MOU signed with USC Viterbi School of Engineering 

Inha University’s College of Engineering signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California on March 20, with the institutions represented by their respective Deans of Engineering, Dr. Yoon-Mo Koo and Dr. Yannis Yortsos.  The main objectives of the MOU include mutual cooperation in the fields of education, exchange of faculty and students, and collaboration in scientific areas, particularly in relation to the Songdo Global Knowledge Complex, which Inha University will develop in the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ). Chairman Yang-Ho Cho, CEO of Korean Air and Chairman of the Inha Foundation, and who also serves as one of voting members of the USC Board of Trustees, has greatly supported and facilitated the successful signing of MOU.

Both institutions continue to conduct joint research projects in partnership with high-profile corporations such as Korean Air, Airbus, Pratt & Whitney and General Electric. The MOU aims at seeking a further developed relationship between the engineering schools based on the outstanding results and outcomes of years-long university-industry cooperation.

By signing the MOU, both universities agreed to cooperate in ▲ the establishment of joint research centers in Songdo Global Knowledge Complex, ▲ exchange of students and faculty, ▲ joint research and ▲ educational collaboration. Concerted efforts will also be pursued to secure enough funding for those collaborations. Strategic fields of research were identified as potential areas of research cooperation including RFID, Future Fuel & Energy and Bionano-Robot.

Inha University has been working on an outstanding plan to build a world class campus and R&BD centers in the Songdo Global Knowledge Complex, where an extensive scale of international partnership will be developed with world-renowned universities, leading global industries and research centers. The Songdo campus will aim at becoming the hub of education and research with a global standard in the North-east Asia, and the cooperation with the University of Southern California will serve as an essential impetus to achieve the impressive goals as stated in the MOU.