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Innovation of Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering Curriculum at Seoul National University Hang S. Choi Professor, Department of Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering Seoul National University

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In this paper, it is described how the curriculum for naval architecture and ocean engineering (NAOE) of Seoul National University (SNU) will be changed in the era of modern IT technology. Since its foundation in 1946, the Department of NAOE at SNU has played the leading role in naval architectural education and research in Korea, which is currently ranked the top position of the world in the area of production and order book of new ships. However, the Department of NAOE at SNU is now suffering from the lack of new students, as studying NAOE has become unattractive to young students. In order to overcome such problem, we are now trying to innovate our curriculum in two ways, which are discussed in this paper. Through such innovation, we hope the number of new students to the Department of NAOE at SNU will increase significantly.

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Seoul National University (SNU) has long been regarded as the best university in Korea in every respect since its foundation in 1946. Among the 16 colleges in SNU, Engineering College is the largest one consisting of 6 schools and 4 departments. These have been transformed from 19 departments: The 6 schools were established quite recently under the so- called school reform whereby 2 or 3 departments were merged into one1. For example, in the case of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, three former departments- Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Design and Production, Aerospace Engineering-were merged. The main objective of the school reform was to expose students with diverse courses and to allow them to choose their major from a rather broad field. In addition, freshmen are admitted to the Engineering College without being designated a fixed major. They would decide their major after having completed the freshman year. These students will be offered to take introductory courses for engineering majors each semester to help them grasp the kinds of studies they will be going to do and the kind of career path awaiting them after they finish the undergraduate course, which they have chosen. Under the framework of the introductory course, each major is allowed to hold 12 hour lectures. However, many faculty members of our department are already doubtful of such system, i.e.they expect that the effect will be minor, simply because high techs like IT, BT and NT are too attractive for young people to think otherwise. They are concerned about a clear divide between popular and unpopular majors. Unfortunately our major belongs to the latter case, irrespective of the fact that the shipbuilding industry in Korea is booming. Nevertheless, most faculty

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Choi, H. (2002, June), Innovation Of Naval Architecture And Ocean Engineering Curriculum At Seoul National University Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--10239