Students from the Department of Environmental Engineering at Chosun University have attracted attention by demonstrating their abilities through participation in various competitions and contests, winning multiple awards.
According to Chosun University on the 24th, students from the Department of Environmental Engineering participated in domestic and international competitions and academic conferences such as the University Student Comprehensive Design Competition, the National Water Big Data Contest, and the University Student Carbon Neutrality Challenge, winning awards including grand prizes.
First, in the "11th University Student Comprehensive Design Competition" hosted by the Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, the largest environmental engineering society in Korea with 10,903 members, the senior team "Gwang-eoya Waeurong" (Park Se-hyun, Cha Myung-hoon, Kim Mi-jin, supervised by Professor Moon Deok-hyun) won the grand prize.
This competition is held annually to nurture environmental engineers with engineering creativity and design skills among university students majoring in environmental engineering and to promote related education.
In this year’s 11th competition, 34 teams from 17 universities nationwide applied in the first document screening, and 7 teams advanced to the finals to compete for the final awards. The "Gwang-eoya Waeurong" team presented on the topic "Evaluation of Stabilization Efficiency of Arsenic and Heavy Metal Contaminated Soil Using Apple Snail Shells and Flatfish Bones," winning the grand prize.
Supported by the LINC 3.0 Project Group, the research applied variously processed apple snail shells and flatfish bones to contaminated soil around abandoned mines, successfully reducing the leaching of pollutants significantly, and demonstrated safety by cultivating crops in the stabilized soil.
Additionally, the study suggested the potential for recycling waste resources that can contribute to waste reduction and environmental improvement, and based on the optimal input amount selected in the research, it was stated that the technology could be applied on-site as a high-efficiency, low-cost method.
Team leader Park Se-hyun said, "There were many concerns, trials and errors, and difficulties in experiments while preparing the project, but under the guidance of Professor Moon Deok-hyun, we worked hard and are proud to have won the grand prize."
They had previously won the highest award for creativity and completeness at the "2023 1st Semester Capstone Design Competition" hosted by the Chosun University LINC 3.0 Project Group in July.
Also, third- and fourth-year undergraduate students Andami, Seo Hyo-won, Yoon Tae-seok, and Ji Seong-hwan from the Department of Environmental Engineering (supervised by Professor Jeong Gwan-ho) won the Excellence Award in the Data Fusion category at the "2023 National Water Big Data Contest" hosted by Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-water) in October. They were honored with the K-water President’s Award.
They proposed a model titled "Development of an Ensemble Learning-Based Water Reuse Volume Prediction Model Using Dam Water Levels in Gwangju Metropolitan City." Through this, they suggested water reuse as an alternative water resource to address the depletion of drinking water sources related to the record low reservoir levels of Juam Dam and Dongbok Dam in the Gwangju and Jeonnam regions, which have recently become social issues due to climate change. Furthermore, they developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of predicting the required amount of reuse water by learning meteorological and hydrological data.
Major universities awarded in the contest included Yonsei University, Chungbuk National University, Chosun University, Pusan National University, Korea University, Chungnam National University, Hanyang University, Ewha Womans University, Dongduk Women’s University, and Konkuk University.
Lastly, students Yoo Ga-eul, Kim Gyu-ri, Seo Min-ji, and Kang Eun-ah won the Excellence Award at the "1st University Student Carbon Neutrality Challenge Competition" hosted by the Carbon Neutral Circular Economy Society held at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Seoul in July, for their research on "Hydrogen Production from Biogas in Pig Farms."
On the same day, at the 6th Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Microbial Electrochemical Technology (AP-ISMET), student Jeon Hwi-seo (supervised by Professor Kim Tae-young) received the Poster Presentation Award for "Impact of Optimum Voltage for Biohydrogen Production in Bioelectrochemical Anaerobic Digestion System."
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