engineering

Lim Hyesook

Lim Hyesook is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Lim Hyesook rather than just read about it. In short: Lim Hye-sook (Korean: 임혜숙; Hanja: 林惠淑; born 1963) is a South Korean electronics engineering professor at Ewha Womans University served as Minister of Science and ICT under President Moon Jae-in from 2021 to 2022. Lim was the first woman to lead the country's science ministry.

Key takeaways

Lim Hyesook belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Lim Hyesook to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Lim Hyesook from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Lim Hye-sook (Korean: 임혜숙; Hanja: 林惠淑; born 1963) is a South Korean electronics engineering professor at Ewha Womans University served as Minister of Science and ICT under President Moon Jae-in from 2021 to 2022. Lim was the first woman to lead the country's science ministry.

Education Lim earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from the Department of Control and Instrumentation at Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Career Before joining academia, Lim worked at Samsung-HP joint venture after finishing her undergraduate studies and Bell Labs and Cisco Systems after her doctorate studies. Lim began her teaching career at Ewha Womans University in 2002 receiving full tenure in 2011. Lim took various roles at the university serving as the head of its Department of Electronics Engineering from 2005 to 2007, the associate dean of its School of Engineering from 2009 to 2011 and the dean of its College of Engineering from 2018 to 2020. Lim also sat as the Associate VP for academic affairs of the university from 2012 to 2014. In Moon's press conference shortly after his special address marking his fourth year in office, Moon explained the reason for her nomination that increasing women's workforce participation is one of prominent solutions in nurturing much-needed professionals in innovative economy sectors such as semiconductor, AI and digital economy and he expects Lim to set one of precedents for them. In 2020, Lim was elected chair of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers - the first woman in its over-70-year history. In May 2021, Lim signed the Artemis Accord on behalf of the Ministry and the government officially joining moon exploration project with nine other countries. Lim was previously Moon's Chairperson of one of the Ministry's child agencies, the National Research Council of Science and Technology, which oversees 25 government-funded research institutes in the field such as Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Lim was the youngest and the first woman to lead the council.

Awards Science and Technology Medal by the government of South Korea (2020) Stars in Computer Networking and Communications by N2Women (2019) Woman Scientist/Engineer of the Year Award by then-Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (2014) 2025 class of IEEE Fellows

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Lim Hyesook

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Lim Hyesook claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Lim Hyesook before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Lim Hyesook ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Lim Hyesook

In research: Lim Hyesook appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Lim Hyesook in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Lim Hyesook is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1963 births, 21st-century South Korean scientists, 21st-century South Korean women scientists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Lim Hyesook outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Lim Hyesook in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Lim Hyesook means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Lim Hyesook out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Lim Hyesook in simple terms?

Why does Lim Hyesook matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Lim Hyesook?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Lim Hyesook.