Master student Gahee Kwon of professor Yeon June Kang’s lab has claimed the Young Professional Grant in the recent International congress Inter.Noise (I-INCE) held in Hamburg, Germany on the 21^st to the 24^th of Aug 2016 with the research journal titled “Design of Sporty SQI using Semantic Differential and Verification of its Effectiveness”.<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

This research showed the effectiveness and necessity of Semantic Differential in the process of jury test when developing Sporty Sound Quality Index of vehicles and correlated the results of subjective evaluation with the Psychoacoustic Metrics. Thus, this research set up a standard of experiments to simplify the research on improving sound quality.