The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley has entered a collaboration with the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hanyang, Korea.

The collaboration recognizes the value of educational, cultural, and scientific exchanges between international research universities, and establishes a formal relationship to encourage the exchange of faculty, researchers, and graduate students.

Hanyang University, starting from the college of engineering in Seoul Korea, was founded in 1939. It has grown into the most distinguished education and research institute in Korea and has produced tens of thousands of well-trained engineers and leaders in many fields of industrial technologies. The educational achievements and technological advances that the college has made since its early establishment have greatly contributed to the industrialization of Korea. The leading and central roles of college for the educational and technological innovations have been highly recognized not only in Korea but throughout the world.  Hanyang University has 19 colleges, 95 departments, a School of Graduate Studies, a university hospital with 1,106 beds, and 31 research institutes at Seoul and Ansan campuses. Enrollment totals 25,000, including 4,600 graduate students. Full-time faculty numbers 900, as well as some 3,000 part-time professors and instructors.