Professor

Research Interests

• Hydrogen energy: sodium borohydride hydrolysis, formic acid hydrogenation

• Fuel cell: proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), direct borohydride/hydrogen peroxide fuel cell (DBPFC)

• Fuel cell system: fuel cell system for aerospace applications

Education

• Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Aug 2013

     Thesis title: Development and validation of direct NaBH4/H2O2 fuel cell for aerospace system

     Advisor: Prof. Sejin Kwon

• M.S., Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, Feb 2011

     Thesis title: Establishment of manufacture procedure of Co-P/Ni foam catalyst for NaBH4 hydrolysis and performance evaluation of hydrogen generation system

     Advisor: Prof. Sejin Kwon

• B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Inha University, Feb 2009 

Experience

• Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Changwon National University, Mar 2025 - Present

• Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Changwon National University, Oct 2021 - Feb 2025

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Changwon National University, Sep 2017 - Sep 2021

• Senior Researcher, Launcher Thermal and Aerodynamics Team, Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Jul 2015 - Aug 2017

• Post-doctoral Researcher, Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, KAIST, Sep 2014 - Jun 2015 

• Post-doctoral Researcher, Fuel Cell Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Sep 2013 - Aug 2014 (Research fellowship for young scientists from the Korea Research Council of Fundamental Science & Technology)

Awards

• Commendation, Changwon National University, Jan 2025

• Commendation, Ministry of Education, Nov 2024

• Commendation, Changwon National University, Jan 2024

• Best Paper Award, Joint Conference of APCATS, AJSAE & AAME 2023, Oct 2023

     Title: Investigation of catalyst deactivation for NaBH4 hydrolysis used by military UAV with PEMFC system (Seong Mo Yun, Min Jae Kim, Chae Min Hwang, Tae Hoon Lee, Taek Hyun Oh*)

• Best Presentation Award (Capstone Design Festival), 2023 KSME Conference (Gyeongnam & Honam), Jun 2023

     Title: Development of power system for small unmanned vehicles using PEMFC (Min Jae Kim, Seong Mo Yun, Han Seok Park, Chae Min Hwang, Taek Hyun Oh*)

• Best Presentation Award (Capstone Design Festival), 2022 SASE Fall Conference, Nov 2022

     Title: Development and validation of 100 W fuel cell system for unmanned vehicles (Min Jae Kim, Seong Mo Yun, Sang Moon Huh, Sun Gyu Kim, Jae Ha Kim, Gun Hee Tak, Dong Ho Kim, Seong Hoon Park, Jin Woo Lee, Taek Hyun Oh*)

• Best Presentation Award (Capstone Design Festival), 2021 SASE Fall Conference, Nov 2021

     Title: Development and validation of hybrid power system for unmanned vehicles (Seong Mo Yun, Jeong Bin Lee, Sun Gyu Kim, Gun Hee Tak, Jae Ha Kim, Taek Hyun Oh*)

• Best Presentation Award, 2020 SASE Spring Conference, Jul 2020

     Title: Electrocatalyst for cathode of direct borohydride/hydrogen peroxide fuel cell for space exploration (Su Sang Yu, Teak Hyun Oh*)

• Best Presentation Award, 2019 SASE Fall Conference, Nov 2019

     Title: Hybrid support for electrocatalyst of direct borohydride/hydrogen peroxide fuel cell for space exploration (Su Sang Yu, Teak Hyun Oh*)

• Best Teaching Award, Changwon National University, Feb 2019

     Course: Design of Thermal Fluid Systems (Fall 2018)

• KAIST Dr. Cho Jeonghoon Scholarship, May 2012

• Best Paper Award, Minister of Knowledge Economy Prize, 9th KAI Student Paper Contest, Oct 2011

     Title: Development of green energy power system for long flight small unmanned aerial vehicle (Kyunghwan Kim, Teak Hyun Oh, Dongwoo Lee)