In this blog post, we explore why separation technology in chemical engineering is regarded as the core technology that dictates product quality and production costs. This year’s rice harvest seems to be poor due to frequent rain. Nevertheless, when harvest time arrives, rural areas are filled with vitality. But imagine if, after a joyful harvest, every threshing machine nationwide...
In this blog post, I’ll discuss why we should question common sense in investing and how to shift our perspective, using the fountain pen episode from the movie as an example. Why should we break common sense? Have you ever seen the movie ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’? Based on the life of real-life figure Jordan Belfort, this film depicts how the protagonist—gifted with dazzling...
This blog post explains the principles and potential of various renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and geothermal power in an easy-to-understand way. With frequent extreme weather events occurring worldwide recently, interest in environmental issues is higher than ever. Particularly, coal, which has excellent thermal efficiency but causes environmental pollution due to high carbon...
In this blog post, I reflect on whether the ‘ladder of learning’ offered to underprivileged students can lead to genuine equal opportunity, based on my experience with educational volunteer work. I have been volunteering with an organization called ‘People Sharing Learning’ for a year and four months since last summer. This volunteer work has provided me with significant learning...
This blog post examines how shale gas transformed the structure of the energy market and what impact it had on resource conflicts and world peace. Hello? I’m Shale. I’m a rock that every student has probably heard of at least once in Earth Science class. Sedimentary rock friends like me, with particle sizes smaller than 63 micrometers, are called shale. When you meet me...
This article explains how synthetic products are produced and used in daily life, discussing the processes of the petrochemical industry, its limitations, and sustainable alternatives. Think about the room you live in. What do you see? Probably clothes scattered about, pay-as-you-throw plastic bags filled with soon-to-be-discarded trash, empty milk PET bottles, synthetic rubber mats, and...
This blog post explores the message conveyed by the art form known as happenings, which emerged by breaking down the boundaries between life and art. One day in 1952, the modern musician ‘John Cage’ gave a lecture at a university in the United States. John Cage is well known as a figure who boldly shattered the traditional frameworks of music and art of his time, pursuing new forms of...
This blog post examines how biometric chip technology could revolutionize our lives while also potentially leading to privacy violations and the dangers of a surveillance society. Advances in science and technology stem from people’s desire to pursue a more convenient life than the present. Consider the smartphone, an essential item for modern people. The first telephone was invented...
This blog post examines whether industrial engineering undergraduate education has properly established its current identity and direction, focusing on issues in the curriculum and career pathways. “Conducting the orchestra of engineering,” “The business department of the engineering college.” Such expressions are often used when introducing industrial engineering. As these phrases...
This blog post examines the role industrial engineering plays within the complex modern industrial structure and why it is gaining attention as an important field of study. Examining the modern industrial structure reveals that diverse fields are intertwined to form a vast system. For example, large Korean corporations like Samsung and LG not only operate in various business sectors but...