Korea Aerospace University

Korea Aerospace University

Korea Aerospace University(한국항공대학교 (韓國航空大學校) ) is a private research university, located in Goyang City, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Established in 1952 as a national university, it was taken over by Jungseok Foundation established by Hanjin Group and transferred to a private university. Korea Aerospace University is the one and only university in Korea specialized in aviation and aerospace where mostly fostering high skilled experts for its research institute, airlines, airports, government agencies, and other leading companies. The university, where encompasses most of the aerospace fields including Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Electronics • Telecommunication • Computer Engineering, Air Transportation and Logistics, and Aeronautical Science & Flight Operation, and Air and Space Law, has been designated to take several national undertakings and collaborative research projects with prominent global corporations including GE, Airbus, PLANSEE since 2009. Outstanding research results have been also observed in the realm of unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV), since the first autonomous formation flight of UAV and the first flight of solar powered UAV for 12 consecutive hours in Korea. ‘The 1st Hannuri’, the micro satellite(CubeSat), was developed and launched for the first time among the Korean universities in 2006.