‘Girl's Day’ Team, Topic on ‘COCL (Carbon-Optimized Course Load)’
Dong-A University (President Lee Hae-woo) announced on the 16th that students from the Department of Computer and AI Engineering’s AI program received the Excellence Award in the ‘2023 Regional Issue Resolution University Class Support Project.’
Students from Dong-A University AI Department who received the Excellence Award in the '2023 Local Issue Resolution University Class Support Project'.
The ‘Regional Issue Resolution University Class Support Project’ is hosted by Busan Technopark and is a program that utilizes university major courses to discover regional issues and solution ideas.
Ten major courses from universities located in Busan, including Dong-A University, Pusan National University, and Pukyong National University, participated, with professors, researchers, and students forming teams to carry out various activities aimed at resolving issues.
Dong-A University notably achieved the distinction of winning the award for two consecutive years, following the Grand Prize in 2022, through the regional issue resolution class support project led by Professor Cheon Se-jin.
The ‘Girls’ Day’ team (team leader Kim Ji-seon, members Kim Ye-ryeong, Lee Jun-won, Baek Su-min, Hyun Seung-jun, Lee Ye-won), composed of students from Dong-A University’s AI program, won with their project titled ‘COCL (Carbon-Optimized Course Load).’
This project developed a multi-modal platform (webpage, app, tablet) to monitor and optimize carbon emissions generated on the university campus in real time, aiming to achieve ‘Net-Zero’ (zero net emissions of the six major greenhouse gases causing climate change) by creating a dashboard.
To accomplish this, the students used smart plugs in on-campus classrooms to measure electricity consumption and collect real-time data, which was then used to develop the dashboard.
Kim Ji-seon (3rd year, AI program) said, “It was a fun and rewarding experience to apply the big data and computer knowledge learned in the department to develop the project myself and to monitor and optimize how much carbon is emitted in real time in daily life. I hope that through developing the carbon monitoring dashboard, we can contribute to the local community, and I am grateful to Professor Cheon Se-jin for leading us well.”
Professor Cheon said, “I am pleased that the students received a good award as much as they worked hard. I am very proud that the first cohort of AI program students actively tackled the regional issue of ‘carbon neutrality’ in Busan.”
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