The contribution to international recycling environment standard standardization
Training eco design specialists
[July 19, 2011]

 
 Professor Lee, Hwa Jo of Mechanical Engineering (56) was nominated as a winner of ‘IEC 1906 Award’

 IEC(International Electrotechnical Commission) was founded in 1906 as one of top 3 international standard organizations giving awards by selecting the specialists who have contributed to international standardization each year since 2005 as one of centennial anniversary events.

 The award winning field of Professor Lee is the recycling environment standardization. It is the contribution of making effort in designs considering environment and development of recycling technology such as the development and comparative evaluation on eco-friendly design guide for re-manufacture of cellular phones, research of standard estimation method on recycling possibility rate of electric & electronic products, data management on entire cycle of product for eco-friendly design, development of Enabling Technology for maximized product recycling, development of cathode-ray tube waste separation and cleansing system, development of scrap car dismantling evaluation software, research of home appliance waste handling process and the development of recycling characteristics evaluation on automotive parts & part categories, etc.

 Also, Professor Lee is leading in the training of eco design specialists as a person responsible for projects participated by graduate school Mechanical Engineering, Applied Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering as Yeungnam University was selected for 'eco design specialized graduate school' by the Ministry of Environment since 2009. Eco-design means design considering the influence of environment or designing by reducing the malicious effects on the environment from the design stage which is the source of product's birth. This field is getting the spotlight as high quality jobs of next generation as the importance of environment becomes highlighted.

 In addition, Professor Hong, Seung-Ho of Hanyang University (automated industrial communication), Director Kim, Young-Rok of Hex Power System Technology Laboratory (solar energy), Professor Lee, Jae-Ho of University of Seoul·Team Manager Choi, Sang Mi of Korea Electronics Association (electronic component library design automation), Team Manager Ahn, Hee-Seong of Korea Electrical Engineering & Science Research Institute (radio interference of extra high voltage power transmission), Team Manager Cho, Mi-Ryeong of KILT (backlight unit related display for LCD), Senior Researcher Kim, Jae-Hyun of Korea Institute of Machiner & Materials (semiconductor related to MEMS material compression characteristics), Professor Shin and Hyung-Seop of Andong University (room temperature tensile characteristics of super conductor), etc have received the honor of award. Accordingly, Korea has placed 5th followed by Japan, England, United States and Germany by producing 9 award winners among a total of 124.