Taught together by 5 professors
Open for non-majors
“Also expanding machine learning and AI courses”

SNU College of Engineering is opening a course on block chain for the first time this year. The course related to the fourth industrial revolution held last year drew a lot of interest even from non-major students. This is leading to the expansion of related courses.

According to SNU on the 6th, SNU College of Engineering will open ‘Cyber Security and Blockchain’ (hereinafter CSB) course in the second semester of this year. The CSB course will be worth 3 credits and same as last year’s course ‘Introduction to IoT, AI, Big Data and Laboratory’, it will be available to non-major students.

The class will be taught by using the flipped classroom approach in which students watch lecture videos provided by professors beforehand at home and discuss and conduct assignments during actual course hours. Five professors will participate in the course including professor of electrical and computer engineering Yunheung Paek, who has a technical patent related to block chain security, professor of computer engineering Hyunsang Eom, who received the best paper award at the ‘2017 Conference on Cluster Computing’ hosted by IEEE, and professor of industrial engineering Woojin Chang, who is an expert of financial engineering.

Recently SNU college of engineering has been preparing various academic programs related to the fourth industrial revolution. Engineering Education Innovation Center is opening a course this spring semester called ‘Basic math and programming for machine learning’ which teaches machine learning and artificial intelligence. They also created the course, ‘Topics in Computer Systems’, which allows students to learn about computer language through video lectures connected to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Also, it has been hosting the ‘SPLIT Program’, which matches tutors and tutees for non-major students to learn basic programming.

Students are also enthusiastic about the courses. Not only electrical engineering and computer engineering students, but also non-major students are showing interest in courses related to the fourth industrial revolution. Until the 5th SPLIT Program, only 19% of the participants were engineering students. Instead, students from college of social sciences (16%), college of agriculture and life science (14%), and college of humanities (12%) knocked on the door of college of engineering. Professor Hyungu Kang, director of Engineering Education Innovation Center, said, “Considering exploding interest from students, we expanded the class size of the IAB course from 70 students to 100 students, and the machine learning course from 60 students to 120 students starting from this year.”

Source: https://ee.snu.ac.kr/community/news?bm=v&bbsidx=48450
Translated by Kyungjin Lee, English Editor of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, jin11542@snu.ac.kr