Division of Mechanical Engineering : Mechanical Engineering / 031-219-2324
Division of Industrial and Information System Engineering :
Industrial and Information Systems Engineering / 031-219-2335
Division of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering :
Chemical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering / 031-219-2381
Division of Applied chemistry & Biological Engineering :
Applied chemistry & Biological Engineering / 031-219-2392
Division of Environmental, Civil and Transportation Engineering :
Environmental Engineering, Civil Systems Engineering, Transportation Systems Engineering
/ 031-219-2329
Division of Architecture : Architecture(5-year system), Architectural Engineering / 031-219-2400

Ajou University opened its door in 1973 as "Ajou Engineering Junior College." Since then, the College of Engineering, the engine behind the development of Ajou University, is contributing to technological innovation, producing outstanding engineers demanded by society and leading Korea as a technological powerhouse in the world.

Ajou College opened with four departments: 'Mechanical Engineering'; 'Electronic Engineering'; 'Chemical Engineering'; and 'Industrial Engineering'. Since opening, Ajou University has continued to establish new departments: ‘Computer Science' and 'Environmental Engineering’ (1981), ‘Materials Engineering' and 'Bioengineering' (1984), ‘Control Engineering' and 'Architecture’ (1986), ‘Civil Engineering' and 'Industrial Chemistry' (1988), ‘Production Automation Engineering’ ( 1989) and ‘Radio Science Engineering' and 'Transportation Engineering' (1992). The above 15 departments and ‘Information Science Department’ and ‘Computational Statistics Department’ of the College of Natural Sciences were then reorganized into five divisions: 'Mechanical and Industrial Engineering', 'Electrical and Electronic Engineering', 'Chemical Bioengineering', 'Environmental Urban Engineering', and 'Information and Computer Science'.

In 2003, the College of Engineering was restructured into six divisions ('Mechanical Engineering', 'Industrial and Information Systems Engineering', 'Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering', 'Applied chemistry & Biological Engineering', 'Environmental, Civil and Transportation Engineering', and 'Architecture'), and this structure remains today.

With "global leaders in engineering" as its motto, the College of Engineering is striving to fulfill its educational goals as follows.

First, engineers with scientific and creative mindsets
Second, professional engineers who embody visions of the future
Third, well-rounded engineers in harmony with society

Division of Mechanical Engineering : Mechanical Engineering

- Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering (the integration of contemporary technologies) is the discipline that developed dramatically and is designed to create technical manpower, able to predict and prepare for future technology. Its key areas include the 'Dynamics' (exploring the principle of the transmission of both power and energy), 'Design technique' (making new design concept to meet social demand and lead to future changes)', and 'Manufacturing technique(the combination of CAD/CAM and Mechatronics)'.

Graduates who majored in mechanical engineering are working in a variety of industrial fields ranging from heavy industries such as automobile, aviation, robot, machine tool, energy conversion and power plant to electronic and electric machinery, mechatronics as a combined technology of electric engineering and mechanical engineering, heating and cooling and building facilities, corporation-affiliated research institutes, national and public research institutes, and academic institutions. A growing number of graduates have established technically innovative companies based on the technology they invented themselves.

- Industrial and Information Systems Engineering
Industrial and information systems engineering realize a high value-added information and knowledge-based engineering discipline. Its creativity and innovation maximizes industrial competitiveness in advanced knowledge-based industrial society in the 21st century. The role of industrial and information systems engineering is to create, analyze, apply, and integrate knowledge for the design, improvement and implementation of complex systems that include humans, information, equipment and other resources. To be Korea's top-three-ranked and world's top-fifty-ranked department, we introduce innovative educational curricula and foster environments for teamwork, diversity, and good citizenship. To keep a strong, balanced research program, we create partnerships with industry, government, and alumni with professional and ethical responsibility.

- Chemical Engineering
Our mission is to produce scholars and chemical engineers equipped with creative adaptability in the industrial world. It will provide a pivotal role in the development of chemical engineering by educating students with the fundamentals to carry out creative activities. In addition, our curriculum provides various courses which cultivate the students’ personality so that they can actively respond to the ever-changing society and technologies. Chemical Engineering graduates either continue their education in graduate school or pursue a career in various industries. Those who jump their careers begin in a variety of areas including oil refinery, petrochemical engineering, electro-chemical engineering, development of energy sources, and materials science. For those who continue their studies in graduate school to earn either a master’s or a doctoral degree, they have a wide opportunity to improve their researches in an academic circle or public and corporate research institutes.

- Materials Science and Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering(MSE) is a discipline that develops and utilizes the materials with a variety of properties required by almost all industrial fields including machinery, electricity, electronics, construction, and energy. Leading to an industrial evolution by providing new materials and processing technologies, MSE is in high demand for research and development. MSE graduates find a wide range of career opportunities to be a R&D or field engineer in the materials production sector as well as other sectors such as 'electronics', 'automotive and machineries', 'power and energy'.

- Applied chemistry & Biological Engineering
Applied chemistry & Biological Engineering, a convergence program born in 2008 by integrating applied chemistry and bioscience majors, has prepared itself to cope with the future industries and established itself as a unique division that can carry out education and research for the application, convergence, and industrialization of chemistry and bioscience. The division offers various courses on basic concepts and engineering knowledge in chemistry and bioscience for lower-year students and more intensive courses related to chemistry and bio engineering, such as medicine, bio energy, medicinal materials, nano, fermentation, and nanobio for upper-year students, aiming to foster industrial engineers with professional engineering knowledge. After graduation, students are active in a wide variety of sectors in the biological and chemical industry, such as electronics, materials, pharmacy, medicine, food, cosmetics, environment, and energy.

- Environmental Engineering
Environmental engineering is a discipline that studies various solutions for environmental pollution caused inevitably by industrialization and urbanization. The environmental engineering program aims to cultivate competent experts in environmental fields who can identify and solve environmental problems. Environmental engineering majors have the opportunity to take the qualifying exam for the grade-1 technician in water quality, atmosphere, air, and wastes fields. Environmental engineering graduates works in environment offices, local governments, engineering companies, anti-pollution facilities business, and environment management fields.

- Civil Systems Engineering
Civil system engineering (CSE) is a category dealing with the construction of more pleasant and convenient human environment. It is a discipline that aims for the efficient use and management of natural resources. Upon graduation, most CSE students tend to work in major construction or engineering companies. As most civil engineering works are national projects, CSE graduates are likely to join national or public institutions such as governmental offices, Korea Express Corporation, or Korea Land Corporation. Some of them may enter graduate school for more in-depth education or go to various research institutes.

- Transportation Systems Engineering
Transportation systems engineering is a discipline that scientifically and technologically studies the planning, design, operation, and management of all transportation facilities for safe, convenient, and efficient transport of humans and goods, such as road, railroad, harbor, and air traffic. The transportation systems engineering majors study to gain a wide range of knowledge in transportation engineering in general and learn advanced theories to cultivate the capacity to formulate rational solutions for urban, local, and international transportation problems. Upon graduation, students are likely to join transportation-related national research institutes local governments, engineering companies, and government-funded institutions.

- Architectural Engineering
The architectural engineering program offers a world-class architectural engineering education through a 4-year architectural structure, architectural construction, and construction management program. It aims to cultivate architectural engineers and skilled managers with the systematic comprehensive mindset and working-level competence in solving problems.