This session will focus on management of civil infrastructure. Recently, Government Accounting Standard Board (GASB) issued a new statement 34, which requires all governments to calculate the value of their current infrastructure. There are different methods to calculate the value of infrastructure assets including the depreciation and the historical cost. Governments can show their infrastructure to maintain their values after investing more money for maintenance. Different maintenance methods including environmentally friendly recycling method will be considered to maintain the infrastructure in the best condition at lowest cost. The session will include papers on the following topics: 1) Understanding GASB 34 statement and its implication for governments, 2) Development of infrastructure asset management system, 3) Design of cost-effective infrastructure recycling method, and 4) statement similar to GASB 34 for Korean governments?, and 5) Briefing on Next TEA-21 legislation. Given the renewed interests in civil infrastructure management and security, this session will be broadly appealing to KSEA participants.

The demand for functional food products has blossomed in recent years. The functional food market is rapidly growing at a rate of 15-20% per year. Functional foods refer to foods that contain some health-promoting component(s) beyond traditional nutrients. Components of the functionalfoods, such as macronutrients, micronutrients and antinutrients, have shown to modify metabolic and cellular functions by altering receptors, enzymes and gene expressions. By altering the cellular functions, functional foods may also alter the disease initiation, development, and/or progression. The interactions of many of these nutrients with cellular machinery remain much of a mystery. However, the newly emerging technologies are now unraveling the mysteries that are central to understanding how functional foods function. This session will feature the state-of-art technologies such as genomics, proteomics, signal transduction and other molecular structure-function research tools and illustrate how they can contribute to the studies of functional foods to benefit overall health and well being of humans.

Poster sessions will be reserved for research and development papers authored by students and KSEA-Young Generation members. These sessions will provide an excellent opportunity to sponsoring organizations interested in recruiting young professionals. There will not be any restrictions on the subject areas as long as the proposed papers address science and engineering subjects, and their related areas including business development.

The 1st "US-Korea Nanotechnology Symposium" and the 1st "US-Korea Workshop on Nanostructured Materials and Nanomanufacturing" were held last summer in Seoul as a part of the UKC-2002. As a result of overwhelmingly positive feedback, it is planned to hold the Workshop (with invited speakers) as an annual event in two countries alternately and the Symposium (for technical papers) every 3 years.

A Career Development workshop and Job Fair during UKC 2003 could be an excellent opportunity for the professionals who are currently looking for a job and graduate students to participate in. Details are as follows;