Room 306, Green Energy Hall, N13 Building (Tel. 821-1176)
As the only department of Hanbat National University established in 1989 in response to the needs of the modern information society, the Department of Building and Plant Engineering currently has 300 students and produced 1,500 graduates with bachelor’s degrees, around 100 graduates with master’s degrees, and 25 plant and equipment engineers who are arguably the best engineers. Graduates from the department are active in various fields such as building facilities, industrial facilities, the energy industry, and engineering fields, in addition to founding startups or working as civil servants.
Plant engineering is a discipline concerning “buildings, humans, energy, and the environment” that aims to create an optimal human-friendly environment for work, living, and leisure and drive a green revolution to effectively improve building energy systems that are one of the main causes of climate change. As such, it is a multi-disciplinary discipline that requires comprehensive knowledge and integrated thinking required of today’s talents, and it is a highly dynamic field of study undergoing tremendous expansion with excellent employment opportunities and groundbreaking technology.
Modern buildings and facilities are becoming taller, larger, and more diverse in function in response to economic growth and the need for a high-quality living (working) environment. As a result, the functions and roles of buildings and their equipment systems are becoming more advanced, systematized, automated, and intelligent, and they are being integrated with green technology to cope with the global environmental crisis. Accordingly, efforts are being made beyond the universalization of smart buildings, which require integrated services of building facilities, automation, information and communication, imaging systems, and office automation, and there is a growing demand for human resources in related fields to meet the growing need for green buildings and zero-energy homes driven by environmental issues, as well as in consideration of the increase in clean rooms due to the increase in high-tech industries and laboratories, remodeling and reconstruction of buildings, and the expansion of environmental facilities for resource conservation.
In 2012, the Department of Building and Plant Engineering was expanded and reorganized into the Department of Systems Engineering, which encompasses plant facilities, and was reborn as the only graduate school department in Korea that trains creative and internationally competitive engineers with practical skills and expertise in the design, construction, and maintenance of facilities. Students are imparted with basic knowledge of buildings, environmental facilities, energy systems, and plants, and specialized knowledge and comprehensive skills for various facilities.
The construction of industrial facilities (plants) is fast becoming a new growth engine, thanks to the development of building machinery and equipment and the advancement of our society as a highly industrialized and knowledge-based information society. In light of this, the Department of Plant Engineering will serve a crucial role, as the plant sector is expected to continue to create high added value through the convergence of advanced technologies in engineering and equipment export, construction, and operation by highly qualified professionals as the level of construction work becomes more advanced. Therefore, the department is conducting basic and applied research that is suitable for the plant and equipment industry and is contributing greatly to fostering competent engineers who will lead the building, machinery, equipment and plant industries.
In order to respond to the paradigm shift in industrial society and to promote high-value-added equipment industries, we changed the name of our department from the Department of Building and Plant Engineering to the Department of Plant Engineering and adjusted the total admission quota (in 2012), and then re-established the curricula of the Department of Plant Engineering to characterize it as a department that trains the best plant (building machinery and equipment and industrial equipment/environment) engineers with creativity and global competence.
During the transitional period of reorganizing the curricula, we will endeavor to create a new machinery and equipment industry that can help build a human-friendly and sustainable environment, and to play a leading role in the development of green energy, green buildings, green cities, green Korea, and a green world by cultivating human resources to build buildings, energy/environmental facilities, and world-class green building systems based on low-carbon green growth.
Therefore, in order to create a production environment for the highly industrialized society, our department aims to create a green building industry based on the optimal environment and new and advanced energy systems for buildings related to clean room equipment, residential, commercial and public buildings, and new leisure industries, By establishing the Graduate School of Plant Engineering requiring advanced engineering technology based on research, we will strive to become the one and only graduate school in Korea capable of cultivating advanced manpower in the field of plant engineering, to become a center for plant engineering research on high-tech plants that use core technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and to contribute significantly to the development of HBNU Graduate School and the cultivation of professionals who can lead the plant industry.