Business & Economics Hall and IT Hall newly opened, offering high-tech educational environment
Completed construction of CRC building, procured research base for conversion in campus
Increased power supply by 10,000KW to for providing stable energy supply
[Apr 6, 2012]
Yeungnam University campus underwent a major facelift.
YU (president Lee, Hyo-soo) recently held its construction and remodeling completion ceremony for the Business & Economics Halll, IT Hall and CRC building and completed its change into a high-tech and pleasant campus.
The new building of the Business & Economics Hall that just opened its doors has one underground level and stands four stories tall with a total floor area of 3,131m². Construction for this began in April of last year and was completed in late February of this year. The new building of the Business & Economics Hall, in which 3.6 billion won was invested for construction, is equipped with graduate school research labs, information retrieval rooms, high-tech multi-functional lecture room, small and medium sized classrooms, seminar rooms, and a global lounge to provide the best educational environment for academics and research.
The IT Hall(Information & Telecommunication Hall) extended and remodeled the main building of the College of Engineering, recreating it into a high-tech building with a vast floor areas of 7,141m². The IT Hall, in which about 3.3 billion won was invested in equipped with an electric room, is aiming to generate synergy effects for IT education and research by locating the Departments of Information and Communication Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Electronic Engineering here.
The CRC (Convergence Research Cluster) building, which will act as a base for convergence within the campus, also held its completion ceremony on this day. About 11.8 billion won was invested for the construction of this building and took about 10 months to build since beginning its construction in mid April last year. This building spans across a total floor space of 7,738m² and has one underground level, while standing five stories tall. The CRC building is planning to integrate human and material resources for the technological research in green energy such as the LED-IT Fusion Technology Research Center, Center for Green Car Parts, Solar Cell Materials and Process R&D Workforce Cultivation Program, and LINC project team, while also fostering the human resources. Using this as a stepping stone, YU is preparing takes its next leap into becoming a world-class local hub university that will lead convergence research.
In addition, for the stable supple of energy within the campus, YU invested 7.9 billion won from late last year for two months for construction to increase the energy supply. In result, an additional 10,000KW supply was added to the original electric power capacity so to make it possible to supply a total of 20,000KW of electric power in the campus. The voltage of the supply of electric power was also doubled from 3.3KV to 6.6KV. Furthermore, cutting-edge electric power control facilities were also added to the substation in order to minimize unnecessary waste of energy.
On these changes, YU president Lee, Hyo-soo stated, "YU keeps an audacious challenge to shift the paradigm of current university education. In such course, changes in not only software such as education and research, but also changes in the hardware are needed." He added, "We will continuously work on making the best campus environment for world-class education and research."
Woo, Eui-Hyung, chairman of Yeungnam Academy Foundation, who participated in this event to congratulate the completion of construction stated in his address, "As of today, Yeungnam University is equipped with grand facilities including 188 buildings and a total area of over 460,000m². I hope that with the upgraded education and research environments, the entire faculty of our university will work harder to train world-class human resources, while publishing research papers that the entire world will take notice of." He also added, "Yeungnam Academy Foundation will also provide its full support to enhance the competitiveness of the university."
