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2 KSEA Letters Vol. 34, No. 1 (Serial No. 196) November 2005 Contents A Message from the President 3 UKC2005 Summary 5 YGTLC UKC Headquarters News Introduction of EC Members 11 EC Meeting Minutes #1 through #5 28 KSEA Chapter President Meeting Minutes 34 Katrina Victim Fund Collection 37 Past Announcements from the 38 President KWISE News 47 Chapter News 48 Central Illinois Chapter New Jersey Chapter Southern California Chapter San Diego Chapter Midwest Chapter Member News 53 List of New Members KSEA Annual Award Announcement 56 Scholarship Programs KSEA Scholarships Membership Applications 59 Individual Membership Corporate Membership Guideline for Articles in KSEA Letters Copyright Release Form Advertisements KUSCO 63 DGIST 64 POSCO 66 SAMSUNG 67 LGE 68 KITECH 69 KT 71 KISTI 74 KOSEN 75 POSTECH 76 ICU 77 GYEONGGI BIO-CENTER 78 LEE & RO INC. 79 LEEDCO ENGINEERS 79 HOAM 80 KSEA Sponsors 81 Contact Pages 83 Publisher: Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim Editor-In-Chief: Heekoo Moon Associate Editors: Young B Choi Young Chang Lee, Sohye Kang, Jungho Kim Kenneth H Yu, Ashley Kim Published by the Korean-American Scientist and Engineers Association All rights reserved. No part of this publication maybe reproduced, in any form or any means, without the prior written permission of KSEA. KSEA assumes no responsibility for statement and opinion advanced by the contributors to its publications. Cover Page: The picture shows banquet and award ceremony at UKC KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

3 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim KSEA 34 rd President Dear KSEA members, The 34th administration of KSEA started quietly on July 1 with the understanding of the following pressing challenges facing us: (1) How to turn around the declining membership trend that started sometime in 1990's? (2) How to conduct young-generation (YG) activities in meaningful forms and a YG membership drive in a sustainable form? (3) How to facilitate high-quality interactions between members of KSEA and the talented scientists and engineers in Korea? (4) How to increase the number of warm-hearted volunteers in KSEA? How to create a situation where more people are willing to run for the positions of the president, the VP, councilors, executive committee members, etc? I had a hard time forming the Executive Committee (EC). It was not easy to find people willing to serve. It was another clear indication of the current weak status of KSEA. Eventually my earnest arm-twisting resulted in the 34th EC which consists of soft-hearted but best qualified people. I am proud of the results. In this issue, you will see brief profiles of the EC members. Please give me advices on how to reward and motivate EC members better. If KSEA is a withered organization, it is a loss to you. Can you imagine that a new organization which can supersede KSEA can be easily created? If not, then? Without KSEA, which organization has a better potential for helping young Korean-American scientists and engineers engage in win-win interactions with the talents in Korea? So, you have to contribute to strengthening the vitality of KSEA. If you'd like to contribute but feels running into an obstacle, please let me and members of the Executive Committee (EC) hear it. We believe that if the general membership learns the real status of KSEA, many righteous members will come forward to help restoring the health of KSEA which was mighty strong once upon a time. KSEA got hurt badly by occasional outbursts of unusual internal disputes in the past 15 years, too. We need to emphasize the harmony and openness in this organization. When I mentioned last winter to an officer in one of our steady sponsors that we had about 2,000 active members in KSEA, she sounded surprised, "Haven't you been claiming 5,000 members?". My answer was that I had no interests in exaggerating about the current status of KSEA. KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 3

4 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 Director Hee-Koo Moon) of the news. Doing so is as important as any other possible contribution that you can make. Look forward to witnessing your contributions and hearing your guides and advices. Wishing you the best Fall season. Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim 34th President of KSEA (Term: ) and Professor of Computer Engineering & Computer Science, UCI 4 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

5 SUMMARY OF UKC2005 The 2005 US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (UKC 2005) was successfully held at the campus of the University of California, Irvine, from August 11 through 13, 2005, under the auspices of Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) and the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOFST). The three-day conference attracted 580 registered participants who attended over two hundred fifty technical papers and presentations covering active research areas in science and engineering as well as various topics of interest to scientific community in USA and Korea. This year's conference was the seventh in the annual series of US-Korea Conferences (UKC) devoted to fostering cooperation between the two countries in advancing science and technology toward enhancing the welfare of both countries, with an expanded purpose of providing a forum in which leading researchers in selected science and technology areas can present their research findings and discuss new R&D directions that are relevant to economic development of the world. Over the years, UKC has evolved into an active forum where scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, educators, and other leaders from both countries can gather to discuss the latest scientific results as well as to establish professional networks in the process. UKC 2005 was organized by the 34th KSEA President, Dr. Kwang-Hae Kane Kim, and KOFST President Dr. Yung Bog Chae, who served as Conference Co-Chairs. Also, two former Korean ministers, Dr. Wan-Kyoo Cho and Dr. Si-Joong Kim served as this year's Honorary Conference Co-Chairs along with Dr. Ki-Uck Lee, Dr. Young-Bae Kim, and Dr. Sang-Il Choi from the USA side. The spirit of the conference, as expressed by KSEA President Kim, was: "Let best talents in both countries gather in the same place." While all branches of science and engineering were included, the areas of information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology were highlighted in this year's conference with most number of technical sessions. UKC2005 featured many world-class scientists in the frontiers of the research. Also, many well-known educators, government officials, and industry leaders were invited to participate in plenary sessions and luncheon speeches. Welcoming remarks were given by the UC Irvine Chancellor, Dr. Michael Drake, as well as the Conference Co-Chairs, Dr. Kim and Dr. Chae. Technical keynote speeches were given by a worldrecognized stem-cell research pioneer, Dr. Woo-Suk Hwang of Seoul National University, a Nobel Laureate, Dr. F. Sherwood Rowland of UC Irvine, and Dr. Zang-Hee Cho of Gachon Medical School, Korea and UC Irvine. Banquet speeches were given by Dr. Hak-Kyu Sohn, Governor of Gyeong-Gi Province (Korea), Dr. Sang-Kee Suh, National Assemblyman (Korea), and the City of Irvine Mayor pro tem, Sukhee Kang. Other keynote speeches were provided by Dr. Chan Mo Park, President of Pohang University of Science and Technology, Dr. Kie-young Park, Presidential Advisor of Science, Technology, and Information (Korea), Dr. Unna Huh, President of Information & Communication University (Korea), Dr. Young-Hwa Cho, President of Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information, Dr. Key-Hyup Kim, President of Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Dr. Kwyro Lee, President of LG Electronics Research Center, Dr. Chu-Hwan Yim, President of Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute, Dr. Jun-Ho Oh of KAIST, Dr. Yoon-Ha Jeong of Postech, Dr. Youngjoon Gil of Samsung Info Systems America, Dr. Sung-Mook Lee of the Korea- U.S. Science Cooperation Center, and Dr. Gye-Won Han of KWISE. In all, UKC2005 was organized into nine symposia in the Basic Research Program and three forums in the Industrial Advances Program. There were a total of six plenary sessions and fifty technical sessions that were arranged into eight parallel sessions during three full days of the conference. The technical sessions were accommodated in the following symposia and forums: - Aerospace Science & Technology (AST) KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 5

6 - Architectural, Civil, Environmental, Energy and Transportation (ACET) - Basic Science (BS) - Bio-Science and Technology (BST) - Information and Communication Technology (ICT) - Mechanical Engineering and Robotics (MER) - Nano-Structure Science and Technology (NST-1 and NST-2) - Women in Science Symposium (WiSS) - Science & Technology Society Aspects Forum (SSAF) - Venture Forum: Industrial R&D and Hiring Plan (IRHF) - Young Generation Forum (YGF) The AST Symposium covered six sessions in aerospace sciences, space and aviation technologies, and propulsion/combustion areas. Civil engineering, architecture, environmental engineering, transportation engineering, and energy-related sciences and engineering were included in six sessions of the ACET Symposium. For the BS Symposium, three technical sessions in physics and statistics were presented. The BST Symposium combined four sessions on signal transduction, neuroscience, stem cells research, and biomedical engineering with one exclusive session gathering women bio-scientist presenters. The ICT Symposium featured fourteen technical sessions covering operating systems, real-time/embedded systems, database/web technologies, open-source software, flash memory software, networks, internet/distributed services, wireless networks, sensor networks, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, artificial intelligence, ubiquitous systems, hardware systems, and bioengineering. The IST Symposium also featured a poster presentation session for young researchers. Mechanical engineering and robotics topics were presented in two sessions of the MER Symposium. Micro/nano-scale enabling technologies as well as novel micro/nano devices in bio-technologies were presented in three sessions of the NST-1 Symposium, while application aspects such as nano-electronics, nano-photonics, nano-material, and nano-processing were featured in three sessions of the NST-2 Symposium. Lastly, the WiSS organized three technical sessions that were integrated into various symposia featuring separate topics in environmental engineering, bio-science, and nano-science, respectively. The credit for organizing these technical sessions should go to the following Symposium Co-Chairs: Dr. Ki D. Lee, Dr. Young H. Park, Dr. Duck J. Lee, Dr. David H. Lee, Dr. Byung R. Kim, Dr. Harry H. Kim, Dr. Hang S. Shin, Dr. Kyungsoo Chon, Dr. Jung-Bang Yoon, Dr. Ki W. Lee, Dr. Chueng R. Ji, Dr. Sin-Ho Jung, Dr. Yoon-Key Ahn, Dr. Jeesoo Kim, Dr. Hae-Soo Oh, Dr. HeaKyung Lee, Dr. Kwang-Soo Kim, Dr. Sangdun Choi, Dr. Hemin Chin, Dr. Jang-Hyun Youn, Dr. Gye-Won Han, Dr. Jacqueline E. Lee, Dr. Kyungjin Kim, Dr. Myeong-Hee Yu, Dr. ShinYong Moon, Dr. Pann-Ghill Suh, Dr. Kuiwon Choi, Dr. Se-June Hong, Dr. Young C. Lee, Dr. Insup Lee, Dr. Hyeong-Ah Choi, Dr. Sang-Ryul Min, Dr. Tack-Don Han, Dr. Min-Ho Kang, Dr. Chul-Hee Kang, Dr. Hee-Koo Moon, Dr. Woosoon Yim, Dr. Jun H. Oh, Dr. Sang-Gook Kim, Dr. Dongil Cho, Dr. Sung-Kwon Kang, Dr. O'Dae Kwon, Dr. Eun-Hee Park Cirlin, and Dr. Kwang H. Chung. Much credit goes to the KSEA President, Dr. Kim, who exhibited outstanding leadership and organization skills to make UKC2005 into a great success. Also, the members of the Local Arrangement Committee, the Symposium Program Committee, the Symposium Advisory Committee, the Publication Committee, the KSEA Executive Committee and the KSEA HQ staffs worked closely with Dr. Kang-Won Wayne Lee, the Basic Research Program Co-Chair, to make the event a memorable one. At the conference, paid registrants received a 384-page Book of Abstracts & Biosketches, entitled "Frontiers in Science and Engineering" as well as a CD of Conference Proceedings containing electronic versions of 236 selected full papers and presentations, which were edited by Dr. Hee-Koo Moon and Dr. Sohye Kang. Additional copies of the Proceedings CD and the bound-volume Book of Abstracts & Biosketches may be available for purchase at the KSEA Headquarters. Active members of KSEA can download electronic copies from the web, but they must first obtain the password from the page entitled KSEA e-letters in the KSEA web. Lastly, weather during the conference was just superb and the 6 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

7 conference atmosphere was enthusiastic and cooperative. In the evenings, conference participants were entertained with two dinner banquets and the closing ceremony. At the closing ceremony, Dr. Sung-Kwon Kang, the KSEA President-elect, introduced the plan for UKC2006, which will be held in New York/ New Jersey metro area during August 10-13, Prepared by Kenneth Yu UKC2005 Basic Research Program Co-Chair KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 7

8 YGTLC2006 ANNOUNCEMENT The Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA)'s 2ND YOUNG-GENERATION TECHNICAL and LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE (YGTLC) 2006 We are very pleased to announce that the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) s 2nd Young-Generation Technical and Leadership Conference (YGTLC) will be held in Los Angeles, CA, during January 6-8, The conference will bring outstanding Young-Generation Korean-American students and professionals and help them network together. Well-known leaders in business and academia will also be invited to tell inspiring stories to the participants. We are particularly interested in showcasing talented graduate students and young professionals. They will make technical presentations. We hope that they serve as good models for inspiring many undergraduate student participants. Undergraduate students will be given opportunities for making short presentations (3-5 minutes) about their experiences and desires in networking with other YG people. During the conference, Young-Generation participants will also acquire leadership skills through a training workshop and participate in teams preparing and executing skit presentations. We hope that YGTLC become a very positive factor stimulating a majority of the undergraduate students who attend YGTLC to become successful professionals or graduate students majoring in science and technology fields and also become members of KSEA. Byungkyu (Brian) Park & John C. Lee Conference Program Co-Chairs Conference Theme: Leaders in Science and Engineering for 21st Century and Beyond 8 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

9 UKC2006 ANNOUNCEMENT Dear KSEA Members, Colleagues, and Friends: We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for the 2006 US-Korea Conference (UKC). UKC2006 will be held for the first time in the greater New York City area on August 10-13, The local Chapters are committed to arranging a comprehensive and engaging conference for all participants. The UKC2005 held at the University of California, Irvine, this past August was a great success in terms of its record attendance, the spectrum and quality of technical programs, and the total number of papers presented. KSEA is dedicated to improve upon the success of UKC2005. The following initiatives have been implemented in order to enhance the UKC programs and to encourage greater conference participation. UKC2006 initiatives include: New symposiums: Advanced Materials Technology (AMT), Microelectronics Science & Technology (MST), Food Science & Technology (FST), and Manufacturing Technology (MT). A greater emphasis on seminars that review the current status and future prospects of science and technology. Transforming the US-Korea Conference into an international forum by inviting more US speakers and participants. Addressing other current issues of interest through new forums: Education Forum, Entrepreneurship Forum (with venture fair), Women s Forum, and Young Professional Forum. Implementing an online conference management system: conference registration and abstract and paper submissions will be handled by the conference website ( Additionally, the US Air Force Workshops (on Nanostructured Materials and Nanoelectronics) will be incorporated into the UKC2006. Generous sponsorship has already been committed to UKC2006 from many industrial companies and research organizations from US and Korea. The commitment from these organizations signifies the KSEA US-Korea Conference as an important venue to discuss science & technology collaboration across the Pacific. We invite you to participate in the UKC2006, to meet your colleagues and friends, and to visit the great sites of New York City. I am confident that the conference will be a valuable professional and personal experience. Best regards, Sung-Kwon Kang, Ph. D. UKC2006 Conference Chair, KSEA President-Elect IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA Young-Bok Chae, Ph.D. UKC 2006 Conference Chair, The Korean Federation of Sciences & Technology Societies, President KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 9

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11 HEADQUARTERS NEWS Introduction of EC Members 34 th President, Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim Dr. Kwang-Hae Kim, also nicknamed Kane Kim, is Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He received a BS degree from the Electrical Engineering Department of Seoul National University in 1969, an M.A. degree from the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Austin in 1972, and a Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley, in He served as an ROTC officer (1 st Lt.) in Korean Army during Dr. Kim started his academic professional career as an assistant professor in January 1975 and has stayed in academia since then. He has been building up a research laboratory named the DREAM (Distributed Real-Time Ever-Available Microcomputing) Lab during the past nineteen years ( ). A researcher devoted to the fields of real-time distributed object-oriented programming and software engineering, real-time fault-tolerant computing, and distributed and parallel real-time simulation, Dr. Kim is the primary developer of the Time-triggered Message-triggered Object (TMO) methodology for high-level real-time programming and system engineering ( ). The methodology, facilitated by tools such as middleware (TMOSM & ROAFTS), is aimed at inducing a quantum jump in the productivity of programmers and in the reliability of real-time application software, which is important in economic realization of high-quality high-safety ubiquitous computing societies. The methodology and tools have been used in a new undergraduate course on real-time distributed programming. Dr. Kim also originated the DRB technique and other widely applicable basic approaches for cost-effective design of ultra-reliable fault-tolerant, real-time, distributed and parallel computer systems. Dr. Kim is a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's 1998 Technical Achievement Award and 2004 Kanai Award for his contributions to the scientific foundation of both real-time fault-tolerant computing and realtime object-oriented distributed computing. He also received the 2003 Microsoft Windows Embedded Academic Excellence Award. Microsoft has been giving this award annually since 2002 to researchers and professors who have significantly contributed to the Windows Embedded community through research and curriculum efforts. Dr. Kim is a fellow of IEEE (elected in Fall 1988) and SDPS (elected in 2000), and a member of the IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependable Computing. He served as the Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Distributed Processing during (1,200 members) and hosted several IEEE conferences. He was the main initiator of the IEEE Computer Society's WORDS (Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems) series and the ISORC (Int'l Symp. on Object-oriented Real-time distributed Computing) KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 11

12 series ( ). He also served as a member of the founding editorial board for the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems during Dr. Kim co-founded KOCSEA (Korean Computer Scientists and Engineers Association in America) in 1982 together with Dr. Chanmo Park (current President of Postech) and served as its President in He has been a member of KSEA for 32 years since 1973 and is currently serving as the President of KSEA (Korean- American Scientists & Engineers Association) for the term of July 2005 June th President-Elect, Sung Kwon Kang Education Ph. D., 1973, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA), Materials Science and Metallurgy B. S., 1969, Seoul National University, Engineering College, Metallurgical Engineering Professional Experiences '84- Pr, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, Research Staff Member. '80-'84, INCO Research & Development Center, Sterling Forest, NY, Senior Scientist. '77-'80, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, Materials Science, Assistant Professor. '80-'84, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, Materials Science, Adjunct Professor. '76-'77, Nova Scotia Technical University, Halifax, Canada, Research Faculty. '73-'76, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Post-doctoral Research Fellow. Professional Activities '02-'05, Chair, Electronic Packaging & Interconnection Materials Committee, The Metals, Minerals and Materials Society (TMS) 02-05, Division Council member, TMS Electronic, Magnetic, and Photonic Materials Division. '98-'05, Guest Editor, J, of Electronic Materials, TMS , Guest Editor, J. of Metals, Minerals and Matreials (JOM), TMS , Technical advisor, J. of Metals, Minerals and Matreials (JOM), TMS , International Advisory Comm Member, Center of Elec Pack g Materials, KAIST, Korea 98, Co-organizer, 3 rd Int. Conf on Joining & Coating Tech in Electronics, Binghamton, NY. '97-'00, President, Korean-American Materials Society (KAMS) '93-'05, Program Committee member on Interconnections, ECTC, IEEE/CPMT, (8 Symposiums organized). '92-'93, Co-editor, The Metals Science of Joining, TMS/AIME. '89-'91, Chair, Microelectronics Committee, American Society for Metals (ASM). '88-'05, Symposium Organizer and Co-Chair on Microelectronic Packaging Materials, TMS/AIME, (20 Symposiums organized). KSEA (Korean-American Scientists & Engineers Association) Activities 72-73, Founding member in Philadelphia Chapter 12 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

13 74-76, Founding member of West Penn Chapter (Pittsburgh) 77- Pr, New York Metro Chapter member '81- '82, President, New York Metro Chapter '83- '04, Councilor, New York Metro Chapter (for last 22 years). '90- '93, KSEA HQ, Scholarship Committee Member, '94- '95, KSEA HQ Special Project Evaluation Committee Chair, '95- '98, KSEA HQ Election Committee Member & Chair ('96). '96, Advisor, KSEA Northeast Regional Conference (NRC) 97, Symposium Organizer, KSEA 8 th NRC, Materials Science & Tech Symposium '97-'00, Councilor, KSEA HQ (Group I-Materials Science/Metallurgy/Mining). '99-'00, Vice President (28 th ), KSEA HQ. 99, Symposium Organizer, The US-Korea Materials Symposium, KSEA UKC , Conf Program Co-Chair, KSEA US-Korea Conf on Science & Technology (UKC2000) '98, Chair, Fundraising Comm, NY Metro Chapter Math/Science Olympiad (KMSO). '94- '04, Chair, Parents Program Comm, NY Metro Chapter Math/Science Olympiad (KMSO) , President-elect, KSEA HQ. Honors and Awards '83, International Metallography Society Award (1st prize). '89, IBM Research External Honors Award, IBM Outstanding Quality Team Award. '90, IBM Outstanding Quality Team Award. '91, IBM Research R&D Award. '95, "The Scientist of the Year" Award, KSEA NY Metro Chapter. '96, IBM Research External Honors Award. '96, Best Paper Award, Electronic Comp. Tech. Conf, IEEE/CPMT. Publications and Inventions 100+ technical papers published in archived journals, one book edit, four book Chapters, 89 Inventions: 34 US PATs, 26 Int. PATs, and 29 IBM TDBs Vice President, Yong Min Cho Education: Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, 1983 M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, 1978 B.S., Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, 1971 KSEA Activity: , KSEA Vice President , KSEA Technical Cooperation Committee , KSEA Executive Director KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 13

14 Professional Experience 2004 Present; President/CEO of MXF Technologies, Inc. Invented Multi-spectral CT and X-ray system. Manages Monochromatic X-ray Filter Project ; Principal Scientist/President of Mentor Technologies, Inc. Over twenty five years of technical experience in systems engineering and system development related to space technology. He has experience in Information Technology, Space System Technology, and Communication Systems. Reviewer and consultant of the KOMPSAT Program for Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Visiting Professor of Graduate School of Information and Communication Technology, Kyung-Hee University Consulting a group of Remote Sensing Systems Laboratory, Systems Engineering Research Institute, Korea Institute of Science & Technology , Director of Engineering for P&P Industries, College Park, Maryland Publications: Couple of US Patents pending on MXF, and 10 technical papers, as well as many technical manuals and reports for NASA/GSFC, Naval Research Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory and other US Government Agencies. Affiliations: Member of the IEEE and AIAA Advisor to the President, Zang-Hee Cho Professor Zang-Hee Cho Department of Radiological Sciences Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior UCI, USA Gachon Medical School, Korea Zang-Hee Cho was born in Seoul, Korea, in He attended Seoul National University and graduated with a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in 1960 and 1962, respectively. He continued his study at Uppsala University (Sweden) and obtaining his Ph.D. in Before he joined UCI in 1985, Dr. Cho had faculty positions at the University of Stockholm, University of California-Los Angeles, and Columbia University. 14 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

15 Important milestones in modern neuroscience must include the development of techniques and devices with which one can observe changes in brain chemistry and physiology, such as blood flow and chemical changes. Some of the most recent developments are Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fmri). Through these developments, it is now possible to observe cortical changes in the brain due to internal as well as external stimuli such as light flashes and acupuncture as well as the human minds. Professor Cho has been in this area since the inception of the computerized tomography (CT) in He was one who pioneered mathematical algorithms related to CT scanners and developed one of the first 3-D image reconstruction algorithms. Dr. Cho's subsequent work based on 3-D image reconstruction was the first "Ring PET" and its nuclear detector "Bismuth Germanate Oxide (BGO)", both of which revolutionized modern brain-imaging. Today, invariably all PET scanners, both research prototypes and commercial devices, are "Ring" types with "BGO" nuclear scintillation detectors. Today's high resolution PET scanners are a reality, thanks to the introduction of these two key elements, i.e., introduction of the "Ring" concept and "BGO" detector into the field of PET. Since the late 1970's, Dr. Cho has been engaged in MRI research and has developed numerous high-speed imaging techniques and methods essential for today's fmri such as the "Spiral Scan Echo Planar" technique and MRI venography using the magnetic susceptibility effect produced by deoxyhemoglobin. These techniques are the essential components of today's brain functional imaging. More recently, as an application of functional brain imaging, Dr. Cho pioneered Acupuncture - Brain Imaging, a new approach to Oriental medicine by utilizing the latest imaging techniques, such as PET and fmri. This study, for the first time, demonstrated that there is a correlation between acupuncture stimulation and activation of the corresponding brain cortex and opened a new research avenue for the complementary and alternative medicine. Finally, Dr. Cho's life-long contributions to the areas of Computerized Tomography and related imaging physics has changed the course of modern medical imaging and profoundly influenced modern neuroscience research. For these contributions, Dr. Cho was made a Distinguished Medical Imaging Scientist at the Computerized Tomography Symposium held at Asilomar, California in 1982 which recognized Dr. Cho, not only as the inventor of PET and a pioneer of computerized tompgraphy but also as one of the most cited scientists in the field of CT and medical imaging at the time. Lastly among the numerous honors and awards he has received, Dr. Cho was elected members of the US National Academy of Sciences- Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, Korea and The Third World Academy of Sciences. Professor Cho is the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Imaging System and Technology, John Wiley & Sons and also serves as a half dozen of Editorial Board Members of various scientific journals related to imaging. He is currently serves as a member of National Advisory Council for the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Washington D.C. KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 15

16 Advisor to the President, Yong-Wook Kim Professor of Physics Department, Lehigh University Dr. Yong W. Kim was educated in Seoul National University (B.S. in Physics, 1960; and M.S. in Physics, 1962). After the military service in Korea, he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Michigan (Ph.D. in Physics, 1968). First joined the Lehigh University faculty in 1968, he has been a professor of physics since Also, he had been chairman of the Physics Department from 1984 to He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in He has maintained active research programs in two areas: statistical physics of fluctuations and atomic physics of nonideal plasmas, with support from various federal, state, foundation and industrial sponsors. His original research on the memory effects in Brownian motion, elucidation of laser-produced plasmas as applied to composition and thermophysical property determination of molten metallic alloys, and novel concepts in shock wave generation is widely recognized. He has produced eighteen Ph.D. students in the areas of research mentioned above. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1982 for his original research contributions. He served the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association as a councilor (physics, ) and auditor ( ), and the Association of Korean Physicists in America as president ( ). He was chairman of the International Advisory Committee on Shock Wave Symposium and organized its 17th biennial meeting held at Lehigh University in He was an editor and a member of the editorial board of Shock Waves, An International (Springer-Verlag) Journal for ten years, and has been an overseas editor of the Journal of the Korean Physical Society since During his tenure as president of KSEA's Lehigh Valley Chapter, he organized the 1989 inaugural meeting in Bethlehem, PA of the annual Northeast Regional KSEA Conference series in collaboration with the Philadelphia and New Jersey chapters. He was a Distinguished Foreign Visiting Professor of Physics at Seoul National University in Advisor to the President, Sung Won Lee Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering University of Maryland College Park, MD Phone: (w) , lee@eng.umd.edu 16 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

17 EDUCATION Ph.D. 1978, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Aeronautics and Astronautics M.S. 1974, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Aeronautics and Astronautics B.S. 1966, Seoul National University, Aeronautical Engineering ACADEMIC SERVICES 8/96-5/99 Academic Provost Advisory Committee, University of Maryland 1/92-6/93 Acting Chair, Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland 7/89- Pr. Professor, University of Maryland 8/84-6/89 Associate Professor, University of Maryland 8/79-8/84 Assistant Professor, University of Maryland KSEA ACTIVITIES 7/03- KSEA President-Elect 7/02-6/03 KSEA Vice President 1/00-9/00 UKC-2000 Conference Committee (Organizer, Advanced Transportation Systems Aircraft/Aviation) 5/97 Member, Organizing Committee, Korea-US Workshop on Aerospace Sciences, Vienna, VA. 9/96-8/97 Washington Metro Chapter President 7/85-6/86 HQ Project Secretary 7/84-6/85 HQ Student Affairs Secretary 7/79-6/80 HQ Treasurer PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Associate Editor, Computational Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, January 2003 Present Member, Board of Editors, Computational Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Computational Mechanics, an international journal, Member, Advisory Editorial Board of International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Member, Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Computational Engineering Science, Co-organizer, ONR Workshop on Composite Materials, 1996, 2001, 2002 Co-organizer, ONR Workshop on Shell Stability, 1986 PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Founding Member, International Society for Computational Engineering & Sciences RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Research interest in aerospace structures and new concept flight systems Principal investigator for past and current research programs sponsored by ONR, ARO, AFOSR, NASA, NSWC, ARL PUBLICATIONS Numerous archival publications based on the research findings KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 17

18 Executive Director, Woonsup Park Dr. Park has been with The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California since His current position is the Manager, Metals and Ceramics in the Space Materials Laboratory. Before joining The Aerospace Corp., he was with McDonnell Douglas Corporation and Rockwell International developing hightemperature structural materials for National Aerospace Plane. His current research interest encompasses broad spectrum of advanced materials for space applications including bulk metallic glasses, nano-crystalline aluminum and lead-free solders. He is also an expert in failure analysis, leading many failure investigations for the national security space programs. He received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988, and M.S. and B.S. degrees from Seoul National University in 1982 and He is currently serving KSEA as the Executive Director Finance Director, James Joo-Suk Song Joo-Suk Song, PhD is bioinformatics scientist with the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and his research is focusing on the development of new and comprehensive databases of three-dimensional chemical structures and their biological activities as one of post-genomic projects. He received his academic degrees from State University of New York at Stony Brook (B.S.), Columbia (M.A.), Johns Hopkins (M.S.), and University of Vermont College of Medicine (Ph.D.), followed by postdoctoral training in the field of cancer genetics and immunology at Harvard Medical School and NIH where he studied on the molecular basis of cancer, in particular the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of the cancer cell. From 1999 to 2003, he was an Assistant Professor at Temple University Medical School in Philadelphia where he developed a therapeutic antibody to target human malignant cancers. He has been serving as the Finance Director of KSEA-HQ in the 25th, 33rd, and 34th administration KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

19 Information Director, Minbo Shim Present: Director of IT / Senior Technical Staff General Dynamics - Robotic Systems ( Tech Court, Westminster, MD * In charge of IT and InfoSec of the company * Developed and enforced company-wise InfoSec policies * Restructured whole IT infra of the company from aging UNIX systems to Linux Servers and Windows 2003 servers serving various heterogeneous systems. * Initiated Intranet Portal with ERM and EPM systems for intranet documents and schedule sharing * SAN/NAS implementation as company-wise backup solution * Coordinated various Web projects with various scripting languages * Oversee IT Plans, Spending, People and Performance and report to President * Designed and developed passive sensor based perception subsystems for autonomous vehicles (UAV, UGV) under various DARPA and US Army's Unmanned System Projects * Developing Motion Identification and Tracking Systems with Bayesian Model and (Extended) Kalman Filtering for autonomous cognitive systems. * Developed and implemented realtime multi-cue and multi-resolution passive ranging algorithm to produce longer range profile * Developed several registration algorithms using images from color camera. * Designed and developed real-time 3-D terrain modeling tool (idisp). * Developed mutiresolution detection and rendering tool within wavelet framework. * Developed a fusion algorithm using visual images with LADAR structural range points to create featurerich thematic representations * Developed color-based classification with blob algorithm through geometrical back projection between perception units Present: Director of IT Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association ( * Oversee IT plans, structures and spending of the organization EDUCATION: 1998: Ph.D. in Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 1993: MS in Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 1987: BS, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea : Military Service KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

20 Membership Director, Tae-Wan Ryu Tae-wan Ryu received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, He joined the Department of Computer Science, California State University, Fullerton in 1999 and is currently an associate professor and the Undergraduate Coordinator for the department. His research interests include data mining, databases, Internet computing, evolutionary computation, and time-series data forecasting. He has published more than 34 journal and conference articles in these areas, has been referee for various journals and conferences, and has received more than $400,000 of research grants for the past 6 years from agencies including NASA, NSF, and local companies. He also has more than 6 years of industry experience as consultant and software engineer in the areas of databases, Internet, and various scale of software developments. He has been an active KSEA member since Since he joined the KSEA, he has been actively involved in many local chapter and KSEA HQ events. He is a membership director of KSEA HQ and the president-elect for the KSEA southern California chapter Membership Director, Gye Won Han Education Ph.D., Crystallography, University of Pittsburgh, 1993 M.S., Chemistry, Ewha Womans University, 1984 B.S., Chemistry, Ewha Womans University, 1982 Professional Experience Present Scientific Associate, The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) 2004: Professional Staff, Univ. of Washington : Research Faculty, UCLA : Senior Researcher, KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 21

21 Dept. of Chemistry, Seoul National University : Lecturer, Dept. of Chemistry, Ewha Womans University : Postdoctoral Associate, MBI, UCLA : Postdoctoral Chemist, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSD , Graduate Student Researcher, Dept. of Crystallography (now Chemistry), University of Pittsburgh Professional Activities Member of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA) and the Korean Crystallographic Association (KCA) Publication More than 24 research articles published in peer-reviewed journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Structure, Biochemistry and Proteins. I gave an oral presentation in the 15th West Coast Protein Crystallography conference, Pacific Grove, California, March 25-28, In eight national meetings, including the ACA and Gordon conferences, I presented research posters. Grants and Award , UCLA AIDS Grant for AIDS research 1992, NATO Fellowship for young scientists for the 19th International School of Crystallography, Erice, Italy, May 29-June7, 1992 KSEA Activities I have been a KSEA member since I was a board member of the KSEA SC. Presently, I am a membership director (MD2) and a councilor. I am also a President- Elect of KSEA-SD. I am also a President of KWISE ( Korean-American Women in Science and Engineering) Membership Director, John C. Lee Work Information Title Sr. Software Engineer Organization Raytheon Education History 2000 M.S. Computer Science University of Southern California 1996 B.S. Information & Compupter Science University of California, Irvine 22 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

22 KSEA Experience Period Title 7/1/2001 ~ 6/30/2004 YG Committee Member 7/1/2000 ~ 6/30/2003 Southern California Chapter Membership Director EXPERIENCE 2002 ~ 2004 Lecturer California State University, Fullerton 1996 ~ Present Sr. Software Engineer Raytheon Potential role: - Helping managing YG membership. - Promoting KSEA to potential YG members. - Assist estabilishing student chapters in various universities 1.5G members should indicate when they came to USA and when they joined KSEA. Came to US when I was 15 years old. Joined KSEA as a college student as a sophmore in Publication Board Member, Kenneth H. Yu Kenneth H. Yu is Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in Prior to joining the faculty, he worked as Aerospace Engineer at NASA-Ames Research Center, Visiting Professor at Ecole Centrale Paris, France, and Physical Scientist at Naval Air Warfare Center. For his professional and research activities, he serves as Director of Space Vehicle Technology Institute at the University of Maryland, Co-Editor of Advances in Combustion and Noise Control, as well as being a KSEA Publication Board member and Group J Councilor. Also he has recently served as Associate Editor of Journal of Propulsion and Power, Chair of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Propellants & Combustion Technical Committee, Director of the University of Maryland Aerospace Engineering Honors Program, and 31st Executive Director of KSEA. He was inducted to Associate Fellow of AIAA in Dr. Yu is interested in rocket and airbreathing propulsion, mixing and combustion control, laser diagnostics, and experimental fluid dynamics. He has authored or co-authored over 150 journal, conference papers, and patents in various subject areas, including combustion instabilities, active control, supersonic mixing enhancement, plume afterburning, high-angle-of-attack aerodynamics, waste incineration, and other propulsion-combustion related processes involving ramjets, scramjets, and rockets. His work has resulted in eight U.S. patents and three conference Best Paper Awards KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 23

23 Publication Board Member, Yong Chang Lee Work Information Title: Principal Technical Staff Organization: The MITRE Corporation (Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development) PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Technical Group [K] Education History 1977 Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia 1969 B.S. Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University KSEA Experience Period Title 7/1/2005 ~ 6/30/2006 Publication board member 7/1/1997 ~ 6/30/2000 Elected Councilor for Technical Group K 7/1/1994 ~ 6/30/1995 General Affairs Director 7/1/1983 ~ 6/30/1984 Project Director EXPERIENCE 1980 ~ present, Technical Staff, The MITRE Corporation 1977 ~ 1980 Sr. Systems Engineer, The Bendix Corporation, Test Systems Division Publication Board Member, Young Bae Choi Work Information Title: Assistant Professor Organization: James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia Department of Computer Information Systems and Management Science Education History The University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, December KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

24 Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Computer Networking and Telecommunications The University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, December 1991 M.S. in Computer Networking Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), February 1985 M.S. in Computer Science Chonnam National University, February 1982 B.S. in Computer Science & Statistics KSEA Experience 1988 Present Member 2005 Present The 34th Publication Board member Experience January Present Assistant Professor, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia October 2000 September, 2001 Principal Engineer, Digicom Systems, Inc. (Currently, Broadxent, Inc.). A subsidiary of CREATIVE Technology Ltd., Milpitas, California July October 2000 Senior Consultant (Senior Systems Analyst), Birlasoft, Inc., Milpitas, California March July, 2000 Senior Member of Engineering Staff & Research Team Leader, ETRI, Taejon, Korea December December 1999 Development Manager of COMPAQ Computer Corporation Tandem Division, Cupertino, California & Development Manager and Team Leader of Korean Institute of Science and Technology, Cupertino, California (dual position) September February 1996 Student Assistant Technical, Student Assistant, Graduate Research Assistant, Graduate Teaching Assistant, & Research Assistant, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri Adjunct Faculty, Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City, Kansas April August 1988 System Manager, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea March February 1985 Graduate Research Assistant, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Seoul, Korea Awards 1. Marquis Who swho in the World, The 23rd (2006) Edition, July Who s Who Among America s Teachers, 2005 and Outstanding Contribution Award awarded at the TeleManagement Forum (TMF), Dallas, TX, U.S.A., October 13-15, Best Paper Award of NOMS (Network Operations and Management Symposium) 96, Kyoto, Japan, April 15-19, KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 25

25 5. Best Paper Award of the Track at the HICSS-27 (The 27th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences), Maui, Hawaii, USA, January 4-7, INTEROP '92 Networking Achievement Award in Education Category, San Francisco, California, USA. (Fall 1992) 7. Chancellor's Non-resident Award of University of Missouri-Kansas City in recognition of special talent. (December 1, 1988) Potential Role: - Publication - IT applications for KSEA - Promoting KSEA to potential YG members - Recruiting more management scientist for KSEA Publication Board Member, Hee-Koo Moon Hee-Koo Moon, Ph.D., P.E. is currently the heat transfer group manager at Solar Turbines Incorporated (a Caterpillar Company). His career began as an electronics-packaging engineer after a MSME degree. After completing a Ph.D. degree, he worked for an aerospace company before extending his career in the field of gas turbine engineering. He has published numerous company engineering design memos and reports. He also published 35 journal papers and conference presentations/proceedings, and holds 3 patents. He was an invited speaker at universities and served as an industry advisor to undergraduate and graduate student projects. He sponsored, coordinated, and advised on a number of university heat transfer researches through company and DOE funded programs. He has organized a number of technical sessions for ASME/IGTI conferences. He is currently an ASME Fellow and K-14 (gas turbine) heat transfer committee member, and serves as an Industry Review Board Technical Contact to the DOE (Department of Energy) AGTSR/UTSR Heat Transfer Projects. Arizona State University, BSE (1978), MSE (1980), Ph.D. (1987), Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Moon immigrated to U.S.A. along with his family at the age of 18. After completing senior year at Tempe High School in Phoenix Metro area, he enrolled in Arizona State University where he graduated with an honor and continued his education to master and doctorate degrees. He became a KSEA member in 2000 when the San Diego local chapter (60) was first established. Since then, he has been actively involved locally (Chapter President, ) and nationally (Mechanical and Robotics Symposium co-chair and co-editor of the proceedings for UKC2005). He hopes KSEA would promote more activities within each technical group (discipline) KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

26 Publication Board Member, Jungho Kim Jungho Kim received his BSME from the University of California, Berkeley (1982), and his MSME (1986) and Ph.D (1990) from the University of Minnesota, all in Mechanical Engineering. Between , he joined Arvin/Calspan Corporation in Buffalo, NY where he performed research in gas turbine heat transfer. Between , he taught at the University of Denver where he started research on gravity effects on boiling heat transfer. He joined the faculty at the University of Maryland in 1998 where he is currently an associate professor. His research interests include phase change heat transfer for electronic cooling, radiation absorption measurements of fuels at high temperatures, emissivity measurements, inverse heat conduction methods, and instrumentation. He is also interested in developing simple, effective technologies that can help improve the lives of those in third world countries. He is a second generation Korean immigrant, having left Korea as a two year old. He joined KSEA in 2001, but remembers his father making his children stuff envelopes with newsletters to send out KSEA members as a child. KSEA has great potential to serve as a bridge between 2nd generation scientists and engineers and their motherland, but must effective reach out to those brought up in the US to do so KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 27

27 EC Meeting Minute #1 EC Meeting #1 Minutes Date: Saturday 3:30pm, June 25, 2005 Place: KSEA HQ Attenddances: Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim (Pr), Sungkwon Kang (PE), Yong Min Choi (VP), Woonsup Park (ED), Joo-Suk Song (FD), Minbo Shim (ITD), Young Chang Lee (Publication Board Member, PBM), Kenneth H. Yu (PBM), Young-Bae Choi (PBM), Sunghoon Choi (GD), Sungwon Lee (33-P) 3:30pm The 34 th Administration EC Meeting 1. Opening Announcement/ President Kwang-Hae(Kane) Kim 2. Reports from EC members A. UKC2005 Presentation by President President Kim (Pr) recommends all EC members to attend (minimum level travel reimbursement) Fund raising is in progress to follow up paper work after verbal commitment. Pr. Kim will distribute the fund raising status list. (estimated total: $125,000 to $130,000) FD, ED, GD, PB and any EC member to follow up at president s request (action item) UC Irvine Campus: A sufficient number of lecture halls and classrooms available (total number of symposia: 8 or 9) Estimated no. of papers: 250. Attendance of more than 400 is possible based on number of papers (cf. 150 papers in UKC 2004). Less attendance from USA is expected due to the new honorarium policy. (honorarium in place of travel reimbursement in UKC2005) Definition of sister organization (KWISE) & KASBP. President-Elect (PE) Kang explained a request by KASBP to be a local chapter EC will propose Rules Committee to take care of KASBP s request (action item) KOFST requested KSEA to host the annual meeting of the representatives of the Korean scientists and engineers associations in various parts of the world (on Wednesday) during UKC (approximately 15 people expected) President requested EC members to attend the meeting, if possible B. Scholarship, NMC, Chapter Proposal Presentation by VP NMC 2006 fund: 10,000 USD estimated ($2,000 to $3,000 over budget is allowed, if needed) Ask FD to report available funds for scholarship & local chapter activities (action item) Young Generation: local chapters will be supported for YG activities. Chapter qualification for council: more than 30 active members (Regular + Graduate members) C. Presentation by Executive Director Woon Sup Park EC s Role (refer KSEA Bylaw) ED needs to coordinate the preparation of the annual council meeting (action item). Also needs to coordinate with the Nomination Committee for identifying candidates for 2006 Election. Nomination Committee Chair Kun-Sup Hyun asked the immediate past president (33 rd -P) Sung Won Lee to act as a vice chair. D. Presentation by Financial Director James J. Song Main role: Banking, Accounts, and Investments Financial status summary of KSEA will be distributed soon (action item) 28 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

28 E. On Publication Matters 4 publications: the PD role will be circulated among 4 directors. All newsletters will be published electronically. No hard copy ($12,000 cost for one publication) will be produced. If necessary, a limited number of CDs can be distributed to sponsors and advertisers. Only the tables of contents of newsletters will become accessible to non members while the entire contents will be accessible to active members (action item). The page limit is not much of concern. One issue may focus on young generation activities and the other issue may focus on woman activities (action item). Copy right translation form will be mailed to UKC 2005 paper presenters by PC Co-Chair Yu (action item). Publication Year Schedule/Article Deadline Publication KSEA Letters Vol.34 No.1 F. Presentation by Information Technology Director Web Improvement: Suggestions will be solicited and implementation plans will be prepared. Pr. Kim suggested that ITD make expense plans. Messenger web meeting: Pr. Kim requested ITD and the HQ staff to create facility for Messenger web meeting at the HQ. A DSL or cable connection will be acquired (action item). Free or low-cost facility for sending s to members will be established at the HQ office. Current mass e- mail service from outside vendor (which costs $250 per announcement) will not be used from July on (action item). G. On Membership Matters ED Park leads the e-directory project with FD, ITD, PD: $5,000 out of $40,000 can be executed now (action item) Publication of Membership Directory: Pr. Kim said that this would be the top priority item in 34 th Adm. H. Miscellaneous YG Affairs: Proposal will be prepared by vice president, ED, GD, MD, 33 rd -P (action item) ED will request election of the YG committee chair from the committee (action item). I. Next EC Meeting Plan Aug. 11 (Thurs) 3 PM 3. Adjournment EC Meeting Minute #2 EC Meeting #2 (Teleconference) Minutes Date and time: July 1, :30 AM EST (6:30 AM PST) Participants: Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim (Pr), Yong Min Cho (VP), Woonsup Park (ED), Dr. Sunghoon Choi (GD), Ashley Kim, Jung-Wha Oh The main agenda of the telecon was to discuss the performance metrics for the HQ staff. The employment agreement form for the staff prepared by the 33 rd administration was briefly reviewed, along with the work KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 29

29 schedule of the staff. Ashley Kim informed the participants that the task details for the HQ staff (administrative manager and administrative associate) had been established and had been in use for the annual performance review. It was agreed that these documents will be distributed to EC members, and ED Park will propose any change if needed. As for the DSL installation situation at HQ, Pr. Kim reiterate his strong desire to resolve this issue ASAP. Action plans in response to a few pending requests from KOFST were discussed at the end of the telecon. EC Meeting Minute #3 Meeting Minutes of the EC Meeting #3, July 9, 2005 Date: Saturday 10:00AM, July 9, 2005 Place: Teleconference Attendances: Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim (Pr), Sungkwon Kang (PE), Woonsup Park (ED), Young-Bae Choi (Publication Board Member, PBM), Tae Wan Ryu (MD), Gye Won Han (MD2), John Chang Hoon Lee (MD3) 10:00AM (EST) The 34 th Administration EC Meeting 1) Membership Related Tasks a) UKC registration update by MD members, Lee, Han, and Ryu b) Membership directory project i) ITD and MDs with the support of all EC members and local chapter officers ii) Prepare an Excel file that contains a list of members for each chapter and distribute it to EC members. MD Ryu will prepare this ASAP. iii) Prepare a simple directory (like a phone directory including name, address, areas of expertise, current affiliation, phone number, ) and distribute it (hardcopy or on the Web) to every paid member as well as to the KOFST. Open the Web version of the simple directory to all the active members. iv) Prepare a comprehensive directory (both Web and hardcopy versions) including the basic information from the simple directory plus Resume level of detail information such as professional experience, major achievements, awards, publications/inventions etc. This can be a challenging and a long-term project. v) Possible methods of collecting up-to-date member info. (1) Distribute the list in Excel file to each chapter and ask for the updated and detail information about their members (a) Return membership fees for the updated members only plus some additional rewards (?) (2) Collect resumes with the cooperation of each session chair at UKC (a) MD2 Han to gather women s group (3) Request other members to send their resume to HQ for update after UKC vi) Action plan to be created by MD Ryu with specific deadlines. c) Member news related to the membership drive (suggestion from MD Ryu) i) Current KSEA newsletters require too much time and effort in preparation. Instead, just create a simple and quick newsletter containing the KSEA news/events, chapter news/events, and member news. It is important to add more news regarding individual members. 30 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

30 d) Meeting schedule (for west coast EC members) to discuss the above tasks more specifically on Sunday 6:30PM at GilMok. 2) IT Related Tasks a) KSEA Web site enhancement should be led by ITD Shim, PBM Choi, MD Ryu with the support of all EC members b) Add more member news & etc to increase Web traffic and member involvement EC Meeting Minute #4 Meeting Minutes of the EC Meeting #4, August 11, 2005 Date: 4:00 PM, Thursday, August 11, 2005 Place: Room # 331, Engineering Tower, University of California, Irvine Attendees: Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim (Pr), Sungkwon Kang (PE), Yong Min Choi (VP), Woonsup Park (ED), Joo-Suk Song (FD), Minbo Shim (ITD), Young Chang Lee (PBM), Young-Bae Choi (PBM), Sunghoon Choi (GD) 1) UKC 2005 Pr. Kim mentioned that more than 400 registrations to UKC 2005 had been received and the total number of participants is expected to be over 500: About half from Korea and half from US. EC members tasks during UKC were discussed. 2) Membership directory update: Execution strategies were discussed. 3) Pr. Kim mentioned his plan to appoint Advisors to KSEA president: Sung Won Lee at Univ. of Maryland who is the past president (33 rd P), Yong-Wook Kim at Lehigh Univ. who served as an auditor some years ago, Woo-Suk Hwang at Seoul National Univ. who is a prominent leader in stem cell research, and Zang-Hee Cho at Gachon Medical College and UCI who is a prominent leader in brain imaging research. EC Meeting Minute #5 Date: Friday, September 9, am PST (11am EST), Place: Teleconference Attendees: Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim (Pr), Sungkwon Kang (PE), Woonsup Park (ED), Joo-Suk Song (FD), Minbo Shim (ITD), Tae-Wan Ryu (MD1), Gye Won Han (MD2), John Lee (MD3), Hee-Koo Moon (PBM),Young Chang Lee (PB), Young-Bae Choi (PBM), Jung Ho Kim (PBM), Sunghoon Choi (GD) Ashley Kim and Junghwa Oh 1. Opening Announcement/ President Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 31

31 A proposal for both the E-directory project and the Science and Technology Trend Study project is in preparation and will be submitted to KOFST soon. Former President Seayoung Ahn and Advisor Yong Wook Kim have promised to help the preparation of the proposal. A proposal for YG activities was submitted to KUSCO with the approval of the EC. Katrina Fund ($500) proposed by Pr. Kim is approved by the EC. Pr. Kim will suggest to the president of the Louisiana branch, Dong-Ho Park to spend the relief fund (KSEA fund + donations from members) in the following manners: at least 50% for purchasing of goods and direct distribution of them to Korean-American evacuees, 20% for donation to other American evacuees. The total amount of about $4,000 has been quickly collected as contributions from various members. 2. Presentation by ED Park Various vacancies in committee positions should be filled up soon; PE Kang suggests that ED Park notify the relevant members about the abolishment of the committees according to the KSEA Policy adopted at the recent Council Meeting. ED Park will consult with Nomination Committee Chair Sung Won Lee in filling the vacant slots in Fund Management Committee and the Nomination Committee. Chapter proposals; $500 support to the Central Illinois Chapter was approved subject to the condition that Junghwa Oh could confirm the existence of more than 30 active members in that chapter. Proposals from sister societies: AKPA (Association of Korean Physicists in America) and KSA (Korean Statisticians in America) i. Lecture series by AKPA: AKPA submitted a funding proposal directly to KUSCO shortly after asking KSEA for financial support for the lecture series. Pr Kim suggested that the EC approve a small amount of support for the lecture series as follows. (a) If KUSCO supports 60% or greater percentage of the amount which AKPA requested, i.e., $5,000, then KSEA will not provide any further financial support from KSEA. (b) IF KUSCO s support is below $1,500 and if AKPA has at least 20 members who are also active members of KSEA, then KSEA will provide the support of $750. (c) IF KUSCO s support is between $1,500 and $3,000 or if AKPA does not have 20 members who are also active members of KSEA, then KSEA will provide the support of $500. PE Kang suggested to require at least 30 active members for cases (b) and (c) and Pr Kim agreed. EC approved this modified version of Pr Kim s suggestion. ii. EC asked Junghwa Oh to check the number of KSEA memberships in KSA. KSA asked KSEA to support $900. If KSA has more than 30 active KSEA members, a financial support of $500 will be considered. KASBP (Korean American Society for Biotech & Pharmaceuticals): EC decided to encourage relevant local chapters to cooperate with KASBP as follows: When an existing member of KASBP joins KSEA, the membership fee paid by that member will be returned to a relevant qualified chapter in the form of support fund with KASBP. Such cooperation is warranted, considering the possibility that some people may want to pay only one membership fee, not two separate membership fees to KSEA and KASBP. A statistics organization requested KSEA to provide the support of USD 900. Junghwa Oh will check how many active members of KSEA are in that sister society. 3. Presentation by FD Song Financial status of KSEA is very healthy. The second half of the 2005 support from KOFST has not been received yet. 32 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

32 HQ copier and fax machine will be up for a lease renewal soon. It would be better in a long term to purchase new machines rather than extending the lease. Purchasing decision will be made by FD, ED and ITD. 4. Publication Board Dr. Hee-Koo Moon will be the Editor-in-Chief and the Publication Director for the 1 st quarter in charge of the KSEA Letter Vol. 34 No.1, with other PB members helping as associate editors. The first letter will be tentatively published in early October (electronic). 5. E-Directory and Web Issues E-directory project was proposed to KOFST during the 33 rd administration with a verbal commitment of $40,000. But this project has not been funded by KOFST as of today. Initial framework (at the cost of $5,000) have been finished. As discussed earlier in the meeting, KOSFT recently requested KSEA to combine this project proposal with that for a Technology Trend Analysis project. A series of issues regarding the database security improvement were discussed between ITD Shim and MD Ryu, especially the timely purging of members credit card information. Currently there isn t any security risk related to credit card handling. MD Ryu suggested to establish web-hosting capability in the Hqs with web spaces provided for local chapters. This matter will be further pursued by ITD Shim and MD Ryu. EC agreed that a major part of the Bulletin Board in the KSEA website should be accessible to the members only. PE Kang suggested to rearrange the position of the UKC 2006 icon and the KWISE icon on the KSEA Homepage. Suggestions to improve the web interface to the members trying to update their profiles were discussed. EC decided to go with Cox Business Internet and install cable broadband internet service with 6.0M/2.0M speed option for the HQ. 6. Presentation by General Affair Director Choi GD Choi discussed the local arrangement for KSEA-Hosted dinner meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Myung Oh to be held in New York on September 13, Other items Issue of KASBP s desire to join the KSEA as a local chapter was discussed. EC came to a consensus that KASBP could not be treated as a local chapter. A compromise approach to treating KASBP as a subgroup of a technology interest group was accepted. 8. Next EC Meeting Plan It was decided that the next EC meeting be held next month through a teleconference. 9. Adjournment KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 33

33 KSEA Chapter President Meeting Minutes KSEA Chapter President Meeting was held on August 11 th, 2005 at University of California at Irvine during the UKC Following is the meeting minutes. Attendees: Yong Min Cho (KSEA-VP) Paik Ho Jung (AKPA-Pr) You Song Kim (KSEA-PA) Yong W. Kim (KSEA-San Diego) Sangsoo(Sam) Ryu (KSEA-SW State) Chul(Chris) Ha (KSEA-CI) Sunghoon Choi (KSEA-NY Metro) Choong H. Kim (KSEA-SC) Yo-chuol Ho (KSEA-N. Texas) Jeong Seop Shin (KSEA-NY Metro) Agenda: Election of President DVD Presentation of North Texas Chapter Possible synergy between AKPA and KSEA Activity Report of Local Chapters Miscellaneous Issues Dr. Ho, Yo-Chuol from North Texas was elected as the president of KSEA local chapters. He is currently the vice president of the North Texas chapter and works as an engineer at Texas Instrument. As the president, Dr. Ho will communicate with the headquarters on general issues related to all local chapters. Dr. Ha, Christopher Chul from the Central Illinois chapter was also elected as Chong-Moo (general secretary). All attendees watched a DVD of KSEA-North Texas Chapter picnic. According to the DVD, North Texas chapter looks very healthy and its members are well engaged into KSEA activities Professor Paik, Ho Jung from University of Maryland spoke about possible synergy between KSEA and Association of Korean Physicist in America (AKPA). As a commemoration to centennial of the Einstein year, AKPA is planning public lectures on physics to Korean communities in major U.S. cities including D.C. New York, Chicago, L.A. and San Francisco. The main purpose of this event is three-folds. First, to disseminate physics knowledge and convey the excitement of modern physics research to the Korean communities in the U.S. Second, to stimulate and encourage bright young Korean students to go into basic science and last, to enhance the visibility of the Korean-American physics community. Prof. Paik requested KSEA to co-host the events, particularly at N.Y. and L.A. AKPA is also looking for financial support from either KSEA-HQ or local chapters. KSEA s response to this request is that KSEA will consider possible financial support from the HQ level, but event hosting should be done at the local chapter levels. Following are the activity reports on local chapters New York Metro Chapter: 34 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

34 NY-Metro and New Jersey Chapters organize a math and science competition every year in November/December time period among Korean students in the New York and New Jersey area. Last year, it drew 850 students and more than 1500 people were involved in the event. Note that this is a separate event than National Math Competition (NMC) sponsored by KSEA-HQ. It is a full-day event that requires many college student volunteers. NY-Metro is requesting financial support for the cost related to all volunteers (e.g. dinners, lodging etc). NY-Metro chapter also co-hosts (with New Jersey chapter) the North East Regional Conference (NEC) every May. Other two KSEA annual events are fall picnic and Christmas party. It should be noted that 2006 UKC will be co-hosted by NY-Metro and New Jersey chapters Southwest Chapter: Southwest chapter used to cover all Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. Now, it only covers the Houston area due to creation of two chapters in Texas and inactive members from Louisiana and Arkansas. With the current status, is the chapter name still appropriate? The chapter has great potential to grow due to a large number of offshore engineers in the Houston area, especially Korean Offshore Engineers Association (KOEA) members, not to mention 700 Korean students at Texas A&M University. What suggestion does the HQ have or what kind of support can the HQ provide in order to bring in these engineers and students into KSEA? The chapter participates in NMC, but when it was local competition, English was included. Is there a plan to include English: HQ s response is No. The English competition should be held locally. The chapter asked some questions related to NMC: How do you determine the difficulty of the questions? Why are the results coming out so late? San Diego Chapter San Diego has many Bio Tech and IT companies and because of this there are many potential KSEA members in San Diego. In order to attract these people, the chapter has a plan to hold a professional seminar related to these two fields. The chapter is requesting the HQ for support. 110 students from San Diego area participated in the last NMC. San Diego chapter hold essay competition in addition to NMC. The chapter received positive responses from parents. Southern California Chapter 350 students from southern California area participated in NMC this year. Joint conference with LG electronics was held in January, KSEA and Korean Aero Science Association (KASA) are planning to hold a two-day event to educate mid-schoolers on aero science. In addition, the chapter annually holds picnic in June and X-mas party in December. North Texas Chapter 850 students / total of 1500 people from north Texas region participated in this year s NMC. The chapter annually gives away two $500 scholarships to two qualified students, one from University of Texas at Dallas and the other University of Texas at Arlington. Scholarship is funded by Samsung and Texas Instrument. Besides these events, the chapters holds two seminars, one in spring and the other in fall, and spring picnic. The chapters asked how they can be more visible. What events can North Texas chapter participate in the national level to more visible? HQ s response: If the chapter is ready, the HQ welcome challenges the chapter is willing to take by participating in the KSEA HQ events. HW also suggested to create YG chapter Central Illinois Chapter The Central Illinois chapter is revived as of July, As of August, 2005 it has more than 30 paid members which is forth among the existing chapters. The members is mostly consists of University of Illinois students KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 35

35 with some professionals. Because of this, the biggest issue is the employment issue. Therefore, the chapter has a plan to hold job workshops in both academia and industry. The chapter is requesting HQ financial support to hold these events. PA Chapter The Pennsylvania chapter is being revived this year. It is difficult to revive the chapter. The basic question from the potential KSEA members is What s in it for me? More important issue among potential KSEA members is an employment issue. Should you have any questions regarding the meeting minutes, please contact Dr. Ho (N. Texas Chapter), Dr. Cho (KSEA-VP) or Christopher Ha (KSEA-CI). Sincerely, Christopher Ha KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

36 KATRINA VICTIM FUND COLLECTION The following KSEA members have generously donated a total of $6,050 for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The KSEA HQ has donated additional $500 out of its operating fund. In random order, Esther Yang, Heakyung Lee, Hosin Lee, Hyuk Yu, Jae Hyun Cho, Jaeyoung Lee, Jongdeok Choi, Jong Hyuk Choi, Jong-Mihn Wie, Jung Wha Lee, Jungho Kim, Kyung A. Kang, Kang-Won Wayne Lee Kang-Wook Lee, Kenneth Yu, Kunho Kim, Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim, Moon Won Suh, S. Jay Chey Saeyoung Ahn, Sang-il Choi, Sang Seok Lim, Sin-Ho Jung, Sooyoung Kim, Sung Kwon Kang Sung Won Lee, Tae W. Ryu, William H. Chung, Woogeun Rhee, You Song Kim KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 37

37 PAST ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE PRESIDENT From: KSEA President Sent: Sunday, July 17, :23 PM To: Subject: Greetings from the 34th President of KSEA Dear KSEA Members, The 34 th administration of KSEA started on July 1 st. That is probably a news item of not much interest to many of you. So, let me present some news items which should definitely be of some interests to you. I. UKC2005 (The 2005 US - Korea Conference on Science, Technology, & Entrepreneurship, ) to be held at UCI (Univ. of California, Irvine) during August See the program on the web. There will be about 250 or more paper presentations a great majority of which will be by senior research leaders! See what other international conferences held these days can compete against this UKC2005 in terms of stature and discussion quality. See what percentage of paper presenters are research leaders active in international stages. Is that percentage lower than 90%? About 60% of the papers to be presented are from Korea! This overpowering of Korean-Korean researchers over Korean-American researchers in UKC2005 may be a temporary phenomenon. But one never knows. For the first time in the history of the UKC (7-8 years) and its predecessors run by KSEA, we made a dramatic change. We basically eliminated the full travel support for all Korean-American speakers except for 1.5G and 2G speakers who needed it. Instead, we adopted the policy of providing honorarium to the speakers invited by symposium chairs. The amount of honorarium is of course substantially less than the travel cost in the cases of a great majority of speakers. This plus the use of the university facility allowed us to welcome proposals for symposia covering any science and technology field where substantial Korean-American energies existed, rather than focusing on a few fashionable subject areas and pre-constraining the number of speakers to be small. On the other hand, we expected that it would take a couple of years for many active research leaders to get adjusted to this new situation. Our thought was that only those scientists and engineers who would be willing to travel on their own financial resources would take UKC2005 as a serious venue for acquiring professional benefits rather than recreational benefits. Only those would be able to engage in mutually beneficial interactions with the other party, i.e., Korean-Korean participants, who became highly resourceful in recent years and eager to conquer (?) the science and technology world. Nevertheless, the response from the Korean-American community to our new call was far stronger than our expectation. So, all participants in UKC2005 can be properly called Frontiers in Science and Technology in KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

38 Two technical keynote speakers are also from Korea! These two people are regarded by many in Korea as the Korean scientists who stand the best chance for obtaining Nobel prizes in some future time. One is Professor Woo-Suk Hwang whose research in stem cells rocked the world in recent years. The other speaker is Professor Zang-Hee Cho, a pioneering researcher in brain imaging. Many other prominent society leaders are scheduled to speak in plenary sessions. The short-term goal of organizing this conference is of course to stimulate better cooperation between active researchers in USA and those in Korea in advancing science and technology toward enhancing the welfare of both countries and the world. However, our bigger hope is to make many 1.5G and 2G Korean-Americans in science and technology fields to become at least curious about, if not interested in, the benefits of interacting with Korean-Korean counterparts. Therefore, if you have such family members or friends who happen to be able to visit Southern California during August 11 13, please encourage them to attend UKC2005. As long as they pay their KSEA membership fee for fiscal year and register fast for UKC2005 along with the submission of an application for registration fee waiver, they will get free registration until available seats run out. The relevant forms are on the web. II. Supporting chapters to host Young-Generation Technical and Leadership Conferences (YGTLCs) YGTLC is a conference where undergraduate students with strong records and leadership quality present their progresses in individual study or research supervised by faculty members. The students would also socialize and discuss about cultural and social issues and career-planning issues. The KSEA Hqs ran a nation-wide YGTLC for the first time in January 2005 in San Francisco with great success (under the coordination of Hosin Lee who was then the YG Committee Chair and is now an auditor). However, we are now working to obtain resources needed to run regional YGTLCs. So, active chapters will be the hosts and the Hqs will provide the needed resources. It appears that quite a few chapters which were once mighty strong are now feeble. We think that the opportunity to run an YGTLC will be valuable to such a chapter for rejuvenating itself. You will hear more about this later. III. Membership directory and vitality of KSEA KSEA has not published its membership directory for 10 years. I know that various administrations made sincere efforts but I suspect that they were afraid of publishing a directory of the quality which is not impressive. However, this situation has damaged the reputation of KSEA tremendously, especially to its sponsors. Also, many members have gotten wrong (?) impressions that KSEA is now a withered and sterile organization, partly because of that. I declared to the newly formed Executive Committee (EC) that even if we could not produce anything but a shameful membership directory this calendar year, we should bite the bullet. We should NOT try to continue to hide our abilities and the realities of KSEA from the general membership. A version of a membership directory will be put on the Web for access by all KSEA members much before the end of this calendar year. If you have not updated your member profile in the Web for a while, please do so this month or next. Please be patient and trust that your update effort this time will be worthwhile. In addition, we intend to put the full contents of the newsletters, including those published last year, on the Web for access by the general membership. Hard-copy newsletters are expensive to produce and no longer effective. We also need to make it easier for members to hear about other members activities. Until the KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 39

39 newsletter appears to have become effective in achieving that effect, please allow me, President-Elect Sung Kwon Kang, or one of our Publication Board member to send announcements to you between newsletter publications. Therefore, please share any news item generated in your environment with one of Publication Board members and Membership Director Tae-Wan Ryu. In two months, the Web will have a monitored message board where any member can post a legitimate message. If KSEA is a withered organization, it is a loss to you. Can you imagine that a new organization which can supersede KSEA can be easily created? If not, then? You have to contribute to strengthening the vitality of KSEA. So, if you'd like to contribute but feels running into an obstacle, please let me and President-Elect Kang hear it. If any committee or staff appears to be unduly irresponsible or unresponsive, please let P-E Kang and me hear that, too. We believe that if the general membership learns the real status of KSEA, many righteous members will come forward to help restoring the health of KSEA which was mighty strong once upon a time. KSEA got hurt badly by occasional outbursts of unusual internal disputes in the past 15 years, too. We need to emphasize the harmony and openness in this organization. When I mentioned a few months ago to an officer in one of our steady sponsors that we had about 2,000 active members in KSEA, she sounded surprised, Haven't you been claiming 5,000 members?. My answer was that I had no interests in exaggerating about the current status of KSEA. Look forward to witnessing your contributions. Wishing you a very enjoyable and productive July! Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim President, KSEA ( ) From: KSEA President [tpds@dream.eng.uci.edu] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, :17 PM To: khkim@uci.edu Subject: News Items from 34th President of KSEA Dear KSEA Members, A few news items and requests. My last announcement which was made in July can be read from This long covers the following items: (1) An opportunity for helping victims of Hurricane Katrina and Passions of some senior members (2) Positive signs from UKC2005 (3) Appointment of Advisors to President of KSEA (4) Four KSEA awards 40 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

40 Again, please do not hesitate to send me news items worth sharing with other members. Small items are welcome. A. Hurricane Katrina Our initial action taken a week ago was to post the following message on the Web of KSEA: "Let us show the kind hearts of KSEA members through local charity organizations for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The 34th KSEA Administration " Then yesterday, I was surprised to receive the following from Dr. Dong-Ho Park in LSU, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, regarding Korean-American evacuees temporarily housed in Baton Rouge: > From: "Dongho Park" <dpark1@lsu.edu> > To: <sejong@ksea.org> > Sent: Tuesday, September 06, :27 PM > Subject: Hurricane Katrina > As a president of KSEA at Louisians Chapter, I am writing this letter to get some help. > The disaster of Katrina left a deep sorrow in Louisiana. > Several hundreds of Korean evacuees from New Orleans shelterd at a church > in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. > > They need food, clothing or other goods. > I would deeply appreciate if KSEA participates in helping Katrina victims. > Even a small contribution will be a good help for them. > > Thank you. My immediate action was the following: -----Original Message----- From: Kane Kim [mailto:khkim@uci.edu] Sent: Tuesday, September 06, :52 PM To: Dr Dongho Park (dpark1@lsu.edu) Cc: KSEA-councilors-officers: (khkim@uci.edu); KSEA-EC-34; --- Subject: Urgent Action Requested -- Hurricane Katrina KSEA Louisiana Chapter President Park, I saw this 10 minutes ago. I am copying this to other officers of KSEA (EC, auditors, former presidents, technical group councilors, and chapter presidents). I'd like to suggest the following urgent actions: (1) I am ordering Junghwa Oh to send $500 from the operating fund account at the KSEA Hqs to your chapter for the purpose of helping the Korean-American evacuees. KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 41

41 (2) I'd like to request that you make $500 from the account of your chapter or your personal account available for immediate use in the spirit of giving a loan to the Hqs since it may take some time for the $500 from the Hqs to arrive at your chapter. I also want you to mobilize volunteers from your chapter who will spend the fund of $500 quickly and appropriately for the Korean-American evacuees. (3) I want you to report to me ASAP whether you succeeded in mobilizing volunteers and whether you figured out how to spend the fund of $500. Also, let me know roughly how additional money can be useful to the Korean-American evacuees. (4) Upon receiving reasonable answers from you in relation to (3), I will donate a small amount of personal money to KSEA with the suggestion for using it as a supplement to the fund mentioned in (1) and (2). Other members of KSEA may do the same. I look forward to hearing from you ASAP. Please feel free to call me or me. Thanks for informing the Hqs of the situation in Louisiana. Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim President, KSEA ps. KSEA EC members with voting rights, Please send your votes for or against retroactive approval of this action to ED Park Today I had a phone conversation with Dr. Dong-Ho Park and learned a few things. There are about 300 Korean-American evacuees housed in two churches in Baton Rouge. There are about 5 KSEA members in Baton Rouge. Dr. Park promised to get them involved in cooperating with the churches for execution of the support fund from the KSEA Hqs. He will send me the names of those volunteers. We at the Hqs would like to hear from other chapters if they see Korean-American evacuees in their regions. Until then, 90% of the donations received at the Hqs will be sent to Baton Rouge via Dr. Park. As soon as my went out, some senior officers of KSEA started to send their donations (amounts ranging between $100 and $500). The first was the $300 donated by Dr. Saeyoung Ahn. Let me list them in the order seen by me. Saeyoung Ahn, 25th President of KSEA, Visiting Professor, Seoul National University, College of Natural Sci., Biomedical Lab: Sang-il Choi, 7th President of KSEA, Retired Professor, formerly at Univ. of North Carolina and Postech: Sin-Ho Jung, Technical Group Councilor of KSEA, Professor, Duke University: Moon Won Suh, 7th President of KSEA, Professor, North Carolina State Univ. ($500): KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

42 Kenneth Yu, Technical Group Councilor and Executive Committee member of KSEA, Professor, Univ. of Maryland: Sung Kwon Kang, President-Elect of KSEA, IBM TJ Watson Research Center: Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim, 34th President of KSEA, Professor, UC Irvine: KSEA is a non-profit tax-exempt organization. B. UKC2005 UKC2005 ( ) (The 2005 US - Korea Conference on Science, Technology, & Entrepreneurship) took place on the campus of UCI during August 11-13, Since 95% of the local arrangement and operational support during the conference was provided by 57 students and young alumni of UCI plus a few students from nearby universities, there were signs of inexperience here and there. We were initially planning for a 325-people conference. UKC2005 ended up attracting about 570 participants (not including 35+ faculty members of UCI who participated only during the presentation of Professor Woo-Suk Hwang, one of the three technical keynote speakers). The nature of UKC is such that the larger the number of participants is the bigger the financial pressure is. This is because KSEA members and paper presenters are given registration fee waivers. The local organizers of UKC2005 were bewildered when it became clear right before the conference start date that the number of participants would be way over 400. Neither the quantity of the program booklets prepared nor the quantity of souvenirs, let alone luncheon seats, were sufficient. In spite of that, all participants were patient and have not complained loud, at least not to my ears. On the other hand, there were many complimentary remarks received by the Hqs, my assistant (Moon-Cheol Kim), and myself from the participants from both USA and Korea including quite a few former presidents and other officers of KSEA. We can safely claim that UKC2005 set a new record in terms of the Brain Power attracted. In fact, at least 300 participants can be regarded as frontiers in scientific and technological movements. In this regard, which conferences with thousands of participants can compete against UKC2005? And there were many leaders of institutions and they provided lots of useful information. We can also claim to have kept the following promises: (1) The 384-page program booklet entitled, "Frontiers in Science and Engineering", was published and distributed at the conference. This is accessible to active members of KSEA (i.e., the members who paid membership fees for the current fiscal year, and kept their member profiles in the KSEA Web up-to-date). This document contains biosketches of the speakers and the abstracts of the presentations. To access the document, they must go through the following steps. (1a) Visit and then log in using their user ID and password. (1b) Click "more" located besides "KSEA e-letters" in the left column in the web page. This will take you to the Web page (1c) There you will find information on the user ID and the password needed to access the UKC2005 documents. KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 43

43 (1d) Using the user ID and the password from (1c), visit and download the program booklet and the proceedings. (2) The proceedings CD was published and distributed on-site at the conference. This is also accessible to active members of KSEA. It will be sold to others at a price to be determined soon. The web version of the proceedings may be updated in the next 2-3 weeks as presenters wish. (3) The environment and weather were as nice as what had been promised. We do not fully know the quality of the interactions that took place among the participants. But we know that almost everybody was amazed and pleased to discover that so much brain power could be gathered in one place in the summer time of One of the best rewarding results from my point of view was the following from Professor Jung-Ho Kim at the University of Maryland who is a 2nd-generation Korean-American and the son of late Professor Ho-Kil Kim who was the founding president of Pohang University of Science & Technology (Postech) and the founding Executive Director of KSEA. I do not believe that he was active in KSEA previously Original Message----- From: Jungho Kim [mailto:kimjh@eng.umd.edu] Sent: Monday, August 15, :10 AM To: khkim@uci.edu; kang@us.ubm.com Cc: hkmoon@solarturbines.com Subject: UKC2006 Dear Dr. Kane Kim and Dr. Sung Kang: It was a great pleasure to meet both of you at UKC After seeing KSEA in action at the conference and the council meeting, I was very impressed with the vitality of the organization and the leadership, and am eager to participate in organizing UKC2006 and KSEA in general. --- I would be happy to organize sessions on Mechanical Engineering along with Dr. H.K Moon, but may not be able to be present for all of the sessions. Sincerely, Jungho Kim Dept. of Mechanical Engineering University of Maryland C. Appointment of Advisors to President of KSEA As an effort to boost the image of KSEA and take advantage of great wisdom in operating the KSEA Hqs, I have made efforts to persuade outstanding broad-minded researchers and experienced leaders of KSEA to serve as official advisors to the president of KSEA. I am pleased to announce that the following people kindly agreed to do so for the period of : 44 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

44 Professor Zang-Hee Cho, Gachon Medical School, Korea and UCI, USA Professor Woo-Suk Hwang, Lab. of Theriogenology, Seoul National University Professor Yong-Wook Kim, Dept. of Physics, Lehigh University (former Auditor of KSEA in mid-1990's) Professor Sung Won Lee, Dept. of Aerospace Engr., University of Maryland (33rd President of KSEA) Professors Cho and Hwang served along with Nobel Laureate Sherwood Rowland as technical keynote speakers at UKC2005. These advisors are non-voting members of the Executive Committee (EC) of KSEA. The EC roster is given in D. KSEA Awards With the recommendation of the Award Committee and the agreement of the EC, four KSEA awards were given to the outstanding contributors during the banquets of UKC2005: (1) Outstanding Contribution Award to Dr. Chan-Mo Park, President of Postech and 13th President of KSEA Excerpts from the nomination letter: Dr. Park made an outstanding contribution to the financial well-being of KSEA by devoting numerous hours of time and making numerous trips for fund raises for KSEA. More than half of the fund available for UKC2005 came out of his efforts. Dr. Park has also relentlessly advocated for the important value of KSEA to leaders in all segments of Korean societies, ---. He has been one of a handle number of leaders in Korean societies who have taken such an attitude and served as the most prominent outstanding explicit advocate. --- His support for the young-generation leaders forum sponsored by both KOFST and KSEA was legendary. (2) Outstanding Contribution Award to Dr. Kenneth Yu, Professor at Univ. of Maryland Excerpts from the nomination letter: Prof. Yu has established himself as one of the best models of 1.5G members and leaders of KSEA. He is the only 1.5G member who has ever served as the Executive Director (ED) of KSEA. During his tenure of the ED position, he has demonstrated exemplary performance, covering all important parts of the KSEA operation and setting very high standards of professionalism and work ethics. Equally importantly, he has been a consistent and steady contributor to KSEA over many years unlike many others who pop up suddenly and disappear after making some splashes. His contribution as a Program Co-Chair for UKC2005 has been spectacular, too. He has also maintained the world's top-class scholarship, serving as a leader of research in an important branch of space science and technology and the coordinator of research projects of national importance where multiple universities have participated. (3) Outstanding Contribution Award to Daniel D. Park, Attorney Excerpts from the nomination letter: KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 45

45 Mr. Daniel Park served as the Publicity Director during the 29th administration. He is a second-generation Korean-American who graduated from the U.S. West Point with B.S. in Engineering, served U.S. Army as an Intelligent Officer, went on Law School and became an Intellectual Property lawyer. He currently works for U. S. Dept. of Energy in a site of Argonne National Laboratory. His contributions to KSEA in dealing with regulatory issues related to a non-profit public institution were invaluable. He also made great contribution as a leader of the KSEA Young Generation Conference that was held in Korea in (4) Outstanding Chapter Award to North Carolina Chapter Citation: "In recognition of the chapter activities of outstanding quality and vitality, including symposia organization, hosting of UKC 2004, and others". Efforts are under way in the Hqs to enhance the vitality of KSEA, e.g., enhancing the Web to facilitate better interactions among the members, etc. I hope to be able to report on those in my next newsletter. Whenever you see some active Korean-American scientists and engineers nearby, especially those who discontinued their membership after watching some past actions or inactions of KSEA which they perceive as mistakes, please tell them to obtain or renew their membership since otherwise, they will miss quite a bit of interesting life-signs. It is unwise to try to save membership fees ($35 for regular members and $15 for graduate student members) with the hope that all information become available to non-members as well. The latter hope is a false one since the current administration is determined to make active members feel that it is definitely worth keeping active membership status. Will talk to you in about a month. Wishing you all a very productive month! Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim President, KSEA ( ) 46 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

46 KWISE NEWS KWISE 4th Meeting 1st Year Celebration Meeting Time: November 17 (Thursday) 6-9pm Place: Immunology East Conference Rm (IMM-E), TSRI, La Jolla, CA The fourth KWISE meeting took place on Nov. 17, 2005 at the Immunology East Conference Room (IMM-E) in The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) to celebrate the first anniversary of the establishment of KWISE. Dr. Kim, Jin-Soo, the president of FAR-TECH, Inc., gave a presentation entitled Working at Your Own Company, as the third talk of Career Development Series. While having delicious korean dinner, more than thirty members as well as honorary guests were introduced to each other. Following that, Dr. Lim, Yeon-Hee reported KWISE membership statistics and Dr. Kim, Hana reported financial status of KWISE. Dr. Han, Gye Won, president of KWISE, introduced new executive officers and future plans for KWISE including Women Symposium at UKC 2006, research seminar series, career development series, job fair, and web improvement and management. After introduction of meeting agenda by Dr. Han, KOSEN award ceremony was held. Dr. Suk, Jiyoung, Dr. Jeon, Meongshin, and Dr. Kim, Hana, received the awards. Letters of Appreciation were given to the KWISE sponsors including LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics. During her presentation, Dr. Kim discussed diverse topics on operating business as a woman scientist, including: 1) history of FAR-TECH, Inc.; 2) pros and cons of owning businesses; 3) how to start your own business; 4) advices for those who have bosses and who are bosses. Question and answer session was followed by the impressive presentation. We greatly appreciate Dr. Kim for her wonderful talk. The meeting ended just before 9pm by Dr. Han s farewell remarks. We all look forward to the next meeting. Seunghee Han KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 47

47 CHAPTER NEWS The following business plans from local chapters were submitted to HQ ($ amounts have been deleted): Central Illinois Chapter (Chapter President, Christopher Ha) announces Technology Seminar and Local Company Introduction Seminar 2005/2006. Once every two weeks starting in Dec 2005 Number of Seminars 18 Place: University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Central Illinois Chapter Project Description Background The Central Illinois Chapter ( is mostly composed of students/faculty members at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) plus some engineers and scientists who are locally employed in various different companies in Champaign-Urbana Area. It is worthy to note that there is rich pool of technical talents at various disciplines at UIUC, but there is no opportunity for these talents to share their ideas. In addition, Champaign-Urbana is a technology driven city where many small/medium high tech companies are being created. There is a plan to have 30 buildings that are being built in the south side of UIUC campus, and it is called Sough Research Park. Companies like Motorola, INTEL, SAIC, Caterpillar are present at the moment and other companies such as BOEING are evaluating for feasibility. Besides the large companies, there are many mid to small size companies such as MATHEMATICA are present in Champaign. For the KSEA members, KSEA-CI is planning to have technical seminar as well as local company introduction seminar starting from December, 2005 Proposed Activities Technology Seminar and Local Company Seminar. Local Company Introduction Seminar (Tentative List of companies/research institute) - SAIC - Motorola - INTEL - NCSA - KIM Laboratories Inc. - Army Corp of Engineers - Caterpillar Inc. - Wolfram Inc. Technology Seminar is schedules to start in April, 2006 (tentative schedule is not finalized yet) Merit The technical seminar provides opportunities for KSEA members to broaden their technical knowledge in various disciplines. The local company introduction seminar will provide KSEA members and UIUC students to be familiar with local technology companies and possibly seek for employment. Both seminars will also 48 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

48 provide an opportunity for KSEA members to be better acquainted from each other. Seminar Schedule The local company introduction seminar will start from Dec for 8 sessions and ends in end of March. The technology session will start from April 2006 and will continue until the end of Total of 10 sessions are planned. Project participants Christopher Ha, President of KSEA- CI Chapter Seung-yul Yun, Vice President Byoung-do Kim, Executive Director Hyunung Yu, Program Director Jea-hyoung Han, Financial Director Oh-sung Kwon, Membership Director Hanjoo Choe, Undergraduate Program Director New Jersey Chapter (Chapter President, Young Whan Park) announced 1st Technical Symposium as follows: CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st KSEA NJ chapter Technical Symposium November 5, 2005 Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ The New Jersey Chapter of Korean- American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) announces the 1st Technical Symposium, which will be held on November 5, 2005 at CORE building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Its objectives are to promote close interactions among KSEA NJ chapter members in the broad scientific fields, and to contribute to the advancement of research and development. Papers are invited in the following areas: Technical Sessions: Biological & Pharmaceutical Science Computer Science & Electrical Engineering Telecommunication Submissions: Prospective authors should submit their paper titles and abstracts by October, 5, 2005 and full papers of up to 5 pages, preferably in IEEE format (typeface: Times, font size 11 or 12 points, 2 columns) by October 26, 2005 to: Young Whan Park, Ph.D. to young_whan_park@merck.com Phone: (732) with the author name(s), affiliation(s) (both Korean and English), postal and addresses, as well as telephone and fax numbers. Conference Format: The symposium will begin at 10:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM on November 5. The meals and refreshments will be provided to all KSEA members and registered conference participants. There will be no registration fee for KSEA members. Sponsorship: KSEA HQ. Important Dates: Paper Title/Abstract Submission: October 5, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: October 10, 2005 Full Papers Submission: October 26, 2005 Southern California Chapter (Chapter President, Choong Hyun Kim) Title of Project: Space Journey 2005 Project Date: August 18 th 20 th, 2005 Attendance: 59 students (5 th -7 th grades), 18 Volunteers from KSEA-SC and KASA (Korean Aerospace Scientists Association) This event is a 2-day camp to introduce aerospace science for junior high students. KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 49

49 The activities include lecture on rocket science, construction and launch a bottle rocket, experiments on projectile and Newtonian motion, and tours to the Caltech Earthquake Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Mars exploration) at NASA. During the camp we had interviews with KTAN local TV, Radio Korea (for 2 hours) and 2 Korean Newspapers which provided excellent opportunity to publicize KSEA. The event is one of the outreach community services and provides hand-on experiences in physical science for young students. We had good public awareness of KSEA through mass media, and recruited KASA members to join KSEA-SC. We plan to double the number of students and to recruit more volunteers in aerospace science in the Space Journey The requested fund will be used for: 1) for appreciation present to volunteer scientists and engineers who are not KSEA members, and 2) for expense in preparing next event Title of Project: Christmas Party/Appreciation Award Ceremony Project Date: December 3rd, 2005 Attendance: 60 Members, 20 Student members, 20 Members of KASA and KAEPA, 10 guests (KSEA-SC supporters) This event is an annual gathering of members for entertainment and appreciation awards on the devoted members and financial supporters. Student members and professionals from other societies, such environment and civil engineering and aerospace science will be invited and encouraged to join KSEA. This event provides a good opportunity for membership drive. Contact Information: Dr. Choong Hyun Kim, President of KSEA-SC Chapter chkim@uci.edu Office: Home: Address: 2545 N. Meadow Grove Road, Orange, CA San Diego Chapter (Chapter President, Yong W. Kim) Introduction Founded in 1999, KSEA-San Diego Chapter has steadily grown to be one of the largest local chapters in the nation (71 paid members in 2005). We expect its membership will continue to grow with steady influx of scientists and engineers into the flourishing bio-tech and wireless industry sectors in San Diego. We also expect a significant increase in number through partnership with KWISE (Korean- American Women in Science & Engineering) recently founded in San Diego this year. The business plan for the will focus on one thing only, that is, growth in membership. We will pursue this by offering the paid members the following benefits: 1. tangible result in personal growth through Professional Development programs 2. rewarding experience through Community Outreach programs We believe that growth in membership naturally comes when each paid member experiences a feeling of accomplishment looking back over the year of participation. Planned Activities This year s activity plan closely follows the pattern of the past Chapter s activities in terms of timing and the nature of event. However, the overall structure of planning/execution was slightly modified toward a more goal-driven approach, i.e., two separate committees were created to spearhead the following two main legs of events each with stated goals. 50 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

50 Professional Development Networking/social Career Enhancement Entrepreneurship Bio Seminar (biweekly), KWISE seminar (quarterly): at UCSD Beckman Center, periodic seminars on various topics in bio tech. General Meeting (Sept. 2005): local KSEA member/guests networking/social, membership drive event KSEA-Wireless Golf Tournament (Nov. 2005): local engineers networking/social, membership drive event Create San Diego Chapter Website (Dec. 2005): to promote electronic communication/networking and to provide infrastructure for on-line tutoring in 2006 YG Local Conference (Jan, 2006): YG membership drive Annual Tech. Symposium & Local Industry Job Fair (May, 2006): technical networking and industry sponsored job fair, membership drive event Community Outreach Promote Math/Science Mentoring Ferment Global Vision NMC & Science competition (April, 2006): most recognized community outreach program On-line tutoring (2006, create infrastructure): to mobilize YG and encourage participation, utilize KSEA-SD website KSEA Event-participant Networking (e.g. NMC & Science Competition winners): KSEA event awardees club, networking and mentoring Promote Korean as a 2 nd language (April, During NMC): Local Korean School seminar to encourage Korean language for 2 nd generation Korean kids. Midwest Chapter (Chapter President, Kyeong Ook Lee) PROJECT PROPOSAL Project Title: Diversification of KSEA- Midwest Chapter Annual Activities and New-Membership Driving Project Dates: September 1, 2005 ~ August 31, 2006 Chapter: Midwest Chapter President: Kyeong Ook Lee Tel: (630) Fax: (630) klee@anl.gov PROJECT DESCRIPTION Background Primarily the requested project fund will be used to diverse major KSEA-MW activities described below and promote membership driving in this chapter. In recent years, the membership drive has been even more important because the number of regular/student members is being reduced due to several sources. Therefore, the Midwest chapter has planned to use more efficient ways of advertising membership drive and general activities. The Midwest Chapter (Chicago metropolitan area) consists of members from over ten universities, government institutes, and private companies. The chapter will put its best efforts to promote relationship between these organizations. As a part of this effort, the KSEA-MW representatives of major universities, including U. of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern U., and U. of Chicago, will coordinate and mentor the activities of students in accordance of the direction and objectives of KSEA-MW. YR2006 activities are planned as below. Proposed Activities KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 51

51 1) Circle Seminar: More than 70 regular and student members will participate. The seminar will be held in February ) Harvest Picnic: This will be held during the week of Chusuk. We usually invite a number of student members as well as regular members to consolidate relationship and share information about science and engineering. This event will be coordinated with the Korean Student Association of each college. 3) Plenary Year-End Meeting: Major activities at this meeting include annual activity reports, a financial status report, and a scholarship award ceremony. The scholarship award ceremony is a unique activity of KSEA-MW that is supported by sponsorships of dedicated members. 52 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

52 MEMBER NEWS List of New Members (Jul Sept. 2005) Central Penn Northern CA Philadelphia Lee Seong-Young Do Jae Won Lee Daniel D Indiana Kim Ann Hannah Park So-Jung Hwang Inseok Kim YoungGook Yim Mark Michigan Kwon Sunghoon SW State Lee Chi-Guhn Lee Jane Sheena Ahn Seokyoung Midwest Region Lee Samuel An Young J Chung Se Woong Park Sungbae Jeong Chankwon Lee Jungwha Arizona Kim Doo Gyoon Oh Seung T Kim Matthew Kim Jang Whan New England New Jersey Kim Yuan H. Han Charline Kim Chang-Sik Lee Kyung Ho Han Jongyoon Kim Hong-Yong Lee Minju Hwang One Kim Jung-Chul Lee T.R. Kim Sang-Gook Kim Kyung-Hee Seol Dong Guan Lee Byong Hoon Kim Kyung-Soon Youn K Casey Lee Hana Kim Min-Woo Moon Yong-Mo Kim Sean Upstate NY New York Metro Kim Seong-Kon Lee Jungbin Kiehm Jamie H Kim Young-Sun Washington Metro Maeng Sungmin Kwon Suzy Han David Kyonghun Singh Vijay Lee Jin-Hwa Huh Gabriel Baek North Carolina Lee Kwang-Ho Kim Sooja K Kim Changsoon Lim Hanjo Kwon Erika Mi-Jin Kim Jungsang Moon Yeah-Sil Lee Jung Wha Ohio Park Larry Jong- Paik Ho Jung Heung Song Inho Ryoo Je-Phil Park Sang-Won Pacific Northwest Shim Jae-Chul Alabama Mason Aimee Song Ho-Juhn Kim Jieun Yi Sung Sung Moo-Je St. Louis Yoo Chang-Hoon Austin Texas Choi Kyunghee Yoon Sung-Mi Yang Chan Kyu Sappington Laura J Yoon Tae-Young S. Carolina Colorado Florida Lee Woo-Kum Lee Jackie Shim Kyle Western New York Central Texas Oklahoma Kang Jai W. Lee Soo-Kyung Shin Tae-Sung Great Lakes Region Utah Mid MO Rim Juwan Jones Sara D. Jung Yoo Jin Shim Hong-Shig Seo Duckbong KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 53

53 List of New Members (Jul Sept. 2005) Continued San Diego Southern CA Southern CA Cont'd Jeon Myung-Shin Ahn Jong Ho Kim Young Dae Kang Yungmo Bae Sam Kim Young-Jin Kim Hana Baek Sang Jin Jason Kiwata Richard Kim Myoung Kug Bang James I. Koh Chester Lee Jean-Pyo Bang Sung Tae Kong Hyun Jung Lim Yeon-Hee Bien Richard Kong Hyun Jung Suk Ji-Young Cha Seung Eun Kwon Hyun Woo Yim Yeon-Hee Cho Ken W Kwon Yang S International/Others Choi Chang-Hwan Lee Chungyong Choi Song K. Choi Han Suk Lee Dong-U Hong Ki Bum Choi Ju Hyeon Lee Haejin Je Chung-Hwan Choi Oyoung Lee Hye Jin Jeong Yoon Su Choi Wonjoon Lee Jong Jae Kwon Namhee Chung Bonggeun Lee Kyoungwoo Lee Myron Kee Hwang Hyoeun Lonnie Lee Min H Lee SangHoon Jeong Youngsul Lee Sang Nam Sang-Yep Jin Sungho Lee Thay Q Park Jin Jung Byung Chan Lee Won A Yoon Jaekyung Kay Jung Duk-Young Lim Jeong-Hee North Texas Kang Kyung Mo Min Hoonki Ho Yo-Choul Kil Ji Weon Min Joon H Jung Youngsi Kim Dae Hyun Moon Jeongsun Kim Hong Ryong Kim Dongho Na Soon Kyong Lee Ki Woo Kim Hana Paik Lydia H Na Woon K Kim Hyun Il Pak Ben Y Yang Duck J Kim Jay S. Park Jeong Won Zo Jay T Kim Jin Hong Ro Won Woo Kim Jinsung Shin Kyoung Seop Kim Jitae So Chang Sok Kim Jongsung Song Wonho Kim Joon Suh Greg Kim Kunho Wang Taehyung Kim Min Ha Woo Jongwook kim Soyoun Yoon Ju Hee Kim Yoo Jin Yu Sun 54 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

54 List of New Members (Jul Sept. 2005) Continued Central Illinois Central Illinois Cont'd Central Illinois Cont'd Ahn Crystal Hyeyeon Kang Taekyu Lee Sang-Chul BAE HA-ROK Kim Byoung-do Lee Sarah Young Bae Yangjin Kim Hyung Tae Lee Sarah Young Baek Jongeun Kim Hyunwook Lee Seongkwan Chang Sang-Yoon Kim In Tai Lee SooMin Chang Yang-Kyoo Kim Jungho Lee Youngsoo Chang Yang-Kyoo Kim Minkwan Moon Chung Hee Choe Han Joo Kim Minkyum Moon Joonsik Choi Hyun Il Kim Myung L Moon Kyoung-sun Chung Chulwoo Kim Sangho Paik John M Fang Sungsoon Kim Sangock Park Hoshin Ha Christopher Kweon Giyoung Park Jae Beom Han Jeahyeong Kwon Jayhyun Park Kyungsoo Han Sangwon Kwon Oh-Sung Park Samuel Hwang Jin H Kwon Tae-Hyun Ra Soon Joo Jeon Hong Young Lee Chul Hee Rhim Soo Bin Jeon Kyunghwi Lee Daniel Shin Myung Eun Jeong Seonghoon Lee Heui Hwang Song Esther Jin Hyunjong Lee Hojung Song Seong Hyeok Joe Ikro Lee Hyuck Jae Yeo Donghun Juhn Jaehyung Lee Jung Koo Yi Jong-Sun Jun David M Lee Kihwal Yu Hyunung Jun Dho Heon Lee Kwanwoo Yun GunJin Jung Allen (Joohyuk) Lee Ohjoo Yun Seung-Yul Kang Seungmo Lee One-Chul KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 55

55 Announcement for KSEA Annual Award Background At the 28 th Councilor s Meeting, the KSEA Annual Award has been established to recognize: (1) member(s) who have made outstanding contributions to advances in science and engineering or applications of technology for the general welfare of society, (2) member(s) who have made outstanding contributions in fostering international cooperation especially between the US and Korea, and (3) person(s) who have made outstanding services to the betterment of the KSEA. The 2006 Award Annual Award will be limited to the following two areas: (1) "Entrepreneur of the Year Award" to an individual(s) who has made stellar performance in the area of entrepreneurship, and (2) "Outstanding Contribution to KSEA Award" to an individual(s) who has made an exceptional contribution for the advancement of the KSEA. Nomination We are hereby soliciting nominations, and nominations are welcomed from any KSEA member. Each nomination must be accompanied with a letter of nomination, along with the candidate's curriculum vitae, and three supporting letters. The nomination package should be sent to the Honors and Awards Committee, KSEA, 1952 Gallows Rd., Suite 300, Vienna, VA or to sejong@ksea.org. Deadline and Selection Process Deadline for Nominations is March 1, The Honors and Awards Committee of KSEA will review the applicant s suitability, make selection, and recommend to the President. The final recommendation will be presented to the KSEA Council for approval by March 31, The winners will be announced by April 28, 2006 upon the approval of the Council, and the Awards will be presented at the UKC Any question or further information should be directed to the Honors and Awards Committee Chair, Professor Sung Won Lee at lee@eng.umd.edu 56 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

56 SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS 2006 KSEA Scholarships Announcement 2006 KSEA Scholarships Objective To recognize outstanding students with Korean heritage who have excelled in academics as well as in community services, and who demonstrate potential for becoming leaders in the society. Scholarship Categories KSEA Scholarships (multiple), $1,000 per award Inyong Ham Scholarship (1), $1,000 per award Hyundai Scholarship (2), $1,000 per award Chunghi Hong Park Scholarship (2), $1,000 per award for women Yohan and Rumie Cho Scholarship (1), $1,000 per award Shoon Kyung Kim Scholarship (1), $1,000 per award Nam Sook and Je Hyun Kim Scholarship (1), $1,000 per award Eligibility 1. Undergraduate or graduate students in the U.S. with Korean heritage 2. Major in science, engineering, or related fields 3. KSEA membership (Student may apply for KSEA membership at the time of scholarship application.) Application Materials 1. KSEA Scholarship application form 2. Curriculum Vitae (including work experiences and extracurricular activities) 3. Official transcripts from colleges attended Note: For College freshmen and sophomores, high school transcript is also required. 4. Test scores Undergraduate students: SAT (freshmen or sophomores only) Graduate students: GRE (optional) 5. An essay on one of the following topics (approximately 500 words, typed): (a) Your career goals and their contributions to the society (b) Meaning of Korean heritage in your life 6. Three recommendation letters (one letter must be from a current or previous KSEA officer or chapter president (see Organization/Local chapters for contact info.) KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 57

57 Evaluation Criteria Academic performance - 30% Recommendation letters -30% Work experience and extracurricular activities - 20% Essay - 20% Application Deadline Send your application by February 15, 2006 (postmarked) to KSEA 1952 Gallows Rd., Suite 300 Vienna, VA phone: , fax: , sejong@ksea.org 58 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

58 JOIN KSEA Members can participate in numerous KSEA activities and events some of which are listed as follows : Annual meeting & technical conference National Mathematics Competition (for students in the 4 th 11 th grades) Young Generation programs Publication of KSEA Letters Web and service Scholarships Job referrals Technical evaluation and consulting Topical symposia/workshops Database development Sponsorship of conferences organized by Korean-American professional societies KSEA Awards Science & technology programs for general public Membership Benefits Leadership development through committee activities and conference organization: KSEA has 13 Technical Groups and 14 Standing Committees for your participation. You are welcome to organize technical sessions at the annual U.S.-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (UKC) or you may organize a conference of your own. Networking with other Korean-American scientists and engineers: Join the Technical Groups and Committees, or come to the annual conference, UKC. The KSEA is unique in that its members come from all fields of science and engineering. The UKC offers an excellent opportunity to learn about other fields than your own Use of KSEA Office while in DC: If you need a temporary office while in DC, please come to the KSEA Headquarters office. No charge for the use of a computer and local calls. Nominal charges for other office support or supplies. Participation in technical evaluation and consulting: We will contact you when we need experts for these services. Opportunities for community service: You may participate in community service activities of your chapter. Or you may help with National Math Competition. Information on professional opportunities in both U.S. and Korea Look for job openings on the KSEA web. Awards program: KSEA honors members of distinguished records by presenting them with KSEA Awards. Membership dues supporting your chapter: Most of your dues go back to your own chapter. For membership application, visit and check Membership in the menu for online application, or call (703) KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 59

59 Join KSEA as a Corporate Member To apply for membership, visit and check Sponsors on the menu bar Fax or mail the application form to KSEA 1952 Gallows Rd., Suite 300, Vienna, VA Membership Fees: $1,500 for companies $1,000 for research institutions Sponsorship Please sponsor the Annual U.S.- Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (UKC). UKC sponsor automatically becomes our cooperate member for the year. Benefits Recognition as a corporate member with the corporate link on the KSEA website Positions open announcements on the KSEA website Free subscription to KSEA Letters One full-page advertisement announcement in KSEA Letters Referral service for technical expertise in KSEA Recognition as a corporate member at the KSEA Annual Conference Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association 1952 Gallows Rd., Suite 300, Vienna, VA Tel: (703) Fax: (703) sejong@ksea.org Web: KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

60 Guideline for Articles in KSEA Letters (Use 14-Point) Editor-in-Chief (Use Times New Roman 12-point bold) 1952 Gallows Rd. Suite 300 Vienna, VA 22182(Use 12 point) ABSTRACT (11-point Bold) (11 -point Italic) The purpose of this document is to provide authors a set of guidelines to assist in formatting their paper. The full manuscripts must be no more than 8-pages. SCOPE The KSEA Letters is an official publication of the KSEA. It carries two groups of articles: (1) overview science/technology trends and (2) member and chapter news, etc. The papers in the first group are of a fairly broad scope, thereby appealing to an audience of wider spectrum. GENERAL GUIDELINES The paper size should be 8.5 by 11.0 inch. The top and bottom margins are to be set to 1 inch and the left and right margin are to be set to 0.75 inch. The Gutter should be set to 0.25 inch. Use a clear 11- point typeface/font (Times New Roman is preferred). The text should be in two columns with a 0.25-inch spacing, both right and left justified. No headers or footers should be included. No page numbers should be applied. HEADINGS 1. The title should be centered, bold, 14-point font. 2. Authors and associations should be centered, bold, and 12-point. Do not include phone numbers, fax numbers, or web sites in the author section. These contact information, if desired, will be added into biography section. 3. First-order headings should be all capitals and in bold, and left justified. SUBHEADINGS (12-point) 1. Second-order headings should have first letters of words capitalized and in bold, left justified. 2. Third-order headings should have first letters of words capitalized, left justified. SPACING Insert a blank line between paragraphs. Paragraphs should not be indented. Use a single line space in text. CAPTIONS AND NUMBERING Formats for captions and numbering are as follows: 1. Table caption should begin with "Table" followed by an Arabic numeral and appear centered above the table. Tables should be numbered consecutively throughout the text. The caption of the table should begin with a capital letter and end with a period. 2. Figure caption should begin with "Figure" followed by an Arabic numeral and appear centered below the figure. Figures should be numbered consecutively throughout the text. The caption of the figure should begin with capital letter and end with a period. 3. Equations should be numbered, e.g. (34), with the number being right justified. The equation should be centered. REFERENCES Journal and book references should be identified in the text by enclosing in brackets [1] and should be numbered in order. References should be listed at the end of paper using the following style: 1. Hahn, H.T. "A Practical Guide to Design,", J. Cellular Plastics, 3, p (1998). 2. Quellette, R.P. and P.N. Doe., Applications of biotechnology, Technomic Pub. Co., PA, 1985: p BIOGRAPHY A biography (max. 200 word) and picture should be included here for each author. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS To assist the integration of the KSEA Letters, papers are to be submitted in electronic format. The order of preference is Microsoft Word (Office 2000 or earlier). Papers can be sent via to sejong@ksea.org or on 3.5" PC compatible floppy disks to Editor-in-Chief, 1952 Gallows Rd., Suite 300, Vienna, VA KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 61

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63 Open, Innovation, Creation 인재가미래를깨운다. 과학기술이국가의미래를깨운다. DGIST 와함께무한한가능성에도전하십시오. 직종모집분야세부전공및기술 연 구 직 S/W 분야 Embeded OS, 정보기기용 S/W, 이동통신 S/W(L1, L2 포함 ), 실시간 3D Graphics 등 Electronics 응용분야반도체설계, 무선통신설계, D-TV 설계등 차세대 Display 분야 평판디스플레이회로설계기술, 제품설계기술및공정기술등 Mechatronics 분야 CAN 응용 ( 예측설계 ) 네트워크, 지능형진단시스템, 텔레매틱스기술등 섬유-신소재분야 나노소재기술, 나노응용기술, 기능성섬유관련기술등 B.T 분야 Bioelectronics, Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics 자격기준 4 년제정규대학교졸업이상의학력소지자 (2006 년 2 월졸업예정자포함 ) 산업체, 벤처기업및연구기관등에서의실무경험자우대 전형방법 1 차 : 서류전형 2 차 : 면접전형 (1 차전형합격자에한하여개별통보 ) 최종합격자발표 : 개별통보 DGIST 지원프로그램 - 성과급 (Incentive) 제도에의한충분한보상을통하여국가 64 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

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68 차세대생산기술연구전문가초빙 실용화연구개발의요람인한국생산기술연구원이 21세기차세대생산기술개발을주도할의욕적이고책임감있는주역을초빙합니다. 1. 모집분야및응시자격 분야세부분야학위 디스플레이 / 반도체장비제조시스템 생산시스템 마이크로 MEMS( 산업용잉크젯, 마이크로유체 ) 나노입자제조공정및소재 ( 태양열 / 연료전지 / 복합소재 ) 열공학 (IT 용냉각기술 ) 환경 에너지기술 환경공학 ( 자원순환기술, 재제조, EIP, DfE) 화학공학 / 공업화학 / 화학 ( 환경에너지촉매, 나노화학기술, 고분자재료, 유기합성 ) 생산기반기술신소재섬유소재로봇기술 정밀접합용접 ( 전자패키징, 용접자동화 ) 생산IT( 금형해석, 성형해석, 협업모델구축 ) 정밀Shaping( 금형가공, 성형가공, 기계가공 ) MEMS기술 ( 기능금속, 소형연료전지패키징 ) 모터기술금속재료 ( 경량소재, 생체재료, 표면처리, 생산공정 ) 전기전자재료 ( 전자디바이스용재료, 에너지변환소자 ) 섬유통계의료용및전자재료용섬유소재전기전자제어공학 박사학위소지자 ( 각분야 명 ) KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 69

69 * 공통자격 : - 병역필또는면제자로서국가공무원법제 33 조에의한결격해당사유가없는자 ( 전문연구요원은전직가능 ) - 연구실적우수자 ( 논문, 특허등 ), 영어능통자, 현장및연구소근무경력자우대 - 국가보훈자는관계법령에따라우대 2. 전형방법 1 차 : 서류전형 ( 합격자개별통지 ) 2 차 : 면접전형 ( 서류전형합격자에한함 ) 면접장소 : UKC 2005 회의장내 (UC Irvine Campus) 면접일시 : 2005 년 8 월 11 일이후 구체장소및시간은추후공지및개별연락예정 3. 채용조건 고용형태 : 계약제, 연봉제 4. 제출관련사항및문의 제출서류및작성방법 : 한국생산기술연구원홈페이지 ( 를통하여접수 - 응시원서 - 이력서 - 연구실적목록 ( 해당자 ) - 자기소개서 ( 실무경력및업적을중심으로 A4 용지 2 매이내로작성 ) 제출기한 : 2005 년 8 월 4 일 ( 목 ) 까지 * 해당분야인력충원이미달될경우에는별도의공고없이수시로모집함 문의처 : 근무조건및근무지 근무시간 : 평일 09:00 18:00, 주5일근무 근무지 : 충남천안, 인천송도, 시화, 안산, 광주등 출퇴근버스운영 : 서울 ( 사당, 교대 ), 천안, 평택 6. 기타사항 제출된서류는반환하지않으며, 제출된서류의기재내용이사실이아닐경우채용을취소함 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

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79 Nomination for the Award of The 2006 Ho-Am Prize The Ho-Am Prize Committee awards the 2006 Ho-Am Prizes to those who have made distinguished contributions to the development of our society through prominent accomplishments in various fields of science, the arts and community service. 1. Awarding Categories Science...Those who have made outstanding achievements in research in the area of basic science. Engineering.Those who have made outstanding achievements in the areas of engineering and technology. Medicine..Those who have made outstanding achievements in the areas of medicine and pharmacy. The Arts.Those who have made outstanding contributions to culture and the arts through creative activities, exhibition and research in relevant areas. Community Service. Those who have made outstanding achievements in the area of social service and thereby contributed to the enhancement of public welfare. -The Prizes in all categories are awarded to people of Korean ethnic origin. The Prize in Community Service, -however, can also be awarded to foreigners who have made outstanding contributions to Korea and Koreans -at home and abroad. -The Prize in each category consists of a certificate, a gold medal (187.5g) and 200 mil. Korean won. -In principle, prizes are awarded to one individual. However, more than two people may share the same prize -if their accomplishments are deemed to be equal in merit. 2. Nominators The following persons are eligible to nominate candidates: - Members of the Ho-Am Prize Committee - Previous Ho-Am prize winners and Ho-Am Prize Screening Committee members - Individuals holding established positions in various occupations, associations and institutions in Korea and abroad. * Each nominator may only recommend one person or one group in each category. 3. Papers and Materials for Nomination - Official nomination form and supporting documentary evidence of achievements including news articles. - One representative thesis and five related theses (printed in international journals) in the categories of Science, Engineering and Medicine. 4. Submission of Nominations The Ho-Am Prize Committee will receive nominations of the 2006 Ho-Am Prize until December 31, Documents should be sent to the following address th Fl., Samsung Life Ins. Bldg. 150 Taepyengno 2-ga Jung-gu, Seoul , Korea Tel) ~7 / Fax) * Nomination Form Download: * The winners of the 2006 Ho-Am Prizes will be announced in major Korean dailies in April, The presentation ceremony will be held on June, KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

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82 Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association 1952 Gallows Road, Suite 300, Vienna, VA Tel: Fax: Web: Executive Committee(34 rd Administration) President: Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim, University of California, Irvine, (O) (F) (H) President-Elect: Sung K. Kang, IBM Research, (O) , (H) , Advisors to the President: Zang-Hee Cho, Gachon Medical School Korea and UCI, USA, Yong-Wook Kim, Dept. of Physics, Lehigh University, Sung Won Lee, Dept. of Aerospace Eng., Univeristy of Maryland, Vice President: Yong M. Cho, Mentor Tech, (O) , Executive Director: Wonnsup Park, The Aerospace Corp, (O) , (H) , Finance Director: James J. Song, National Center for Boitechnology Information, NIH (O) , (C) , Information Director: Minbo Shim, General Dynamics, (C) , (H) , General Affair Director: Sunghoon Choi, Parsons Brickerhoff, (O) , (C) , Membership Board: Tae-Wan Ryu, California State University at Fullerton, (O) , (C) , Gye Won Han, Scripps Research Inst. (O) , John C. Lee, Raytheon, (O) Publications Board: Kenneth H. Yu, University of Maryland (O) , Young Chang Lee, CAASD (O) , (F) , Sohye Kang, Scripps Research Inst., Young B. Choi, James Madison Univ., (O) , Hee-Koo Moon, Solarturbines Inc. (O) , (H) Jungho Kim, University of Maryland (C) , Headquarter Staff Administrative Manager: Ashley Kim, (O) , Administrative Associate: Junghwa Oh, (O) , Auditors Young Ho Park, (O) , Hosin David Lee, (O) , Kwang Woong Won, (O) , Elected Councilors Group A: Physics Cheong-Ryong Ji, , Ho Jung Paik, , Group B: Chemistry Gye Won Han, , Sang Bok Lee, , Group C: Mathematics, Geology, Meteorology, Statistics, Others Heakyung Lee, , Sin-Ho Jung, , Group D: Biology, Botany, Zoology, Biomedical Engineering, Genetic Engineering Kwang-Soo Kim, , Un Jung Kang, , Group E: Agriculture, Ecology, Food, Nutrition Dong Uk Ahn, , Group F: Medical Science, Pharmaceutical Science, Veterinary Medicine, Physical Education Seong-Jin Kim, , James K. Pai, , Group G: Chemical Engineering, Textile Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Applied Chemistry Sunghoon Kim, , Dong Woo Yu, , Group H: Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Naval Architecture John Jong Hyun Jung, , Jung Ho Kim, Kenneth H. Yu, , Group I: Materials Science, Metallurgy, Mining Engineering Byung H. Kim, , Group J: Civil Engineering, Architecture, Environmental Engineering Chong Do Dennis Lee, , Jeong Seop Shim, Group K: Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Communication Engineering Ki Wook Kim, , Kangil(Chris) Choe, ext 401, Myung Jong Lee, , Group L: Computer Science, Systems Engineering Byung Guk Kim, , Tae Wan Ryu, , KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 83

83 Hyeong-Ah Choi, , Group M: Industrial Engineering and Mgmt Science Hyung-Min Michael Chung, , Group N: Korean American Society for Biotech & Pharmaceuticals (KASBP) Youn-Whan Park, (O) , Ex-President Councilors Sung Won Lee, (O) , (H) Moon Won Suh, NC State Univ., (O) , Thomas Hahn, UCLA, (O) , Chapter Presidents Chair Yo-Chuol Ho, Vice Chair Christopher Chul Ha, Central PA(1) You Song Kim, , Georgia (3) Youngja Park, Indiana(04) Kyoung-Shin Choi, , Michigan(06) Jaewu Choi, , Midwest Reg.(07) Kyung Ook Lee, , New England(09) Sam-Joo Doh, , New Jersey(10) Young-Whan Park, NY Metro(11) Jeong Seop Shim, , N. Carolina(12) Sung-Sik Kwon, Northern CA(13) Myung Rhee, , Ohio(14) B. K. Chun, ext 101, Pacific NW(15) Alex Toohwan Choe, , Philadelphia(16) Mun Y. Choi, , Southern CA(18) Choong Hyun Kim, , SW State(19) Sam (Sangsoo) Ryu, Upstate NY(20) Young B Moon, , ybmoon@ecs.syr.edu Wash. Metro(21) Bong Tae Han, , bthan@eng.umd.edu Alabama(23) Austin TX(24) Wonhui Cho, , whcho@austin.rr.com Baltimore(31) Minbo Shim, , minbos@comcast.net Tennessee(32) Jae H. Park, , jhpark@utk.edu Rolla, MO(35) Paul Nam, , nam@umr.edu Kansas(36) Jong Il Lee, , Goodnews2me@hotmail.com Oklahoma(37) Jaeyong Kim, , kjae@okstate.edu Ounyoung Park, parkfam7@comcast.net NE New York(38) Young Uk Yim, , yimy@rpi.edu SE VA(39) Jae Tae Seo, , Jaetae.seo@hamptonu.edu N. Texas(40) Esther Yang, , esther.yang@abbott.com Central IL (42) Christopher Ha, , Ha_christopher@cat.com S. Carolina(47) Woo-Kum Lee, , leew@engr.sc.edu Arizona(48) Bruce C. Kim, , Bruce.Kim@asu.edu Southern VA(49) Jahng S. Park, , chkim@uci.edu Iowa City(52) Tae-Hong Lim, , talim@engineering.uiowa.edu Central Iowa(53) K. Yoon, , kyoon@iastate.edu Mid MO(54) Uee Wan Cho, , chou@missouri.edu Louisiana(55) Dong-Ho Park, dpark1@lsu.edu Northwest(57) Dong-Hyun kang, dhkang@wsu.edu Sacramento(58) Francis I. Chung, , chung@water.ca.gov N. Florida(59) Kyungjeen Park, kpark@met.fsu.edu San Diego(60) Yong W. Kim, , kimyw@solarturbines.com Branch Presidents St. Louis(17) Han Ko, , hyk1@wuee.stl.edu Central TX(25) Khee Choon Rhee, , kcrhee@tamu.edu Central VA(41) Yong Il Kim, , chouhwan.moon@hs.utc.co Ex-Presidents Ki Uck Lee, Marquett Univ., , kiucklee@aol.com Young Bae Kim, USC, , Sang Il Choi, POSTECH, , sangil@postech.ac.kr Kwang Bang Woo, Yonsei Univ., , Yong Nak Lee, HTRD, , ynlee@htrdltd.com Kyungsik Kang, Brown Univ., , kang@het.brown.edu Jae Young Park, NC State Univ., , JAEYPARK30@aol.com Chan-Mo Park, POSTECH, , parkcm@postech.ac.kr Dong Han Kim, POSTECH, , dhkim@postech.edu Ki-Hyon Kim, NC Central Univ., , kihyonkim@sci.nccu.edu Soon Kyu Kim, Univ. of CT, , soonkyukim@worldnet.att.net Kwang Kuk Koh, Chrysan Ind., ext 203, kwang@chrysanindustries.com Chin Ok Lee, Rockefeller Univ., , leech@rockbax.rockefeller.edu Chai Chin Suh, , ccsuh@msn.com Moo Young Han, Duke Univ., , myhan@phy.duke.edu Kun Sup Hyun, Polymer Processing Institute, , kshyun@polymers-ppi.org Hyo-gun Kim, K-JIST, , 84 KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005)

84 Moon Won Suh, NC State Univ., , Dewey Doo-Young Ryu, UC Davis, , Saeyoung Ahn, Seoul Nat l Univ., , sahn@snu.ac.kr Kyong Chul Chun, Argonne Nat. Lab, , kcchun@anl.gov Ki Dong Lee, Univ. of Illinois, , kdlee@uiuc.edu Hong Taik (Thomas) Hahn, UCLA, , hahn@seas.ucla.edu Howard Ho Chung, MITEC Int l Inc., , hchung@core.com Nak Ho Sung, Tufts University, , nsung@tufts.edu Chan I. Chung, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, , chungc@rpi.edu Quiesup Kim, JPL/NASA, , Quiesup.kim@sbcglobal.net Sung Won Lee, University of Maryland, , lee@eng.umd.edu Ex-Presidents (deceased) Shoon Kyung Kim Inyong Ham Chong Wha Pyun Hogil Kim Je Hyun Kim KSEA Letters, Vol. 34, No. 1 (November 2005) 85

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