Talents of Practical Ability Trained

On October 30, 1951, during the Fatherland Liberation War, Ri Su Bok died a heroic death by checking an enemy pillbox with his breast to support his military unit’s countercharge in the battle on a nameless hill on the left of Height 1 211. The Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK, in high appreciation of his exploit, honoured him with a title of Hero of the DPRK and named his alma mater Ri Su Bok Sunchon College of Chemical Engineering.

Recently the college is conducting an effective campaign to develop the students’ independent and creative abilities of research.

Above all, the students are admitted into research projects.

Especially the soon-to-be graduates were encouraged to find the seed of their research subject in problems they encountered in practice, either special or local. Since the students grasped the seed of their research themselves and conducted it proactively, they could develop their independent and creative thinking abilities. To help them catch the correct seed of their research and complete it in a short span of time, the college made sure the teachers of the scientific research department and the other able teachers had collective deliberation and helped the students seek solutions to complete it successfully in a limited span of time. Thus the students got down with confidence to the effort to complete their graduation thesis by a proper method, and as a result they acquired, in a short period of preparing graduation thesis, capabilities of independent research useful in reality.

The college has also made much account of the students’ scientific research activities. In order to engage more students in scientific research activities it encouraged teachers to help students make more account of on-site investigation through research work or different forms of practices.

The college administrators also made strict demands on teachers to combine lecture, experiment and practice as a whole. It wasn’t easy at all. The teachers would not give up the habit of giving a lecture in one session and training in another session. The college encouraged the younger teachers to lead the effort while making the labs multi-functional so that they could give a lecture there as well.

It is attributable to the effort that well-informed people of practical abilities come from the college in numbers.

As a result of the view of regarding the teachers’ role as the main link in the chain of the effort to improve the students’ research activities and giving them good training, the students have won a lot of scientific research achievements. The projects of creating a college homepage and developing a program for putting the college education on the IT basis were completed in a short span of time thanks to the students involved in the research campaign.

The administrators are determined to train talents of practical abilities who will contribute actively to the prosperity of the country in the future by learning after the spirit of Hero Ri Su Bok.