Vision
Trans-disciplinary Smart City Professionals
Smart City is a core platform of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that combines urban planning and development with urban information and communication technologies. The sharp demand for Smart City professional leaders reflects a new type of professionals who can collaborate and communicate with other disciplines while having expertise in their discipline. The future direction of urban planning and development indicates an industry-level transformation that requires a new generation of industries and professionals.
Korean national government has trained more than 5,600 professionals over the past decade through the U-City field, the predecessor of Smart City, and is making efforts at the national level to train key professionals to lead the smart city development in Korea and abroad.
Smart City is a new paradigm for cities of the future that is attracting attention as an academic field that enhances urban functions and creates a sustainable urban environment through technology and citizen participation.
Visions, Strategies, and Expected Outcomes
Visions, Strategies, and Expected Outcomes
- Vision
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Nurture innovative Smart City leaders with a trans-disciplinary professionalism
- Strategy
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Build a curriculum focused on building personal capacity to collaborate and expedite convergence.
- 1. Building a multi-disciplinary curriculum
- 2. Improving basic understanding through Smart City theory education
- 3. Enhancing ability of comprehensive understanding and application of various expertise
- 4. Establishing a Smart City network through cooperation with local governments and public corporations
- 5. Utilizing the existing Smart City-related human and intellectual infrastructure of participating departments
- Expected Outcomes
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- Foster aspirating professional leaders accelerating future urban innovations.
- Equipped with innovative professional capabilities in trans-disciplinary working environments, every alumnus is expected to actively participate in the smart city industry as leaders in the real-world market as well as research and academia. And we expect graduates from our program to contribute to the creation of new jobs as well as education of talented leaders in smart cities.
RESEARCH
- Vision
- Nurturing research in a multitude of disciplines like Architecture and Urban Planning, Data Analysis, Tele-communication, Artificial Intelligence, Urban Management, and Smart Architecture and Smart Factories aimed at bringing a sustainable future.
- Strategy
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Building innovative levels of research capabilities through qualitative growth of research
- 1. Establishing an innovative research hub through Smart City Research Center (SCRC)
- 2. Promoting collaborations through MOU with public and private research centers
- 3. Hosting a range of joint conferences for educators, researchers, and industry leaders
- 4. Offering research opportunities for post doctorate and research professors to take part in advanced smart city researches
- Expected Outcomes
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- Accelerate sustainable urban growth and innovative technology development
- The participation of Smart City professionals in projects can ultimately contribute to the efficient management of land and cities, the promotion of citizens' awareness and participation in Living Labs, the establishment of a sustainable urban growth foundation, and the advancement and commercialization of innovative technologies