Engineering professor named Hanyang Univ. president

Professor Lee Young-moo

By Chung Hyun-chae

The board of directors at Hanyang University elected energy engineering professor Lee Young-moo, 61, as the school’s new president, Thursday.

He will take office on March 1 for a four-year term, succeeding Lim Duck-ho.

“I will improve the school’s global competitiveness by encouraging faculties to conduct more research,” Lee said in a statement.

He also pledged to strengthen cooperation with the industry and businesses.

Lee graduated from the university in 1977 after studying high polymer engineering. He then received his master’s degree in the same major from North Carolina State University in 1986.

Lee has been a professor at Hanyang since 1988.

He served as managing director from 2006 to 2008 and was senior vice president from 2013-2014.

His thesis about carbon dioxide membranes, titled “Polymers with Cavities Tuned for Fast Selective Transport of Small Molecules and lons,” was published in the journal Science in 2007.

In recognition of his achievement, he received the Kyung-Ahm Academic Award from the Kyung-Ahm Education & Culture Foundation in 2012.