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http://dx.doi.org/10.17820/eri.2015.2.1.012

The Current Status and the Improvement of Ecological Engineering Education in South Korean Universities  

Park, Jeryang (School of Urban and Civil Engineering, Hongik University)
Jung, Jinho (Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University)
Nam, Kyoungphile (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University)
Lee, Ai-Ran (Department of Environmental Landscape Architecture, Cheongju University)
Cho, Kang-Hyun (Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University)
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Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure / v.2, no.1, 2015 , pp. 12-21 More about this Journal
Abstract
Social demand for ecological engineering and technology has increased in tandem with national economic growth in order to improve the environmental capacity of civil infrastructures. To meet this demand, the Korean Society of Ecology and Infrastructure Engineering (KSEIE) was established in January 2013 and has contributed to the development of ecological engineering technologies. However, the establishment of an educational system for human resources training in ecological engineering is still at an early stage, and it is imperative to develop a curriculum for producing the human resources that can understand and apply ecological principles and functions and that is equipped with the abilities required for ecological conservation, restoration, and creation. As part effort, the KSEIE held a forum, entitled Founding the Education for Ecological Engineering, to discuss the establishment of the education system for ecological engineering in Korea. In this paper, based on the discussions and suggestions made during the forum, we analyzed the current status of ecological engineering education in various disciplines - civil and construction engineering, biology and environment, and landscape planning - in domestic universities, and attempted to seek possible solutions based on the cases of foreign universities. Generally, ecology and other application curricula are taught as fragmented subjects and fields in domestic universities. The development of new education strategies and systematic curricula for multidisciplinary education, ecological response to climate change, and the expansion of research fields is required.
Keywords
Curriculum; Ecological engineering education; human resource training; multidisciplinary education; University education;
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