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Dr. Gloria Kim is the Associate Chair for Research of the Department of Engineering Education in the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. She received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from Seoul National University, M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Her technical expertise is in biomaterials, molecular imaging and drug delivery. She has taught and developed courses in circuits, biomechanics, biomaterials, bioinstrumentation, and nanotechnology.
She is interested in educational environments and student learning; and social and ethical issues in STEM research and teaching. Her work includes creating opportunities for students to globalize their engineering degrees and mentoring students in teaching. In addition, Dr. Kim has mentored numerous student entrepreneurial teams to success. Dr. Kim has secured research funding from NSF and other funding agencies for her efforts to transform engineering education. She is an active member of ASEE and has served in various leadership positions at the Korean American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) and the Korean Society for Engineering Education (KSEE).
Professor Sung-Jin Song received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 1981, a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1983, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA in 1991. He has worked at Daewoo Heavy Industries, Ltd., Incheon, Korea for 5 years from 1983. He has worked at Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea as Assistant Professor for 5 years from 1993. Since 1998 he has been at Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea and is currently Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
His research interest includes development of advanced Nondestructive Evaluation techniques using Ultrasound, Eddy Current, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Acoustic Metamaterials.
He has served as Executive Vice President, Sungkyunkwan University, Dean of College of Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Director of Center for Innovative Engineering Education, Sungkyunkwan University, and Director of Sungkyunkwan University Hub Center for Innovative Engineering Education. He has also served as the Founding President of Korea Association for Innovative Engineering Education. He currently is a member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea, a member of Gas Technology Standards Committee in Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of Korea, the Chair of Accreditation Body Review Committee in Ministry of Education of korea.
President, Korean Society of Engineering Education (KSEE)
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Member, National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK)
Chair, Accreditation Body Review Committee, Ministry of Education, Korea
Member, Gas Technology Standards Committee, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Korea
Former Executive Vice President, Natural Sciences Campus, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Former Dean, College of Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Former Director, Center for Innovative Engineering Education, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Former Director, Sungkyunkwan University Hub Center for Innovative Engineering Education, Korea
Founding President, Korea Association for Innovative Engineering Education
ILJIN Award, National Academy of Engineering of Korea
Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation Systems – Models and Measurements, 2007, Springer Verlag (Monography, English)
Ultrasonic Nondestructive Engineering, 2004, Hakyeonsa (Monography, Korean)
Professor Jong-Moon Chung is an IEEE Fellow and member of the Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) honor society and the National Academy of Engineering of Korea. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea) and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA, USA). From 1997 to 1999, he was an Assistant Professor and Instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. From 2000 to 2005, he was a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Oklahoma State University (OSU). Since 2005, he has been a Professor with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, where he is also the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and a Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine in the College of Medicine, all at Yonsei University.
His book “Emerging Metaverse XR and Video Multimedia Technologies” was published by Apress (Springer Nature) in 2022. In 2022, he received the ‘Award of Excellence’ from the National Academy of Engineering of Korea. Both in 2021 and 2019, he received the top ‘Award of Excellence’ from the Ministry of Interior and Safety (MOIS) of the Republic of Korea for the mixed reality (MR) composite disaster training system he developed for the South Korea government. He has developed many new technologies in XR/MR/AR, smart factory control systems for industry, autonomous driving technologies and ADAS/CAN/DSRC/C-V2X as well as BEV/FCEV technologies for Hyundai Motors, 6G/5G/LTE/Wi-Fi and smartphone technologies for Samsung, LG, and Google, and AI optimized electronic circuit designs for LG Display.
His courses in Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/instructor/jmcyonsei) on deep learning, big data, AR/XR, multimedia streaming, MPEG-DASH, cloud/edge computing, smartphones/smartwatches, 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, TCP/IP, Internet, security, and IoT technologies have been accessed by over 1.8 million users and was listed among the top 33 industry recommended courses. He served as the General Co-Chair of the IEEE ICCE 2022 and was the General Chair of ICONI 2022 & 2016, IEEE ICCE-Asia 2020, and IEEE MWSCAS 2011. He is currently a Vice President for the IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc) and the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society (PSES). He is also a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Section Editor of the Wiley ETRI Journal, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, and was an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technologies from 2011 to 2021.
Vice President (International Affairs), Korean Society of Engineering Education
IEEE Fellow & Eta Kappa Nu (HKN)
Member, National Academy of Engineering of Korea
Associate Dean, College of Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Vice President, IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc)
Vice President, IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society (PSES)
Senior Editor, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
Section Editor, Wiley ETRI Journal
EiC, KSII Transactions on Internet & Information Systems
Dr. Seong-Woo Kim is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering Practice, Seoul National University (SNU), where he also serves as an Adjunct Professor in multiple programs, including Civil & Environmental Engineering (smart city major), Technology Management, Economics and Policy, and the Transdisciplinary Graduate Program in Smart City Global Convergence. In addition, he is an Advisory Professor for Ludic Culture Studies and the Study of Future major in the College of Liberal Studies. Dr. Kim also directs the Autonomous Robot Intelligence Lab at SNU.
Before returning to SNU in 2014, Dr. Kim was a postdoctoral associate at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. He is a coach and faculty advisor for the SNU Solar Car Racing Team. His hands-on approach to engineering is demonstrated through his passion for both demolition and construction of buildings and structures. As part of this, he played a key role in initiating the makerspace, Idea Factory, from the ground up and developed a new curriculum/program for the space.
Dr. Kim’s extensive service includes various leadership roles such as Director of the Carbon Neutral ESG Future Leading Practical Problem Research Center (2022-), Associate Dean in the Department of Engineering Practice at SNU (2022-2023), and Vice Chairman of the Steering Committee for the Social Contribution Competition of the SNU Institute for Global Social Responsibility (2021-2022), and a sabbatical as a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University (2023-2024). He is a member of several prestigious groups, including the Seoul National University Professor Social Responsibility Group, the Faculty Meeting for Creativity Education, and the Academic Society for Appropriate Technology. Additionally, he has been the Director of International Cooperation for the Korean Society for Engineering Education (KSEE) since 2017.
– Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Practice,Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
– Director of International Cooperation, Korean Society forEngineering Education (KSEE)
– Member of Academic Society for Appropriate Technology
– Member of Faculty Meeting for Creativity Education, SNU
– Seoul National University Professor Social Responsibility Group
– Advisory Professor of SNU Solar Car Racing Team
We are honored to announce that our Rising to the Top book series has added TWO new volumes!
Rising to the Top provides an intimate and inspiring look into the experiences that have shaped the lives and careers of women engineering leaders from around the world. By openly sharing their personal journeys in these pages, the authors hope to not only inspire the next generation of engineering leaders, but also provide valuable insight into the challenges facing women engineers around the world, and the opportunities that are theirs for the taking.