KOREA UNIVERSITY Graduate School Department of Smart City

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Graduate School Department of Smart City

Curriculum

The developed systematic multi-disciplinary curriculum fosters Smart City experts who meet real needs that combine social science fields such as Urban Administration and Management and Industrial Management with engineering fields such as Architecture, Urban Planning, and Design, Information and Communication, and Machine Learning

Curriculum organization

Basic Course

Introduction to Smart City, Theories and Trends in Urban Planning and Design

Core Course

Energy for Smart Cities, Smart City and Placemaking, Machine Learning Techniques for Smart City, Living Lab for Smart City, Smart Transportation Systems in Smart Cities, Integrated Smart Security System Design

Elective Course

Recycling in Smart City, Optimal Control and Operation of Eco-friendly Energy System for Smart City

The curriculum is divided into core and elective courses, and some subjects are designated for code sharing with courses from other departments in order to make students choose and build their own expertise

Core Courses

Core Courses
Introduction of Smart City SMA501 Learn basic conceptual definitions of Smart City and approaches to urban composition and basic theory
Energy for Smart City SMA502 Learn basic theories and performance evaluation methods for designing renewable energy-based energy systems for Smart City
Living Lab for Smart City SMA503 Learn methods and design techniques for building Living Labs for providing services in Smart City

Elective Courses

Elective Courses
Theories and Trends in Urban Planning and Design SMA551 Understand Urban Planning theory and recent trends based on the history and background of Urban Planning and Urban Design
Smart City and Placemaking SMA552 Based on the values covered in urban planning and design, it fosters the overall insight and thinking needed to realize a society, individual and people-centered city, not just a technology-based smart city
Machine Learning Techniques for Smart city SMA800 For integrated management, a new paradigm in existing urban management methods, learn the concepts of supervised learning techniques such as decision trees, artificial neural networks, support vector machines, and self-study techniques for clustering, and learn more about deep learning, big data, etc.
Smart Transportation Systems in Smart Cities SMA554 On ICT-based smart transportation and logistics systems for smart cities, explore key concepts and issues related to various smart transportations such as transportation infrastructure, intelligent transportation systems, transportation and environment, mobility, etc.
Integrated Smart Security System Design SMA801 Study security design techniques that can prevent crimes and deviations, which are inevitable social pathologies occurring in large cities, or anti-social crimes and terrorism against multi-use facilities, by converging them with smart technology
Recycling in Smart City SMA555 Learn the underlying theory for resource recycling of waste generated within Smart City and study recent technology trends
Optimal Control and Operation of Eco- friendly Energy System for Smart City SMA556 For optimal control of eco-friendly energy supply systems in Smart City, learn concepts of Artificial Intelligence -based optimal control techniques such as artificial neural networks, RNN models, reinforcement learning -based real-time adaptive optimal control algorithms, etc., and acquire techniques of eco-friendly energy supply and Smart City energy consumption prediction