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About KSEAKorean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) is a 43-year-old non-profit national-level professional organization. It is open for individuals residing in the USA who are engaged in science, engi-neering or a related field.

KSEA’s objectives are:

career potential.

-ing all major branches of science and engineering. Since its birth in 1971, KSEA has been recognized as the main representative organization promoting the common interests of Korean-American scientists and engi-neers toward meeting the objectives mentioned above.

-ican scientists and engineers including the mixed-race and adoptee communities. KSEA promotes helping younger-generation Korean-Americans to be aware of the rapid advances in science and engineering occur-ring both inside and outside of the US. Especially, to create opportunities for young generation members to interact with talented scientists and engineers in Korea.

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Message from the President 02 UKC 2014 Highlights UKC 2014 Summary 04 UKC 2014 Essay 05 Welcome and Congratulatory Remarks 06 Plenary Session

In Honor of Late Professor Kiuck Lee, 2nd KSEA President 08In Honor of Late Professor Kiuck Lee - Thank You Speech 09

KSEA Award 10 Symposium Reports

Physics Symposium (PHY) 12Mathematics & Statistics Symposium (MST) 13Chemistry Symposium (CHM) 14Civil, Environmental, Architecture Symposium (CEA) 15Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Symposium (FAN) 16Mechnical, Aerospace and Naval Engineering Symposium (MAN) 17Computer and Information Technology Symposium (CIT) 18Electrical, Electronics and Communications Symposium (EEC) 19Bio, Medical and Pharmaceutical Symposium (BMP) 20Convergence Technology Symposium (CNV) 21

Forum Summary KOFST 50th Anniversary Promotion Meeting &Universal Linkage for Top Research Advisor (ULTRA) Forum 23Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) Energy Eureka Forum 24Intellectual Property (IP) Forum 25Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) Forum 27Industry Promotion & Entrepreneurship Forum 29Energy Sustainability and Climate (ESC) Forum 31KSEA History Forum 33

Young Generation Professional Forum 34

Featured Articles Rainwater Utilization 37 Gender Innovations: What is it and How to Improves Your Research and Career 39

Chapter News Seattle Washington Chapter News 40Member News

Mentoring Sevice for Engineering Applied Mathematics 41Upcoming KSEA Events 42

KSEA Sponsors 43

KSEA Sponsor Advertisements 45

KSEA Organization 65

Editorial Note 67

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Message from the President

KOOKJOON AHN, PhD.KSEA PRESIDENT

Structure Liaison EngineerCalifornia Department of Transportation

Dear KSEA Members,

KSEA missions are US-Korea Cooperation, member career development, next generation cultivation, and community services in science, engineering, and entrepreneurship.

The goal of the 43rd Administration is to improve Continuity and Integrity of KSEA while pursuing a moderate growth to achieve our missions. We continue the fine tradition of KSEA and make it better. We improve the integrity of KSEA as a professional association with 43 years of history. We have room to grow since there are many more Korean American scientists and engineers out there.

KSEA has grown impressively in terms of membership with more than 6,000 voting members in about 80 chapters and branches. We owe this to all the members who love KSEA and devote their time and effort behind the scenes. Yes, you are KSEA. We are also very lucky to have visionary leadership and sacrifices by presidents, directors, staff, and the leadership of chapters and branches, and committees. The growth comes with challenges. We have a few areas to improve to meet members’ expectations: proper organizational structure, technical excellency, long-term funding strategies, and members’ benefits to mention a few.

The focus areas of the 43rd administration are as follows.

Communication with members: We want to communicate with all the members and listen to you about all KSEA business. We started with an open chapter budget allocation. We provided a budget allocation based on the voting members of chapters and branches and advanced a part of the allocated budget for early term activities. We are issuing a monthly KSEA News Brief to keep members informed about KSEA. We are also asking your comments and participation through a designated email: [email protected]. We will review and use your input to try and improve KSEA.

National Math & Science Competition: We are currently working on a few standing committees to ensure continuity of the KSEA flagship event. We are trying to establish a Math Committee, Science Project Committee, and more standing committees for Physics, Chemistry, Bio, and Earth Science. Teh Math Committee will continuously develop and evaluate math problems. The Science Committee will continuously develop and evaluate Science Projects. Other committees in science will develop programs similar with current High School Physics program. We would develop science programs compatible with High School APS Programs.

Council Restructuring: We formed a task force to discuss this very important need. Our goal was full discussion to develop the best plans for KSEA with a long-term vision. But the task force agreed to discuss the best way to form the representatives of Technical Groups and the representatives of Chapters in the Council first. The task force will communicate with members continuously on the development through the KSEA News Brief, [email protected], and other means.

Career Development Workshops: There will be two of these: Scientists and Engineers Early-Career Development (SEED) workshops: SEED-West and SEED-East. We will plan these events for the careers of all the members including Industry Career, Academic Career, and Public Service Career. We plan to provide workshops so that members can be prepared for any of these career paths.

KSEA Tech Book: The theme of this year’s Tech Book is Bio-Medical considering current developments in science and technology. We selected chief editors and an advisor with the publication target date of June 2015.

Industry and Entrepreneurship: We will continue efforts in this area. The focus will be on actual activities for persistent collaboration with key players in IE< including MOU with counterparts in Korea. Entrepreneurship program with Korean agencies will be developed.

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Young Generation (YG): Our efforts will not just provide resources for YG and young professional members for networking and career development, but integrate the YG with regular members. We planned two early-career workshops. We will be working more closely with YG in the YGTLC planning.

Mentoring Portal: We are working on a concept to prepare a mentoring system to benefit all the members including YG, regular members, and senior members.

The first issue of KSEA Letters in the KSEA 43rd Administration features the UKC2014. The theme was “Forward Together.” We placed emphasis on technical excellence through 3 Plenary Sessions, 12 Technical Symposiums and 20 Forums. A total of 880 papers were presented. The oral and poster presentations were 480 and 400 respectively. The technical program was presented in three areas: basic science, emerging technology and industry technology. We invited high-profile speakers and experts including many in policy-making roles in all the symposiums and forums to achieve meaningful cooperation between US and Korea.

Thank you.

Kookjoon AhnKSEA President

Message from the President


SUMMARY OF UKC 2014

SUNG YI, PhDUKC 2014 Program Chair / KSEA Executive Director

ProfessorPortland State University

Highlights ofUKC 2014

This summary captures a three-day technical program of plenary speeches, oral and poster presentations and interactive dialogue at UKC2014, which took place 7-9 August 2014 in San Francisco.

The technical program consisted of 3 Plenary Sessions, 12 Technical Symposiums and 20 Forums. A total of 880 papers were presented. Among them, oral and poster presentations were 480 and 400, respectively.

In three Plenary Sessions, Dr. Simon Pete Worden (NASA Ames), Dr. Preston Marshall (Google Access Ser-vices), Dr. Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University), Dr. Dewey Ryu (University of California, Davis), Dr. Jae Hoon Kim (The Boeing Company), Dr. Duck-Ho Lim (Hanyang University), Dr. Sung-Hou Kim (Univer-sity of California, Berkeley), Dr. Jae Sung Lee (Ulsan National Institute of Sci & Tech), Mr. John Cabeca (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) were plenary speakers. They delivered diverse presentations in future wireless services and architectures, tactical mobile networks, together with biotechnology, genomic variations and cancer susceptibility, patent system for innovation, and gendered innovations in science, health & medicine, engineering, & environment.

UKC2014 focused on basic science, emerging technology and industry technology. The Basic Science Pro-gram consisted of three symposia, while the Industry Technology Program had seven symposia. The Emerging Technology Program had the Bio, Medical and Pharmaceutical Symposium and the Convergence Technology Symposium. Especially, the Convergence Technology Symposium is newly introduced this year for multidis-ciplinary research and development which requires a true convergence of many scientific and engineering fields. In addition, one joint session between the Computer and Information Technology (CIT) Symposium and the Electrical, Electronics and Communications (EEC) Symposium and another joint session between the Bio, Medical and Pharmaceutical BMP) Symposium and the Convergence Technology (CNV) Sympo-sium organized to cover multidisciplinary convergence research.

The symposium chairs and co-chairs identified “areas of importance” and invited high-profile speakers and experts. These high-profile speakers created a stimulating environment at UKC2014. UKC 2014 symposiums and forums also collaborated with many industrial and government entities that solicited and strategized fu-ture research program and collaborations. Many industrial and government research entities actively searched for future employees at the UKC 2014 by interviewing many young generation scientists and engineers. UKC2014 was a very cooperative event among scientists and engineers.

SUNG YI, PhDUKC 2014 Program Chair / KSEA Executive Director



REMEMBERING USKOREA CONFERENCE UKC

The US-Korea Conference is flourishing and growing each year. I am very happy to report that UKC 2014 in San Francisco was a very successful event. This year, 1300 people, 30% of those from Korea, attended and more than 45 sponsors participated. I served as Executive Director (ED) supporting the program (Techni-cal Symposium, Forum, and YGPF), as well as supporting sponsor relations, hotel contracts and reservations, catering, etc. This was my 3rd run as UKC ED-- I have also volunteered as the ED in Seattle for UKC 2010 and in Los Angeles for UKC 2012. Preparation of UKC is very long journey! It involves much commit-ment and devotion to what can often be a somewhat tedious process. For example, I began organizing the hotel contracts 16 months ago. Throughout the planning phase, we decided on the UKC theme, composition of program chairs and co-chairs while also structuring the program details including Technical Symposium, KSEA forum, Sponsor forum, and many more.

It takes many people to create a successful conference. Without their help, the conference could not run so smoothly and with such sophistication. I am heartedly grateful to the volunteers. All members of KSEA volunteered including KSEA President: Kookjoon Ahn, Program Chair: Sung Yi, and myself. I am especially appreciative to the volunteers without any title or positions. As you may have noticed, we had about 20 volunteers who during the event wore SF Giants uniforms. They were composed of undergraduate students, graduate students, and young professionals. They were purely volunteers, donating their time to the event. Some of them joined the conference as volunteers with their own Paid Time Off (PTO) from their employ-ers. Many slept only 3 hours during UKC and not a complaint was heard. This is one of the reasons why I have been so deeply involved in UKC for several years. Their passion and commitment truly fuels my own.

I have a philosophy about the volunteers. If you accept a volunteer position, you are expected to be profes-sional and passionate. Both attendees and sponsors alike have high expectations for quality programs and services as we volunteer our time. I am therefore, very proud and grateful to all those who donated their time. I have yet to see a more professional and committed group of people.

I also would like to thank our sponsors. We certainly could have been more organized and prepared; yet the sponsors stood by our side and supported us. They understood our situation and gave us encouragement. In previous years I have worked with these same sponsors and can attest that they have consistently been courte-ous and kind. They consider working with us as a peer-to-peer relationship, never as a hierarchical relation-ship. I was delighted to work with our sponsors.

Again, I have great appreciation to our volunteers and sponsors. All the passion and effort made UKC a won-derful success.

JUNHO CHA, PhDUKC 2014 Executive Director / KSEA General & HQ Director

Senior Signal Integrity EngineerIntel

Highlights of UKC 2014


Kookjoon Ahn, President of KSEAThis year, at UKC 2014, we are honored to welcome more than outstanding scientists and engineers, including many leaders from academia, research institutes, industry and government agencies both from US and Korea. UKC 2014 will provide an excellent platform not only to leverage existing partnerships but also to provide great opportuni-ties to develop new cooperative programs.

Boo-Sup Lee, President of KOFSTOn behalf of the KOFST, and the UKC 2014 committee, I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to the scientists and engineers from Korea and US. I hope this year’s event will prove to be highly successful and I wish all the best and success for all of us here.

Moon Jong Hong, Chair of Science, ICT, Future Planning, Broadcasting & Communications CommitteeI would like to deliver my deepest gratitude to all of you for your keen interest in UKC 2014 despite your busy sched-ules. I will contine to commit myself and put more efforts in promoting scientific and technological collaboration, and I wish you all the best of health and the greatest happiness.

Suk Joon Lee, Vice Minister of Science, ICT and Future PlanningIt is indeed a great honor and pleasure for me to deliver this congratulatory remark at UKC2014, a meaningful venue of communication and friendship between scientists and engineers of the Republic of Korea and the United States. I wholeheartedly wish that throughout the conference, we gather thoughts on the common theme that brought us here together, and make this a fruitful event by sharing deep intellectual insights and information.

Min Keun Chung, President of NRF and KUSCO I would like to take this opportunity to extend my deep appreciation to staff members from each side for their hard work and tremendous efforts in putting this conference together. At UKC 2014, I ask you to share your valuable exper-tise with industry leading scientists, engineers and companies from the US and Korea. Your attendance and participation will make this conference meaningful.

Hae Chan Lee, Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of KoreaI am greatly honored to congratulate the opening of UKC 2014. Korean American scientists and engineers have a special place in Korea’s history of development, playing a very important role helping Korea in many ways. I hope it countinues to make remarkable progress. Once again, I would like to give thanks to Dr. Kookjoon Ahn, president of KSEA and Mr. Boo-Sup Lee, president of KOFST, who have successfully prepared UKC 2014.

Sang-Kee Suh, Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of KoreaPersonally, I have a special relationship with the UKC through the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Associa-tion. I became a founding student member of the Association in 1972. This is my 11th straight attendance. I would like to attend 11 times more, to achieve that goal, I need a strong political support from all of you.

Byung Joo Min, Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of KoreaThe UKC 2014 is a significant venue for Korean and Korean-American scientists and engineers to share the latest information in the field and have in-depth discussions on current issues. It is not just a gathering but also a festival for scientists and engineers. I hope that creative knowledge produced through the UKC will lay the foundation for coop-eration in science and technology between Korea and the U.S.

Ha Jun Jhun, Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of KoreaThe Korean Government establised the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning in order to fullfill the Crea-tive Economy for the welfare of Koreans. I hope all scientists and engineers from Korea and the U.S. gather together, exchange their knowledges and discuss a master plan for Korea’s scientific development through this meaningful event, the 2014 US-Korea Conference.


WELCOME AND CONGRATULATORY REMARKS


Sung Mo Kang, President of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)It’s always an enriching and rewarding experience to attend the US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology and En-trepreneurship. It provides ample opportunities to share insights and expertise among talented professionals, to discover creative ideas, innovations, and to explore viable solutions for the future. It is of utmost importance that we continue to move forward together. This year, we are again one step closer to better humanity for all.

Jae-Hoon Chung, President of Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT)In order to move a step closer to deeper and more enhanced Korea-US technology collaboration, to help the process of industrial R&D globalization and to more fully utilize the existing professional networks of this community, KIAT will also greatly support Korean scientists and engineers in the US as we have over the years.

Choung Soo Kim, Chairman of Asan Institute for Life Sciences & Chief Research Officer, Asan Medical CenterDr. Kim congratulated Dr. Kookjoon Ahn and the UKC team for the successful hosting of US-Korea Conference 2014. It was the second time for Asan Medical Center to attend UKC and he commented that it was a great opportu-nity to meet outstanding scientists, to share visions, and to foster relationship between the US and Korea. He empha-sized that the outstanding scientists are the key to R&D excellence and that he sincerely appreciates the opportunity to meet brilliant young scientists during the conference.

Yoo-Hun Suh, President of Korea Brain Research Institute (KBRI)I remember UKC was launched as a symposium by KSEA in 1974 and developed in the US-Korea Science and Technology Forum/Symposium in 1993, and finally extended to UKC in 1999. UKC has contributed tremen-dously to Korean science and engineering to accelerate cutting-edge sciences and to recruit excellent scientists and engineers in US back in Korea. We will continuously sponsor the UKC in the future.

Byung Suk Kim, Vice President of Korea Institute of Construction Technology (KICT)Today, we face various issues of the world, threatening our survival, quality of life, and safety, which call for science and technology. As we have done in the past, the issues we face today must be resolved through scientific and technological innovation and cooperation. In particular, technological innovation in research activities is a mix of knowledge from various sectors, but an individual or an institute is insufficient to hold all the knowledge required. As much as this year’s conference focused on “Forward Together,” it is my hope that our intellectual community surpassing the borders be-tween the two countries will continue to grow to the next level based on the principle of mutual and complementary benefit.

Yong Taek Lim, President of Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM)President Yong Taek Im of the Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials emphasizes the enormous potential for pro-gress that collaboration of scientists and engineers holds and the significance of such collaboration to the mankind. He proposes that the UKC participants cross boundaries, interact with each other, and form new lasting networks that will bring research institutes, academia, and industry closer together for future collaborations

Ki-Woo Lee, President of Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)It is my pleasure and great honor to express my sincere congratulations to UKC2014 held in a beautiful port city, San Francisco. I’d like to thank the Korean-American Scientist and Engineers, the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies and the Korea-US Science Cooperation Center for hosting a very important and meaningful conference this year again. I myself have enjoyed a long standing friendship with UKC since I have actively participated in and interacted with UKC in the energy technical group during the past 12 years. Now, I’m far more proud of the fact that UKC has served and grown as a model for an even stronger partnership between talented scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs from both Korea and the US. I am certain that it will continue to play a pivotal role as it has been in terms of more productive collaboration in the future. Once again, I extend my congratulations for UKC 2014, and on behalf of the Korea Institute of Energy Research, I wish you the best in coming deliberations in this vitally important area facing all of us in the era of science and technology.Thank you.


WELCOME AND CONGRATULATORY REMARKS


PROGRAM1. Opening Remarks by Plenary Session Chair2. Video of Prof. Lee’s life3. Presentation Titles and SpeakersKi-Hyon Kim (NC Central University, USA, 13th KSEA President), Prof. Kiuck Lee as a PhysicistHoward Ho Chung (KAIST, Daejon, Korea, 29th KSEA President), Prof. Kiuck Lee as a Husband, Father and Himself - a Personal Reflection4. Award to the Lee Family & Linda Lee’s Remarks

KEY MESSAGESThis special Plenary Session was dedicated in honor of the late Professor Kiuck Lee, 2nd KSEA President, and is the first occasion of such kind in the history of KSEA. Prof. Lee’s enthusiasm for KSEA was so strong that he attended most of KSEA’s annual conventions, even limited by a wheelchair, until last year in New Jersey. His devotion to KSEA and continued efforts toward the future of KSEA gave him such high respect from KSEA members, especially former Presidents. Today’s messages come from some of the speakers who admired him as a great scholar as well as a good person as husband, father, and grandfather.

CRITICAL CHALLENGESStrong, dedicated support by his children contributed to the honor that Professor Lee received. The close relationship between his generation and the next generation was the definitive model leading to the success of the KSEA family. Unfortunately, this not the current trend as there is diminishing value of such tradition in modern society in general..

FUTURE DIRECTIONSA successful Plenary Session in honor of Prof. Kiuck Lee at UKC-2014 highlights an exemplary case of the beautiful, close relationship between the older generation and the younger that should continue for the future of KSEA.

UKC 2014 PLENARY SESSIONIn Honor of Late Professor Kiuck Lee, 2nd KSEA President


YONG NAK LEE, PhDForum Chair

CEOHeat Transfer Research & Development, Ltd.



LINDA LEE, PhD

DermatologistMedical College of Wisconsin

UKC 2014 PLENARY SESSIONIn Honor of Late Professor Kiuck Lee - Thank You Speech

Friends, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen,

We are grateful for this opportunity to be able to thank you all in person for all the love, respect, and concern you have expressed to our family over the years

We remember as little girls, hearing our father on the telephone with many of you: discussing, worrying, planning, anticipating the future of what has grown to become a wonderful organization of great minds guided by great hearts. We remember his travels to Washington D.C. for business during many weekends of our childhood. We remember his long trips to Korea.

We also remember the fun we had at the picnics and camping trips, where we devoured the delicious Korean food, played Korean games, caught up with our friends, whom we hadn’t seen in a long time, and saw our parents eating, playing, and catching up, too. We made great friends during those years, and through the years, they have been with us at birthday parties, graduations, even weddings. We correspond from afar, and meet on trips.

We came to know these friends through the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers of America. KSEA represents so many things: a dream of our father’s, realized through the hard work and long hours of many people around the globe; a group of scientists who share a common goal, a love of knowledge, and a common culture; a portal through which we connect with the past and propel ourselves into the futures we design.

What was once developed to provide scientific nourishment for a mother country ravaged by war, has become a blossoming multi-dimensional arboretum. It focuses on exchanges in both directions between the US and Korea; it encourages collaboration between science and industry; and perhaps most important, it bridges many genera-tions of intelligent, hard working individuals devoted to the common purpose of developing and using science and technology to improve our world peacefully.

When I was asked to say a few words about my father, I thought I could piece together some things he had written and some things we had discussed with the help of the all mighty internet; but many of the names and places were nowhere to be found on the internet. During my searches, though, I came across an article about our father’s PhD adviser, Dr. Alex Green. When asked why he preferred the slide rule to the calculator, he responded: it does not require batteries. He was not averse to technology; but rather, he was a very progressive scientist, ahead of his time. Similarly, we also appreciate technology, which has allowed us to enjoy major advances in medicine, science, educa-tion, and industry; but sometimes life necessitates going back to the basics.

So to find the details missing from the information highway, I called upon Dr. Kihyon Kim, one of my father’s former students. He helped me with the names, places, and contexts. Dr. Howard Ho Chung, Dr. Yong Nak Lee, Dr SuHo Lee, and so many other friends and former students of our father’s, helped us in our darkest hours of grief, and then put together this celebration of our father’s life. They are a generation removed from our father, and my sisters and I a generation removed from them. Yet they provide us so much information that is missing from the internet. This human factor, without which we cannot exist, is in this room, not in cyberspace.

I hope that we always remember our teachers, mentors, parents, friends, and family were behind all of this advance-ment; and are responsible not only for what we have become, but for what we have created. Our dad always paid tribute to those who had come before him and paved the ways. He always credited those who worked beside him. He always nurtured those who came after him. He always worried about those who were yet to come. He never allowed age, ethnicity, or gender skew his vision. Instead, he provided infinite, unbiased support to the professional efforts of his sisters, wife, daughters, grandchildren, and students.

The picnics we had as children, the friends our family enjoyed: that was networking before the “net;” and we later learned how enormously productive those picnics were. I know our dad would want us work FORWARD TOGETHER with our contemporaries, parents, grandparents, children, and grandchildren: guiding, teaching, and helping each other to build strong relationships that withstand the hardships of life, the erosion of time, the pain of death. Without these critical human relationships, the greatest science and technology are but photons.


2014 Outstanding Contributions to KSEA Award Presented by the Ministry of Sci-ence, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP)

2014 Outstanding Contributions to KSEA Award Presented by the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA)

Dr. Dewey Doo-Young Ryu is very widely recognized for his outstanding contributions to KSEA as a found-ing member, Vice President (1994) and President (1995). As a distinguished faculty member (e.g., Maynard Amerine Endowed Chair Professorship) at UC-Davis, Dr. Ryu has an exemplary record of scholarly achieve-ments recognized by numerous awards including the Ho-Am Prize (2004). His professional contributions include well over 240 original research publications and patents, more than 300 invited lectures around globe and consulting services for many industries and government agencies. He has also served as a Biotechnology Program Director at the US National Science Foundation. Dr. Ryu has served well with visionary leader-ship and contributed significantly toward the advancement and the founding of KSEA. Through his effective management of organizational infrastructures, many specialized Korean-American professional organizations in science and technology have been consolidated under the KSEA umbrella. For a long-term growth and sustainability of KSEA, some initiatives were taken to implement the US-Korea collaborative R&D partnership programs with KRF, KOFST, and KUSCO and to develop the KSEA Foundation and the KSEA Advanced Institute. In recognition of his exceptional contributions to KSEA and exemplary scholarship, he is selected as the awardee of the 2014 Outstanding Contribution to KSEA Award to be presented by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP).

Dr. Sang-Dai Park has contributed to the success of KSEA with dedicated support as a President of KOFST and Co-Chair of UKC in 2011, 2012 and 2013. As an accomplished scientist in the field of molecular biolo-gy, Dr. Park consistently promoted and recognized the value of KSEA membership and its activities in science and engineering. As a former faculty member of Seoul National University, Dr. Park also helped to develop KSEA programs targeted to stimulate science and engineering among students and young professionals. His intellectual, administrative and financial contributions to KSEA and related constituents around the globe are recognized with the Outstanding Contribution to KSEA Award.

2014 KSEA AWARDS WINNERS

DEWEY DOO-YOUNG RYU, PhD

Professor EmeritusUniversity of California, Davis

SANG-DAI PARK, PhD

Vice Chairman of PACSTFormer President of KOFST

2014 Scientist of the Year Award Presented by the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOFST)Dr. Kyungjae Myung is KSEA Scientist of the Year Award for his brilliant research in understanding genome instability in mammalian cells and developing methods for drug screening targeted for cancer therapeutics. Dr. Myung is a Senior Investigator (with Tenure) and Section Head at Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch of infamous National Human Genome Research Institute at National Institutes of Health (NIH). Prior to his position at NIH, he earned his PhD in Molecular Biology at Brown University and was a post-doc at Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research of UC-San Diego. His trail-blazing research has been published, cited and recognized with utmost quality and exemplary credentials. In addition, as a leading scientist in the global stage, he contributed to KSEA as a Headquarters Operations Director and Auditor. His scientific dis-coveries at NIH are noted to “change the DNA repair and our approach to cancer treatment.”

KYUNGJAE MYUNG, PhD

Senior InvestigatorHead of the Chemistry Section, NIH



2014 Entrepreneur of the Year Award Presented by MK Business News

2014 Outstanding Chapter and Chapter President Award Presented by the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA)

2014 Outstanding Chapter and Chapter President Award Presented by the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA)

TeK One Board members (Bo Ryu, Lydia Shin, Sunghwan Cho, and Alex Choe)

TeK One Board members (Bo Ryu, Lydia Shin, Sunghwan Cho, and Alex Choe) are recognized for the volunteering to ensure that the future of Korean entrepreneurs are greatly improved. TeK One established the connection with KSEA as APS, organized Business Venture Competition 2013 and Entrepreneurship Forums during UKC2013, and created the inaugural TeK One forum held May 30-31, 2014. As highly educated entrepreneurs, their devotion to build the network system for Korean-American entrepreneurs is noted to “provide Korean-American start-ups and global Entrepreneurs with Korean heritage with access to capital and professional connection.”

KSEA Georgia Chapter (Chapter President : Dr. Sang Hyuck Park)

The KSEA Georgia Chapter and its Presi-dent Dr. Sang Hyuck Park are recognized for the outstanding membership growth, successful hosting of Scientists and Engi-neers Early Career Development Workshop (SEECD 2013), and exceptional delivery of many chapter activities including Southeast-ern Regional Conference (SERC). Dr. Park and the members of the Georgia Chapter have demonstrated exemplary organizational leadership and maturity with KSEA activities that raise technical excellence, provide tangible benefits to KSEA members, and enhance the awareness of KSEA among the public. The Georgia Chapter and Chapter President Park are awarded as “role models for other chapters and chapter presidents.”

KSEA NY Metro Chapter (Representative: Dr. Jeong Seop Shim)

Members of KSEA NY Metro Chapter and Dr. Jeong Seop Shim are recognized for the monumental support to successfully carry out the UKC 2013 with more than 1,300 participants. Under the dedicated leadership of Dr. Jeong Seop Shim, the NY Metro Chapter carried out extensive preparation and precise execution of UKC 2013. The devotion and tireless efforts of Dr. Shim made UKC 2013 possible and he was the catalyst to bring unity within the chapter and critical volunteers to UKC 2013.

BO RYU, PhD

President of TaK OnePresident, EpiSys Science, Inc.

SANG HYUCK PARK, PhD

Assistant ProfessorGeorgia Gwinnett College



PHYSICS PHY SYMPOSIUMSYMPOSIUMSUMMARY

The Physics Symposium brought together world leading scientists and young researchers in various fields of Physics from across the U.S. and Korea. This meeting served as a timely event for completion of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and progress of the Rare Isotope Science Project (RISP) as part of the International Science & Business Belt (ISBB) in Korea as well as for collaboration with the Facility of Rare Isotope Beam (FRIB) and other physics facilities in US. Topics included but not limited to High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Laser-Matter Interac-tion Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics, Biophysics, Condensed Matter and Semiconductor Physics.

CHUENG-RYONG JI, PhDSymposium Chair

ProfessorNorth Carolina State University

KEY MESSAGESThe Physics Symposium brought together world leading scientists and young researchers both in fundamental physics and emergent physics from across the U.S. and Korea. This conference served as a timely event for networking among the researchers in fundamental and emergent physics. It was also timely for completion of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and progress of the Rare Isotope Science Project (RISP) as part of the International Science & Business Belt (ISBB) in Korea as well as for collaboration with the Facility of Rare Isotope Beam (FRIB) and other physics facilities in the US. Topics included High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Laser-Matter Interaction Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics, Biophysics, Condensed Matter and Semiconductor Physics.

CRITICAL CHALLENGESClear understanding of the similarity and the difference between fundamental physics and emergent physics is necessary for correct assessment on the recent claims of reproducing fundamental physics from emergent physics. More proof is needed to realize big claims such as the realization of relativity from emergent physics of graphene. There is also a strong need to speed up the progress of the RISP installing the RAON Heavy Ion Accelerator in Korea as originally scheduled and be ready for the global research effort in answering some of the eleven science questions for the new century addressed at the beginning of the 21st century.

FUTURE DIRECTIONSIt will be important to strengthen networking among the researchers in fundamental and emergent physics and make more progress for the correct understanding of new findings both in fundamental and emergent physics. The UKC Physics Symposium should be amplified to bring more world leading experts and young researchers together from across the U.S. and Korea.

EUN-SUK SEO, PhDSymposium Co-Chair

ProfessorUniversity of Maryland

BUM-HOON LEE, PhDSymposium Co-Chair

ProfessorSogang University


MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS MST SYMPOSIUM

This symposium was an annual celebration for the Korean-American mathematics and statistics community in cooperation with the US-Korea Conference. The goal of this symposium was to bring together all researchers in the areas of mathematics, statistics, related science and engineer-ing from Korea and the United States. Participants had the opportunity to share recent advances in their research, to network and to forge stronger connections.

The tentative format of the symposium will be as follows:There were one poster session and eight oral presentation sessions. The poster session was sched-uled for Friday afternoon (August 8). The eight oral sessions, each consisted of four to six speakers. Each speaker had 20-minutes. There were three mathematics sessions on Thursday, two sessions (in Math and/or Stat) on Friday, and three sessions (in Stat and/or Math) on Saturday. Among the eight, three sessions featured this year’s special sessions on Bio-Statistics, Bio-Informatics and Bio-Mathematics.

We cordially invited all researchers in all areas of mathematical science to join us.

SUNG-YELL SONG, PhDSymposium Chair

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MOON JUNG CHO, PhDSymposium Co-Chair

Research Mathematical StatisticianU.S Bureau of Labor Statistics

TAESUNG PARK, PhDSymposium Co-Chair

ProfessorSeoul National University

KEY MESSAGESThe MST Symposium covered topics on a wide spectrum of mathematical sciences. Topics included new sci-entific discoveries and innovative mathematical solutions in the areas of pure mathematics, bio-mathematics, bio-statistics, and survey statistics.

CRITICAL CHALLENGESThere is a strong need to develop methods for solving prediction, decision making, classification, and pattern recognition problems from extremely large, unconventional, or complex data.

FUTURE DIRECTIONSPure Mathematical concepts such as Geometry and Topology can contribute to the study of large scale com-plex data or big data resulting from automated data collection and increased computing power. Topological tools are less sensitive to the choice of specific metric and more flexible to apply on various types (non-nu-merical) of data, and useful for exploring large scale high dimensional (and noisy) data sets. Topological (ho-motopy) invariants such as homology groups can be (algorithmically) computed for large data sets. Functorial properties are useful to study the objects and the relations between the objects simultaneously.

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CHEMISTRY CHM SYMPOSIUM

JINSANG KIM, PhDSymposium Chair

Associate ProfessorUniversity of Michigan

OHYUN KWON, PhDSymposium Co-Chair

ProfessorUniversity of California, Los Angeles

DAL-HEE MIN, PhDSymposium Co-Chair


Chemistry has been crucial to the ever rapidly advancing modern technology and novel material developments in molecular and nano length scale. Life Science has blossomed at the interface between chemistry, biology, and medicine. Energy harvesting, conversion, and storage have been the recent focal points of materials chemistry. Chemical synthesis and catalysis are the center of design and develop-ment of the material world. As such, chemistry has been truly multidisciplinary and essential in our daily life. This symposium aimed to shed light on the recent developments and future prospects of chemical science by bringing experts from the US and Korea. The symposium consisted of the following four sessions; 1. Chemical Synthesis and Catalysis, 2. Chemistry for Bio and Medicine, 3. Chemistry for Energy and Environment, and 4. Chemistry of Electronics and Devices.

KEY MESSAGESThe chemistry symposium covers fundamental chemistries through futuristic applications of chemistry. Four topical areas are Chemical Synthesis and Catalysis, Chemistry for Electronics and Devices, Chemistry for Bio and Medicine, and Chemistry for Energy and Environment. Outstanding speakers have been invited and the quality of the symposium talks was excellent.

CRITICAL CHALLENGESThe symposium chairs and technical session chairs put much effort to set a high standard for technical ses-sions. We were very successful to invite prominent speakers and the overall quality of the symposium talks was great. However, it was still quite challenging to invite non-Korean speakers and the number of general talks was fairly small. There is room for improvement in conjunction and support between the technical sessions as well.

FUTURE DIRECTIONSIt would be very useful to advertise the UKC symposium through major conferences in order to increase the number of participation. More networking opportunities at the symposium are desired to plan future symposium topics and organizing committees and eventually keep improving the quality of technical talks and attendance.

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CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL, ARCHITECTURE CEA SYMPOSIUM

The purpose of the symposium was to promote awareness of new advances in structures, trans-portation, geotechnical, construction, and water & environment. There was a special session that focuses on state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice technologies and applications that are related to the sustainability and resilience of civil and energy infrastructure. The symposium composed of eight sessions. The sessions covered different disciplines in the three major disciplines in the CEE track, i.e., civil engineering, environmental engineering, and energy. Each session had one invited speaker. In addition, a poster session was planned to encompass all the disciplines in civil, environ-mental, and energy tracks.

Co-SponsorKorean-American Society of Civil and Environmental Engineers (KSCEE)

DAVID SAILOR, PhDSymposium Chair


BYUNGKYU "BRIAN" PARK, PhDSymposium Co-Chair

Associate ProfessorUniversity of Virginia

MOO-YOUNG HAN, PhDSymposium Co-Chair


KEY MESSAGESThe Geotechnical and Material session covered topics related to geotechnical engineering, construction and pavement materials in the area of civil engineering. As buildings consume about half of the total energy in the US, it is imperative to design/develop high-performance buildings that consume substantially less energy and even produce more energy than required utilizing renewable energy technologies. In transportation, information and communication technology have begun showing potential benefits in improving transporta-tion system mobility, safety and environment, and field operational tests are underway.

CRITICAL CHALLENGESDue to the ever increasing oil prices, there has been a steady increase of using recycled construction materials in civil engineering in the US. One challenge for buildings to achieve the energy efficiency goal is how to integrate multiple technologies that have been developed by various disciplines such as engineering, architec-ture, and computer science. A challenge in transportation system is to ensure potential roadblocks stemming from institutional, liability and public acceptance issues be properly addressed in parallel to the development and testing of Information and Communication Technology based transportation system operations and management strategies.

FUTURE DIRECTIONSIt is anticipated that the potential impacts of using smart and recycled materials in various constructions should be estimated. These research efforts are likely to be of broad interest to US and Korea facing similar issues. In green buildings and sustainable developments, additional efforts integrating various energy efficient technologies and materials to minimize energy consumptions should be undertaken. To consider the cost of the entire life cycle as well as impact to other industries, more techniques and tools on lifecycle cost analysis should be developed. In transportation, algorithms and field operation tests on autonomous vehicles and con-nected vehicle technology should be conducted especially for applications that are suitable in early stage of deployment.

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FOOD, AGRICULTURE AND NUTRITION FAN SYMPOSIUM

The Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition (FAN) Symposium offered professionals in the Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition fields a multidisciplinary platform to learn about the latest scientific advances from academic, government, and industrial leaders. The symposium covered all areas of foods, agricultural products, and nutrition. Specifically, the symposium focused on: (1) scientific information on food science including functional food, food processing, food quality, safety and regulation, food nanotechnology, and other emerging food technologies; (2) scientific informa-tion and development in agriculture including agronomy, insect science, forestry, plant and animal sciences, and other agricultural areas; and (3) advances in nutrition, mechanistic understanding of nutrient actions on human health, and prevention and treatment of various disease conditions in-cluding obesity, diabetes, cancer, stroke, and many other disorders using nutritional approaches. The symposium was a great opportunity to communicate latest advances in science and technology as well as public health policies involving food, agriculture and nutrition, and stimulate collaboration between participants from the US and Korea.

HEE-YONG KIM, PhDSymposium Chair

Laboratory ChiefNIAAA, NIH, USA

SUNG WOO KIM, PhDSymposium Co-Chair

Associate ProfessorNorth Carolina State University

EUNOK CHOE, PhDSymposium Co-Chair

ProfessorInha University

KEY MESSAGESBy offering a multidisciplinary platform, the FAN Symposium covered latest advances in science and tech-nology as well as public health policies involving food, agriculture and nutrition, and stimulated collaboration between participants from the US and Korea.

CRITICAL CHALLENGESThe challenge is to translate the valuable information communicated in the symposium to clinical, com-munity and industry settings to improve human/animal nutrition, health and environment. In addition, more creative approaches should be considered to engage participants in all sessions to truly take advantage of the multidisciplinary platform of the FAN Symposium.

FUTURE DIRECTIONSIt is important to attract industry participation for the application of the basic science findings and regula-tory/public health policy information to the development of food and environmental products and human/animal nutrition. The FAN Symposium may serve as the platform to discuss the future by integrating the multidisciplinary information and inducing collaboration among scientists in various sectors, i.e., academia, hospital, government and industry.

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MECHANICAL, AEROSPACE AND NAVAL ENGINEERING MAN SYMPOSIUM

The Mechanical, Aerospace and Naval Engineering Technical Group gathers researchers, students, and application practition-ers across the US and Korea to discuss and present a variety of research and application topics. The symposium explored both the traditional and state-of-the-art topics that include, but not limited to, design, manufacturing, energy systems, fluid and dynamic systems, nano and MEMS technologies, mechatron-ics, computational simulations, engineering education, and their studies and specific applications to aerospace and naval applica-tions. Many interdisciplinary research and applications in emerg-ing areas were presented.

LIWEI LIN, PhDSymposium Chair

ProfessorUniversity of California, Berkeley

YONG S. SUH, PhDSymposium C0-Chair

Associate ProfessorCalifornia State University, Sacramento

KWAN SOO LEE, PhDSymposium Co-Chair

ProfessorHanyang University

KEY MESSAGESThe MAN symposium covered the variety of topics on innovative engi-neering solutions in vehicle, system, naval designs, computer applications, energy systems, materials, and MEMS.

CRITICAL CHALLENGESMechanical engineering covers vast areas of subjects from traditional mechanics to MEMS and biomechanics: fewer machines work pure mechanical ways. More electronic circuits, software controls are added to pure machines, making mechanical engineering an interdisciplinary field. In additional to the traditional mechanical engineering subjects that are already rich and wide, mechanical engineers also need to understand the modern electronic and software aspects.

FUTURE DIRECTIONSMechanical engineering certainly becomes an interdisciplinary field fused with other science and engineer-ing fields. Electronic and software controls are outstanding examples to be integrated, and biomechanics is an example of fusion with other fields. These will need to be proven by further research on traditional topics with new and improved methodologies and tools.

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COMPUTER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CIT SYMPOSIUM

Innovations in computer science (CS) and information technologies (IT) impact almost everyone on a daily basis. In this modern-technology era, the importance and influences of CS and IT have never been greater, and they continuinue to grow. The CIT symposium encompassed diverse areas of research and development in CS/IT fields. The symposium provided a unique venue for CS/IT researchers and engineers in the US and Korea to display state-of-art research and development efforts, exchange creative ideas, and build strong networks among participants.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:- Cloud Computing- Social Networking- Computer Network Security- Machine learning- Big data- Ubiquitous Computing- Human-machine interface- Cellular & Broadband Wireless- Satellite Systems- Future Internet Technologies- Wireless Mesh Networks- Cognitive Radio Networking- Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET)- Sensor Networks- Real-time and Embedded Systems- Multimedia Systems

MARIO GERLA, PhDSymposium Chair

ProfessorUniversity of California, Los Angeles

TJ TAEKJIN KWON, PhDSymposium Co-Chair

Vice President & CTOFasoo USA

JIHIE KIM, PhDSymposium Co-Chair

Senior Vice PresidentKT

KEY MESSAGESComputer and information technology Symposium was a showcase of recent research and developments in the diverse area of computing. Participants had a chance to learn about current research trend not only in their specialty area but also in other domains.

CRITICAL CHALLENGESWith the advent of Internet of Things (IoT) and smart devices, it is more important than ever to secure com-minication and applications. Without proper establishment and execution of a software policy, healty growth in software research and business is impossible. The value of software and IT services are underestimated.

FUTURE DIRECTIONSNurturing a software oriented society requires significant effort on research, education and social commitment. A health eco system in computer and IT area is critical.

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ELECTRICAL, ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS EEC SYMPOSIUM

The Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering (EEC) technical track addressed recent ad-vances in a wide variety of disciplines of the Electrical and Computer Engineering field with a focus on emerging technologies and novel applications. With the success of the global Internet and the increasing importance of wireless mobile communications, this symposium provided a platform to in-troduce latest innovations as well as showcase applications enabled by these technologies. This sympo-sium brought together scientists and engineers from the US and Korea, promoting the opportunity for technical information exchange and research collaboration between these two vibrant communities.

The topics of interest, but not limited to, include:- Advanced Power Electronics - Biomedical Devices and Systems - Cellular and Broadband Wireless Network - Cloud Computing and Virtualization - Cognitive Radios & Software Defined Radios - Communication and Information Theory - Computer Network & Security - Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition - Cyber-Physical Systems - Cyber Security - Distributed and Networked Control - Electronic Devices, Circuits, and Systems - Electric and Hybrid Vehicles - Energy Harvesting & Wireless Power Transmission - Intelligent Vehicles - Multimedia Systems - Nano/micro systems - Robotics - Signal and Image Processing - Optics, and Optical Communications - Real-time and Embedded Systems - Renewable Energy, and Smart Energy Grid - Satellite Systems - Sensor Devices and Sensor Networks

DONG SAM HA, PhDSymposium Chair

ProfessorVirginia Tech

SANG WU KIM, PhDSymposium C0-Chair

ProfessorIowa State University

YONG-HWAN LEE, PhDSymposium Co-Chair


KEY MESSAGESThe Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering (EEC) Symposium covered recent advances in communi-cations and signal processing, smart sensors and sensor systems, devices, circuits, and systems, cognitive radios and spectrum sharing technologies, smart grid systems, and cyber security. This symposium brought together research-ers, thinkers and their target audiences to present and discuss the state of the art, and provide an opportunity for networking of professionals. The Networking Dinner provided a chance to meet people in the EEC area.

CRITICAL CHALLENGESA key to the success of UKC is to bring top investigators in the field and provide networking opportunities for future collaborations. It seems that there is currently no strong incentive for them to come to UKC.

FUTURE DIRECTIONSQuite often the best conferences are those that provide attendees with time and space for interaction - in the formal sessions through panels and moderated discussions, outside the sessions by making time and providing space and incentive to meet, greet and talk. The tea break is sometimes more important than the formal lecture. Un-derstanding conference participants is key to meeting their needs (a truly trivial observation). It is not clear how much use we make of existing feedback mechanisms (e.g., attendance numbers, questionnaires). It stands to reason that additional tools can be used to assess our target audiences.

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BIO, MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BMP SYMPOSIUM

Basic research in biological sciences has greatly enhanced our understanding of molecular, cellular, and genetic mechanisms underpinning various aspects of living organisms in health and disease. Many of the outstanding questions in biomedical re-search call for collaboration between scientists in different fields of basic science as well as clinical and pharmaceutical disciplines. The goal of the BMP symposium was to introduce the latest advances in biological, medical, and pharmaceutical sciences, which would facilitate future collaborative discoveries across the disciplines. As part of the Emerging Technology Program, we focused on the latest techniques and approaches to enhance our understanding of the fundamental biological principles as well as translational advances to improve human health. The symposium provided an overview of a broad ranges of topics including can-cer, immunology, neuroscience, stem cell research, drug discov-ery, and translational medicine. In addition, how such advances might be utilized for designing effective therapeutic strategies were discussed.

SOHYUN AHN, PhDSymposium Chair

InvestigatorNIH, USA

KEY MESSAGESThe BMP Symposium covered current topics on scientific discoveries and innovative applicable approaches in the areas of immunology, neu-roscience, stem cells and development, translational research, epigenetics, cancer and metabolism.

CRITICAL CHALLENGESThe consensus is that we are at the juncture to utilize basic research findings into applicable and translational solutions in promoting the health and well-being of humans.

FUTURE DIRECTIONSThe remaining challenge is to bridge basic and translational research so that the application of advanced mo-lecular and mechanistic findings from bench science can be used to develop tangible therapeutic strategies for various disease conditions. Also, more platforms to combine speakers from various sectors would be welcome at UKC.

HEY-KYOUNG KIM, PhDSymposium Co-Chair

Associate ProfessorThe Johns Hopkins University

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CONVERGENCE TECHNOLOGY CNV SYMPOSIUM

As in any other major industry, problem solving in modern medicine increasingly requires a true convergence of many scientific and engineering fields. While some of the last frontiers of biomedicine, such as neuroscience and regenerative medicine, critically demands new ideas and tools from other disciplines, paradigm-shifting technological innovations in information science, nanotechnology, and robotics could open new opportu-nities in healthcare. At the same time, a new generation of engi-neers, “fluent” in many different languages of science, is creating entirely new fields to view old questions with a fresh look. In the CNV symposium, we strived to provide a stimulating forum for all researchers willing to go beyond the “comfort zone” to explore new opportunities in biomedical engineering.

Topics 1. Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine2. Regenerative medicine and organ-on-chip 3. Biomechanics, Mechanobiology and Disease4. Neuroengineering and Disease 5. Synthetic biology and Systems biology 6. Biomedical Devices and Imaging for Diagnostics and Thera-peutics7. Robotics and Informatics in Healthcare, Emerging Theranog-stics8. Others related to Biomedical Engineering

HANJOONG JO, PhDSymposium Chair

ProfessorGeorgia Tech & Emory University

SANG HOON, PhDSymposium Co-Chair

ProfessorKorea University

JONGYOON HAN, PhDSymposium Co-Chair

ProfessorMIT

KEY MESSAGESThis was the first time that the UKC included the CNV Symposium. The Symposium Chair and Co-chairs and the invited speakers want to express our deepest gratitude for the UKC Organizers for their wisdom to include the CNV Symposium. The loudest and clearest message from the participants of this Symposium was that it provided a great forum where some of the leading Korean and Korean-American scientists and engi-neers in the area broadly related to biomedical engineering, biomedicine, and convergence technology were able to gather together to discuss emerging science and technology as well as to network. This networking opportunity among these leaders is likely to spur new and exciting collaborations that will be tremendously beneficial. It could be especially important for the future of Korea in this emerging area with an enormous potential in not only improving human health but creating a new economy. The Symposium covered topics on various convergent approaches to better understand and improve human health by applying biotechnolo-gy, computational and information technology, nanotechnology, biomechanics, robotics, synthetic biology and device. This Symposium should bring back these leaders and additional fresh minds in future UKC meetings to build upon the initial success.

CRITICAL CHALLENGESA bring back the leaders who attended this year’s CNV Symposium as well as a recruit and rising future lead-ers in vastly diverse areas of biomedical engineering are keys to ensuring further success and higher impact to the field and society. A key to success of this year’s CNV Symposium was that we were able to attract top-notch investigators in the field that generated much excitement and spontaneous networking and col-laborative talks. How can we maintain and make it better in future UKC meetings? Finding the Symposium organizers who are willing to attract leaders is critical. It is also important to give additional Symposium slots to CNV to attract more leaders in the field. Also, it was embarrassing that we did not provide more support to some of the senior leaders. At least the registration fee should be waived, in addition to the hotel cost.

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FUTURE DIRECTIONSGiven this was our first CNV Symposium, there were many mistakes. Because of the similarity with the BMP Symposium, many CNV speakers sent their abstracts to BMP and caused much confusion. Given the heavy focus of the CNV on the biomedical engineering area, CNV may be changed to BME; while another name for BMP to minimize confusion. There should be more networking opportunities provided for the attend-ants. The Networking dinner could have been better organized and executed.

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PRESENTATION TITLES AND SPEAKERS

1) Environment & Energy: Jae Hong Kim(Yale University, USA) Environmental Engineering at the nexus of materials and energy2) Bio-Technology: Seung-Schik Yoo(Harvard Medical School, USA) On-demand Production of Biological Orga-noids and Tissues using 3D Bio-printing

UKC 2014 ULTRA FORUM SUMMARY

SANG-DAI PARK, PhDSession Chair

Vice Chairman of PACSTFormer President of KOFST

KI JUN LEE, PhDSession Chair

Former KOFST President, Korea

UKC 2014 KOFST 50TH ANNIVERSARY PROMOTION MEETING

FORUMSUMMARY


ENERGY EUREKA FORUMKorea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)

PRESENTATION TITLES AND SPEAKERSLee Ki-woo (KIER) Welcome remarksBae Ki-kwang (KIER) KIER Introduction

Session1: Energy Efficiency and New & Renewable Energy1) Choi Wonbong (University of North Texas), High Efficiency Flexible Rechargeable Battery based on 3D Graphene-Carbon Nanotubes2) Park Sungyeul (University of Connecticut), Development on a New Li-ion Battery Charging Scheme with High Efficiency Based on On-line Impedance Estimation3) Choi Tae-youl (University of North Texas), Development of Multi-wall Carbon Nanotube-based Dehumidification System4) Kim Ho-cheol (IBM Research Division), Development of Next-generation Solar Cells with Low-cost Earth-abundant Inorganic Compound Absorber Materials5) Hwang Kyungjun (University of California, San Diego), High Efficient, Easily Scalable Perovskite-sensitized Solar Cells with FTO-free, Nano-micro Electrodes

Session2: Climate Change and Advanced Energy Materials6) Park Chul (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Novel Bio-granule Technology for Renewable Bioenergy Production and Waste Reclamation,7) Shon Young-seok (California State University, Long Beach), Low-dimensional Atomic Layered Nanomaterials as Nano-catalyst Supports8) Ha Suyun (Washington State University), Development of Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells(SOECs) for Syngas Generation from CO2 and H2O: Connecting Dots between Intermittent Renewable Energy and Fischer-Tropsch Process9) Park Jong-hee (Eltron R&D), High Performance Novel H-FC(Hydrogen Fuel Cell)10) Jang Myoseon (University of Florida), Adsorption of Gas Phase Organic Compounds on Carbon Nano-materials and its Application to Treatment of Air Pollutants

KEY MESSAGESThe main objective of this Forum is to promote top-tier cutting edge research in the field of energy technol-ogy through global networking with Korean-American scientists and engineers.

PROGRESS

FUTURE DIRECTIONSFollowing KIER’s review of the presentations given at the KIER Energy Eureka Forum, which was held in San Francisco on August 7, 2014, KIER will select and award about five proposals for the global research col-laboration project of KIER for the year of 2015.

KI-KWANG BAE, PhDForum Chair

DirectorKorea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IP FORUM

As evidently seen in Samsung vs. Apple patent litigation, the importance of IP is significantly influential to the scientific and industrial societies of both countries. In particular, a demand of new roles of IP is increas-ing as the Creative Economic system requiring innovative thinking and new values arise. In response to this challenging environment, the Forum tried to clarify the concept of the new role of IP for creating high add-ed values in the Blue Ocean and to provide new recognition of the newly growing IP Market. Thus, this IP Forum has provided a presentation session about a new role of IP in the era of Creative Economy and about how to lead the rapidly-growing world IP market. The Forum also held a “IP Competition” for academia, research institutes, private companies, individual inventors, IP businesses etc. from Korea & US, where IP evaluation, competition and IP market are provided. The “Substrate Coating Technology Of Flexible Display and Side Image Display Device Using the Same”, Dr. Gun-Hwan Lee, Korea Institute of Material Science.

I. Presentation Titles and Speakers �� Public Engagement on Intellectual Property and why?, Dr. Lynn Bristol, Attorney Advisor, United States

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)�� IP Commercialization, Mr. Dave Rosenberg, Patent Attorney, Portfolio Head, Intellectual Property,

Intellectual Ventures, CA�� Smart 3 (IP Evaluation Tool), Dr. Jungae Kwak, Senior Researcher, Korea Invention Promotion Association, �� ETRI Creative IP Management through Patent Cooperation Researchers, Mr. Ick-Chan Lee, MBA, Team

Reader, ETRI,

II. IP Competition and Time Table

There were 11 finalists including the inventors from the Korea Institute of Material Science, MIT, Rutgers, etc., having competed in the final round of the IP Competition. The “Substrate Coating Technology Of Flexible Display and Side Image Display Device Using the Same”, Dr. Gun-Hwan Lee from Korea Institute of Material Science received “Grand Prize”. The time table of the IP Forum & Competition is as follows:

Time Presenter Affiliation Title

13:30 Opening Remarks

13:40 Lynn BristolUnited States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Patent Resources Available in USPTO Website and Onsite

14:00 Dave Rosenberg Intellectual Ventures IP Commercialization

14:20 Charles Lee VolkswagenDriver Assistance System (Blind Spot Avoidance)

14:30 Sei Jin ParkMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Strain-engineered Manufacturing of Carbon Nanotube Surface

14:40 Taewon HanRutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Electrostatic Screen Device and Method for Emission Control

14:50 Hune ChoKyungpook National University

Smartphone Interface Software for Remote Health Monitoring

15:00 Sung Ho Hahm Rafagen, Inc.System for Producing Synthetic Promoters

15:10 Cheolmin Baek Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT)

Low Carbon Warm-Mix Asphalt Technology

15:20 Taehoon KohKorea Railroad Research Institute (KRRI)

The Fast Construction Technology for Concrete Structures (Microwave Heat Curing Technology)

PAUL TAEKSOO LEEForum Co-Chair

PresidentKorea-US IP Foundation (KorusIP)

SANG-CHUN LEEForum Co-Chair

ChairmanKorea Research Council for Science and Technology (NST)

HEUNG-NAM KIMForum Co-Chair

PresidentElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

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15:30 Yongcheol KimKorea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM)

Real Time Monitoring System for the Freshwater-saltwater Interface

15:40 Coffee Break

16:00 Jun-ho JeongKorea Institute of machinery and materials (KIMM)

Method for Forming Metal Oxide Thin Film Pattern Using Nano Imprints

16:10 Gun-Hwan LeeKorea Institute of materials Science (KIMS)

Substrate Coating Technology Of Flexible Display and Side Image Display Device Using the Same

16:20 Kyuhong Lee Korea Institute of Toxicology (KIT)

Automatic Video Instillator

16:30 Jungae KwakKorea Invention Promotion Association (KIPA)

Approach of Patent Evaluation Model SMART3.1 : System to Measure, Analyze and Rate patent Technology

16:50 Ick-Chan LeeElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

ETRI creative IP Management Through Patent Coordination Researchers

17:10 IP Competition Awards

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OCEANHUMANCLIMATE AND OCEAN RESOURCES FORUMKorea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST)

The environmental integrity and sustainable productivity of the ocean, coasts, and coastal watersheds, play a central role in the well-being of societies. The marine environment supplies a multitude of products and services that enhance and support the lives and livelihoods. For example, in 2011, Americans ate 4.7 billion pounds of fish and shellfish. Offshore oil production in Federal waters accounts for fully 24 percent of total U.S. crude oil production. More than half of the United States population lives in coastal watershed coun-ties which generate 58 percent ($8.3 trillion) of the GDP. Additionally, the ocean is a critical element of the global environment system. The ocean influences and contributes to weather and climate forecasts on a range of space and time scales and for phenomena such as hurricanes, drought, and El Nino. Long-term changes in the ocean evidenced by acidification, changing sea-level, and ocean warming provide additional evidence of a changing global climate. The session will focus on emerging research related to global change, the growing importance of human-caused and natural disasters involving the ocean, and the use and protection of ocean resources. Contributed presentations will describe improved tools, research, and plans for Ocean Science and Technology required not only to carry out research but also to translate, disseminate, and apply the results of that research to address pressing issues facing the nations and the world.

PRESENTATION TITLES AND SPEAKERS Opening Remark, Dr. Se Hun Park, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, KoreaCongratulatory Address, Minseok Lee, Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, Korea, Sun Hak Cho, Em-bassy of the Republic of Korea, and Terry Schaefer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USAKeynote Speaker : Shale Play and Its Implication to Korea, Dr. Sam J. Cho, Korean American Energy Exploration & Production Society, USAPolicy of Korea R&D and Mission for KIC(Korea Innovation Center) in U.S., Sun Hak Cho, Embassy of the Republic of Korea, KoreaClimate Change/Green Management/Economic Impact, Dr. Hyungmin Chung, Center for Informa-tion Strategies and Technologies, USAKorea-US Collaborations in Ocean Observing: From HF Radar to Autonomous Gliders, Dr. Oscar Schofield, Rutgers University, USAKorea-US Joint-Technology Development for an Alternative TPOS Equatorial Mooring Concept, Dr. SungHyun Nam, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USAA Study on the Mid-Long Range R&D Planning of Maritime Safety in Korea, Dr. Ho Choon Lee, Korea Maritime Institute, KoreaCharacteristics of Carbonate Surface Sediments in the NE Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia: Halimeda, a Major Constituent, Dr. Jin-Kyoung Kim, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, KoreaThe Oceanography of the Pacific in a Changing World: What Does It Mean for Korea and the US?, Dr. Francisco Chavez, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USAExchange Flow with Geological Barriers in a Fault Plane, Dr. Kyung Won Chang, Stanford University, USADecadal Variations in Western Pacific Warm Pool Dynamics as Evidenced by Corals from Chuuk Atoll, Federated States of Micronesia, Dr. Amy Wagner, California State University, Sacramento, USACommunity Impacts of Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation Efforts by Local Governments, Dr. Youn Sim, County of Los Angeles Public Works, USAAcid and Choking Ocean: Effects of Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia on Marine Ecosystems, Dr. Tae-won Kim, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, KoreaPolicy of the Arctic in Korea, Sung Hwa Park, Korea Maritime Institute, KoreaFuture Plan and Present Situation for U.S.-Korea Cooperation with NOAA-KIOST, Dr. Terry Schaefer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USAStatus and Recovery of Endangered Coho Salmon in the Russian River, Dr. Paul Olin, University of California, San Diego, USASuccessful Collaborative Research between Earth Scientists and Systems Engineers, Jane Oh, NASA-JPL, USA

SIK HUR, PhDForum Chair

Principal Research ScientistKIOST-NOAA Lab.

Forum Summary


Policy and Plan for Blue Ocean Project(Korea-U.S. Cooperation Project), Sik Huh, KIOST-NOAA Lab, USA Discussion

KEY MESSAGES AND FUTURE DIRECTION 17 research results and proposals related to ocean science and policies were presented by researchers from Korea and US.In his congratulatory addresses, Dr. Se Hun Park from KIOST emphasized the importance of coopera-tion and partnership between KIOST and ocean institutes in the US.Researchers and policy makers from KIOST, MOF, NOAA, KMI, SIO, NASA, MBARI, KEPS, KASA, KOEA, and universities in the US presented their research results regarding current issues of ocean science as well as reaffirming the collaborative work between the institutes they represent.Discussions were held for potential research on the , “Blue Ocean Project” for the two countries to col-laborate.Current KIOST-NOAA JPA projects, procedures for conducting collaborative research, and future plans of KIOST-NOAA Lab were presented. We believe that further mutual discussion is evident to develop new collaborative projects in accordance with the road map.There was an interdisciplinary discussion among ocean scientists and policy makers from various fields on climate change, marine environment, energy and natural resources, ocean observation, ocean policy, maritime safety, the Arctic, coral reefs, and ocean acidification.

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INDUSTRY PROMOTION FORUM


1) LG ElectronicsSpeaker: Yoonhong KimTitle: Introduction of LGE and Recruitment Process2) SK HynixSpeaker: Joon Young Kim, Director of SK hynix Mobile Solutions 3) KIMS (Korea Institute of Materials Science)Presenter: Gun Hwan Lee, Ph.D., Principle Researcher4) NFRI (National Fusion Research Institute)Speaker: Dong-Yub Kang, Manager, NFRI S&M Business Division5) KRICT (Korean Research Institute of Chemical Technology)Speaker: Pilho Kim, Manager, Global Cooperation Team6) GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)Speaker: Kwan-Heng Lee, Vice PresidentTitle: Introduction of GIST7) KIMM (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials)Speaker: Ji Hyeon, Seo, External Relations Officer8) Asan Institute for Life SciencesSpeaker: Choung Soo Kim M.D., Ph.D., Chairman9) University of Science and Technology (UST)Speaker: Lee Un Woo, President

KEY MESSAGESThe speakers introduced the background and focus of their institutes.

CRITICAL CHALLENGESCollaboration between academia and industry is crucial in advancement of new technology. Increasingly, industry-sponsored researches activities in academia are filling the gap left by the decreasing government funding on academic research. Korean industry is looking to forge alliance with US academic institutes and entrepreneurs to find new avenues.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Problems1. Venue (Poolside Pavilion) was a tent and located right next to the freeway. It was noisy and warm in the

afternoon.2. Participation: YGPF attendees were asked to attend. Less than half attended the forum and most didn’t

show any interest in the presentations.3. Presentations: Oral presentations or video clips. Most of the presenters had poor English competency

and a poor presentation skills. Some of them had a very long presentations although asked to limit it for less than 10 minutes. The presentation materials were not suitable for YGPF.

4. In conclusion: As before many times, it was a total failure. As the chair of the forum, I felt terrible and suspect it was the same for everyone at the forum.

Recommendations1. Ask sponsors to identify their target audience.2. Match the sponsors with the target audience. For example, I think it would be nice if one or two spon-

sors can present at the symposium sessions that match their target audience. Therefore match sponsors with the symposium chairs.

3. Sponsors: they should be more specific about their motives, e.g. recruitment, research collaborations

JONGDAE LEE, PhDForum Chair

Associate Project ScientistUniversity of San Diego

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etc. Be short and to the point. Not many wants to know how good their cafeteria, how many students they enroll, or many academic departments they have etc. Tailor the message to the audience. I think the forum chair can help sponsors with this.

4. Conclusion: Either make it work or abandon altogether. Sponsors have other venues to present their materials (sponsor booth, poster session, video clips during meals, job interviews etc.)

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PRESENTATION TITLES AND SPEAKERS1) Speaker: Sungmo Kang, President, KAISTTitle: Career Opportunities for S&T Graduates2) Speaker: Sam Ryu, Senior Staff Engineer, Exxon MobileTitle: Personal Experience in a Corporate Environment3) Speaker: Honsol Hong, CEO, RobolinkTitle: Entrepreneurship 1014) Panel Discussion on Entrepreneurship, “Entrepreneurs, AMA”Moderator: Erik ReinertsenPanelists: Charles Lee (Fitbookr, Co-founer), Phillip Han (Clockwise.MD, Director of Product Management), Kevin Chung (Urbane, Co-founder)

KEY MESSAGESThe goal of this forum is to provide students, postdocs, and academics with the third career option besides a career in academia or corporations and the basic information on how to become an entrepreneur.

FUTURE DIRECTIONSThis was a well-organized and well-attended forum. All the speakers delivered high quality presentations. The panelists discussed various aspects of starting a new business. The audience participation was also very good.

I believe the audience learned a great deal even if they are not interested in entrepreneurship in the future. This forum should be continued in future UKCs.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP FORUM


ENERGY SUSTAINABILIGY AND CLIMATE ESC FORUM


ESC-1 Nuclear Policy and Security: Chair, Myungja Kim (KOFWST, Korea)Myungja Kim (Former Minister of Environment, Korea), Invited Talk Building Public Confidence on Nuclear Safety/ Kihyun Kim (North Carolina Central University, USA), A Statistical Analysis on Energy Resources, Production, Consumption and Unit Cost/ Howard Ho Jung (Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea), Enhanced Safety of Future Nuclear Power Plants/ Hyo-Min Kim (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea), Reconstructing the Public in Old and New Governance: A Korean Case of Nuclear Energy Policy

ESC-2 Climate Change and Energy Sustainability: Chair, Yongchil Seo (Yonsei University, Korea)Yongchil Seo (Yonsei University, Korea), Invited Talk History of Waste Management Associated with GHG Reduction in Korea/ Zong Woo Geem (Gachon University, korea), Optimization Models for Energy Sustainability/ Samuel Seo (Notre Dame University, USA), Chemically Turnable Ionic Liquids with Aprotic Heterocyclic Anions for CO2 Capture/ Seonghoon Kim (Georgia Southern University, USA), Piezoelectric-Based Energy Harvesting Technology for Highway Sustainability/ Sze Yang (University of Rhode Island, USA), Adhesion Study of Duplex Paint System for Sustain-able Infrastructure/ Ajay Singh (URI, USA), Cold In-Place Recycling for Sustainable Roadway Maintenance and Management.

ESC-3 Infrastructure Safety sponsored by Korea Institute of Construction Technology (KICT): Co-Chairs, Byung-Suk Kim (KICT, Korea) and Jun-Seok Oh (W. Michigan U, USA)Gitae Park (KICT, Korea), Innovative Maintenance Technologies for Structures in Korea/ Duk-geun Yun (KICT, Korea), Development of Road Survey Vehicle and its Application for Road Safety Program/ Mooyoung Han (Seoul National University, Korea), Enhancing the Safety and Resilience of Urban Water Infrastructure by Rainwater Management/ Victor Geem (Gachun University, Korea), Water Infrastructure Safety Assessment Using Neural Network/ Kevan Shafizadeh (California State University at Sacramento, USA), Traffic Management and Facility Operations/ Jack Reilly (Uni-versity of California at Berkeley, USA), Cybersecurity of Freeway Control Systems: Analysis of Coordinated Ramp Metering Attacks/ Natacha Thomas (University of Rhode Island, USA), Treatment of a Vulnerable Population at Hurricane Evacuation.

KEY MESSAGESIt was envisioned that it would require state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on energy and safety issues associated with various research fields, including materials, civil, environmental, mechanical, electrical, and computer science and engineering. The vision of the National Science & Technology Commission (NSTC) is continuing to work on improving the national R&D system and developing new growth engines in order for Korea to make another economic transformation, this time into an advanced knowledge society. The ESC Forum covered topics on new scientific discoveries and innovative engineering solutions in the areas of energy resources and sustainability, nuclear energy and safety, nuclear policy and security, climate change, waste management, energy harvesting, sustainable and safe infrastructure, water infrastructure, traffic manage-ment, and evacuation strategies. This ESC Forum provided a unique opportunity to foster the collaborative efforts between Korea and the US related to cross-cutting technical and administrative disciplines on energy and safety issues.

CRITICAL CHALLENGESThe goal of the Forum was to identify challenges and opportunities focusing on declining oil consumption and new energy production, which have strong worldwide interest from both intellectual and practical points of view. Critical challenges on this Forum were energy policy and infrastructure safety. There is a strong need to integrate basic research, engineering approaches and other technologies utilizing public confidences, reconstructing the public, synthetic chemistry, materials science, and optimization techniques to better control

KANG-WON WAYNE LEE, PhDForum Chair

Professor and DirectorRI Transportation Research CenterThe University of Rhode Island

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MYUNG JA KIM, PhDForum Co-Chair

Former PresidentGreen Korea 21 Forum

YONG-CHIL SEO, PhDForum Co-Chair

ProfessorYonsei University


and understand nuclear energy, infrastructure safety and climate change phenomena.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

It will be important in the future to understand how to handle nuclear energy and build public confidence. It may require reconstructing the public in old and new governance. The sources of climate change and ac-cidents should be identified scientifically, and renewable energy resources and safer infrastructures should be actively searched and developed. We also need to utilize advanced technologies, e.g., optimization and cyber security etc. Ultimately, such knowledge may be critical for designing future energy facilities and civil infra-structure aimed at reducing accidents, pollution and climate change.

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PRESENTATION TITLES AND SPEAKERS: Theme: History of KSEA Brain Influx to Korean Academia for the Build-up of Basic Capabilities Chair Ki-Hyon Kim (NC Central University, USA) Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang (KAIST, Daejon, Korea), Sung-Chul Shin (DGIST, Daegu, Korea).

Chair Howard Ho Chung (KAIST, Daejon, Korea) Wook Hyun Kwon (Seoul National University, Korea), Chueng-Ryong Ji (North Carolina State University, USA).

Theme: History of KSEA Brain Influx to Korean Industries and Research InstitutesChair Sung-Kwon Kang (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA) Han Hwangbo (Space Technology Group, USA), Chai Chin Suh (19th KSEA President), Lee Ki-Woo (Korea Institute of Energy Research). Daejon, Korea).

KEY MESSAGESThe UKC-2014 KSEA History Forum focused on how much impact the first generation Korean-American scientists and engineers have had on the build-up of industrialized Korea in academia, research institutes and industries. In particular, an objective view from KIER: how UKCs had helped build up the KIER capabilities to their present status was a true testimony to the importance of our organization, KSEA, to the welfare of the future of Korea.

CRITICAL CHALLENGESThere is a strong need to continue the KSEA History Forum similar to that of UKC-2014 in order to further investigate and to collect more information on how much contribution KSEA members have made for the modern industrialized Korea.

FUTURE DIRECTIONSKSEA History Committee should continue its course for collecting data.

UKC 2014 KSEA HISTORY FORUM SUMMARY

YONG NAK LEE, PhDForum Chair

CEOHeat Transfer Research & Development, Ltd.

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YGPF Program Summary

The 7th Young Generation Professional Forum (YGPF) was successfully held August 7-9, 2014 in San Francisco. Over 100 participants from the United States, Canada, and Korea attended this year’s YGPF program at UKC.

With this year’s UKC theme “Forward Together”, the YGPF program introduced a new workshop for our YG members on how to write event proposals and collaborate with local chapters. YGPF participants also had the great opportunity to hear from a panel of startup entrepreneurs from the San Francisco area along with some of our key sponsors of UKC. In addition, this years, YGPF program received over 75 poster presentations, invited 4 keynote speakers (current KSEA YG members Michael Lee, Hasol Hong, Dr. John Lee, Dr. Benjamin Lee), and heard from 4 leadership presentations as well as 4 technical presentations.

Former Minister of Korea Dr. Sijoon Kim welcomed all YGPF participants with an introduction of the Young Generation Forum that he founded in Korea and the YGPF program closed with a warm farewell message from KSEA President Dr. Kookjoon Ahn at the awards ceremony.

YGPF Entrepreneurship Forum

The entrepreneurship forum consisted of four speeches by speakers from a diverse back grounds and the panel session comprised of young entrepreneurs and practitioners working in startups in different domains. The session was unique and informative in that it pre sented the various facades of “real world” whether it be academia, corporate america, or start-ups.

We kicked off the session with a speech by Dr. Sungmo Kang, who is the current Presi-dent of KAIST. With his speech “Career Opportunities for S&T Graduates,” he empha-sized the importance of science and technologies in creating innovation and boosting a knowledge based economy. Then, we moved on to the corporate side of the world featuring Dr.Sam Ryu who is a Senior Staff Engineer from Exxon Mobil. With decades of experience of working for the corporate world, Dr.Ryu illustrated the benefits and drawbacks of being an employee and also the personality traits essential to start one’s own business.

After exploring academia and corporate america, we then moved on to the startup por-tion of the session. Erik Reinertsen, the moderator of the session, gave a brief presenta-

tion about Tek One which is an organization to promote startup activities for Korean-American scientists and how participants can take advantage of it. Following, Hansol Hong who is the CEO of Robolink, the company that makes educational robots, shared his story of starting his own busi-ness from the ground up, going bankrupt and facing failure, and rising to the challenge by starting a completely new one. He ended his presentation with the lessons that he learned along the way which was inspiring and insightful.

UKC 2014 YOUNG GENERATION PROFESSIONAL FORUMYGPF SUMMARY

YGPF Summary

SUN MIN JUNGYG Director

787 Lead EngineerBoeing


YGPF Oral and Poster Presentation Award Recipients

Daniel Ko (Best Career Presentation) Yena Son (Best Technical Presentation) Linda Kim (Best Technical Poster Award) Joonseok Lee (Best Technical Poster Award) Hanbaek Lyu (Best Technical Poster Award) Jisun Park (Best Technical Poster Award) Steven Lee (Best Technical Poster Award) Dongkook Lim (Best Career Poster Award) Seattle YG (Best YG Poster Award)

YGPF Industry Forum wiht UKC Sponsors

UST (University of Science and Technology)LG ElectronicsSK HynixKIMS (Korea Institute of Materials Science)UNIST (Ulsan National Inst of Science and Tech)NFRI (National Fusion Research Institute)KRICT (Korean Research Inst of Chemical Tech)GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Tech)KIMM (Korea Inst of Machinery and Materials)Asan Institute for Life Sciences

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Then follows the panel session, “I’m an entrepreneur, AMA” (AMA stands for “Ask Me Anything”, which is a popular acronym borne in the social news website Reddit). The panelists included Charles Lee (Co-founder, Fitbookr), Philip Han (Co-founder, LightShed Health), Hansol Hong (Director, Robolink), Daniel Ko (Strategic Account Manager, Shapeways), and Eddie Cho (Tangram, UX Design-er). The session started with them speaking about what their companies are about, what their roles are, and what their day-to-day looks like. There were many que-stions from participants and panelists shared their unique angles and practical tips.

Overall, the entrepreneurship forum was a huge success filled with information and inspiration along with the practical guidance for one’s professional life.

YGPF Recipe for Successful YG Events Workshop

“Recipe for Successful YG Events” started with John Lee’s keynote presenta-tion on “Career in Data Science”, the exciting new field that emerged to tackle the unprecedented problems in the era of “big data”. He presented the sort of problems he tries to solve and the perks of working as a data scientist. After touch-ing upon his career, he then went into YG portion of his talk where he shared his experience with the YG group of KSEA. With his vast experience in YG, he emphasized three important factors for successful YG groups: people, quality, and energy.

After John’s energetic presentation, YG members (students and young professionals) were grouped with local chapter mem-bers and together each team brainstormed potential events they want to hold for the coming year. Then, Clara Park and Janet Lee, with their experiences as YG officers, gave a practical seminar on how to write an effective KSEA event pro-posal which they need to submit to get funding for the proposed event. After the seminar, the group completed an event proposal form ready to be submitted.


Honestly, I thought that this would be a place where I would feel really out of place, but everyone I met and interacted with was super friendly and nice. It made me want to try to keep coming to more large KSEA events like this and meet even more cool people I’m glad I got to meet many YGPF and I hope that we can meet up again sometime in the future! -Yena Son (Research Assistant, University of Virginia)

Finally, I am back to reality... writing term papers and study for finals. UKC went so quickly and my mind doesn’t want to come back to ordinary life. During YGPF, I had so much fun with awesome people and received a lot of motivation. I will go back to Korea at the end of this month but I wish to have a chance to attend other events and see you guys again soon - Jinwoo Han (Graduate Student, Portland State University)

On the plane ride back home, the stewardess asked me what I wanted to drink. I said water. By the time she was handing me the cup, I had fallen asleep. Extremely sleep-deprived? Yes. Worth it? You bet! It was wonderful to spend the few precious days with YGPFl! I loved seeing faces old & new, and I am again grateful that I had the chance to be surrounded by such amiable, kind, enthusiastic, and talented individuals! Shout out to the organizers & “advisors” for another successful conference, as well as to the speakers & participants - I learned so many new things! I hope everyone had an amazing time. - Jina Lim (Graduate Student, University of Washington)

A big thank you goes out to the organizers, advisors and all participants who had the chance to enjoy awkward silences with me throughout the conference. I was truly motivated to seek more and achieve more! I really hope I can attend more KSEA events to meet everyone again. - Hansol Kim (University of Toronto)

New and old faces. Inspiring speeches.. I hope these past few days left many of us with some unforgettable memories, because they did for me. I also hope that it ignited something that the participants would like to seek further, regardless of where they are or what they do. - Dennis Cha (UCLA)

After attending my first KSEA YG event in Houston Ygnite 2014 (which was an amazing conference), I was really excited to attend the YGPF at San Francisco for UKC 2014. As expected, there were inspirational talks, and excellent technical sessions during YGPF. There is an amazing vibe and energy during these 4 exceptional days of networking and many awesome, talented individuals with contagious enthusiasm for science, entrepreneurship and networking get together. Initially, still relatively newcomer to KSEA, I was a bit nervous about fitting in, and adapting to the social climate. Many would think that at a conference such as UKC, people behave in a sort of singularity where only form of dialogue is of stern intellectual discourses about science or technical topics. However, that was far from the case. I found out that everyone was -as a hip New Yorker would put it- ‘madd chillz’. Sure, there definitely were moments of techni-cal dialogues and discussions (which I enjoy), especially during the technical sessions, but most conversations were far from it. Individuals gathered at YGPF collectively do a great job at facilitating a great environment that balances both professional and personal interactions. From the seminars to the evening networking sessions to the really really late night networking sessions, it was overall a fantastic experience. I’m very thankful to have met so many great people, many whom I call friends now through this event. I’m excited to take the next step as a contributor at my local chapter when I go back home to New York, and help bring the sort of network envisioned by KSEA. Until next time, cheers for the great friends and memories. Jason Ki (Graduate Assistant, City College of New York)

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TESTIMONIALS


MOOYOUNG HAN, PhD

Professor Seoul National University

RAINWATER, WISDOM FROM KOREAN ANCESTORSFeatured Articles

Let me ask you a question before we begin to talk about rainwater in detail. Don’t be nervous. It is a very easy question. Do you know what day July 17 is in South Korea? It is Constitution Day. Then, the next ques-tion is a little bit more difficult. Do you know the lyrics of the song ‘Constitution Day’? I’ll give you a hint. If I mention King Dan-gun, you will be able to remember the song.

The Constitution Day song begins with the following phrase: “(King Dan-gun) took care of the rain, wind, and clouds and helped humans.” The lyrics were motivated by the old Korean history of Dan-gun, who founded the very first Korean kingdom, called Gojoseon in 2333 BC. It is very first Korean kingdom founded in 2333 BC. It is very significant and interesting that the first line of the song in memory of the proclamation of Constitution in 1948 started with the rain, wind, and cloud. With these lyrics of the Korean national song, it is safe to say that rain, wind, and clouds are crucial characteristics of the Korean climate.

Because monsoons, droughts and floods were frequent in our country, our ancestors have familiarized them-selves with the characteristics of the rain, clouds, and wind, and managed rainwater carefully and respectfully. Kings and prominent officials of Korea held rituals for rain during long droughts, and prayed during long rainy seasons to stop the rain. The world’s first rain gauge invented in 1441 AD by King Sejong the Great is also related to these efforts of managing rainwater. This rain gauge was used wisely to set reasonable taxation based on amount of annual rainfall.

From the general public to senior officials, our ancestors have been developed technologies to manage rain. One example is Byuk-Gol-Jae, which is an artificial reservoir bank and a great lake in the southern part of Korea built during the age of the Kingdom of Baekje in 330 AD. The lake was so large that people named the southern part of the lake as Honam (Ho means lake, Nam means south). Byuk-Gol-Jae’s technology was also used by Japan. One example is Japan’s artificial reservoir Sayama-Ike, which was built with similar technology during ancient times in Osaka in 616 AD and it is still in use today.

Like the old phrase ‘No pain, no gain,’ suffering is necessary in order to achieve great accomplishments. For example, the Netherlands, who suffered from poor water quality at the downstream of the Rhine, is known for its water treatment technology. Similarly, water shortage issues of Israel resulted in advanced water reuse technology. Also, famous beer and wine of European countries can be explained with their poor water qual-ity. Likewise, the efforts of overcoming frequent, harsh, and unfavorable floods and droughts have developed Korea as a country with best rainwater management technology.

The average precipitation of Korea is 1,283 mm. However, the large value of variance of rainfall, which indicates uneven distribution of the annual precipitation, complicates the management of rainwater. Look-ing from this angle, our ancestors must have gained water management technology in order to survive in monsoon regions where many people were suffering from spring droughts and summer floods every year. So our ancestors’ good water management is due to Korea’s unfavorable precipitation pattern. This unfavorable climate allowed our ancestors to find more reliable and sustainable ways of water management in order to overcome difficulties and survive.

As mentioned before, Korea is situated in a poor environment concerning rainwater management due to uneven distribution of rainfall and mountainous topography. Thus, there is no other country that can teach us water management technology suitable for our country. Our ancestors maintained and inherited a country described “as beautiful as silk embroidery” through overcoming the harsh environment for the last 5000 years.


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We can proudly say that this beautiful land has been built on the wisdom and knowledge of our ancestors.Despite our ancestor’s proud technology, the importance of rainwater management is misunderstood and underestimated today. Groundless, exaggerated information of acid rain and various non-scientific arguments drive regulations and practices of urban design to consider rain as a pollutant that should be drained as soon as possible (Drain City concept). This quick disposal of rainwater not only increases peak flow rate and causes flooding, but also dries rivers later, which all result in the interruption of natural water circulation.

Now, it is time to recover our ancestor’s wisdom and insight, consider rainwater as the source of all water and manage it well by collecting, storing and utilizing it as much as possible (Rain City concept). I am confident that proud technologies and philosophies of our ancestors will enable us to help and teach other countries that are facing similar water management problems. An integration of the IT industry and other advanced technologies will also create a synergistic effect. Several modern examples of recovering marvelous wisdom and insight of our ancestors can be found in Korea, which will be helpful to overcome world water problems and to regain water management championship. Such precious wisdom from Korean ancestors may be sub-merged not only in the field of water management, but also in many fields of science and technology. It will be our role to find those hidden Korean wisdom and use it for sustainability and welfare of all the mankind.

Related youtube link: Seoul National University Engineering Building Roof-Top https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pubJr7pfgZE (in Korean)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04M7XEuovWE (in English)


The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced that, beginning October, 2014, all the re-searchers applying for grants for preclinical research should balance the sex of the animals or cells used in the experiment. (Nature. 2014 May 15;509(7500):282-3) Since 1993, researchers have been required to include women and minorities in the Phase 3 clinical trials, but this is the first time that such requirements apply to animal and cell experiments. It is in line with the policies adapted in Horizon2020 of European Commission and other granting agencies in the world including Canada to overcome the biases in science and technology research caused by the convention of using only one sex, usually males. Science communities began to realize the social, economic, and humanitarian consequences of the lack of data on females. (Science. 2010 Mar 26; 327:1572-2)

Gendered Innovations (GI), started by Dr. Londa Schiebinger, John L. Hinds Professor of History of Sci-ence at Stanford University and one of the plenary speakers at UKC 2014, harness the power of sex/gender analysis to discover and create new knowledge. Leading a team of over 60 scholars from the US, Europe, and Canada, she developed 23 cases in a broad range of fields in science and technology categorized into basic science, medicine, technology and environment. The methods used and the cases analyzed as well as recent trends and policies on gender in science and technology can be found from the website (http://gende-redinnovations.stanford.edu). The site has been translated into Korean and made available by the Center for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WISET) (http://genderedinnovations.wiset.re.kr/).

In 2013, the Korea Foundation of Women’s Science and Technology Associations (KOFWST) started work on several cases studies employing methods of gender analysis developed by Dr. Schiebinger. On August 6, 2014, the Gendered Innovations NSF-KOFWST Workshop for Expert Review was held at Stanford University to review two cases developed by KOFWST research team. (See Picture) GI is a fascinating new approaches in STEMM fields because it reveals the importance of balance of researchers and research subjects for discoveries of ultimate truth in research and the applications of science research for all human-beings. It will be timely for KSEA members to become familiarize with the concept of GI and adopt in their research and work.

HEE YOUNG PAIK, PhDPresident of KOFWST


GENDERED INNOVATIONS: WHAT IS IT AND HOW IT IMPROVES YOUR RESEARCH AND CAREER

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JANELLE WEESeattle WA CHAPTER

Seattle Pacific University

SEATTLE WASHINGTON CHAPTERChapter News

GRACE HYEYOUN YANGSeattle WA CHAPTER

University of Washington, Seattle

Officers Leadership Training (LT)

What better way to connect the old and the new than an overnight YG Officers’ Leadership Training! At the beginning of July, thirty officers and our chapter staffs gathered together for a time of bonding between the new officers and the old officers, as well as more intimate bonding among the different teams. For bonding activities, we enjoyed a delicious outdoor barbecue party in the park and all met together for snacks. We also met with our designated teams to get to know each other and establish our duties. To end the night, we met as an entire YG group to develop our vision for the year and plan exciting and fun events. The old officers provided great insight and knowledge on the organization of our Seattle chapter, the propos-ing and reporting of KSEA events, and the re-establishment of the vision of KSEA. Their words encouraged us to be well connected, work efficiently as a team, and be creative in our thinking as we plan events for the upcoming year.

2014 Summer BBQ Annual Picnic

On Saturday, July 19, 2014, we held our annual Summer BBQ Picnic at Seattle Madrona Park enjoyed by the entire Seattle chapter. About 100 participants attended the event, including members, non-members, and prospective members interested in joining KSEA.

To kick off the event, we played fun ice breakers and separated into teams (tables) to compete in prize-winning games! Afterwards, we enjoyed a delicious selection of BBQ meat, side dishes, and desserts. After the delicious lunch, we enjoyed fun prize winning games and events with most of the YG participants. Such events dragged participants attentions which helped them to be more engaged in KSEA events in the future.Thanks to the hard work of the YG officers and the food contributions from Seattle chapter, a very fun and welcoming environment was created for new members to join in our Seattle chapter. A whopping total of 35 new young professional and graduate student members were made that day! However, this was not the only result of the event. This was also a great time for all groups (Adult, Young Professional, Graduate, and Under-graduate) to network and meet with each other.

Lightning Happy Hour

On August 2nd, a casual lightning Happy Hour was held at Shultzy’s in University District, Seattle. There were 25 participants that enjoyed free food, drinks, and good company! This was a fun and spontaneous time to meet with members and non-members and to recruit any new members if possible. With support of the Seattle chapter for some foods, the YG officers and members had a great time of bonding and the officers really got the members excited about KSEA and the events to follow.


CHAI CHIN SUH, PhDKSEA 19TH PRESIDENT

[email protected]

MENTORING SERVICE FOR ENGINEERING APPLIED MATHEMATICS

Member News

There may be many ways for members to help one another based on their academic knowledge and experi-ence for the interest and benefit of other members.

The main aim of this mentoring service is to place at the disposal of the engineering graduate students and engineering professionals the basis of an intelligent working knowledge of a number of facts and techniques relevant to some fields of engineering applied mathematics in the three subject areas of integral equations, variational calculus, and matrices which are useful in varied fields of application.

Since it was announced in the KSEA publication: KSEA 42 Letters-Vol. 42 No.3 p.38, this service was well received and a number of members contacted me and sought my guidance in such areas as the following: the Sturm-Liouville problem in light of the variational calculus, the Greens function construction by con-formal mapping, the kernel specified as a table of values in empirical nature, the Hilbert-Schmit theory, the method of weighting functions including the Galerkin method, kernel approximation, and so on.

A number of members have requested detailed contents of each subject area so that they can look into the structural makeup of each individual subject. Therefore, I am pleased to include such detailed contents of each subject as follows:

Matrices and Linear Equations

Linear equations. The Gauss-Jordan reductionSpecial matricesThe inverse matrixRank of a matrixSolvability of sets of linear equationsLinear equations and vector spaceCharacteristic-value problemsQuadratic formsHermitian matricesMultiple characteristic numbers of symmetric matricesDefinite formsDiscriminants and invariantsFunctions of symmetric matricesNumerical solution of characteristic-value problemsGeneralized characteristic-value problemsCharacteristic numbers of nonsymmetric matricesSturm-Liouville problems

Calculus of Variations and Applications

Illustrative examples in applicationsNatural boundary conditions and transition conditionsThe variational notationConstraints and Lagrange multipliers

Sturm-Liouville problems Hamilton’s principleLagrange’s equationsVariational problems for deformable bodiesUseful transformationsThe Rayleigh-Ritz methodA semidirect method

Integral Equations

Relations between differential and integral equationsThe Green’s functionFredholm equations with separable kernelsHilbert-Schmidt theoryIterative methods for solving equations of the second kindThe Neumann seriesFredholm theorySingular integral equationsSpecial devicesIterative approximations to characteristic func-tionsApproximation of Fredholm equations by sets of algebraic equationsApproximate methods of undetermined coef-ficientsThe method of collocationThe method of weighting functionsThe method of least squares


Upcoming KSEA Events

REGIONAL CONFERENCE2014 5th KSEA West Golf Coast Regional Conference (WGCRC)

Nov. 1, Houston, Texas

APS EVENTSKEPS UNCONVENTIONAL SHALE GAS/OIL AND ITS IMPLICATION

Nov. 7-8, Embassy Suite Hotel, Houston

KASBP FALL SYMPOSIUM Nov. 7-8, The Westin Governor Morris, Morristown, NJ

CHAPTER EVENTSTAMPA BAY Picnic for Membership Drive in 2014-2015

Nov. 1, Lettuce Park and Recreation

BERKELEY Monthly Seminar: October-March Nov. 5, Lawrence Berkelety National Lab.

INDIANA KSEA Career Forum Nov. 6

ST. LOUIS Undergrad Biweekly Seminar Nov. 7 & 21, McMillan Conference Room at Washington Univ.

GEORGIA Local Seminar 1 Nov. 15, Meeting Room A, Hyatt Place, Duluth, GA

GEORGIA IT Project Phase I with College Students Nov. 15, Buckhead, GA

NEW ENGLAND Career Development Workshop Nov. 15, MIT Bldg 6 Room 120

SAN DIEGO Annual Technical/Entrepreneur Seminars and GM Nov. 15,, Sheraton Carlsbad, CA

ST. LOUIS Monthly Research Seminar Nov. 15, Conference Room at Washington Univ.

MICHIGAN Fall Seminar 2014 Nov. 16, Angel Hall, Univ. of Michgan

GEORGIA Study Abroad Workshop Nov. 18, Clough Undergrad Learning Commons

TAMPA BAY YG Membership Drive Nov. 18, USF Marshall Center

INDIANA KSEA Mentorship Bowling Nov. 20, Michael Colby

NY METRO KMSO Nov. 22, Queens College, City Univ. of New York

SAN DIEGO Mentoring Program and Office Hours Nov.

INDIANA YG Purdue Dinner with Professor Nov.

ARKANSAS Branch Events for KSEA Membership Promotion Nov. Fayetteville, Jonesboro, Little Rock and Jefferson


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DIRECTORS COMMITTEE 43RD ADMINISTRATION President: Kook Joon Ahn, California Dept. of Transportation (O) 916-227-9257, [email protected]: Youngsoo Kim , North Carolina State University (O) 919-571-9393, [email protected] President (VP1): Steve Lee, Caltrans (O) 916-227-8254, [email protected] President (VP2): Yongho Sohn, University of Central Florida (O) 407-882-1181, [email protected] Director: Sung Yi, Portland State University (O) 503-725-5470, [email protected] Director: Youngshin Lee, San Diego State University (O) 619-594-5385, [email protected] Adviser: Jae Hoon Kim, Boeing (O) 425-643-4372, [email protected] Director/Headquarter Operations Director: Junho Cha, Intel (O) 206-550-6611, [email protected] Technology Director: Changmo Kim, UC, Davis (O) 530-752-4886, [email protected] Group Director: Hanjoong Jo, GIT & Emory (O) 404-324-9654, [email protected] Professional Society Director: Sohyun Ahn, NIH (O) 301-402-2426, [email protected] Director 1: Byeong-Uk Kim, GA Department of Natural Resources (O) 404-362-2526, [email protected] Director 2: Sooyeun Kim, University of Washington (O) 206-353-9336, [email protected] Director 3: Sanghyuck Park, Georgia Gwinnett College (O) 678-571-6172 [email protected] Director 4: Yuna Shim, Samsung Research America (O) , [email protected] Director 1: Haejung An, USDA (O) 626-447-1743, [email protected] Director 2: Seungwook Lim, Caltrans (O) 916-654-8626, [email protected] Director 3: Donghoon Yoon, University of Arkansas (O) 501-526-6990, [email protected] Director 4: Youn Sim, County of LA Public Works (O) 626-755-4989, [email protected] Director 1: Gye Won Han, The Scripps Research Inst. (O) 310-738-3518, [email protected] Director 2: Junghwan Kim, University of Arkansas (O) 501-960-3877, [email protected] Director 3: Chang Hwan Park, Parsons Brinckerhoff (O) 916-567-2570, [email protected] Director 1: Sunmin Jung, Boeing (O) 425-263-2233, [email protected] Director 2: Dennis Hong, UCLA (O) 310-825-9471, [email protected]

Headquarters StaffIT Staff: Jongsung You, 703-748-1221, [email protected] Manager: Kelly Han, 703-748-1221,[email protected] Manager: Euna Yoon, 703-748-1221, [email protected] Project Manager: Hye Won Cho, 703-748-1221, [email protected]

AuditorsJun-Seok Oh, 269-276-3216, [email protected] Myung, 301-451-8748, [email protected] “Brian” Park, 434-924-6347, [email protected]

Elected CouncilorsGroup A: Physics Seung-Hun Lee, 434-924-7959, [email protected] B: Chemistry Dong Hee Son, 979-458-2990, [email protected]

Group C: Mathematics, Geology, Meteorology, Statistics, Others Sookkyung Lim, 513-556-4127, [email protected] D: Biology, Botany, Zoology, Biomedical Engineering, Genetic Engineering Jongdae Lee, 858-822-5762, [email protected] E: Agriculture, Ecology, Food, Nutrition Sung Woo Kim, 919-513-1494, [email protected] F: Medical Science, Pharmaceutical Science, Veterinary Medicine, Physical Education Haejung An, 626-616-6524, [email protected] G: Chemical Engineering, Textile Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Applied Chemistry Su Ha , 509-335-3786, [email protected] H: Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Naval Architecture Byoung-Do Kim, 540-220-5459, [email protected] Seungbae Park, 607-777-3415, sbpark@binghamton, eduGroup I: Materials Science, Metallurgy, Mining Engineering Min Jun Kim, 215-581-4946, [email protected] J: Civil Engineering, Architecture, Environmental Engineering Alex Hak-Chul Shin, 225-578-0277, [email protected] Jae Hyeong Ryu, 208-473-5120, [email protected] K: Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Communication Engineering Bong-Kyun (Bo) Ryu, 858-805-5608, [email protected] Tae (Tom) Oh, 585-752-6936, [email protected] L: Computer Science, Systems Engineering Jihie Kim, 310-377-3867, [email protected] Jeonghee Shin, 914-907-6014, [email protected] M: Industrial Engineering and Mgmt Science Young B. Choi, 757-352-4949, [email protected] President Councilors Hyungmin Michael Chung, Calif. State Univ., Long Beach, 562-985-7691, [email protected] Yong Nak Lee, HTRD Ltd,, 847-577-5967, ynlee@@htrdltd.com Chan-Mo Park, PUST, 82-10-3521-8909, [email protected]

Chapter PresidentsChair Jung Joo Hwang, 858-534-5715, [email protected] Chair Soolyeon Cho, 919-513-8061, [email protected] Penn (1) Jungwoo Ryoo, 814-949-5243, [email protected] (3) ChongWoo Park, 678-597-8807, [email protected] (4) Nakyen Choy, 317-506-8910, [email protected] (6) Jullia Lee, 734-934-6290, [email protected] (7) Ken Choi, 312-567-3461, [email protected] (8) Sung-Hoon Gee, 208-596-8472, [email protected] England (9) Jinhaeng Cho, 781-266-6990, [email protected] New Jersey (10) Jae Young Kwak, 201-214-4773, [email protected] Metro (11) K. Stephen Suh, 551-996-8214, [email protected]. Carolina (12) Soolyeon Cho, 919-513-8061, [email protected] (14) Jung-Kyu Park, 614-592-8808, [email protected] WA (15) Junho Cha, 206-550-6611, [email protected] (16) Moses Noh, 215-895-2273, [email protected]. Louis (17) Doyoon Kim, 314-761-7049, [email protected] Southern CA (18) Yeom-Moo Jason Choi, 714-593=7897, [email protected] Texas (19) Sangjoon Sohn, 713-503-1454, [email protected]. Metro (21) Eun-Suk Seo, 301-405-4855, [email protected] (23) Byungjin Min, 334-727-8393, [email protected] TX (24) Dongwoon Kim, 512-796-9022, [email protected] Valley (30) Steve Sung Won Moon, 408-202-6302, [email protected] (31) Sung-Ung Kang, 443-540-7829, [email protected] (32) Dongwon Shin, 865-574-5446, [email protected]. Texas (40) Hyejin Moon, 817-272-2017, [email protected] VA (41) Jaesup Lee, 804-371-4871, [email protected] IL (42) Seung-Yul Yun, 217-255-8540, [email protected] (44) Kevin Kyoungseok Kim, 608-698-3519, [email protected] VA (49) Yong Lee, 540-231-8484, [email protected] Iowa (53) Sang Wu Kim, 515-294-2726, [email protected] Utah (56) Hee-Kyung Lee, 801-915-1542, [email protected]

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Sacramento (58) Chang Hwan Park, 916-567-2570, [email protected] Diego (60) Jung Joo Hwang, 858-534-5715, [email protected] (62) Brian Shin, 360-909-1102, [email protected] Dakota (65) Chiwon W. Lee, 701-239-4935, [email protected] (67) Yoon-Seong Kim, 407-266-7070, [email protected] Bay (68) Junsung Kim, 813-731-5589, [email protected] Idaho (69) Gang-Ryung Uh, 208-426-5691, [email protected] (70) Sangkee Min, 510-495-4713, [email protected] (71) Yoonseok Lee, 352-333-8666, [email protected] (903) Duk-Hyung Lee, 859-858-3511, [email protected] (72) Sun-Ok Lee, 479-575-6921, [email protected] Ohio (73) Jongguen Lee, 513-556-2127, [email protected] (74) Hak-Joon Sung, 615-322-6986, [email protected] Korea (905) Tammy Cho, 82-18-282-7995, [email protected]

Committee ChairsContest Committee: Steve J. Lee, 916-227-8254, [email protected] Committee:Hosin Lee, 313-335-6818, [email protected] Management Committee:Yonil Park, 301-402-1438, [email protected] Committee:Ki-Hyon Kim, 919-423-4297, [email protected] and Awards Committee:K. Wayne Lee, 401-874-2695, [email protected] Planning Committee:Moon Won Suh, 919-515-6580, [email protected] Committee:Hyungmin Michael Chung, 562-665-0372, [email protected] Rules Committee:Nak Ho Sung, 617-627-3447, [email protected] Committee:Sung Woo Kim, 919-513-1494, [email protected] Generation Committee:Benjamin Lee, 734-678-1285, [email protected]

Affiliated Professional Society (APS) Presidents Association of Korean Neuroscientists (AKN)Kwang-Soo Kim, 781-862-4195, [email protected] of Korean Physicists in America (AKPA)Jaehoon Yu, 817-808-9605, [email protected] Life Scientists Association (BLSA)Sung-Ung Kang, 443-540-7829, [email protected] American Construction, Engineering, & Project Management Associa-tion (KACEPMA)Yong Cho, 404-385-2038, [email protected] Food Technologists Association (KAFTA)Youngmo Yoon, 317-381-2608, [email protected] Intellectual Property Bar Association (KAIPBA)Sunhee (Sunny) Lee, 202-775-7588, [email protected] Materials Society (KAMS)Jiyoung Kim, 972-883-6412, [email protected] Mathematical Scientists Association (KAMSA)Eunchun Cho, 703-203-1662, [email protected] Society for Biomedical Informatics (KASBI)James S. Song, 301-435-5928, [email protected] American Society for Biotech & Phamaceuticals (KASBP)Youngsun Kim, 609-860-2649, [email protected] Energy Exploration & Production Society (KEPS)Sam Jae Cho, 713-301-2020, [email protected] Computer Scientists & Engineers Association in America (KOCSEA)Minkyong Kim, 914-784-7149, [email protected] Offshore Engineers Association (KOEA)Gonghyun Jung, 713-557-0671, [email protected] Korean Life Scientists at UCSF (KOLIS)Hyunsun Jo, 415-734-4972, [email protected] Pathologists Association of North America (KOPANA)Eun Young Lee, 859-257-5469, [email protected]

Korean Transportation Association in America (KOTAA)In-Kyu Lim, 804-658-7479, [email protected] Society of Civil and Environmental Engineers(KSCEE)K. Wayne Lee, 401-369-1565, [email protected] Women in Science and Engineering (KWiSE)Eun-Suk Seo, 301-405-4855, [email protected] Scientists Association (NIH-KSA)Sohyun Ahn, 301-402-2426, [email protected] York Korean Biologists (NYKB)Jae Hoon Jeong, 917-565-6634, [email protected] Triangle Park Bioscience and Biotechnology Meeting (RTP B&B)Hangsik Moon, 919-281-7340, [email protected] Diego Korean Biomedical Association (SDKoBA)Sung Hwan Cho, 858-414-4147, [email protected] Society of Korean Statisticians in America (SKSA)Sin-Ho Jung, 919-668-8658, [email protected] Biomedical Engineering Society (KBMES)Hanjoong Jo, 404-712-9654, [email protected] Biological Sciences Research Group at Michigan (KBM)Sang-Uk Seo, 734-834-1584, [email protected] Association for Geospatial and Environmental Sciences (KAGES) Woonsup Choi, 414-229-2671, [email protected] One (TeK One)Bong-Kyun Ryu, 858-805-5608, [email protected]

Ex-PresidentsYoung Bae Kim, USC, 213-740-2311Sang Il Choi, POSTECH, 919-357-7018, [email protected] Bang Woo, Yonsei Univ., 82-2-2123-3555, [email protected] Nak Lee, HTRD, 847-577-5967,[email protected] Young Park, NC State Univ., 919-848-6110, [email protected] Park, POSTECH, 82-11-521-8909, [email protected] Han Kim, POSTECH, 82-54-279-2101, [email protected] Kim, NC Central Univ., 919-530-6451, [email protected] Kuk Koh, Chrysan Ind., 734-667-4081, [email protected] Ok Lee, Rockefeller Univ., 212-327-8617, [email protected] Chin Suh, 610-678-0534, [email protected] Young Han, Duke Univ., 919-660-2575, [email protected] Sup Hyun, PPI, 973-596-3267, [email protected] Kim, K-JIST, 703-663-8803, [email protected] Won Suh, NC State Univ., 919-515-6580, [email protected] Doo-Young Ryu, UC Davis, 530-752-8954, [email protected] Ahn, Fuzbien Tech. Institute, 301-279-5453, [email protected] Chul Chun, 301-598-3396, [email protected] Dong Lee, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 217-244-0421, [email protected] Taik (Thomas) Hahn, 310-825-2383, [email protected] Ho Chung, Argonne National Lab., 630-818-6715, [email protected] Ho Sung, Tufts University, 617-627-3447, [email protected] Chan I. Chung, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 518-727-3655, [email protected] Kim, JPL/NASA, 818-354-8612, [email protected] Won Lee, Univ. of Maryland, 301-405-1128, [email protected] K. Kang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr., 914-945-3932, [email protected] Wayne Lee, Univ. of Rhode Island, 401-874-2695, [email protected] Lee, IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr., 914-945-3070, [email protected] Ji, North Carolina State Univ., 919-515-3478, [email protected] Hoon Kim, The Boeing Company, 425-786-7723, [email protected] Lee, University of Iowa, 319-335-6818, [email protected] Michael Chung, Calif. State Univ., Long Beach, 562-985-7691, [email protected] Myung Jong Lee, City University of NY, 212-650-7260, [email protected]

Ex-Presidents (Deceased)Shoon Kyung KimKiuck LeeInyong HamChong Wha PyunHogil KimJe Hyun KimKyungsik Kang Soon Kyu KimKwang-Hae (Kane) Kim


43RD KSEA EDITORIAL NOTE FOR 43RD KSEA LETTERSJournal of the Korean-American Scientists & Engineers Association

A Message from the Publication Directors of the KSEA 43rd AdministrationThe 43rd KSEA publication team wishes you to have the season’s best time in your life.

In the October issue of KSEA Letters of the 43rd administration, we summarized the highlights of the US-Korea Conference (UKC), the KSEA’s flagship event. This year’s UKC was held in San Francisco, CA, from Aug 6 to Aug 9, 2014 with the theme of “Forward Together.” people joined the conference. Many attendees testified that they enjoyed inspirational presentations and works by invited speakers, fellow KSEA members, and other participants including young generations.

Beyond these summaries, we are honored to deliver to you two featured articles from UKC speakers, Drs. Moo Young Han and Hee Young Paik. Dr. Han’s article titled “Rainwater, Wisdom from Korean Ancestors” describes how Korean ancestor’s wisdom and insight inspires his water management research and invites you to explore these precious resources from the past in your work. Dr. Paik’s article titled “Gendered Innova-tions: what is it and how it improves your research and career” reinforces the importance of balance in our daily scientific/technological life. After all, we all try to do our best in science and engineering fields for all human-beings.

As you may know KSEA is going under the first Council restructuring of its history to make KSEA well-pre-pared for the forthcoming future in the rapidly changing world. Because members like you are the founda-tion of the KSEA, the 43rd administration wants to share the progress of efforts and to know what you want. The KSEA News Letter will be utilized as a tool to support this open collaboration throughout this term. We are pleased to share the news about events held by Seattle Washington chapter.

The 43rd KSEA publication team hopes to bring you the best News Letter and invite all of you to be part of the group efforts. If you have good ideas, news, events, or articles to share, please simply e-mail them to [email protected].

DR, BYEONG-UK KIMPublication Director

Environmental ModelerGA Dept. of Natural Resources

DR. SOOYEUN KIMPublication Director

Research Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Washington

DR. SANG-HYUCK PARKPublication Director

Assistant ProfessorGeorgia Gwinnett College

MS. YUNA SHIMPublication Director

Samsung Research America

Published by the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, in any form or any means, without the prior written permission of KSEA.KSEA assumes no responsibility for statements and opinions expressed in this publication.

KSEA LETTERSVol. 43 No. 1October 2014

Nomination for the Award of The 2015 Ho-Am Prize

The Ho-Am Prize Committee awards the 2015 Ho-Am Prizes to those who have made distinguished contributions to the

development of our society through prominent accomplishments in Science, Engineering, Medicine, The Arts and Community

Service.

1. Awarding Categories

Science………...Those who have made outstanding achievements in research in the area of basic science.Engineering…..Those who have made outstanding achievements in the areas of engineering and technology.Medicine …..….Those who have made outstanding achievements in the areas of medicine and pharmacy.The Arts…………Those who have made outstanding contributions to culture and the arts through creative

activities, exhibition and research in relevant areas.Community Service...…Those who have made outstanding achievements in the area of social service and thereby

contributed to the enhancement of public welfare.

- The Prizes in all categories are awarded to people of Korean ethnic origin. The Prize in Community Service, however, can also be awarded to foreigners who have made outstanding contributions to Korea and Koreans at home and abroad. - The Prize in each category consists of a diploma, a gold medal (187.5g) and 300 mil. Korean won. - Each nominator may only recommend one person or one group in each category.

2. Papers and Materials for Nomination - 2I¿FLDO�nomination form and supporting documentary evidence of achievements including news articles. - OnH�UHSUHVHQWDWLYH�WKHVLV�DQG�¿YH�related theses in the categories of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

* Nomination form download: http://www.hoamprize.org

3. Submission of Nominations - Deadline : October 31, 2014 - On-line nomination : The Ho-Am Foundation has opened an on-line nomination systems on its website. - Off-line nomination : Materials for nomination should be sent to the following address or e-mail.

* 6th Fl., Seocho Tower, 4, Seocho-daero 74-gil, Seocho-gu, Seoul 137-955, KoreaTel) 82-2-2255-0453~7 Fax) 82-2-2255-0461 E-mail) [email protected]

- The winners of the 2015 Ho-Am Prizes will be announced in major Korean dailies in April 2015.

4. Recipients of The 2014 Ho-Am Prize

Science Engineering Medicine The Arts Community ServiceHong Gil Nam Sang Yup Lee Seung K. Kim Hei-Kyung Hong Ha Jong Kim(Bordo Vincenzo)

Professor Distinguished Professor Professor Soprano Father, DirectorDGIST KAIST Stanford University Anna House Social

Welfare Foundation

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