Introduction

The Department of Maritime System Engineering offers the next-generation growth power-related core courses such as maritime plant, maritime equipment, ocean energy, and oceanographic investigation for nurturing the specialized expertises. The maritime system engineering represents the fusion of ship building, oceanography, electronics, communication, and acoustics engineering, and the departmental program emphasizes comprehensive theoretical and practical education in oceanographic survey, ship and maritime structures, underwater robots, underwater acoustic equipment, and electronic/communication equipment.

Aims

1.[Specialization]

Fosters fundamental engineering expertise and application capability

- Fusion Engineering (ship building, oceanography, electronics, communication, and acoustics) building the ability to understand the necessary subjects, mathematics, basic science and engineering

- Strengthen practical education to build the expertise in specialization

2.[Practical applications]

Cultivates maritime engineers with practical abilities

- Cultivates the system engineers capable of applying the theoretical and practical training to solving on-the-field technological problems

3.[Social adaptiveness]

Nurtures the engineers responsive to the society

- Improve the communicative skills to play a team member's role effectively

- Emphasizes the engineering education capable of realizing creative maritime engineering techniques

- Pursue the engineering education responsive to the needs of regional society

4.[International sense]

Cultivates the maritime system engineers equipped with global sense and competitiveness

- Trains the maritime system experts in international practical affairs and foreign language skills commensurate with the global society

Careers

The Maritime System Engineering majors curriculum encompasses the fusion of such subjects as ship building, oceanography, acoustics, machinery, electronics, and communication technology, and the graduates educated find their careers not only in the majors specialty area, but also in diverse interdisciplinary fusion industries. They can get their governmental certificates of qualifications to work as electrical engineers, electronic engineers, ship building technologists, megatronics technicians, fire-fighters facility specialists, fire safety technicians, production automation engineers, and electric equipment industry technicians. They can also work for major ship building corporations and many other related maritime industries. For research careers, research opportunities are accessible to the graduates a ETRI, KIER, ADD, and research laboratories funded by the Ministries of Land and Oceans and of Industry, Trade and Energy.

History

1998: Established the Department of Maritime Survey Engineering

1999: Emerged as the Faculty of Maritime Industrial Engineering (Maritime Production System Majors and Maritime Survey Engineering Majors)

2000: Restructured as Maritime Industrial Engineering Majors

2004: Established M.S. degree program, Graduate College

2006: Renamed as the Department of Maritime Information System Engineering, Graduate College

2006: Restructured as Maritime Industrial Engineering Majors (Maritime Production System Majors and Maritime Information System Engineering Majors)

2009: Restructured as the Department of Maritime System Engineering from Maritime Information System Engineering Majors