Introduction

Since the establishment in 1998, the Department of Information and Communication Engineering has set the goals of cultivating the professionals who will motivate this country’s state-of-the-art ICT field in such ways:

1. 1. Application of the fundamentals of information and communication engineering (MSC, comprehensive education, fundamental of an engineer) and major-oriented knowledge (computer networking, mobile communication, embedded systems, and multimedia signal processing).
2. 2. Producing professional information and communication engineers who have the ability to experiment and construct all aspects of information and communication engineering.
3. 3. Producing professionals who have the ability to collaborate with colleagues and possess the leadership to a global standard.

Through such efforts the Department of Information and Communication Engineering has received tremendous amount of funding from the Ministry of Information and Communications such as "Superior Example Fund" (June 1998 ~ May 2002, total government funding of 1.5 billion won); , "Funding for IT equipment" (March 2001 ~ February 2004, total funding of 640 million won) and "Funding for IT related major reorganization" that helped our establishing the state-of-the-art IT labs and leading education/research environments. In particular, the research for successfully establishing the first stage (August 2003 ~ July 2005, total government funding of 1.22 billion won) and the second stage(August 2005 ~ July 2007, total government funding of 3.2 billion won) of the "Broadband mobile multimedia research center" which was later designated as ITRC (University IT Research Center) by the Ministry of Information and Communication. We also participated in the NURI project (17 July, 2004 ~ 31 May, 2009, total government funding of 15 billion won), and NEXT project (31 March, 2006 ~ 31 December 2009, total government funding of 800 million won) and the second stage of BK21 project (1 March, 2006 ~ 28 February 2013, total government funding of 980 million won). Currently, we participate in the LINC project (2012~2018, total government funding of 20 billion won) and BK21 PLUS project (2013~2019, total government funding of 22 billion won).

We provide various scholarships, foreign ICT educational programs, and the foreign student exchange program to enrich their educational experiences. Also, through the 2006 scholastic evaluations of the "Korean Council for University Education" we received a superior rating and thus, our department was publically announced as a superiorly reformed institution.

The professors of the Department of Information and Communication are the key holders to the future as they are producing the professionals who have the hands on experience, professional knowledge and global sense to create various state-of-the-art technologies in ICT field. As of 2014, there are 13 full-time professors (including a foreign faculty professor) in the department.

The department also has a strong graduate program. As of 2014, around 150 graduates got their M. E. or Ph. D. degrees from the department since its establishment at 1998, and more than 20 graduate students are currently seeking M. E. or Ph. D. degrees in various IT fields. Some of them are foreign students from various countries such as Uzbekistan, Iran, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. There are 51 foreign graduates who got their M. E. or Ph. D. degrees from the department.