Selected as the university to carry out the Innovative Human Resources Development project for Smart City in 2019 (from 2019 to 2023) by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA), Seoul National University plans to carry forward the training of core professionals necessary for industrial revitalization and expansion to the overseas market with the specialized education program reflecting the need of the smart city industry. In order to train the core professionals, we have newly set up the Smart City Engineering Program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and enhanced the linkage with the undergraduate courses by utilizing diversity of the participating professors of seven Departments (Dept. of the Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dept. of the Computer Science and Engineering, Dept. of the Architecture and Architectural Engineering, etc.). *The number of participating professors will be increased in the future.

Choe, Jong Kwon Associate Professor

• Environmental Engineering

• +82-2-880-2278

• 35-402

• jkchoe@snu.ac.kr

• http://set.snu.ac.kr

Sustainable Environmental Technology Laboratory

+82-2-880-4324 35-220

Sustainable Environmental Technology Laboratory specializes in the development of water treatment and energy recovery technologies using advanced materials. The main goal of our lab is to improve the sustainability of existing and emerging waste and wastewater technologies through multi-disciplinary research that links environmental engineering with sustainability analysis, optimization, and principles of green chemistry.

Our current research interest lies in 1) application of advanced metal-based catalysis to transform contaminants of emerging concern to environmental benign products and 2) development of novel processes and materials that can supplant current ones with alternatives that have a lower environmental footprint (i.e.,minimal impacts on human health, environmental damages, and resource depletion) and potentially recover embedded resources (i.e., water, energy, nutrition) during the processes.