureate and a physics professor at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, was the first non-Korean to head a Korean university.
The vast majority of professors come from US higher education institutions. The school engages in many international programs with leading European and Asian universities. The university is a member of LAOTSE, an international network of universities in Europe and Asia. It is also a member of the Association of East Asian Research Universities
Association of East Asian Research Universities
The Association of East Asian Research Universities, established in 1996 by nine universities of East Asian region, is now the organisation of 17 universities...
.
History
| February 16, 1971 | Establishment of Korea Advanced Institute of Science (KAIS), Hongneung Campus, Seoul |
| March 5, 1973 | First entrance ceremony for the master’s program |
| August 20, 1975 | First graduation ceremony for the master’s program |
| September 12, 1975 | First entrance ceremony for the doctoral program |
| August 19, 1978 | First graduation ceremony for the doctoral program |
| December 31, 1980 | Establishment of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) united with KIST |
| December 31, 1984 | Establishment of Korea Institute of Technology, newly added bachelor degree course |
| March 3, 1986 | First entrance ceremony for Korea Institute of Technology |
| June 12, 1989 | KIST separated from KAIST |
| July 4, 1989 | United with Korea Institute of Technology (move to Daedeok Campus) |
| December 17, 1990 | First graduation ceremony for bachelor’s program |
| October 1, 1996 | Establishment of Korea Institute of Advanced Study (KIAS) Korea Institute for Advanced Study The Korea Institute for Advanced Study is an advanced research institute in Korea. It is located on a campus at 207-43 Cheongnyangni 2-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea.... |
| May 4, 2004 | Foundation of the National Nanofab Center (NNFC) |
| January 1, 2008 | Name change to only KAIST, replacing the spelled-out name |
| March 1, 2009 | Information and Communications University Information and Communications University Information and Communications University , established in 1998, was a Korean university focused primarily on research and engineering in the field of information technology. It was located in the city of Daejeon and comprised an engineering school and a management school. As of 2006, about 20% of... (ICU) was merged into KAIST as KAIST Information Technology Convergence Campus |
KAIST was established under the name of Korea Advanced Institute of Science (KAIS) under a special law on February 16, 1971, as the first research oriented graduate school in science and engineering in Korea. In 1989, KAIST established the education/research system of special talents in science and engineering fields in bachelor, master and doctoral degrees. Students accepted into the extraordinarily competitive program, were exempt from military duty, but required to remain in Korea for 5 years following graduation, to prevent brain drain
Brain drain
Human capital flight, more commonly referred to as "brain drain", is the large-scale emigration of a large group of individuals with technical skills or knowledge. The reasons usually include two aspects which respectively come from countries and individuals...
. All other Koreans, of college age, are required to do military duty, unless they are in college, then they must report for military duty soon afterward.
Abet
Abet may refer to:* Abet Guidaben , former Philippine Basketball Association basketball player* ABET, Inc., a non-profit organization that accredits higher education programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology....
assessment (graduate course is within 10% of top US college level) in 1992, evaluation of nationwide colleges by Joongang Ilbo (1995, 1998–2001, 2006, 2008-2010: number one in overall rank, and evaluation of Asian colleges by Asiaweek (1999~2000: Number one in science and technology), Chosun Ilbo evaluation of Asian colleges(2009,overall rank number one in the nation, 7th in Asia, world university ranking of The Times newspaper(2008: 34th of Top 100 world university in Technology) and others.
Over the past 30 years, KAIST has produced 8,453 bachelors, 17,762 masters, 6,726 doctorate holders (doctors under 30 years of age were 2,920, 43.4%) giving a total of 32,941 alumni. The thesis published in SCI (US, Science and Technology Quotation Thesis Search) journals reached approximately 4 articles per each faculty member, and the commissioned research grant was approximately 200 million won per each facility, which is world-class level. The famous scientific publications such as「Nature」 (GB, July 1993) and 「Science」 (USA, October 1993) have assessed that, “KAIST has the potential to be the world best level education institution.”
It founded the National Nano Lab in 2002 and established the KAIST Institute in 2006.
The first act of President Suh upon his inauguration in July 2006 was to lay out the KAIST Development Plan. The ‘KAIST Development Five-Year Plan’ was finalized on February 5, 2007 by KAIST Steering Committee after a thorough examination. The goals of KAIST set by Suh are to become one of the best science and technology universities in the world, and to become one of the top-10 universities by 2011.
In January 2008, the university dropped its full name, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and changed its official name to only KAIST.
Academic Program
6 colleges, 2 Schools, 21 departments, 3 divisions, 6 professional graduate schools and 10 interdisciplinary programs.Governed by a special law, KAIST has an autonomous and flexible academic system. Other South Korean colleges and universities are required to abide by the government-directed admissions and curriculum requirements. Undergraduate students can join the school through an “open major system” that allows students to take classes for three terms and choose a discipline that suits their aptitude. In addition, undergraduate students are free to change their major anytime.
With Korea’s first test-free admissions system, the overall grades, the math and science grades, recommendation letters from the teachers, study plan, personal statements, and other data that show the excellence of potential students are evaluated for admission.
KAIST has produced many doctorates through the integrated master’s and doctoral program and early-completion system. Students must publish their papers in internationally renowned academic journals.
Scholarships are given to all students in the bachelor, master and doctorate courses, and doctoral students are given military-exemption benefits. On campus dormitories are provided to all those who wish to use them.
College of Natural Science
The College of Natural Sciences consists of three departments and one professional graduate school : Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Chemistry and Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology. It strives to nurture qualified scientists and engineers with a profound theoretical knowledge and practical application abilities so that they may later take on key roles in society. Each department is in charge of not only the education of each subject but also the education of elementary science subjects for all undergraduate students. Furthermore, it maintains a wide and systematic relationship with each department, maintaining a close,cooperative system. The College of Natural Sciences has received domestic and international recognition for its achievement of active research projects for contributing to a research-oriented graduate/undergraduate education and to new technology industrial development.The College of Natural Sciences also holds the Natural Science Research Institute as an annexed research institute. The college has greatly contributed to academic-research-business exchange through cooperative studies with governmental research institutes and companies. In addition, it actively operates international cooperative projects through academic exchanges.
College of Life Science and Bioengineering
Founded on June 1, 2008, the College of Life Science and Bioengineering pursues multidisciplinary education and research in the field of bioscience, biotechnology, and bioengineering. Its goal is to support the nation’s endeavor to develop bioscience and technology by fostering new areas of science through convergence with IT and NT. The college consists of the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, the Department of Biological Science, and the Graduate Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering.The College of Life Science and Bioengineering has developed a system that facilitates innovative convergence education and research in the field of bioscience and bioengineering through organic combinations or independent activities of its departments. With this system, the College hopes to contribute to enhancing health care and welfare around the world.
College of Engineering
The College consists of 1 school, 4 departments, 3 divisions and 1 professional graduate school each with a unique domain and set of characteristics which maintain a system of mutual cooperation among them to engage in broad and systematic education and research. This will, in turn, lead to the advancement of science and technology as well as the industrial technology of the nation.
College of Information Science and Technology
In an endeavor to take the initiative in developing information technology (IT) for the 21st century, KAIST is launching the new College of Information Science and Technology in 2008 by relocating the Departments of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering from the College of Engineering and establishing the Department of Knowledge Service Engineering. In 2009 when ICU merge into KAIST, Department of Information and Communications Engineering at ICU comes into College of Information Science and Technology.The KAIST College of Information Science and Technology is aimed at nurturing creative leaders equipped to address the world's complex problems by creating and developing information technologies. It will support pioneers of information technology through teaching and research within an environment where multidisciplinary research and education is encouraged.
The College of Information Science and Technology will pursue research and education for emerging and fusion information technologies including Bio-IT, Nano-IT, Contents-IT and Green-IT and, at the same time, will establish advanced education and research systems for this purpose so that it can further cement Korea's reputation as a leader of IT innovation and convergence. On top of this, it will pioneer new fields of intelligent service for the 21st century and thereby transform Korea into one of the strongest powers in the future knowledge-based society.
College of Cultural Science
The College of Culture and Science is composed of two Departments: School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Graduate School of Culture and Technology. The College was established to produce Creative Global Leaders in the realm of science and technology with a common objective of cultural understanding through mutual cooperation.The School of Humanities and Social Sciences offers students an undergraduate education in a range of courses in the humanities and social sciences. The Graduate School of Culture and Technology also provides master and doctoral degree programs for the purpose of producing manpower of the nation’s cultural industry with support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences has about 75 faculty members (3 professor emeritus, 18 full-time faculties, 13 visiting professors, 1 research professor, 40 lecturers), the Graduate School of Culture and Technology also has 4 full-time faculties, 5 visiting professors, 7 adjunct professors, and 89 master students and 36 doctoral students. The Graduate School established the Humanities and Social Science Research Center and the Culture and Technology Research Center, and has carried out various research projects.
College of Interdisciplinary Studies
The interdisciplinary major program at KAIST was founded on September 1, 2003. With the subsequent establishment of auxiliary organizations, the program was launched in earnest in April 2004.College of Business
KAIST Business School (also known as KAIST College of Business) is a graduate school for research and teaching in science and technology.In 2006, the 3 graduate schools of KAIST were combined under the single name of KAIST Business School. Whilst still maintaining a degree of autonomy, this move has allowed for increased cooperation between the schools in working towards the common goal of developing a world renowned technology-based management school. The 3 separate schools are the KAIST Graduate School of Management, KAIST Graduate School of Finance, and the KAIST Graduate School of Information & Media Management.
KAIST Business School provides general MBA programs (Techno-MBA, IMBA, Executive MBA), specialized MBA programs (Finance MBA, Information & Media MBA) and MS/Ph.D.
- KAIST Graduate School of Management (Techno-MBA, IMBA, Executive MBA)
- KAIST Graduate School of Finance & Accounting (Finance MBA)
- KAIST Graduate School of Information & Media Management (Information & Media MBA)
- Management Engineering (MS/Ph.D)
Campus
KAIST is mainly located in the Daedeok Research Complex in the city of DaejeonDaejeon
Daejeon is South Korea's fifth largest metropolis and the provincial capital of Chungnam. Located in the center of the country, Daejeon had a population of over 1.5 million in 2010. It is at the crossroads of Gyeongbu railway, Honam railway, Gyeongbu Expressway, and Honam Expressway. Within the...
, 150 kilometers south of the capital Seoul
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
. Daedeok is also home to some 50 public and private research institutes, universities and high-tech venture capital companies.
KAIST has two campuses in Daejeon
Daejeon
Daejeon is South Korea's fifth largest metropolis and the provincial capital of Chungnam. Located in the center of the country, Daejeon had a population of over 1.5 million in 2010. It is at the crossroads of Gyeongbu railway, Honam railway, Gyeongbu Expressway, and Honam Expressway. Within the...
and one campus in Seoul.
KAIST Daejeon campus (besides Daejeon Expo Park) plays main roles including lectures, research activities, housing services. It has total twenty nine dormitories where all students wishing to reside can stay. Twenty three dormitories for male students and four dormitories for female students are located on the outskirts of the campus, and two apartments for married students are located outside the campus.
KAIST Munji campus, KAIST Information Technology Convergence Campus near main campus, has total two dormitories. One for undergraduate students and the other for graduate students.
KAIST Seoul Campus is the home of Business Faculty of the university. Graduate school of finance, management and information & media management is located there. The total area of Seoul Campus is 413,346 m2. Its primary goal is to achieve an optimal combination of engineering and business studies which will make engineers more effective at their craft.
Digital Science Library
Research
Seven KAIST Institutes (KIs) have been set up: the KI for the BioCentury, the KI for Information Technology Convergence, the KI for the Design of Complex Systems, the KI for Entertainment Engineering, the KI for the NanoCentury, the KI for Eco-Energy, and the KI for Urban Space and Systems. Each KI is operated as an independent research center at the level of a college, receiving support in terms of finance and facilities. KAIST is currently conducting research planned by the government and private businesses that are worth mounts as much as 100 billion won. In terms of ownership of intellectual property rights, KAIST holds 2,694 domestic patents and 723 international patents so far.Electric vehicles
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed an electric transport system (called Online Electric VehicleOnline Electric Vehicle
Online Electric Vehicle is an electric vehicle using electromagnetic induction. On Tuesday, 9 March 2010 researchers from The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology launched a public transport system using a "recharging road". Electric power strips have been buried 30 cm deep...
, OLEV) where the vehicles get their power needs from cables underneath the surface of the road via non-contact magnetic charging, (where a power source is placed underneath the road surface and power is wirelessly picked up on the vehicle itself. As a possible solution to traffic congestion and to improve overall efficiency by minimizing air resistance and so reduce energy consumption, the test vehicles followed the power track in a convoy
Convoy
A convoy is a group of vehicles, typically motor vehicles or ships, traveling together for mutual support and protection. Often, a convoy is organized with armed defensive support, though it may also be used in a non-military sense, for example when driving through remote areas.-Age of Sail:Naval...
. In July 2009 the researchers successfully supplied up to 60% power to a bus over a gap of 12 cm (4.7 in) from a power line embedded in the ground using power supply and pick up technology developed in-house.
Academic rankings
In 2011 QS World University RankingsQS World University Rankings
The QS World University Rankings is a ranking of the world’s top 500 universities by Quacquarelli Symonds using a method that has published annually since 2004....
ranked KAIST 90th overall in the world, coming 27th in Engineering & IT. In the 2009 THE-QS World University Rankings (in 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings
Times Higher Education World University Rankings
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an international ranking of universities published by the British magazine Times Higher Education in partnership with Thomson Reuters, which provided citation database information...
and QS World University Rankings
QS World University Rankings
The QS World University Rankings is a ranking of the world’s top 500 universities by Quacquarelli Symonds using a method that has published annually since 2004....
parted ways to produce separate rankings) for Engineering & IT, the University was placed 21st in the world and 1st in Korea and was placed 69th overall. KAIST was again recognized as a number one University in Korea by Joong Angh Ill Bo Review. In the year of 2009, KAIST's department of industrial design has also been listed in the top 30 Design Schools by Business Week. KAIST ranked the best university in Republic of Korea and the 7th university in Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
in the Top 100 Asian Universities list, the first regional ranking issued by THE-QS World Unkings.
Daedeok Innopolis
Daedeok Innopolis, formally known as the Daedeok Science Park, is a cluster of institutions in research and development of technology located in Daedeok Valley in northern Daejeon, Korea. The cluster is built around KAIST, Korea's leading technical university, Chungnam University, a group of government research institutes in applied technologies, corporate research centers and more than 900 venture companies.See also
- Education in South KoreaEducation in South KoreaEducation in South Korea is viewed as being crucial for success and competition is consequently very heated and fierce. A centralized administration oversees the process for the education of children from kindergarten to the third and final year of high school. Mathematics, science, Korean, social...
- List of colleges and universities in South Korea
- List of Korea-related topics
External links
- KAIST, the official website in English
- KAIST, the official website in Korean
- Daedeok Innopolis
- KAIST Business School, Facebook Group
- KAIST Computer Science Department, Facebook Group, Twitter
- Topuniversities.com