The Department of Electrical Engineering at Suncheon National University recently announced that it achieved excellent ends in the ‘2024 fifteenth Smart Energy Competition’ hosted by the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers, with one team within the renewable energy field and one team within the energy conservation field advancing to the finals and winning the gold and encouragement awards.
The Smart Energy Competition is a contest where engineering college and graduate students provide you with energy-related ideas and plan and produce works based on them. It’s held yearly through the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers Summer Conference with the goal of fostering engineers with creativity, practical skills, and teamwork skills.
A complete of 30 teams that passed the preliminary round participated within the finals held on the eleventh. A complete of two teams competed: ▲Cells (Kim Hyung-min, Lee Seong-han, Shin Ji-hoon, Choi Rak-won, Han Seul-gi) team from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Suncheon National University, which performed the Industry-Academic Cooperation Group’s corporate-linked Capstone Design Program with W.P. (CEO Kang Geon-min), and ▲IESS (Jang Seong-hun, Park Woo-jun) team, which performed the Creative Convergence Engineering Talent Development Project Capstone Design Program of the Engineering Education Innovation Center.
Consequently of the competition, the Cells team, which proposed ‘Detection of the situation of solar modules with reduced power generation using the characteristics of bypass diodes’ to observe solar module data in real time and effectively manage modules by utilizing bypass characteristics, won the gold prize in recognition of achievements similar to corporate linkages and patent applications.
As well as, the IESS team, which proposed a ‘smart scheduler that may cut off power in classrooms using time synchronization using low-power IoT technology and E-paper’, received an award of encouragement.
Professor Dae-kyung Kim of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Suncheon National University, who guided the scholars, said, “The variety and level of entries to the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers’ Smart Energy Competition are increasing, and students who’ve won awards for 4 consecutive years and achieved excellent results are getting jobs at affiliated firms, becoming an exemplary model of industry-academia cooperation.” He added, “I’ll do my best to assist students grow into talented individuals with specialized abilities.”
Meanwhile, participation on this competition was supported by the National Suncheon National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, the National University Promotion Foundation, and the Engineering Education Innovation Center.
Reporter Yang Jun-seok kailas21@aitimes.com
