국립 부경대학교

부경대, 비전공자도 AI 프로그래밍 서비스 개발자로 키운다
- ㈜멀티캠퍼스와 손잡고 ‘융합SW취업연계과정’ 개설

△ 융합SW취업연계과정 오리엔테이션 참가자 단체 기념촬영 ⓒ사진 이성재(대외홍보팀)

국립부경대학교(총장 장영수)가 인공지능(AI) 등 IT 관련 전공자는 물론 비전공자도 AI 프로그래밍 서비스 개발자로 키우는 교육과정 운영에 나서 관심을 모은다.

부경대는 기업 IT 직무교육 분야 국내 선도기업인 ㈜멀티캠퍼스와 손잡고 ‘융합SW취업연계과정’을 개설하고, 10월 12일 오후 미래관 소민홀에서 오리엔테이션을 개최했다.

부경대 비교과과정으로 개설돼 이날부터 5개월간 진행되는 이 과정은 국내 채용 수요가 증가하고 있는 프로그래밍 및 빅데이터 분야의 전문가를 키우는 교육 프로그램이다.

대학과 ㈜멀티캠퍼스가 공동으로 마련한 산학연계프로그램으로는 부산에서 처음으로 진행되며, 전공자(트랙A)는 물론 비전공자(트랙B)를 위한 과정을 함께 운영하는 것이 특징이다.

전공자와 비전공자 트랙별로 자바(JAVA) 프로그래밍을 비롯, 관계형데이터베이스, 빅데이터 분석, 알고리즘, AI플랫폼, 머신러닝/딥러닝 활용 등 기술교육과 프로젝트, 특강, 데이터 전문자격 취득 지원 등 과정이 온라인 및 실시간 비대면 수업으로 진행된다.

특히 프로그램 참가자들에게는 부경대와 ㈜멀티캠퍼스가 교육비 전액을 지원하는 것은 물론, 과정을 모두 이수하면 국내 대표 IT/SW 분야 기업 취업지원 혜택도 주어진다.

부경대는 올해 8월 졸업자와 내년 2월 졸업예정자를 대상으로 서류평가 및 면접평가를 통해 총 50명의 참가자 모집을 마쳤다.

부경대는 ‘융합SW취업연계과정’ 수강대상을 내년부터 3, 4학년 재학생으로 확대하는 한편, ㈜멀티캠퍼스와 벤처기업협회의 ‘채용전환형 SW부트캠프과정’도 내달 개설하는 등 4차 산업 및 융복합 SW 관련 전문 인재양성에 적극 나설 계획이다.

한편 부경대는 전체 학생을 대상으로 한 수요조사를 진행해 빅데이터 등 미래산업 중심 교육프로그램 개설을 요청하는 학생들의 의견을 적극 반영해 이번 프로그램과 같은 다양한 비교과과정 프로그램을 개설하며 융복합형 인재 양성에 힘쓰고 있다. <부경투데이>

△ 오리엔테이션 전경. 

PKNU trains non-IT majors to become AI programming service developers

- Newly opened 'Employment Linked Program for Software Convergence Engineering' in partnership with Multi-Campus Co., Ltd.

Pukyong National University (President Jang Young-Soo) is attracting public attention by providing a curriculum that fosters not only IT-related majors such as artificial intelligence (AI), but also non-IT majors as service developers of AI programming.

Pukyong National University, in partnership with Multi Campus, a leading company in the field of IT job linking training in Korea, opened the 'Job Linking Training Course for SW Convergence Engineering’ and held an orientation at Somin Hall in the Mirae building on the afternoon of October 12.

Opened as a non-curricular course at Pukyong National University, this course, which will be held for 5 months from today, is an educational program that nurtures experts in programming and big data fields, which are in increasing demand for employment in Korea.

This is the first industry-university link program in Busan, jointly prepared by the university and Multi-Campus Co., Ltd, and it is characterized by running courses for both IT majors (Track A) and non-IT majors (Track B).

Supporting technical education, projects, special lectures, and data professional qualifications related to the use of JAVA programming, relational database, big data analysis, algorithm, AI platform, and machine learning/deep learning by track for IT majors and non-IT majors, untact courses are conducted online and in real-time.

In particular, Pukyong National University and Multi-Campus Co., Ltd. provide full educational expenses to program participants, and if students complete all the courses, they will also be given employment support at Korea's leading IT/SW companies.

Pukyong National University completed the recruitment of 50 participants through application review process and interview for those who graduated in August of this year and those expected to graduate in February of next year.

Pukyong National University will expand the target of taking the 'Convergence SW Employment Linked Program' from next year to 3rd and 4th grade students, while the Multi-Campus and Venture Business Association's 'SW Boot Camp Course for Employment Conversion' will also be opened next month, Pukyong National University plan to actively nurture talents related to the 4th industry and convergence software.

Pukyong National University conducted a demand survey for all students and actively reflected the opinions of students, the university is making every effort to provide future industry-oriented education programs such as big data and opens various non-curricular programs such as this program to foster convergence talent. <Pukyong Today>