Provide basic knowledge of graduate environmental research programs to undergraduate students who are interested in environmental research by introducing how research in science and engineering that solves environmental problems are being conducted in the laboratory.
Understand the scientific basis of environmental-energy-climate change, identify recent issues on global environmental changes and environmental problems, and acquire the need for multidisciplinary research to solve them.
Ancient regional history of Korean peninsula is restructured while focusing on Homo sapiens coastal migrations and its ancient cultural developments through Pacific rim (PR) route. Paleo-ecology & paleo-archeology, ancient anthropo-bio-geo environment changes, ancient world history, primitive religions are highlighted. While paying special attention to the sudden PR environmental shift in around Holocene ice age, and comparative social and religious studies of ancient American societies and Far-East and South-East Asia societies, PR environmental science is projected upon 21st sociological stage of Korea.
The course covers introduction of various environmental pollutions such as air and water. The course also covers characteristics, sampling methods, analytical methods of industrial wastes along with treatment methods.
This course covers the emission sources and the formation and deposition processes of air pollution. This course also discusses ground and satellite monitoring, exposure assessment, health effect studies, and air quality management in relation to air pollution.
A detailed analysis of various water pollutants, their physicochemical characteristics, and their transformation and fate in the aquatic environments will be presented and discussed with a strong focus on aquatic chemical principles.
Definition and characteristics of hazardous and industrial waste. Investigation of generation, reduction, stabilization of wastes. Physicochemical, biological, and thermal treatment etc.
Basic concepts of microbiology and biochemistry are introduced. Various microbial groups along with metabolic pathways are discussed. Introductory level of typical bio-processes is also discussed.
This course is concerned with designing experiments for treating pollutants in atmosphere, soil, and water.
Environmental Reaction Engineering deals with systems within which environmental reactions are occurring, concentrating on trying to define the size of reactor required for a specified duty and the desirable flow mixing pattern which should be promoted within the reactor. It does not concern itself with the materials from which the reactor should be made, nor the thickness of its walls for instance. Reactor design utilizes knowledge of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and chemical kinetics, coupled of course with an economic assessment of whether the proposed design is financially attractive. The purpose of this course is to enable Environmental Engineering students to develop a clear understanding of the fundamentals of environmental reaction engineering. The goal will be achieved by presenting a structure that allows the students to solve reaction engineering problems through reasoning rather than through memorization and recall of numerous equations and the restrictions and conditions for reactor design.
The earth as a chemical system, including composition, physical-Chemical aspects, role of nutrients, trace metals, interaction between the bottom and overlying water, organic matter, and stable and radioactive isotopes.
Students learn general concepts of statistical methods commonly used in environmental and earth sciences. They also learn how to carry out statistical analyses and how to interpret results by applying statistical softwares to real data from their research fields.
Covers polymer theories; polymer chemistry ;polymer physics; Bio-polymers (Carbohydrate, lipid, proteins); Environmental stability of polymer; Management of polymer wastes; Biodegradable polymer.
To introduce the key principles of physical chemistry, with strong emphasis on their applications to environmental problems, to students who have weak background in chemistry. Basics of thermodynamics and thermochemistry, chemical kinetics, photochemistry and spectroscopy, surface chemistry and catalysis will be covered.
Students understand basics of climate change science including human and natural drivers of climate changes, how climate has been changing, how to model climate, and how we can predict future climate change and its impact. Recent topical issues like high-impact weather and climate extremes are also discussed.
The main aim of this lecture is to deliver the basic concepts in the inorganic and solid-state chemistries, including the structure, synthesis and characterization of solid materials. The principles and examples of various analytical tools for the solid-state materials, including both inorganic and inorganic-organic hybrid ones, are also covered in the class.
Give a lecture on the fundamental dynamical processes of ocean and atmosphere in order to understand and predict Earth climate and environmental changes.
Basic concepts in the solid-state chemistry, including the structure, synthesis and characterization of solid materials are introduced. The adsorption and reaction on solid surfaces are also covered in the class.
Deliver the principles in the crystal structure and synthesis of ordered nano-porous materials such as zeolites and meso-porous molecular sieves, together with their physicochemical characterization techniques.
Utilization of the structure of a given chemical to deduce that chemical’s intrinsic physical properties and re-activities, and Emphasis on quantification of phase transfer, transformation, and transport processes at each level.
This course aims at understanding basics of the physical interaction processes in the climate system from a global perspective, focusing on atmospheric radiative transfer, surface energy balance, and hydrological cycle. Responses in climate system components under global warming are discussed through students' presentations.
Introduce various interactions between the atmosphere and the ocean, and understand the associated dynamical processes. Understand roles of ocean-atmospheric interactions in various climate phenomena and future climate change.
The course covers re-mediation of contaminated soil and ground water focusing on biological methods (bio-re-mediation). Theoretical background of various bio-re-mediation technologies are introduced by using case studies.
The purpose of this course is to learn the past and current procedures of Environmental Impact Assessment and Ecological Risk Assessment and to apply both procedures to students’ own research topic to engage in the drafting process.
In a changing climate, the water cycle within the Earth climate system is expectedly changed. This course will provide an interdisciplinary learning experience across the disciplines of climatology and hydrology to better understand the major components of the water cycle and their changes in a changing climate. In addition, this course includes an independent term project using their data and methods from relevant literature reviews.
The course covers introduction of big data for environment and advanced statistical techniques. The course includes a term project that design a solution to environmental issues using big data-based AI techniques.
The purpose of this course is to provide foundational knowledge for designing electrochemical processes and systems for environmental remediation and energy conversion, through an understanding of 1) electrochemical reactions and their principles, 2) electrochemical catalysts, 3) electrochemical analysis techniques, and 4) their applications in environmental and energy engineering.
Invited speakers who are working on a variety of environment-related issues in academia, industry, and government give special lectures on specialized subjects.
This class focus on various sources, characteristics, and typical processes for wastewater treatment. Concepts and application of physical and biological processes are discussed.
This course primarily covers chemical and biological processes influencing the fate of pollutants within the ocean. Of those pollutants, it primarily covers the behavior of anthropogenic CO2 in the oceans.
Introduction to various chemical instrumental analysis: basic principles and applications (MS, ICP, AA, GC, HPLC, Gas Analyzer etc.).
Further understanding of the mass spectrometry principle. The application, data analysis, and operation system of mass spectrometry.
Practical sampling, concentration, separation of the environmental sample. Optimal selection of the analytical method and comprehensive analytical systems for various organic and inorganic compounds.
Special topics in environment-related issues that are not covered by regular courses can be offered through this course when needed.
Scientific theories and applications of solar energy, wind power, biomass, and bioenergy are introduced.
Students learn and practice various environmental processes and techniques on sites through visiting industrial facilities.
Advanced topics in environmental processes for conservation and pollution prevention that are newly emerging are offered through this course when needed.
The basic principles and characteristics of semiconductor photocatalysis for solar energy conversion and environmental remediation are introduced and discussed and a wide range of related research papers are reviewed.
This class deals with basic theories of environmental biotechnology, wastewater treatment, and engineering economics. Economic concerns of bio-processes for environmental management are introduced.
The coverage is intended to provide a general base of marine science and biotechnology. The first half primarily covers the interactions between marine environments and marine organisms and the latter half covers the origin of marin organisms and engineering applications of those organisms.
Students plan and carry out independent research projects under the guidance of advisors.
A research ethics course for responsible research of POSTECH graduate students. This course covers the concepts of research integrity, social responsibility, research data, publication ethics, bioethics, and research community.
This course is to enhance the understanding of the organization, sentence structures and unique features of science and technology journal papers, and to use them for actual journal paper writing. To this end, published papers are analyzed and their characteristics are identified. Active discussion is encouraged to promote the participation of students.
The course will focus on professional presentations for international conferences. Participants will learn the preparation process, word choice selection, presentation analysis, delivery skills, and anxiety management for a skillful address to an audience of their peers. The instruction process will offer individual practicums for the delivery of presentations at international conferences.
This course explores the latest trends and the future of various disciplines in rapidly developing chemical sciences and technologies of today.
This course covers the fundamentals of electrochemistry for materials science and engineering including some important practical applications in energy research area. The lecture begins with an overview of electrode processes showing the way in which the fundamental components of the subject come together in an electrochemical experiment. Then, basic concepts of electrochemistry will be covered such as thermodynamics and potential, electron-transfer kinetics, and mass transfer. The basic concepts are integrated together in treatments of the various practical electrochemical methodologies. Finally, a few important applications of electrochemistry in materials science and engineering discipline will be briefly introduced such as batteries, fuel cells, water electrolysis, corrosion/anti-corrosion and electroplating.
Engineers sometimes solve problems using analytical mathematics. While these solutions are useful, they are not always available and the engineer more often solves problems using computers. Software packages are available for many classes of mechanical engineering problems but if the user does not know what they are doing, it is very easy to produce nonsensical results. It is therefore important to know how codes for solving problems, how they can go wrong and what one can do about it. This course is intended to provide that kind of background for problem types that occur commonly and specifically in mechanical engineering practice.
Prerequisites: PhysicsⅡ, Solid mechanics, Dynamics, Fluid mechanics, Thermodynamics, Mechanical Vibrations, System Control This course introduces various kinds of energy conversion which is applied to transducers such as sensors and actuators. We will study the physical and dynamic characteristics of energy conversion. First, approach methods are introduced for modeling energy conversion, and then we will study the methodologies for modeling transducers to analyze their dynamic behavior. With a term project, all students would have chances to understand transducer theory more easily. Students will model and design a proper transducer and analyze the results.
Prerequisites: Solid mechanics, Fluid mechanics, Thermodynamics, Mechanical Vibrations This module gives students more insight into the nature of acoustic phenomena. The content is: characteristics of waves; derivation of acoustic equation; transmission, reflection, refraction, attenuation, and absorption of acoustic waves; pipes, cavities, wave-guides, resonators, ducts, and filters generation and detection of acoustic waves; acoustic transducers.
Law of conservation of energy, Entropy, Energy are taught in a unified frame of the law of conservation, and ideal mixture, excess Gibbs free energy, fugacity, activity are covered with realistic examples. Diverse phase equilibrium problems are also taught with the general phase equilibrium principle to enhance problem-solving ability.
This course introduces new modes of knowledge production that are based on the interplays between humanities, arts, and technology. When engineering knowledge and skills are combined with humanistic, social, and artistic imagination, transformative innovations can emerge. By exploring a diverse range of intersections between technology and arts, humanities, and social sciences, it is expected that students be familiarized with creative and critical imagination beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. It is also anticipated that students will be leading figures in bringing social, humanistic, and artistic dimensions into science and engineering fields and vice versa.
<Convergence Imagination & Design Thinking of Engineering> is a course in which students suggest solutions to specific reality problems by designing multidisciplinary knowledge and practice them, based on humanities knowledge and introspection. Through the this course, students break away from the narrowed, short-sighted worldview of engineers and are trained to understand humans and the world more holistically and practice intuitive insights through philosophy. Graduate students who are on the path of engineers as professionals are sincerely concerned about the meaning and value of their research, but there are few opportunities to work on creative issues and solutions with other field researchers. To solve these problems this class, based on engineering knowledge, both plan and realize the convergence contents and projects of humanities and technologies. Using multi-disciplinary knowledge fusion, we are planning to implement new project planning in areas such as human-centered design, UX_UI Service, Eco_Sustainability, Biomimetics, communication design and media art.