Div. of Electronic Eng.

There are 24 prominent faculty members with specialized research areas in the Electronics department. The department consists of 4 majors - Control Robot Engineering Major, Nano-Electronics Engineering Major, Information & Communications Engineering Major, and IT Convergence Engineering Major.

The department is leading the global technology development via a world-class educational program for training human resources in the areas of Semi-conductor, IC design, IT-SoC, Satellite and Terrestrial Mobile Communications, GPS information Processing, Computer Hardware Interface, Robot Control, Smart Vehicle, Home Network, Medical Instruments and so on.

The Electronics department was nominated as one of the specialized educational departments in the frame work of "convergence of research and education" program funded by Chonbuk National University, which was designed to develop for five years since 2009. In addition, the department runs Engineering Accreditation Program by the Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea (ABEEK).

The vision of Electronics department is to develop high-qualified human resources with creativity, professionalism, competitiveness, and social responsibility. The department is committed to fully focus on accomplishing its vision to advance into top 5 domestic universities institutions by 2015, and top 100 global universities by 2020.

• 2010
  Renamed as the Department of Electronics Engineering.
  Control Robot Engineering Major, Nano-Electronics Engineering Major Information & Communications Engineering Major, and IT Convergence Engineering Major
• 2008
  Won "Local demanded Human resource training project"
• 2006
  Won "Electronics Engineering Major NEXT Project" (4 years)
• 2005
  Won "2nd step for BK21(Advanced Graduate Education Center of Jeonbuk for Electronics and Information Technology)"
• 2004
  Majors were reorganized into Electric Engineering Major, Department of Electronics Engineering Major, Computer Engineering Major
• 1999
  Integrated into the Electric and Electronic Engineering
• 1998
  Won "Regional Research Center" in the field of mechatronics supported by Korea Science and Engineering Foundation and "Best Graduate School" in the field of information and communication by Ministry of Information and Communication
• 1997
  Nominated as specialized one of local universities by Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
• 1993
  Nominated as top 11 Electronics Engineering in Korea
• 1951 ~ 1991
  Department of Electric Engineering (1951), Department of Electronics Engineering (1978), Computer Engineering (1984), Information & Communication Engineering (1984), Control and Measurement Engineering (1991) were established.