- School of Mechanical Aerospace & Systems Engineering: Division of Mechanical Engineering
- School of Mechanical Aerospace & Systems Engineering: Division of Aerospace Engineering
- School of Mechanical Aerospace & Systems Engineering: Division of Ocean System Engineering
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Department of Nuclear and Quanturn Engineering
- Graduate School of EEWS
- Cho Chun Sik Graduate School for Green Transportation
Graduate School of EEWS
URL : http://eewseng.kaist.ac.kr
Summary
EEWS program aims to become a global hub for research, innovation, and education with world-class facilities and personnel’s in fields related to sustainable energy science and engineering technologies. The program has three primary goals: first of all, we will drastically reduce current technical problems related to water desalination. Second, we will develop new technologies to support a global hydrogen economy. To enable a global hydrogen economy, we will develop innovative technologies essential to converting water into hydrogen, storing separated hydrogen, and using hydrogen as fuels. As we refine and improve the sustainable route to regenerate liquefied hydrocarbon fuels from H2O plus CO2, we can also eliminate environmental problems associated with the greenhouse effects caused by CO2 emission.
The Energy Science & Engineering program for the World Class University (WCU) has also been established by the Graduate School of EEWS with support from the Korean government and, in particular, the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST). On-going matters in the area of energy science and engineering are a top priority for the researchers as well as students. All members will focus on achieving innovative results.
Mission Statement
The mission of the Graduate School of EEWS at KAIST is to investigate the most challenging, fundamental problems related to “Energy, Environment, Water, and Sustainability (EEWS)”. Inspired by a clear vision for the future we continue to develop new initiatives and programes that explore new research areas.
Research areas
All areas broadly defined as Energy and Environment, particularly Sustainable Energy Engineering Technology are considered to create new technologies, open up new scientific frontiers, and produce future leaders for industry, government, and academia.
The applicable areas of the department consist of Renewable Green Energy Alternatives, Seawater Desalination, Greenhouse Gas Sequestration, Biocatalysis, Photocatalysis, Artificial Photosynthesis, Solar Energy, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Energy, Secondary Battery, Mesoporous Materials, Computational Materials Design