국립 부경대학교

△ 왼쪽부터 이훈, 임영수, 임권택, 권기룡(학장), 손정민, 남승윤 교수.

부경대학교 공과대학의 ‘최고 공학자’는 누구일까?

바로 융합디스플레이공학과 임권택 교수(62세)다.

임 교수는 부경대 공과대학 교수 216명 가운데 최근 10년 간 연구실적이 가장 뛰어난 교수로 꼽혀 ‘제1회 부경대학교 공과대학 공학대상’에서 상금 300만원의 ‘공학연구대상’을 받았다.

이 상은 부경대 공과대학(학장 권기룡)이 공학연구 활성화를 위해 올해 처음 제정한 것이다.

지난 1993년 부경대에 부임한 임 교수의 중점 연구분야는 고분자 약물전달체 등 기능성 고분자 합성 연구다. 그의 최근 10년 간 연구실적은 SCI급 논문 265편, 국제특허 5, 국내 특허 15개, 기술이전 4건 등에 달한다.

임 교수가 개발한 초임계 이산화탄소기술을 반도체 나노공정에 적용하는 연구는 삼성전자에 기술 이전돼 10나노급 반도체 제작에 쓰이고 있다. 이 연구성과로 임 교수는 2011년 부산과학기술협의회 주관 제10회 부산과학기술상을 받기도 했다,

이에 앞서 임 교수는 교육과 연구 및 봉사 업적이 가장 뛰어난 교수에게 수여하는 ‘부경대 베스트프리미어’(2009년), 산학공동연구의 수행과 첨단기술의 이전 등 대학과 산업발전에 기여한 공로로 부경대 산학협력상(2017년) 등을 받았다.

이와 함께 이번 ‘제1회 부경대학교 공과대학 공학대상’에서 임용 후 5년 이내의 교수를 대상으로 한 ‘우수공학자상’ 부문에는 4명의 신진교수들이 선정됐다.

의공전기·조직공학·재생의학·바이오프린팅 분야의 남승윤 교수(의공학과)를 비롯, ▷반도체소재 분야의 임영수(신소재시스템공학과), ▷무선통신 신호처리·기계학습분야의 이훈 교수(정보통신공학과), ▷탄소성 대변형 해석 등 구조강도 평가·내충돌평가 분야의 손정민 교수(조선해양시스템공학과) 등 4명이 우수공학자로 뽑혀 각각 상패와 부상 100만원을 받았다.

권기룡 학장은 “공학 연구분야 경쟁력 강화와 연구 풍토조성을 위해 공학연구에 공헌한 교원과 학생을 발굴하여 올해부터 매년 공학대상자를 선정·포상할 예정”이라면서, “이번 2학기에는 대학·대학원에 재학생들을 대상으로 3개 학기에 발표된 SCI급 논문 중 주저자로 게재한 논문을 실적을 산출해 ‘우수공학도상’을 수여할 계획.”이라고 밝혔다. <부경투데이>

Prof. Lim Kwon-taek of Display Engineering, received grand prize for 'Engineering Research Awards'
'The 1st PKNU Engineering Awards' ... 4 excellent engineers were also selected.

Who is the 'Best Engineer' in the College of Engineering at Pukyong National University?

He is the Professor Lim Kwon-taek (62 yr old) of the Department of Display Engineering.

Prof. Lim was selected as one of the 216 professors at the College of Engineering at Pukyong National University with the best research achievements in the last 10 years, he received the 'Grand Prize for Engineering Research' of 3 million won in 'The 1st Pukyong National University Engineering Awards'.

This award has been first promoted this year by the College of Engineering at Pukyong National University (Dean, Kwon Ki-ryong) to bolster engineering researches.

Professor Lim, who was assigned to Pukyong National University in 1993, focuses on the synthesis studies of functional polymeric materials such as polymer drug delivery systems. His research achievements for the last 10 years amounted to 265 SCI-level papers, 5 international patents, 15 domestic patents, and 4 technology transfers.

The research on applying the Surfactants for Supercritical CO2 technology developed by Professor Lim to the semiconductor nano process was transferred to Samsung Electronics and is being used for manufacturing 10-nano class semiconductors. As a result of this research, Professor Lim was awarded the 10th Busan Science and Technology Award hosted by the Federation of Busan Science and Technology (FOBST) in 2011.

Prior to this, Professor Lim was awarded the 'Best Premier of Pukyong National University' (2009), which was awarded to professors who are outstanding in education, research, and volunteering service, and 'Award of Pukyong National University's industry-academic cooperation' (2017) for his contributions to the development of universities and industries, such as carrying industry-academia joint research out and transferring advanced technology.

Along with this, 4 professors were selected in the 'Excellent Engineer Award' for professors within five years after appointment at 'The 1st Pukyong National University Engineering Awards'.

Including Professor Nam Seung-yoon (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering) in the fields of medical electrical engineering, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and bioprinting, ▷Lim Young-soo (Dept. of Materials System Engineering) in the field of semiconductor materials, ▷ Professor Lee Hoon in the field of wireless communication signal processing and machine learning(Dept. of Information and Communications Engineering), ▷ Professor Sohn Jeong-min (Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine Systems Engineering) in the field of structural strength evaluation and collision resistance evaluation, such as analysis of elastic-plastic large deformation, these 4 people were selected as excellent engineers and received awards and 1 million won each for the additional prize.

Dean, Kwon Ki-ryong said, "To strengthen the competitiveness of the engineering research field and to develop a research climate, we plan to discover teaching staffs and students who have contributed to engineering research, and select and reward engineering awards every year from this year," and he added, "In this 2nd semester, the ‘Excellent Engineering Award’ will be awarded to university and graduate students by calculating the results of the thesis published as the lead author among SCI-level thesis published in the 3 semesters." <Pukyong Today>