By Dale Long/Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Special to the Tribune-Star
December 17, 2008 10:18 pm
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has entered into an agreement with the Korea University of Technology and Education to promote cooperation in engineering education.
The agreement also is to facilitate an international exchange of students and faculty, and to promote applied research of mutual interest.
KUT adds to the growing list of international universities and colleges with whom Rose-Hulman is working to improve engineering education.
Rose-Hulman President Gerald S. Jakubowski and KUT President Un-ki Jeon signed the agreement during a recent campus visit by several key administrators of the Korean university.
Rose-Hulman and KUT will develop collaborative senior design projects and joint applied research projects; exchange faculty, students, books, tutorial materials and joint publications; and organize international conferences in the areas of science, engineering and mathematics education.
“This collaboration opens educational avenues for Rose-Hulman students and faculty, and helps us achieve our institutional strategic objective in the area of globalization,” stated Jakubowski. “We’re looking forward to working together with KUT students and faculty to further improve engineering education in both of our countries. This is another example that there are no boundaries in engineering education.”
Jeon stated at the agreement-signing ceremony: “We are delighted that KUT and Rose-Hulman will enjoy a long-standing friendship with each other. Over the last several years, the interest in establishing programs of cooperation such as this has been steadily increasing. As mankind becomes increasingly aware that borders are imaginary, and that we are all neighbors and even family, it also becomes wiser. This agreement commits us to work together more closely towards our common goal: the pursuit of improved educational opportunities for Rose-Hulman’s and KUT’s upcoming generation of students.”
With more than 3,600 undergraduate students, KUT is a government-supported university in Cheonan City, South Korea, that was opened in 1992 to specialize in teaching practical engineering and human resources development. The college is highly regarded for its 100 percent graduate career placement, lab-based practice program and re-education vocational programs for field engineers.
Namho Kim, KUT’s dean of external cooperation, added that KUT wanted to join with Rose-Hulman because of both institutions’ primary focus on undergraduate engineering education.
“Rose-Hulman is the American university that puts education at the core of its value structure. We share the same ideals and values. It would only be natural for us to work together to help create better engineers and scientists — on both sides of the world,” Kim said.
Other KUT administrators visiting Rose-Hulman were Woo Young Lee, dean of industry, and Kilsang Yoo, president of the academic information institute.
Joining Jakubowski in meeting with the KIT contingent during the visit were the following Rose-Hulman administrators, faculty and staff members: Art Western, vice president of academic affairs and dean of faculty; Rob Coons, vice president and chief administrative officer; Pete Gustafson, vice president of student affairs and dean of students; James Goecker, vice president of enrollment management; Mark Lindemood, vice president of institutional advancement; Peter Ciancone, director of external affairs; Julia Williams, executive director of institutional research, planning and assessment; Karen DeGrange, director of international student services; William Kline, associate dean for professional experience; Kay C. Dee, director of Rose-Hulman’s Center for the Practice and Scholarship of Education; Cary Laxer, head of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering; Ronald Artigue, professor of chemical engineering; Pat Ferro, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; and Jung Hun Kim, assistant professor of economics.
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