Jo Jun 2, 2024
Under the great love and benevolence of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), a general experimental education hall composed of tens of modern laboratories equipped with advanced experimental arrangements was built at Kim Chaek University of Technology (KUT).
With the total floor space of thousands of square meters, it has 46 kinds of up-to-date equipment including those for experiments on flexible production and Internet of Things, and 35 kinds of self-made ones including a comprehensive experimental device for sea-bottom minerals.
Open experiment and practice is introduced in this hall in line with the global trend of educational development. Here, the lecturers, researchers and students are allowed to do any experiments and practice needed at any time. It will provide a solid foundation on which the university can further speed up the project to build itself into a university of research and the most prestigious university while realizing the integration of education, scientific research and production together with the bases for experiment and practice at the faculties and the Mirae Sci-tech Center.
The opening ceremony was held on April 14.
Present there were Kim Sung Du, minister of Education, and the officials, teaching staff and students of the university.
KUT President Pak Ji Min delivered an opening address.
He said:
The opening ceremony of KUT General Experimental Education Hall is being held at a time when all the people of the country are dynamically stepping up the general advance for accelerating the overall development period of Korean-style socialism, by turning out for implementing the decision of the 9th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the WPK.
The university, by making the most of the experimental arrangements, should wage dynamic campaigns of brains and research to solve scientific and technological problems arising in the major fields for the development of the national economy and the improvement of the people’s living standard.
All the officials, teaching staff and students should, bearing in mind the great trust and expectation of the Party that put forward KUT as a revolutionary university and the eldest son university of the country, exert all their wisdom and passion on the sacred struggle for the comprehensive development and prosperity of the country.
After the ceremony the participants looked around the general experimental education hall.
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Jo Jan 3, 2024
The 4th Students’ Memory Contest was held from November 6 to 10, 2023. Excellent students selected from fast reading contests among universities of technology and teacher training colleges took part. The contestants competed through 10 items including fast number, virtual events and dates and random words. The winner of the contest is Ri Ji Hun, a student in the fifth grade at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Kim Chaek University of Technology. The striking news is that he displayed his ability high enough to break the memorizing standard set in the world memory contests in the items of memorizing random words and speed cards. Now he is making further efforts to prepare himself to be a world-startling master of memory.
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Jo Jul 3, 2023
May Circuits ’23 was held on HackerEarth from 20 to 27.
The contest, which drew over 1 700 contestants from different countries in the world, set forth 8 problems including one challenge problem.
A student from Kim Chaek University of Technology (KUT) took the first place with a perfect score of 800. Three other KUT students ranked within the top 10 places including the 3rd and the 4th.
Not resting on their laurels, they are making redoubled efforts to make greater achievements next time.
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Jo Jun 8, 2023
Pak Kwang Ok, a lecturer at the Faculty of Distance Education, has been giving importance to questions and answers in online lectures on “Insulant Production Engineering”, thus making remarkable achievements.
Her lectures are mainly based on two-way-exchange of knowledge between a teacher and students, not one-way transfer of knowledge from a teacher to students. In her lectures, students, as masters of learning, are able to think independently about problems and solutions to them, thus improving their independent faculties of learning, inquiry and presentation.
First, at the beginning of lectures, she associates new materials with what they have alrealy learnt in order to make it possible for them to draw the gist of a new lecture.
For example, in the lecture on synthesis of polyamide resin, she reminds them of the concept of a polyester resin so that students can easily understand what polyamide resin is.
Second, she raises problems for several occasions of teaching to make a question-and-answer session between a teacher and students, or students and students.
In the lecture on synthesis of polyester resin, for instance, she gives a practical discussion question “Which of the two methods of synthesis of PET resin is more advantageous and practical in terms of industrialization, directness or indirectness?” after explanation of production process of PET resin so as to make students have a discussion and present their discussion results.
In this course, students bring up their own questions that they found difficult to understand while working at factories, and find answers to them through discussions.
As mentioned above, she has been making her teaching more effective and raising her students’ practical abilities through question-and-answer sessions.
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Jo May 12, 2023
A real-time distance education system has been developed by Kim Chung Min, a researcher at the Faculty of Distance Education.
It is an education support system that enables real-time audio-visual communication by computer devices such as IP cameras, USB cameras and microphones. It supports teaching planning, group discussion, desktop share, e-board share, streaming multimedia, online test, teaching evaluation, etc.
A real-time campus distance education system must be able to support a lecture for a large number of distributed students.
The proposed system supports various functions such as real-time communication via text, audio, camera display between an instructor and students, desktop share, streaming multimedia, e-board and sending files. In addition, it supports various types of teaching such as lecture, discussion and examination; lecture planning to set proper teaching methods, time and teaching steps; teaching evaluation to improve teaching methods through impersonal evaluation by students. It also supports group competition, discussion and presentation, foreign language audio-visual lectures and investigation of understanding through exams at any time.
The system can put the whole lecture process on IT footing and improve the density and effectiveness of teaching by employing superior teaching methods. Also, it can implement feedback coupling to develop new teaching methods through impersonal evaluation by students.
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Jo Apr 11, 2023
Ryom Chol Ung, a researcher at the Faculty of Mining Engineering, has been adding sci-tech knowledge of cross-disciplinary sciences to physical beneficiation of minerals so as to help his students to get a deep knowledge about it by means of preparation and discussion.
First, he has enriched the teaching content with cross-disciplinary sciences.
For instance, ways and methods of optical separation of minerals by differences from optical spectrum, a branch of cross-disciplinary sciences, were added to gravity separation of minerals that attaches importance only to the differences in the density of minerals, while such cross-disciplinary knowledge as cryogenic temperature physics, magnetic fluid, etc. were to magnetic separation of minerals.
Second, he has made preparations oriented to the acquisition of cross-disciplinary knowledge.
For example, he gives preparation tasks of consulting international scientific journals on the ways and methods of beneficiation of different kinds of minerals so that the students come to know that if ultraviolet separation is combined in the preseparation of scheelite, they can avoid excess grinding and reduce the amount of beneficiation reagents by using the differences from an ultraviolet luminescent colour and in the falling velocity of mineral particles in air media.
Third, he has consolidated student’s cross-disciplinary knowledge through debates and discussions.
Students have had a wide knowledge of several branches of cross-disciplinary sciences through discussions and debates on their tasks ― modeling, setting boundary conditions and result analysis for motion characteristics of mineral particles in a jigger, for example.
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