ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
Welcome to the Dept. of Electronic Engineering of Chonbuk National University.
This Undergraduate School is the largest undergraduate school in Chonbuk National University that it was first started out in 1951 as the Dept of Electric Engineering, and was newly founded as the Dept. of Electronic Engineering in 1978, and it has integrated with the Dept. of IC Engineering and the Dept. of Control Instrumentation Engineering to release outstanding human resources of the domestic IT industry as well as making efforts to develop high class human resources with the global competitiveness and leadership. The academic fields of the Undergraduate School has been supported in diverse ways as it was selected as one of the specialization fields of Chonbuk National University, and it is organized with nano-electronic engineering major, IC engineering major, control robot engineering major, and fusion IT engineering major to fully focus on education and research with its 24 excellent faculty members with their passion and devotion.
The educational goal of this Undergraduate School is to develop high-level human resources who are equipped with the specialized knowledge and practical competency as the business sector requires, excellent research human resources with the creativeness capability, and high-level of human resources who have global competency. There are approximately 700 students enrolled with the new student admission for 170 students, and over 45% students enjoy various scholarship benefits with its rich scholarship system. In particular, many students participate in various setting in industrial internship, on-site practice at the faculty lab, overseas training for language and practical competency improvement and others from the University and Department, and the graduated students have made great contribution to the IT industrial advancement in broad fields of businesses, research institutes, colleges, start-up businesses and others.
The Undergraduate School was selected on regional college development project of Brain Korea 21 (BK 21) from 1999 as it has established its position as the department for high-tech engineering which will be the foundation of promotion for science and technology in 21st century, and it was selected as the most outstanding university from the national and public universities and private universities in the evaluation of academic fields for electric and electronic IC engineering fields in 2000 as announced by the Korean Council for University Education. The Undergraduate School was selected as the outstanding university in the assessment implemented in 2006 by Korean Council for University Education to have the recognition of capability of the Undergraduate School at home and abroad, and the Undergraduate School has been focusing on advancing the practical human resources required by the industry through the Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea (ABEEK) system.
In addition, the Undergraduate School has focused on expanding research facilities and undertaking graduate student supporting programs through attracting various nationally-funded support projects. In 2006, it was selected for the phase 2 BK 21 project for the graduate students to place its efforts in developing high level R&D research human resources equipped with the global competitiveness. Through the RRC (Regional Research Center) project since 1999 and the ITRC (IT Research Center) project from 2003, the Graduate School has advanced its education and research competency one notch higher. And since 2003, it has undertaken the overseas faculty invitation project in the IT field to provide the graduate students to encounter the high-tech learning from overseas by attracting the WCU (World Class University) project to born again as the best domestic Undergraduate School that leads the education with the global competency.
The academic fields of the Undergraduate School are the fields applicable to the core strategy in ‘5 major future strategies of IT Korea’ in IT fusion, SW, main IT, broadcasting & communication, internet as announced by the Future Plan Commission of the current administration in September 2009 and it plans to actively participate in IT fusion forum that embraces next generation memory (STT-MRAM), system semi-conductor, display, and mobile phone fields with its R&D and human resource development project, structuring of industrial IT fusion center, green IT national strategy. This Undergraduate School is committed to continue its efforts to be the cradle of nurturing global human resources as well as the national university for the Chonbuk region, and it is committed to fully focus on accomplishing its vision to advance into top 5 domestic institutions by 2015 and top 100 global institutions by 2015. We hope to have your unyielding interest on our program with your encouragement and support.