Graduate School

The Masters degree program was established in 1998, and the doctoral degree program for Design Production Engineering. in 2001.Numerous graduates from these programs have gone on to teach as professors. Other graduates are working in major companies and as design professionals in top design-related companies. In addition, some have started their own design companies and are contributing to design development in their local communities.

The concept of industrial design is not based on pure art but is intimately related to practicality. Therefore, it is deeply correlated with everyday life and social circumstances. The curriculum offered at our graduate schools in industrial design seek to recognize this actual correlation between design and the society it is in. By creating an organic collaboration system, our school strives to build a new design academic system.

Our graduate school is a design-research-centered school. Through various academic activities as well as publication and posting of dissertations each semester, various design studies are being conducted. To earn a master's degree, a student has to present his or her designs twice at different symposiums and to publish one dissertation, to earn a doctoral degree, a student has to publish one design dissertation in an international journal and two dissertations within Korea, and to present two designs at diferent symposiums.

Since 1998, various scholastic approaches have been used to conduct researches on design aesthetics. Our department was the first in Korea to introduce the design marketing concept, and has been applying the concept in diverse enterprises related to design In addition, integrated education has allowed knowledge exchange with various academic fields. Such education has led to new interpretations and researches in the field of design. Through these research methods, our department has conducted several government-sanctioned academic projects (on generic technologies and academic promotion) and is conducting researches in collaboration with major companies (Hyundai Auto, LG, and Samsung).

Through continuous exchanges with Chiba University and Nagoya City University in Japan, Tsinghua University in China, Brunel University in Britain, Bridgeport University in the USA, and Unrim College in Taiwan, our college has grown into a design-researchcentered college. Since 1997, we have been hosting international academic events and have been inviting world-renowned designers, We are continuously increasing the scope of our design research,