Professor Bumjoon Kim is appointed as KAIST endowed chair professor. KAIST chair professors are selected based on their outstanding scientific achievements as well as their well-reputed personality and morality. (March 2018)

Professor Jung Ki Park received IBA Technology Award by International Battery Association. (March 2018)

Kang Hee Ku, a Ph.D. candidate, was selected as a Frank J. Padden Jr. Award Finalist at the 2018 APS spring meeting. (March 2018)

Professor Sang Yup Lee is selected to give the P.V. Danckwerts Memorial Lecture at the 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting in October 2018. (June 2018)

Professor Jay H. Lee gave a plenary talk at the 2018 Process Systems Engineering conference. (July 2018)

Professor Sang Yup Lee received the 11th annual George Washington Carver Award for Innovation in Industrial Biotechnology by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization. (July 2018)

Our department, together with Department of Materials Science and Engineering, co-hosted KAIST International MSE/CBE workshop 2018 on Big Ideas in Emerging Materials. (August 2018).