A renowned international academic journal ‘Advanced Materials’ published a special issue to celebrate the 50^th anniversary of KAIST. The September special issue of "Advanced Materials", in which Prof. Keon Jae Lee of the Department of Material Science and Engineering participated as the editor-in-chief, consisted of review papers by 17 KAIST professors who are making outstanding achievements in the future 4th industrial revolution related fields, such as Sensors, artificial intelligence, next generation electronics and biotechnology.

Prof. Seungbum Hong of the Department of Material Science and Engineering, who won the Grand Prize in Lee Soo-young professor Learning Innovation Award, has been recognized for his outstanding achievements, such as practicing creative teaching methods through designing and running Flipped Learning lecture since 2017.

KAIST Institution for Nanocentry conducted the 10^th ‘KINC Fusion Research Award’ ceremony on May 19. Prof. Sang Ouk Kim and a joint research group led by Prof. Kim were awarded as the winner of the “Best Convergence Research Award”, which selects researchers with the highest qualityl of research content and the convergence of the research team.

POSCO TJ Park Foundation selected Prof. Jihyeon Yeom for the POSCO Science Fellowship. The fellowship supports young professors who will lead the future of Korea in applied sciences which could be the new growth engine of industrial technology in Korea.

Prof. Kwangsoo No joined KAIST in August 1988 and worked for 31 years and 7 months. He greatly contributed to the development of science, technology, and human resources. He retired in February 29, 2020, but the retirement lecture was postponed to June due to COVID-19.

Prof. Chong-Ook Park retired on August 31, 2020, after his long service to scientific and technological advancements and student education at KAIST. He was appointed as an emeritus professor on September 1, 2020. He gave a retirement lecture, received an appreciation plaque, and gave a commemorative statement for conveying our gratitude for becoming an honorary professor.

M3I3 Global Singularity Workshop was held on September 18, 2020 in the Applied Engineering building (W1). The Workshop proceeded both online and offline.

Under the theme "Secret of Viruses," introduced by KAIST for elementary, middle and high school students who resumed school work a program was from May 20, which was the program is designed to help students understand the characteristics of viruses and infectious diseases and encourage them to actively comply with prevention rules in their daily lives.
Held five times every Friday from the 22nd, special lectures on “Viruses as nanomaterials” by Prof. Jihyun Yeom and “Development of advanced materials and antiviral masks for COVID-19 “ by Prof. Il-Doo Kim were held in our department

The following students were selected as winners of the 2020 Spring Semester Dean’s List Award, which is presented to undergraduates with outstanding academic performance and innovative ideas.

- Jae Yeong Ha (advisor: Jae-Byum Chang), HyeonBeen Noh (advisor: Sang-Hee Park), Ji Yoon Kim(advisor: Byong-Guk Park), Chrysan Angela Piarso (advisor: Steve Park), MINJAE KIM (advisor: Seokwoo Jeon)

"Happy Birthday Lunch" events were planned and conducted for counseling between professors and students in a comfortable atmosphere, but because of difficulties in offline meetings due to Corona 19, we sent birthday coupons to 84 undergraduate students who had their birthdays between February and August. Through such “Online-Care,” we wanted to inspire a sense of belonging as a Department of Material Science and Engineering student, despite the difficulties in direct face-to-face meetings.

A Orientation and Opening Party for the freshmen undergraduates were held on August 27. In line with the untact era, 34 freshmen in 2020 attended the online welcome party with the participation of Chan-beom Park, the head of the department, and 11 professors. It was a place of communication through group mentoring and a useful time to promote friendship through fun games. Online undergraduate freshman welcome party can be viewed again on the "K-Materials" YouTube channel below.

K-Materials YouTube channel : https://youtu.be/7U_K5NN00hw

Starting in July 2020, student reporters were selected to support the production of departmental newsletters, English pamphlets, promotion of the department's website and SNS, including the K-Materials YouTube channel to improve departmental visibility.

- Student Reporters

For the promotion of the K-Materials YouTube channel, we provided incentives to laboratories for YouTube videos with the highest views as of the end of August 2020. It was a one-time event for the impact of the department's promotion, and we are planning the management plan to direction of expanding the promotion of this channel on its own in the future.

- 1st The Laboratory of Optical Materials / Prof. Byeong-Soo Bae
- 2nd Molecular Bioimaging and Molecular Biomimetics Laboratory / Prof. Jae-Byum Chang
- 3rd Biomaterials for Energy and Medicine / Prof. Chan Beum Park

Also, during the Emerging Materials Symposium, we held an event for the K-Materials YouTube channel the tp enhanced external publicity. We gave out gifticons to the channel’s subscribers who attended the symposium through lucky craws.
We gave out fifticon ro rhe channel’s

Inspection was the Safety Committee by the twio day walk throurh on June 23-24. The goal is to inspect each lab once a year, and four laboratories will be inspected on the second Monday of every month.

Team leader Hyunsook Min was appointed as the head of our administration team on April 20, 2020

The faculty meeting for the Second half of 2020 was held at Juheul Conference Room on July 23, 2020. It was the first meeting between the newly appointed team leader Hyunsook Min and the staff of the department. Staff members hold regular meetings twice a year to promote harmony among members in a comfortable atmosphere while having a meal. The meeting for the first half of 2020 was held on January 22.

Ms. Su-min Shin, a staff member in Dept. MSE from July 12, 2007, has been contributing to the research activities of KAIST members by offering user education and analysis service of equipment for joint use. In addition, she has been professionally responsible for the past 13 years, contributing to improving internal and external user satisfaction by providing reliable services.