Join Us
Graduate admissions and undergraduate research at POLAB.
Training
roadmap
roadmap
From basic skills to industry projects — the five stages a POLAB student goes through.
Join the lab
2nd–3rd year undergraduates
Where new possibilities begin. Undergraduates join as researchers from the second or third year.
Basic training
Programming · Mathematics · IE fundamentals
Python, calculus and linear algebra, and the core of industrial engineering — the toolkit every later stage builds on.
Enter the M.S. programme
Toward a bigger challenge
Choose a research topic and start the first paper with the professor.
Industry projects
At least 2–3 partner companies
Take part in real projects with partner companies — ports, shipyards, equipment makers and automotive suppliers.
Core competence
Problem solving · Field experience · Expertise
Graduate with the ability to turn a messy field problem into a model, solve it, and hand the result back to the site.
Seminar & study curriculum
PythonSchedulingKnapsack & combinatorial optimizationIP · MIP · CPPandas · NumPyOperations modelling
Texts: Pinedo, Scheduling: Theory, Algorithms, and Systems; Operations Modelling and Scheduling course notes.
Graduate
admissions
admissions
We admit M.S. and Ph.D. students to the Division of Systems Management and Safety Engineering. Applicants with a background in industrial engineering, operations research, computer science or mechanical engineering are welcome; what matters most is comfort with mathematical modelling and programming.
- Email a CV and transcript to tsyu@pknu.ac.kr before the university application period.
- Research assistantships are available on funded projects (NRF, NIPA) and industry contracts.
Where members go
KAIST graduate schoolHD Hyundai MipoSamsung Electronics DX / DSNH Nonghyup Bank IT
Undergraduate
research
research
Undergraduate researchers join from the 2nd or 3rd year and start with the seminar curriculum above before taking part in a project. Contact the professor by email or visit Gaon Bldg. #706-1.