South Korea

A New Upper Bound for the Steiner Ratio

Let P={P1,P2,...,Pn} be a set of n points in the plane. For every 1<=i<=n, define the star rooted at Pi as the union of all straight-line segments joining Pi to all the other points in the s…

Black Ice Warning System through Optical Visualization of Road Condition for Unmanned Vehicle

‘Black Ice’ is a road condition that the frozen road surface looks normal. It is very hard to identify the road condition during night driving, which can lead to numerous traffic accidents.…

Can We Directly Measure Each Solute Concentration in Mixed Solution? A New Class of Polarimeter

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award

In this research, we present for the first time a new method to measure directly the concentration of different solutes present in a mixed solution in conjunction with a polarimeter. The key…

Ceria Supported Cu-Co Composite Catalyst for WGS Reaction

Water-gas shift (WGS) reaction produces hydrogen from carbon monoxide in the petrochemical process. While WGS reaction has an advantage that it could produce additional hydrogen from wasted…

Direct Connection Technology between Disabled and Prosthetic Robot Hand

Fourth Award

Despite there are lots of prosthetic robot hands are developing, disabled people can't use these technologies in their daily life. I thought these problem exist because of connection technol…

Exotic Plant Invasion Affects to Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Community

The successful invasion of exotic plants often cause a serious damage by reducing species diversity, ultimately leading to deleterious effects on the ecosystem. There are some researches on…

Fabrication of the Bacterial Attachment System of the Medical Microrobot with Enhanced Motility and Stability

The microrobot system has emerged as a powerful drug delivery system in the medical field. If microrobots can move automatically to affected area, we can load drugs on the microrobots and ex…

Flex Language: A Program Language with New Paradigm to Unify the World of Programming

We developed a new programming language named Flex Script. Thanks to the development of Internet and growing influence of programming in the real world, cooperation and sharing among develop…

Generation of Beat Sound of Korean Bell with a Bicycle Rim

Third Award

This study presents a method to regenerate the beat sound of King Seong-deok Divine Bell with a bicycle rim. The bell is a representative Korean bell of which weight is 18.9 Ton, mouth diame…

Identification of Novel Cathelicidins with Potent Antimicrobial Effect from the Genome Analysis of Python bivittatus

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are small peptides that function as a part of innate immunity in first-line nonspecific defense. AMPs could be alternatives of existing antibiotics, especially…

Invention of Heron Cell to Maintain Constant Electromotive Force

Elecrolyte chemical cells are still inefficient nowadays, as they suffer from long term reduction in their electromotive force. For this same reason, it’s necessary to come up with a method…

Photoelastic Analysis of the Mechanical Stress in Korean Traditional Joints

In building korean traditional houses, various kinds of joints such as Je-hyeo-chog joint(Dovetail Halving), Mettugi-jang joint(Stepped goose neck splice), Nabi-jang joint(Butterfly key join…

Radio Meteor Observing: Employing Algorithm to Increase the Reliability of Meteor Counting

Observing and analyzing meteors is essential for the research of the Earth orbit. However, few studies had analyzed the HROFFT(Ham-band Radio meteor Observation by Fast Fourier Transform) da…

SMAnimator: A Keyframe-Based 2D Animation Creator

SMAnimator is an easy-to-use animation creation program, implementing a keyframe-based vector graphics animation. With SMAnimator, users will be able to make short vector animations easily a…

Statistical Analysis based Music Classifying Method and Tool

What kind of music do you like? The songs each person prefers are all different. Until now, we have to listen to music to know the characteristics of that music. It would be interesting if w…

The Development of 3R Water Filter: Round Wave - Rusty Wire - for Rural Regions

Fourth Award

Water pollution caused by Arsenic has become a major problem around the world, and more particularly in SE Asia. In this project I proposed a special type of a filter to address the aforemen…

Utilizing Metallic Sponges for Microbial Fuel Cell with Organic Molecules

MFC (microbial fuel cell) has been widely known for its eco-friendliness, and can replace conventional electricity produced using burning fossil fuels. However, the high cost of production h…

Winklick: A Faster Algorithm for Detecting Eye Movement with Mobile Devices

Eye tracking systems are one of most common ways to help patients overcome their physical disabilities and communicate with other. However, the common drawback most eye trackers have is that…

Brightener? Cuticle!

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Purpose Using cuticle of plants, we can make a natural brightener which can inhibit the fungus, good and excellent in waterproof and suppress the corrosion of the metal. Result Study 1: Glos…

Combating Jellyfish Blight: A Novel Usage of Chondroitin Sulfate within Trashed Jellyfish to Adsorb Heavy Metal Pollutants

Second Award

Chondroitin sulfate is one branch of glycosaminoglycan that forms proteoglycans within the connective tissue of jellyfish. However, few studies are done on the source jellyfish for extractio…

Computational Prediction of Sunlight in Urban Locations Throughout a Year Using a Smartphone & Image Processing

Shade made by buildings changes unpredictably. However, people may want to know quantified values about sunlight for some purposes such as solar generation, urban agriculture or everyday pro…

Eco-Friendly Design of 'Door Buffer' by Minimizing Energy Waste and Slamming Force

Our research is about designing a door closer to be effective on simultaneously minimizing thermal energy loss, finger jammed accident rate, and slamming noise, which aims sustainable design…

Efficient Solar Panel Arrangement and Exploration through Biological Imitation

Recently, we can often see many solar panels around us. However, most of them are only used to generate small amounts of electricity because of insufficient setup space. To solve this proble…

Mechanics Simulator

'Mechanics Simulator' is a program that simulates basic middle to high school level mechanics(also called dynamics or motion physics). It is based on Newton’s laws of motion. This program wa…

Music Recommendation System via Emotion Recognition Using EEG

Concerning the growth in size and high demand of online market, it is important for these platforms to offer better service and seek the users’ need. Researchers have suggested various recom…

Oral Antimicrobial Effect Using Eco-Friendly Substances

Biomedical Engineering

Purpose 1. The first purpose of this research is to know the applicability of the tannin and catechin which are antibiotic to S.mutans and to know their effect to oral cells. 2. The second p…

Plant’s Immune Response to Communication through Common Mycorrhizal Networks (CMNs)

Fourth Award

Plants can communicate with each other through common underground mycorrhizal networks (CMN). In this study, we show that CMN can act as a conduit for signals that affect immune response in…

Research on Developing the Wheelchair which Can Climb the Kerb Using Center of Mass

In the case of ordinary manual wheelchair cannot climb the kerbs. So it causes danger of accidents and limited occupant's activity. Our research developed a wheelchair which can overcome the…

Research on Next-generation High-efficiency Aircraft using the Aerodynamic Characteristics of the Korean Traditional Kite(Bangpaeyeon)

This study sought to develop a next-generation high efficiency aircraft that uses the structure of traditional bangpaeyeon(kite) of Korea. In terms of the procedure of the study, a wind tunn…

Safe Mountain Path Service Implementation based on Public Data and Heart Rate Algorithm

In this paper, we propose a mountain trail recommendation application for mobile devices based on individual user health conditions. The application can be divided into three modules: user d…