Professor Seok is the First Korean chairperson for thesis awards selection committee of the Industry Drive Committee
He will review world's top theses in the electrical, electronic and computing fields
He is Active as tenured 'IEEE Senior Member'
[September 1, 2012]

 For the first time for a Korean, Professor Seok, Jul-Ki (43, Department of Electrical Engineering) was appointed as the chairperson of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Industry Drive Committee journal and society thesis awards committee.

 The chairperson is entitled to organize the IEEE thesis awards committee comprised of 8 professors and corporate researchers from around the world. The chairperson also conduct a total of 4 screenings for all journals and papers from academic societies published throughout the year with the authority to determine award-winning theses. Professor Seok became a member of the awards committee in 2011 and the Vice-chair in 2012, and was recently appointed as the chairperson.

 From 2013, he will also be actively working as an associate editor for IEEE's SCI academic journal <Transactions on Industry Applications and Industry Applications Magazine>.

 Since 2008, he has been a tenured IEEE Senior Member. Only 8% of all members are given the position of IEEE Senior Member and has very rigid criteria for selection. From 2009, he has been active as a member of the thesis award screening committee and the editing committee of IET's (British Institution of Engineering and Technology) SCI academic journal <Electric Power Applications>.

 Professor Seok, whose main area of study is power conversion and electric motor control, published 12 SCI-level and SCIE-level theses in four years since 2008 and has 14 domestic and international patents. Furthermore, he is the acting vice-director of the 'YU Center for Green Car Parts', which is being pursued as the regional economic belt leading project supervised by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy. Through this he is taking the initiative in procuring competitiveness in eco-friendly parts and materials for car parts companies in the region, while transforming their structure into future-oriented automobile companies. He is also the head professor of the ERC(Engineering Research Center) in preparation for establishing marine wind power complexes, which will rapidly increase both domestically and internationally, in order to develop power conversion devices for sea wind with the high energy density.

 Meanwhile, IEEE, which was established in 1884, is in charge of developing international standards in electrical/electronic and computing fields. There are currently 37,500 members from 160 countries around the world. The academic journal published by the IEEE is recognized for its global prestige.