Signed the 'Industry-Academic Employment Agreement' with LG Electronics and LG Display
Every year 20 employment opportunities guaranteed from new students of 2010
[Dec 17, 2009]
Cho, Gwan-sik (left), executive director of LG Electronics, and Cho, Kye-Hyun, dean of External Cooperation of Yeungnam University, is signing an agreement for industry-academic cooperation education and employment guarantee of the 'Major of Green Energy Association'.
Students majoring in 'Green Energy Association' at Yeungnam University are guaranteed employment at large conglomerates at the time of their admission.
Yeungnam University (president Lee, Hyo-soo) signed an 'industry-academic employment agreement' with LG Electronics (CEO, Nam, Yong) at the LG Electronics Institute of Technology in the morning of the 17th.
With the agreement on the promotion of the industry-academic cooperation education and the employment to foster on-site type engineering human resources, Yeungnam University and LG Electronics organized an 'industry-academic cooperation operation committee' and agreed to focus on fostering excellent engineering HR through customized education programs. In particular, LG Electronics promised to hire five students majoring in the 'Green Energy Association' that will be newly established in 2010.
On the 26th of last month, an 'industrial-academic employment agreement' was also concluded with LG Display (CEO Kwon, Yeong-soo) and pledged to hire 15 students every year among those majoring in the 'Green Energy Association'.
Thus, 20 of the 25 student (80%) for the Yeungnam University 'Major of Green Energy Association' that will be newly created in 2010 will be guaranteed employment in LG Electronics and LG Display immediately after graduating.
Lee, Hyo-soo, president of Yeungnam University, stated that, "The goal of this is for mutual win-win by the university fostering excellent human resources fitting the requirements of the company, and by the company trusting in the university and employing its students." He also added, "Since students majoring in Green Energy Association do not have to spend their time preparing to find a job, they will be able to devote more of their time to schoolwork."
Meanwhile, the 'Major of Green Energy Association' selected a total of 25 students in the 2010; students quota are 4 from the Department of Physics, 7 from the School of Mechanical Engineering Major of Mechanical Advanced Engineering, 7 from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, and 7 from the School of Display and Chemical Engineering. A special feature of this is that professors of different majors will be lecturing and providing student guidance in unison to foster experts in the 'green energy' sector, which is yet an untouched field through fusion-convergence between different academic disciplines.
Because students in the Major of Green Energy Association can acquire two diplomas at the time of their graduation, they will attain more competitive edge. This is because in this era where more than 85% of high school graduates go on to universities, one cannot be competitive with a normal diploma. In addition, new students in the 'Major of Green Energy Association' receive full scholarships, and also the special opportunity to study abroad for a short period. Applicants for this major must be in the top 23% for language, math, foreign language, and science (average of 3 subjects).
