"Innovate to empower your community for the digital transformation"
What is our goal?
Develop an interdisciplinary workforce with social, technological, and design innovation capabilities.
Cultivate a quality workforce that empathizes with systemic social structures and actualizes social value creation through design and advanced technologies.
What is the background?
Growing demand to prepare tomorrow's workforce for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which requires technical knowledge coupled with creativity and interdisciplinary thinking
Lack of higher education institutions engaging in research and teaching in innovation despite Korea's emergence as a global innovation leader
Unmet needs for communities of interdisciplinary — rather than multidisciplinary — researchers/educators
What are our strengths?
Humanities-based interdisciplinary research and education, integrating social, technological, and design innovations
Student-driven research and learning that transcend disciplinary boundaries
Successful co-teaching by interdisciplinary educators
Curricula that embeds innovation skills into solving real-world challenges by applying design thinking and using advanced technologies