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. 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. Producing professional information and communication engineers who have the ability to experiment and construct all aspects of information and communication engineering.
  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.

Job Fields

The Department has usually more than 70% of employment rate. Especially, more than 40% of the employment is made by blue chips such as Samsung Electronics and Korea Telecom in average. In addition, the graduates from 2009 have received the Certifications of Engineering Education. We expect a higher employment rate to the industry giants through the program.

Faculty

Curriculum

Information And Communication Engineering Major
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    1- 1
    MATHEMATICS FOR DATA SCIENCE
    This course an elementary mathematics including linear algebra, and probability needed to understand the theory of data analytics and machine learning so that the studnets can establish a minimum level of foundation for further study in machine learning field.
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    2- 1
    CAREER APTITUDE SPECIAL LECTURE
    The purpose of this lecture is to help students prepare getting a job such as interview, aptitude test, personality test and etc.
    2- 1
    INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING DESIGN
    This subject invokes the interests of freshman engineer to engineering prior to regular engineering subjects. Creative problem solving skills are taught in the class such as brain storming, generation, analysis, practice, evaluation, and improvement of idea through minimum theory and various design projects, etc. Various projects are carried out to operate, evaluate the performance of students on group base competition and thus enhances teamwork and communication skills. By taking this course, freshmen begin to have interests in engineering design and can develop creative problem solving skill, and eventually develop strong desire to continue engineering career.
    2- 1
    CIRCUIT THEORY
    This course provides the fundamental method to analyze the basic electrical circuits. This course analyze the basic circuits with resistor, capacitor and inductors. It also lectures the Thevenin-Norton equivalent circuit, and the analysis method of the first-order circuit with RL and RC. The AC steady state analysis and frequency reposes of the basic circuits are also covered in this course.
    2- 1
    CIRCUITS LABORATORY I
    This course introduces fundamental circuit theory, digital circuits and their applications. The detailed topics include nodal analysis, mesh analysis, Thevenin-Norton equivalent circuit, RLC circuit, logic families, switching speed, boolean algebra, state machines, computer aided design, combinational logic design, and digital displays.
    2- 1
    DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN
    The digital system consists of logic circuits that process a binary information. This course provides students with digital circuit design technology using two analytic methods. The first level deals with the analysis and design of combinational and sequential circuits using gates and flip-flops and the second one is to design in the register transportation level using VHDL.
    2- 1
    ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS I
    - Laplace transform - Vectors - Matrices - Vector calculus - Orthogonal functions and Fourier series - Boundary-value problems - Integral transform method - Functions of a complex variable - Series and residues
    2- 1
    PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
    The Object-Oriented Languages, such as C++, Ada, and Java, become more important especially in large-scale software systems, and the knowledge in some depth of OO paradigms is prerequisite to learn such languages. The issues includes are; . the key concepts of the OO programming paradigm . the syntax of the language C++ . OO analysis, design, and test methods Practice and training are needed for studying every programming language.
    2- 2
    CIRCUITS LABORATORY II
    Diode rectifier circuit, common base (emitter, collector) amplifier using BJT, MOSFET, JFET, Operational Amplifier, Frequency response of Amplifiers, Power and Efficiency Measurements of Amplifier
    2- 2
    COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES
    This course provides the lecture on the high-performance computer for high-speed multimedia information processing. Following items are covered : l Technology trends, performance and cost l Principles of computer design l Instruction Set l Pipelining l Instruction level parallelism l Microprogramming l Memory l Cache l Storage system l Multiprocessor and Vector processors l Computer arithmetic
    2- 2
    ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
    The object of this course is to develop in the students the ability to analyze and design electronic circuits. This course covers in the field of diode-rectifiers, single-stage BJT and FET amplifier, and differential and multistage amplifiers.
    2- 2
    OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING AND DATA STRUCTURE
    This course provides C++-based object-oriented programming and data structure. In C++ object-oriented programming, following topics are covered: encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, virtual function, and template. In data structure, following topics are covered: vector, linked-list, binary tree, sorting, searching, hash, graph, and algorithm complexity analysis.
    2- 2
    PROBABILITY AND RANDOM PROCESSES
    This course provides the random process as the mathematical modeling of telecommunication system and telecommunication network. This course covers the topics of Random processes, Analysis and processing of Random signals, Markov chains, and Introduction to Queueing Theory.
    2- 2
    SIGNAL AND SYSTEM
    An introduction to mathematical methods for analysis and design of linear time- invariant dynamic systems in electrical engineering. Time domain and frequency domain concepts are developed in parallel for continuous and discrete-time systems. Topics are; linear constant-coefficient differential and difference equations; poles and zeros and frequency response of continuous and discrete-time systems; convolution; Laplace, Z, and Fourier transforms.
    2- 2
    UNDERSTANDING OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
    This course aims to learn about Git and Github, which are essential for participating in open source development or publishing/managing open source projects. In this course, the students will be able to understand open source development methods through various open source projects (Tensorflow, Linux Kernel, Elasticsearch, etc.).
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    3- 1
    COMPUTER ALGORITHM
    This course focuses on describing algorithms for such advanced problems as fragmentation and combination, greedy method, dynamic programming, basic searching technique, reverse traversal, algebraic simplification and transformation, NP problems, and so on. It also analyzes the algorithms and discusses the complexity of each algorithm. Finally, to understand the applications of each algorithm, a number of exercise problems are supported.
    3- 1
    INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SEMINARS
    It is very important to follow up and study the recent technologies since the technology in information and communication area is rapidly evolved. In this course, students will study and practice the state-of-the-art technologies in information and communication area.
    3- 1
    OPERATING SYSTEM
    The lecture which it sees the fact that the operation setup it could be applied in the system which is various (Operating Systems) against the concept where becomes the foundation it understands with aim.
    3- 1
    COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
    This course covers basic principles of communication systems. Topics include review of signals and systems, Fourier analysis, amplitude and angle modulations, multiplexing, sampling theorem, and phase locked loop.
    3- 1
    DATA COMMUNICATION AND LAB
    This course covers the protocols and functional blocks of data communication networks such as LAN, Bridge, Highspeed LAN, WAN, and ATM/B-ISDN. It also covers the LAN emulation on ATM networks, IP-over-ATM, and multimedia services on ATM networks.
    3- 1
    DESIGN OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
    In this subject, students will learn basic SW design methods using open source software and carry out a project based on this.
    3- 1
    DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
    This course is concerned with the digital representation of signal and the use of digital processors to analyse, modify, or extract information from signals. Topics include : - Discrete Transform such as DFT, FFT, DCT, WT, HT . - Z-transform and its applications in signal processing - Correlation and convolution - FIR Filter - IIR Filter.
    3- 2
    AI AND MACHINE LEARNING
    This subject introduces the basic theories and algorithms of Artificial Intelligence, such as statistical theory, machine learning, neural network and deep learning. For this purpose, the rule-based model, automaton, weighting value and optimal solution, and statistical machine learning are studied. Also the CNN(Convolutional Neural Network) and RNN(Recurrent Neural Network) are investigated, which are mainly used for today’s deep learning framework.
    3- 2
    COMPUTER NETWORK
    In this lecture, we will study the basic components and architecture of Internet over which various communication services are provided. Especially the key protocols of Internet (TCP, UDP and IP) are the main issues of this course.
    3- 2
    DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
    This course is intended for a course in databases at the senior undergraduates of information and communication engineering. It introduces the fundamental concepts for designing, using, and implementing database systems. Specifically, it focuses on the fundamentals of database modeling and design, the languages and facilities provided by database management systems, and system implementation techniques.
    3- 2
    DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
    This course intends to understand the basic communication theories and recently digital communication to grow the capacities of system design and applications. Especially to handle signal transmission of baseband and modem, channel coding method -signal's type and random process -baseband transmission and Decompostion technology -modulation/demodulation ASK,PSK,FSK -Channel coding Convolutional, block coding
    3- 2
    EMBEDDED SYSTEM AND PRACTICE
    This course provides lectures on the basic structure of Embedded system, Embedded Linux programming environment, application design and implementation. The detailed subtopics includes: - Overview of embedded system - ARM processor - Overview of Linux System - Embedded Linux - Kernel Programming - Embedded system Kit - Device driver for embedded Linux - Memory I/O interface in embeded Linux - Application programming on embeded Linux .
    3- 2
    FIELD PRACTICE
    This course provide an opportunity to learn the real knowledge-needs from the industry throughout the field practice at the information & communication industry. The students can utilize this experience to schedule his/her study in senior classes. The student is dispatched to a company that has the filed practice program for a pre-defined period; the grade is determined according to the report from the company.
    3- 2
    SOFTWARE PROJECT
    In this course, several students form a team, select a project topic applying AI and SW technology, and then implement it. In this course, team assignments include proposal presentation, mid-term presentation, and final presentation.
    3- 2
    TEACHING MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION
    Selected formulations of instruction and teaching-learning process applicable to technical high school and general high school based on curriculum for the subject of technical education. Also this lecture provides opportunity for the student to make teaching plan, teaching materials and evaluation, teaching method, and skills in the field to improve attainments as a teacher of high school.
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    4- 1
    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATION
    AI is rapidly recognized as a powerful generic technology which can be broadly deployable to various industries. This subject studies the AI core technologies, such as regression, FCN (Fully Connected Network), CNN (Convolutional Neural Network). For the development of application ability, the AI open softwares, such as Tensorflow, PyToch, etc, are also utilized. The goal of this subject is to nurture the ability by using the AI technology to solve the practical problems in the various fields.
    4- 1
    BIG DATA APPLICATION
    Big Data is a technology that extracts value from data including even unstructured data sets that are large (tens of terabytes) beyond the capabilities of existing database management tools, or even non-database types, and analyze the results. The aim of this course provides a general introduction to the system configuration, application and construction methodology and various eco systems with a general overview of the big data system.
    4- 1
    COMPUTER VISION
    This course covers the distributed processing systems based on telecommunication. It analyzes the functional architecture and applications of the distributed computing system. It also covers the advanced topics, such as middle ware, CORBA, distributed computing, etc.
    4- 1
    DATA MINING
    Data mining refers to theories and techniques for finding useful patterns from massive amount of data, and has been used in high impact applications including AI, recommendation system, cyber security, etc. This course covers important algorithms and theories for data mining. Main topics include mapreduce, finding similar items, mining frequent patterns, link analysis, data stream mining, clustering, graphs, and mining big data.
    4- 1
    ENGINEERING EDUCATION THEORY
    Selected theories of engineering education that have application to technological high school, cooperative education between industries and school, career guidance or vocational guidance and evaluation of engineering education are explored and evaluated in this course.
    4- 1
    FIELD PRACTICE
    This course provide an opportunity to learn the real knowledge-needs from the industry throughout the field practice at the information & communication industry. The students can utilize this experience to schedule his/her study in senior classes. The student is dispatched to a company that has the filed practice program for a pre-defined period; the grade is determined according to the report from the company.
    4- 1
    INDUSTRY ORIENTED RESEARCH
    In this course, several students form teams and carry out projects in order to learn the latest technology in the IT field, identify problems needed by industry, and solve those problems.
    4- 1
    MICROCOMPUTER AND APPLICATION
    This course provides the design and implementation technology of microprocessor-based computer system. This course covers the internal operation sequence of microprocessor, assembly language and assembly programming, peripheral, system bus, single board microcomputer design, Communication I/O port, Monitor program, Real time O.S. porting. By using an application program, the students test the implemented microcomputer.
    4- 1
    MOBILE COMMUNICATION
    To cultivate the basic knowledge about mobile communication, to understand the major technologies for realizing cellular system and next generation personal communication systems. Expecially to handle technology of mobile channel environment and hand off and location register and call processing -microwave environment -the history of cellular phone & characteristic of wave -structure of mobile communication system -cellular phone technology(frequency reuse, hand over, roaming) -multiplexing method -CDMA,IMT-2000 -Hand off -Location registration -Call processing
    4- 1
    MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING
    This course introduces the basic concepts of multimedia information and covers two main multimedia signal processing techniques such as speech and image/video processing. Especially, production of speech signal and its modeling, representation of speech signal, short-term fourier and various methods of speech recognition are treated. In addition, various image signal processing techniques based on 2D signal processing are introduced. - Signal Modeling - Short-time Fourier analysis - Speech recognition/analysis/synthesis - Multi-rate signal processing - 2D Transform & filtering - Image Enhancement/Restoration/Analysis/Segmentation
    4- 1
    NETWORK SECURITY
    This course provides a review on the fundamentals of OSI 7 layer and TCP/IP protocol stack, and further investigates a recent technology on Mobile IP and Wireless LAN. In the latter half of this course, a basic cryptography is covered. Various attacks and the corresponding defense mechanisms on each layer of the TCP/IP protocol stack are discussed, and the students are encouraged to design a defense system for well-known attacks after several Lab experiments.
    4- 1
    SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
    This course introduces the fundamental issues of software engineering such as software engineering paradigms, project management, requirement analysis, design, implementation and maintenance of software.
    4- 1
    WEB PROGRAMMING
    The goal of this course is to have ability for implementing Web based Internet information processing system. This course includes HTML, XHTML, XML programming, Applets by Java, and creating technology for Web server.
    4- 1
    MIDAS CDP (CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECT)(1)
    This course is on the capstone design project for information and security engineers, where the participants will propose, design, build, and test an integrated information and security system. Along with that, each participant should present the process and result of the project and make the associated documents. Two or three students are required to make a team to do the project together.
    4- 2
    ACADEMY-INDUSTRY COOPERATIVE RESEARCH
    In this course, we learn the latest technology in the IT field, identify problems needed by industry, and carry out joint projects involving industry experts to solve those problems.
    4- 2
    APPLICATION OF IOT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    To cultivate the basic knowledge about modern communication systems, to understand the major technologies for realizing cellular system and next generation personal communication systems. Expecially to handle technology of mobile channel environment and hand off and location register and call processing - microwave environment - the history of cellular phone & characteristic of wave - structure of mobile communication system - cellular phone technology(frequency reuse, hand over, roaming) - multiplexing method - UWB - sensor network - LTE system
    4- 2
    COMPUTER GRAPHICS
    Computer graphics is one of the most exciting and rapidly growing computer fields and has now become a common element in user interfaces, data visualization, television commercials, motion pictures, and many other applications. Hardware devices and software algorithms have been developed for improving the effectiveness, realism, and speed of picture generation. The course covers fundamental algorithms for the representation and display of two-dimensional graphics objects, two- and three-dimensional geometric transformation and viewing transformation, methods for modeling and organizing picture components into separate structures, illumination models and surface-rendering methods, and animation techniques.
    4- 2
    INFORMATION SECURITY
    This course introduces modern cryptography that gives us all cryptographic algorithms contributing for enhancing the security for networks and information systems in the world. Especially it covers the concept of information security, symmetric/public encryption algorithms, digital signature, message authentication code, and (cryptographic) hash algorithms. The security of them are also addressed.
    4- 2
    JAVA PROGRAMMING AND APPILICATION
    This course introduces the Internet of Things (abbreviated as IoT), a technology for connecting sensors and communication functions to various objects, and an embedded system in which a computing system is composed of one component of the overall system.
    4- 2
    LOGICAL THINKING AND WRITING SKILLS IN ENGINEERING
    In this course, the students in educational study for engineering field will be trained about logical thinking and writing abilities.
    4- 2
    MIDAS CDP (CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECT)(2)
    This course is on the capstone design project for information and security engineers, where the participants will propose, design, build, and test an integrated information and security system. Along with that, each participant should present the process and result of the project and make the associated documents. Each team needs to implement the proposed system and evaluate the performance.
    4- 2
    MOBILE PROGRAMMING
    Nowadays, personal mobile devices like smartphone have been widely used. In this course, knowledge and techniques to develop various software applications in such mobile devices will be studied. Particularly, system design and user-centered UI implementation on Android and iOS will be practised.
    4- 2
    NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
    Numerical analysis is concerned with the practical solution of the problems in information and communication engineering field using the computers. In particular, lectures are mainly focused on linear algebra such as Systems of Linear Equations and Matrices, Determinants, Vectors in 2-D and 3-D, Vector space, Matrix, Eigen Values & Eigen Vectors, Solution of the Linear Equations, Linear Transformations, Inner product of Vector Space, Applications of Linear Algebra, Introduction to numerical methods of Linear Algebra, Complex Vector Spaces etc. The practice is performed on numerical methods of linear algebra using C-language and Matlab programming.
    4- 2
    SPECIAL LECTURES BY INDUSTRY LECTURERS FOR 4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
    This course is composed of scheduled seminars given by lecturers from industries. The objective of the course is to introduce the students with the specific job environments of and required abilities for the compnaies in the IT-mechanical fields. It is expected that this course will help students in preparing for their potential jobs in related fields.

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