On November 8, the Seoul Board of Directors elected the Master of Mechanical Engineering at the High School of Mechanical Engineering as the final candidate for the 29th General Assembly, 20 years after the 24th General Assembly in 2006.
The general advisory committee recommended to the board three professors such as Zhe Professor and Zhang Zhong Professor, Zhe Professor and Zhe Professor. The board interviewed the candidates on the day and then voted. In the teachers and students policy assessment announced on October 14, Zhe Professor was 34.5% 1st, Zhe Professor was 25.5% 2nd, and this professor was 23.1% 3rd.
He received a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Seoul’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and obtained an engineering doctorate from Stanford University in the United States. Since 1993, he served as professor at Seoul’s Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, as head of the Department of Research, and as head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has studied forecasting and control of fluid flow and bioengineering, and was awarded the Seoul Academic Research Education Award in 2016.
Professor Zhe made a commitment to secure a new funding of $2 trillion for four years, a three-fold increase in initial research fees for newly appointed teachers, and an introduction of AI-enhanced education for graduate students. On the General Candidate’s commitment page, he stated that “institutions and finances are means, and the purpose is people.”
Professor Xi has been elected by the Board of Directors as the final candidate for Chief Executive, and has to undergo the Ministry of Education nomination and presidential appointment process for a term of four years from 1 February 2027.