On the afternoon of June 13, 2025, the School of Automotive Engineering successfully held a postgraduate academic report meeting in the Baolong Science and Technology Hall. This report meeting specially invites Professor Jae Cheon Lee, an international scholar, to be the keynote speaker and conduct in-depth discussions on the cutting-edge development of intelligent vehicle technology. The report meeting was presided over by Yin Zhishuai, the vice dean of the School of Automotive Engineering. Professor Li Baoren, the deputy director of the Fluid Power Transmission and Control Branch of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society and from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, attended the meeting. More than a hundred representatives of teachers and students from the school participated in the learning.
At the beginning of the meeting, Vice President Yoon Ji-shuai, on behalf of the college, extended a warm welcome to Professor Jae Cheon Lee and briefly introduced Professor Jae Cheon Lee's outstanding achievements in the fields of fluid power mechatronics, system dynamics, neural network applications and intelligent vehicles.
Subsequently, Professor Jae Cheon Lee, taking his personal learning and working experiences as the entry point, comprehensively expounded the current paths and directions of automotive technology research and development. He emphasized that the development of the automotive industry should focus on the research and development of core technologies and their commercial application, as well as enhance collaborative innovation with the actual demands of the industry.
This report will be divided into two main parts. Firstly, Professor Jae Cheon Lee introduced the cutting-edge research and development work of the "Automotive Technology Laboratory", covering areas such as radar system design, radar signal processing, machine learning algorithms, cognitive signal processing, simulator development and embedded software. Next, Professor Jae Cheon Lee focused on the development trends of electric vehicles and their thermal management systems, and proposed innovative solutions to enhance the reliability of SDV (Software Defined Vehicle) vehicles. And a comparative analysis was conducted on the characteristic differences in thermal management among traditional ICE vehicles, electric motor-driven vehicles, inverter vehicles and battery vehicles.
The entire report was rich in content and presented in a simple and understandable way. During the interactive session, the students asked questions enthusiastically and Professor Jae Cheon Lee answered them in detail one by one. Finally, Vice President Yin Zhishuai summarized the report meeting. He emphasized: "Modern technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace. Only by integrating theory with practice can we stand out in the future technological wave." Encourage all postgraduate students to broaden their international horizons, actively enter laboratories to carry out practical exploration, and combine cutting-edge theories with engineering practice.
With this, the academic report meeting for postgraduate students has come to a successful conclusion. In the future, the college will continue to introduce high-quality international academic resources and build a high-level exchange platform for cultivating automotive talents with global competitiveness.
Professor Jae Cheon Lee, currently a non-permanent advisor to DGIST, Solge Co. A professional expert of the company, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University and an honorary professor at Keimin University. His research focuses on fluid power mechatronics, system dynamics, neural network applications and intelligent vehicles. He/She has won the Prime Minister's Education Award of South Korea, multiple best paper awards, and numerous awards for industry-university-research cooperation.
