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KSEA Letters Vol. 34, No. 2 (Serial No. 197) March 2006 Contents Advertisements A Message from the President 3 KUSCO 71 YGTLC2006 Summary 6 DGIST 72 NMC2006 10 ETRI 73 UKC2006 13 POSCO 74 YGF2006 15 SAMSUNG 75 KSEA General Election 17 LGE 76 Headquarters News 23 KITECH 77 Meeting with Deputy Prime Minister KT 79 Myung Oh Meeting KISTI 82 EC Meeting Minutes #6 through #8 KOSEN 84 Mini Council Meeting (Jan. 6-7, 2006) POSTECH 85 Minutes ICU 86 Women Membership Drive 39 GYEONGGI BIO-CENTER 87 Chapter News 41 LEE & RO INC. 88 Southwest Chapter LEEDCO ENGINEERS 88 Midwest Chapter/KSEA-NU New England Chapter KSEA Sponsors 89 Member News 57 Contact Pages 91 List of New Members KSEA Annual Award Announcement 62 Publisher: Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim Scholarship Programs 63 Editor-In-Chief: Young B. Choi Editors: Hee-Koo Moon 2006 KSEA Scholarships Jungho Kim Kenneth H Yu Membership Applications 66 Ashley Kim Published by the Korean-American Scientist and Engineers Association Individual Membership All rights reserved. No part of this publication maybe reproduced, in any Corporate Membership form or any means, without the prior written permission of KSEA. KSEA assumes no responsibility for statement and opinion advanced by Guideline for Articles in KSEA Letters 69 Cover Page: A group picture from YGTLC 2006. Copyright Release Form 70 2 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 2 (March 2006) A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim Dear KSEA members, I trust that there were a lot of positive things that happened in your work and home in the last several months. I also hope that you reached a conclusion that 2005 had been a great year for you and your family and you opened the new year filled with fresh spirit and exciting hopes. It seems that KSEA also had a good time, observing signs of improvement in its image projected to the surrounding societies. To mention a few: (1) Magnanimous gesture of former Deputy Prime Minister of Science & Technology of Korea, Dr. Myung Oh, toward KSEA Shortly after UKC2005 held in August last year, we heard a delightful news that Dr. Myung Oh, then Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) of Science & Technology of Korea, might be able to meet some members of KSEA when he accompanies President Moo-Hyun Roh in NY City during September 13 - 14. So, we hurriedly made an arrangement and through the help of chapter presidents of the NY Metro Chapter, the New Jersey Chapter, the Philadelphia Chapter, the New England Chapter, and the Upstate NY Chapter, we recruited about 50 participants. Former Deputy Prime Minister of Science & Technology of Korea, Dr. Myung Oh and Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim KSEA 34rd President Most people agreed that it was an event of historical significance for KSEA. The visionary DPM Oh is viewed by many as the primary architect of the foundation and the movement which led Korea to be the current world-class IT powerhouse. He persuaded two other ministers to accompany him at this meeting. The two ministers were MOCIE (Commerce, Industry, and Energy) Minister, Dr. Hee-Beom Lee, and MIC (Information & Communication) Minister, Dr. Dae-Je Chin. Interestingly, all three ministers are graduates of the Electronic Engineering Dept of Seoul National University. KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 2 (March 2006) 3 All three ministers who are real heroes in Korea, showed great warmth toward KSEA. It is obvious that they understand the importance of US-Korea cooperation in science and technology and they see potential contributions of KSEA toward that end. Although all three ministers changed jobs early this year, I am certain that the attitudes they exhibited at the meeting will have long-lasting positive effects on the activities and stature of KSEA in the future. It seems safe to say that this is one significant sign showing the continuing improvement of the image of KSEA projected to surrounding societies. (2) YGTLC (Young-Generation Technical & Leadership Conference) 2006 held in January, 2006 in Los Angeles KSEA hosted YGTLC2006 (Young-Generation Technical & Leadership Conference) in Los Angeles during Jan. 6 – 8, 2006. In this newsletter, you can see that we refined the goals and nature of YGTLC. I think you will agree with the 34th EC that YGTLC is a very important program of KSEA. Another pleasant thing was that Dr. Wan-Kyu Cho, former Minister of Education of Korea who had also been the President of Seould National University and a stauchy supporter of KSEA, kindly donated $1,000 to KSEA and we used it as an award fund in this YGTLC event. (3) Mini-Council Meeting We felt that gathering councilors just once a year would not be a good thing for improving the vitality of KSEA. Yet a full council meeting is a very costly event. So, while YGTLC2006 was going on, 21 senior members including some Executive Committee members, other committee chairs, auditors, some technical group councilors, and representatives of chapter presidents gathered in another hotel in the LA Korea Town to hold a mini-council meeting. The purpose was to discuss about the current status and the desirable future of KSEA. Some of the items discussed are as follows: - Implementation of the decision made at the last Council meeting for Redistribution of Technical Group Councilor positions - Future possible enhancement of Technical Group Councilor positions: Relationship to sister societies - How to obtain better nominations in the future ? - Membership status and Status of the e-Directory project - How to motivate and reward chapter presidents - Other sponsored projects All participants felt that the meeting was quite useful and productive. (4) Regional YGTLC to be held in Dallas, Texas Since YGTLC 2005, I have thought that having regional YGTLCs would be a highly cost-effective action for KSEA. Some parents will be interested in showcasing their sons and daughters who are high-performance graduate students and young professionals. Some undergraduate students will be interested in learning from the graduate students and young professionals being showcased while networking among themselves. Their parents will be supportive of their children participating in such events. Since a regional YGTLC will not involve air-travel by participating students, the costs will be modest. During the mini-council meeting of January, the Executive Committee approved the plan for providing the financial support of up to $5,000 to chapters organizing a regional YGTLC and supporting two such regional YGTLCs. Since then, I have been encouraging some chapters to organize a regional YGTLC. It turns out that the president of the North Texas chapter, Esther Yang, has come forward to take the leadership in 4 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 2 (March 2006) organizing a regional YGTLC together with the president of the Southwest Chapter, Sam Ryu. You will hear more about this later. (5) Projects supported by KOFST We submitted a proposal to KOFST last Summer for conducting two tasks: (a) Development of an electronic membership directory (E-Directory) and (b) Assessment of R&D trends in IT areas. The proposal was accepted. As a result, powerful task teams were formed and both tasks were about to be concluded. You'll see more detaisl in this newsletter and hear more in the near future. This project will also help KSEA financially. A particularly pleasant outcome is the E-Directory to be published before April. The last member directory of KSEA was published in 1994. So, after 12 years, each member will be able to see some basic information on other members. The basic information is about the same as what you may find in a typical business card. Chapter presidents will be able to see a lot more information in the new member management and e-directory system. Meanwhile, it is important that all members who have not updated their member profiles in the KSEA Web do so quickly. (6) UKC2006 Under the excellent leadership of 35th president-elect, Sung-Kwon Kang, the preparation of UKC2006 (The 2006 US - Korea Conference on Science, Technology, & Entrepreneurship) is going very well. You will find some details in this newsletter. In terms of the budget involved, this is the biggest annual event managed by KSEA. Having seen how UKC2005 was, I trust that most members would not want to miss this. Again, if something nice happens to you, your Korean-American colleagues at work or in town, or children of the members in your town, please kindly spare time informing us (especially, Publication Co-Directors Hee-Koo Moon and Young-Bai Choi) of the news. Doing so is as important as any other possible contribution that you can make. Wishing you the best Spring season. Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim 34th President of KSEA (Term: 2005.07.01 - 2006.06.30) and Professor of Computer Engineering & Computer Science, UCI KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 2 (March 2006) 5 YGTLC2006 Summary 2006 YG Technical and Leadership Conference: Report by Brian Park One of the primary goals of the KSEA is to nourish opportunities for leadership development and networking to our young generation Korean-American students and professionals. To this end, KSEA has been continuously and successfully expanding YG related activities in the past. These include meetings, seminars and conferences at local student chapter and the national levels. Following an amazing success of the 1st Young Generation Technical and Leadership Conference (YGTLC) 2005 held in San Francisco, the 2nd YGTLC 2006 under the theme of “Leaders in Science and Engineering for 21st Century and Beyond” was held as follows: Date January 6 – 8, 2006 Place Embassy Suite Hotel LAX South, Los Angeles, California Conference Co- Kenneth Yu (University of Maryland) and Hee-Koo Moon (Solar Turbines, Chairs Inc.) Program Co- Byungkyu (Brian) Park (University of Virginia, & Chair of YG Committee, Chairs KSEA) and John C.