Welcome to the Graduate School of Dept. of Electronic Engineering
at Chonbuk National University.
The academic fields of the Graduate 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 that 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. In the Graduate School, that is consisted of 24 outstanding faculty members, the School is committed to lead the advancement of the global technologies by developing the competent specialized human resources to take the leading position in the high-tech research fields in various fields, such as, semi-conductor, IC design, IT SoC, cabled and wireless data communication, satellite communication, GPS information processing, computer HW interface, robot control, medical equipment, ubiquitous home health care, and others.
The Graduate School has focused on expanding research facilities and undertaking graduate student supporting programs through attracting various nationally-funded support projects. 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. From 2007 to present, it has undertaken the NEXT (Nurturing Excellent engineers in information Technology) project to operate a variety of programs for supporting the graduate students. And the Graduate School has attracted the WCU (World Class University) project to born again as the best domestic graduate school that leads the education with the global competency. In particular, under the second stage of the BK 21 project for the graduate students undertaken from 2006 to the present time, great effort has been made to advance the high level R&D human resources equipped with the global competitiveness, and as a result of recent project performance evaluation, the Graduate School has accomplished the second position in SCI-level thesis performances for each participating professor and first in the thesis performance to publish on domestic and international academic journals in the laboratory field.
In addition to the research scholarships and outstanding performance scholarships supported by Chonbuk National University, the Graduate School has various scholarship systems supported independently, and it has BK 21 project to support sufficient scholarships to students in master’s program and doctoral program, and it also supports various researches and academic activities in costs to participate in international academic conferences, presentation costs of domestic academic conferences, registration expenses of academic conferences, thesis writing fees for domestic and overseas specialized academic publications, support of patent expenses and others. In addition, it has the scholarship system on assistance for education through the NEXT project in addition to a variety of scholarship supports through participating in the research projects of faculties.
The alumni members from the Graduate School have contributed greatly for the advancement in the electronic engineering industry in broad fields of business, research institute, college, start-up business and others. The Graduate School has made unyielding efforts to be the cradle for developing the professional human resources not only in Korea but also in global arena, 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.