• All members of our research lab participated in the 2025 Fall Conference of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering (KSNVE). 

• Taegyun Noh and Jaewan Lee participated in the 18th ISMAI (International Symposium on Mechanics, Aerospace and Informatics Engineering 2025), held in Japan. Both students presented their research through poster presentations.

We are pleased to announce that two research projects have been selected by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 

1. Outstanding Future Research Program (as Principal Investigator)

• Project Title: Design of an acoustic protection system for reusable space launch vehicles using system-integrated metamaterials 

• Project Duration: September 2025 – August 2026 (1 year) 

2. Global R&D Project (as Participating Researcher) 

• Project Title: Development of a multi-physics optimization and process integration platform for multi-functional  structures under thermal, vibration, and acoustic control 

• Project Duration: September 2025 – August 2028 (3 years) 

• Seongmin Kim received the Excellence Award at the Nuclear X-Challenge, a convergence research competition.

• Seongmin Kim has graduated with a bachelor's degree and is starting his master's course. 

• A joint meeting was held with AISA, the research laboratory led by Associate Professor Boo from the Department of Computer Engineering. 

• Milad Saadatmand and Seonghwan Park participated in the 31st International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV31), held in Incheon, Korea, where they presented their research through poster and oral presentations. 

• A feature article introducing our research laboratory was published in the journal of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering (KSNVE).

• Professor Junghwan Kook, along with students Gwangjin Kim, Taegyun Noh, Jaewan Lee, and Sungmin Kim, participated in the WCSMO (World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization) conference. 

• Each student gave an individual oral presentation during the conference. 

• Jaewan Lee, Taegyun Noh, and Seonghwan Park received the Excellence Award in the 2025 GNU Startup Exploration Program 

• Professor Junghwan Kook has been appointed as the Director of Industry-Academic Cooperation in CAE and Applied Mechanics by the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME). 

• Professor Junghwan Kook was appointed as the General Affairs Director of the Gyeongnam Branch of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers.