• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.483-496
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• 2018

NCS (National Competency Standards) has emerged as an issue of great importance amongst Korean universities and corporations. Although previously used mostly for vocational education purposes at colleges, NCS is currently receiving an increasing amount of attention from 4-year universities as well. In the ever-evolving information economy, the basic workplace skills defined by NCS, which include soft skills such as communication skills, problem-solving skills, and interpersonal skills, have now become more important than specific technical skills. This study analyzes the correlation between the basic workplace skills of NCS with participation in Formula SAE activities, a common component of Capstone design courses across North America and Europe. Data are derived from site visits to Formula SAE competitions, competition-related documents drafted by student participants, and questionnaires administered to student participants at the Formula SAE Lincoln completion and at the Korea KSAE competition. From the study findings, we claim that the basic workplace skills of NCS are closely correlated to participation in Formula SAE activities. Through a survey designed to measure the degree to which Formula SAE activities can enhance an individual's NCS Basic Workplace Skills, we find that these activities overall improved NCS basic workplace skills averaging 4.0 points above in the Likert 5-point scale. For reference the mathematical skills, communication skills, and problem-solving skills displayed statistically significantly correlation with NCS but the remaining 7 skills did not show a statistically strong correlation with NCS comparatively.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.610-619
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• 2016

Digital manufacturing (DM) technology helps engineers design products promptly and reliably at low production cost by simulating a manufacturing process and the material behavior of a product in use, based on three-dimensional digital modeling. The computing infrastructure for digital manufacturing, however, is usually expensive and, at present, the number of professional design engineers who can take advantage of this technology to a product design accurately is insufficient, particularly in small and medium manufacturing companies. Considering this, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) and H University is operating a DM track in the form of Industry-University-Research Institute collaboration to train high-performance-computing-based DM professionals. In this paper, a series of courses to train students to work directly into DM practice in industry after graduation is reported. The operating cases of the DM track for two years since 2013 are presented by focusing on the progress in establishment, lecture and practice contents, evaluation of students, and course quality improvement. Overall, the track management, curriculum management, learning achievement of students have been successful. By expediting more active participation of the students in the track and providing more internship and job offers in the participating companies in addition to collaborative capstone design projects, the track can be expanded by fostering a nationwide training network.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.459-462
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• 2017

This paper, A large hair dryer was developed to shorten the drying time of the user's hair. The mechanism that determines the strength and stability of large hair dryer products is 'motor'. In a typical hair dryer to determine the wind speed using a 5V or 12V DC motor, Outer air vents are also great ways to use a long time, power consumption by a single blow. But, In the case of large hair dryers using multiple blows, the aim is to reduce the power consumption by increasing the intensity of the wind speed in a short time. Looking at the simulation results of a typical hair dryer, It was found that women spent an average of 20 minutes and that large hair dryers took an average of 5 minutes. This paper, In order to shorten the average drying time, it is necessary to determine the efficiency of the motor, the blow position of the outer frame, and the power consumption and studied for product development. As a result of the research and simulation, the power consumption is 0.8 times, the wind speed is 1.5 times, and the drying time is about 5 minutes. Therefore, it was found that the large hair dryer developed in this study can maximize the user 's average drying time and the efficiency of the motor.