Electrical Engineering at KAIST is a research oriented department with 15 research centers in semiconductors, control and systems, microwave and lightwave, computer and circuit design, communication, and signal processing. The department includes about 55 faculty members, 800 graduate and 350 undergraduate students, and 40 administrative staffs.
The educational objective of the department is to foster men and women with talents who will be leaders in electrical engineering. To achieve our objective, the bachelor science program emphasizes the fundamentals of modern electrical engineering from devices to systems; the masters of science program emphasizes professional skills that the industry demands, and the doctor of philosophy program encourages creative research that will be beneficial to human kind.
The operational objective is to produce future leaders with vision, creativity and communication skills through research and education which will have dramatic effect on our future world.
The curriculum characterized by diverse cooperation with industrial agencies, understanding of theory and concepts by in-depth study as well as experimental verifications, and variety of group seminars is organized so that the students can fully enhance their technical knowledge and develop their ability so to put their knowledge into practice.
Electrical Engineering of KAIST pledges to make constant and sincere efforts to educate information - and technology-minded leaders for free competition in the 21st century.
In the undergraduate program, various fundamental courses in electrical engineering are offered including areas in circuit and semiconductors, control and systems, and telecommunications. Basic concepts in analog and digital domain are introduced from devices to systems.
The circuits and semiconductor area is focused on semiconductor technology which is one of revolutional industrial technology, which includes semiconductor component and VLSI design technologies. In the VLSI design field, computer-aided IC design and software development for design automation is introduced. In the semiconductor component field, basic semiconductor fabrication and physical analyses are introduced.
The control and systems area is focused on mathematical modeling for various dynamic systems including robots, airplanes, and satellites; and also control system analysis and design technology to make their behavior desirable.
The telecommunication area is focused on various theoretical aspects of wired and wireless communication technologies, including optical communication and computer networks.
Students wishing to major in Electrical Environmental Engineering must first complete all the general requirements for KAIST undergraduates. They must then pass all the courses marked as "mandatory" in the table below, 4 courses marked as "flexible", plus enough additional courses listed in the table to bring the total number of Electrical Engineering credits up to 47. In addition, students are required to complete 4 credits of research (EE490 and EE496) and submit an acceptable thesis. If one counts this last requirement, the total number of credits required is 51.
| Course Number | Course Title | Lecture: Lab : Credit (Assignment) |
Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| EE103 | Introductory Laboratory for Electrical and Elecronic Engineering | ||
| EE200 | Introduction to Electronic Engineering | ||
| Mandatory | |||
| EE305 | Electronics Laboratory I | 1:6:3 (6) | spring |
| EE306 | Elecronic Laboratory II | 1:6:3 (6) | fall |
| EE405 | Electronics Design Laboratory | 1:6:3 (6) | spring |
| Flexible (Choose any 4) | |||
| EE201 | Circuit Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE202 | Signals and Systems | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE203 | Digital System Design | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE204 | Electromagnetics I | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE206 | Electronic Circuits I | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE209 | Programming for Electrical Engineering | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE301 | Electronic Circuits II | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE302 | Introduction to Physical Electronics | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| Elective | |||
| EE205 | Daa Organization for Engineering Application | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE308 | Applied Electronics Laboratory | 1:6:3 (6) | fall |
| EE312 | Introduction to Computer Architecture | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE314 | Embedded Systems | 3:1:3 (6) | fall |
| EE321 | Communication Engineering | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE341 | Electromagnetics II | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE342 | Radio Engineering | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE372 | Integrated Circuit Design | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE381 | Control System Engineering | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE391 | Electronic Control of Electric Machines | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE401 | Communication Skills | 2:0:2 (4) | spring |
| EE402 | Future Society and Electrical Engineering | 2:0:2 (4) | fall |
| EE406 | Project Laboratory | 1:6:3 (6) | fall |
| EE411 | Switching and Automata Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE413 | Network Design and Programming | 3:1:3 (6) | spring |
| EE422 | Communication Systems | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE432 | Digital Signal Processing | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE441 | Introduction to Fiber Optic communication Systems | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE461 | Semiconductor Devices | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE481 | Intelligent Systems | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE484 | Special Topics in Electrical Engineering | 3:0:3 (6) | spring/fall |
| Research | |||
| EE490 | B.S. Thesis Research | 0:6:3 | spring/fall |
| EE495 | Individual Study | 0:6:1 | |
| EE496 | Seminar | 1:0:1 | spring |
Students wishing to double major in Electrical Engineering and another subject must still satisfy all of the requirements for Electrical Engineerin major, except for the research credit and thesis requirements, which are waived.
Students wishing to minor in Electrical Engineering must pass EE201, EE202, EE203, EE204, EE206 and EE305, plus other courses in Electrical Engineering to total 21 credits.
In the graduate program, the department puts emphasis on cultivating engineers who can play the leading role in the electrical engineering field with thorough knowledge of the fundamental theories and practical capability to solve problems.
The department is organized into six groups:
1. Computer and System-on-Chip (S0C) Group: There are basically two areas of focus in this group: computer systems and SoC. In the computer systems area, the research objective is to study and design hardware and software architectures of computer systems including system modeling and simulation, system programming, and computer architecture design. In the SoC area, main research topics include the design of microprocessors, DSP cores, and digital, analog, mixed-signal circuits for various high-performance and low-power applications such as next-generation mobile wireless communication systems, digital TVs, displays, and ubiquitous sensor networks. Various electronic design automation (EDA) methodologies for design, optimization, and verification of SoCs are also pursued as promising research topics. Members of this group actively work together with other groups (systems or devices) and contribute to the top-level R&D and education by participating in such centers as CHiPS, MICROS, SIPAC, and IDEC.
2. Communication and Networks Group: The Communications and Networks (CommNet) Group at KAIST is committed to providing educational underpinnings and research capabilities that are needed to advance the frontiers of wireless communication, networks, and their convergence. Research in wireless communication includes coding and modulation, multiple access communication, communication signal processing, MIMO systems, and communications circuits. Research in networks includes mobile networks, IP networks, broadband access networks, home networks, ad-hoc networks, multimedia networks, sensor networks and protocol design and implementation. In particular, the integration of communications and networks expertise in the CommNet is providing new methods for cross-layer design, analysis, and optimization of increasingly complex and demanding tomorrow's wireless communication networks.
3. Information Systems Group: The Information Systems Group (ISG) brings together expertise in many areas including signal processing, communications, watermarking, computer vision, etc. The main research activities in the ISG are driven by the future needs and fundamental interests for more powerful, useful, and efficient methods and theories of information processing with particular emphasis on speech / image / communication information processing such as medical information processing, watermarking, computer vision, neural networks, statistical signal processing, pattern recognition, and digital mobile communications.
4. Wireless and Lightwave Group:Our objective is to study the phenomena of electromagnetic waves ranging from radiowave to lightwave and apply them to the transport, networking, processing, storing and sensing of information. Major research topics of microwave group include the diffraction and scattering of electromagnetic waves by various objects, geometrical theory of diffraction, inverse scattering theory, and development of microwave circuits and subsystems. Lightwave group is focusing its efforts on lightwave systems and devices. The systems research includes long-haul transmission systems, all-optical networks, and fiber-optic access networks, and the devices research covers optical modulators, optical filters and switches, polarization converters, and optical sensors, etc.
5. Nano Devices and Integrated Systems Group Research in the NDIS group is focused on the invention of new devices and technology breakthrough with the objectives of providing well-trained engineers for demanding nano devices (NDs) and integrated system industries. Our research activities are diversified into SOI devices, nano-CMOS, poly-Si TFTs, a-Si:H solar cells, FPDs, nano-memory devices, SETs, FeRAM, nonvolatile (NV) polymer RAM, floating gate and programmable devices, NV analog memory, high-dielectric material and its electrodes, IR detectors, CMOS image sensors, bioelectronics, MEMS, single/poly-crystal TFT LCD, OLED, high-speed low-power VLSI algorithm, and RF circuit techniques. ND structures and process technologies are being developed using GaAs, InP, InSb and GaN for optoelectronic and microwave devices of LED, LD, PD, RTD, HBT, HEMT, and their integrated circuits of OEIC, MMIC as well as 3-D integrated packages and systems.
5. Control and System Group: The aim of the Control and System Group is to study new theories of control systems, robotics, and power electronics, and also their applications for intelligent systems and industrial systems. Process control systems, automation of the production lines, real-time control, power plants, satellite systems, power systems, intelligent transportation system (ITS), and power conversion circuit and digital display circuit design such as PDP (Plasma Display Panel) and LCD TV are major areas for research by using hard- and soft-computing technologies. Also human-friendly welfare robot, humanoid robot, personal robot, and software robot (artificial creature), multi-robot cooperation, interface between robot and human user, and emotion-based robot are studied for application in industries and smart home in ubiquitous computing environment.
In addition to satisfying the general requirements of KAIST, all graduate students in Electrical Engineering must take the laboratory course labeled "mandatory" in the table below. Masters students must take an additional 18 credits of course marked "elective" in the table below, plus at least 6 credits of courses marked "research". Doctoral students must taken an attitional 36 units of "electives" and 31 of "research".
| Course Number | Course Title | Lecture: Lab : Credit (Assignment) |
Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mandatory | |||
| EE505 | Electronics Laboratory | 1:6:3 (6) | spring |
| Elective | |||
| EE511 | Computer Architecture | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE512 | System Programming | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE516 | Computer Applications Laboratory | 1:6:3 (6) | fall |
| EE520 | Telecommunications Networks | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE521 | Random Processes | 3:0:3 (6) | spring/fall |
| EE522 | Communication Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE524 | Telecommunications Software Design | 3:1:3 (6) | fall |
| EE526 | Telephone and Internet Telephony Networks | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE527 | Data Communication | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE535 | Digital Image Processing | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE538 | Neural Networks | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE541 | Electromagnetic Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE542 | Mocrowave Engineering | 3:1:3 (6) | fall |
| EE546 | Fields and Waves | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE555 | Optical Electronics | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE561 | Introduction to VLSI Devices | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE564 | Integrated Circuite Fabrication Processes | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE565 | Modern Physics for Engineers | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE566 | MEMS in EE Perspective | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE571 | Advanced Electronic Circuits | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE573 | Introduction to VLSI Systems | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE574 | Computer Aided Design of VLSI Circuits and Systems | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE581 | Linear Systems | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE582 | Digital Control | 3:1:3 (6) | spring |
| EE584 | Computer Aided Control System Design | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE594 | Power Electronics Systems | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE612 | Discrete Event System Modeling and Simulation | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE621 | Coding Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE622 | Signal Detection Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE623 | Information Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE624 | Moblie Communication Systems | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE627 | Performance Analysis of Communication Networks | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE628 | Visual Communication Systems | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE631 | Advanced Digital Signal Processing | 3:0:3 (6) (6) | spring |
| EE633 | Digital Speech Processing | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE634 | Pattern Recognition | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE641 | Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE652 | Optical Communication | 3:0:3 (4) | fall |
| EE661 | Solid State Physics | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE663 | High Frequency Electronic Devices | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE676 | Analog Integrated Circuits | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE678 | Digital Integrated Circuits | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE681 | Nonlinear Control | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE682 | Intelligent Control Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE683 | Robot Control | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE686 | Optimization Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE687 | Real-Time Control | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE726 | Optimization in Communication Networks | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE731 | Adaptive Signal Processing | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE731 | Adaptive Signal Processing | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE733 | Multirate Signal Processing | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE735 | Computer Vision | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE737 | Imaging Systems | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE741 | Radiation and Diffraction of Waves | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE742 | Ray Analysis for Electromagnetic Scattering Problems | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE745 | EMI/EMC Design and Analysis | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE757 | Nonlines Fiber Optics | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE762 | Advanced MOS Device Physics | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE783 | Adaptive Control Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE784 | Supervisory Control Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE785 | Robust Control Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE786 | Optimal Control Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE783 | Adaptive Control Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE788 | Robot Cognition and Planning | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE789 | System Modeling and Identification | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE791 | Power Conversion Circuits and Systems | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE792 | Advaned Theory and Design of Electric Machines | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE807 | Special Topics in Electrical Engineering | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE817 | Special Topics in Computer Engineering | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE827 | Special Topics in Communication | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE837 | Special Topics in Signal Processing | 3:0:3 (6) | spring/fall |
| EE838 | Special Topics in Image Engineering | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE847 | Special Topics in Electromagnetics | 3:0:3 (6) | spring/fall |
| EE783 | Adaptive Control Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE857 | Special topics in Optical Engineering | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE867 | Special Topics in Physical Electronics | 3:0:3 (6) | spring/fall |
| EE868 | Special Topics in Solid State Physics | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE877 | Special Topics in Integracted Circuits | 3:0:3 (6) | spring/fall |
| EE878 | Special Topics in VLSI | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| EE887 | Special Topics in Robotics | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE783 | Adaptive Control Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE888 | Special Topics in Control Theory | 3:0:3 (6) | spring/fall |
| EE897 | Special Topics in Power Electronics | 3:0:3 (6) | spring |
| EE898 | Special Topics in Intelligent Information Processing | 3:0:3 (6) | fall |
| Research | |||
| EE960 | M.S. Thesis | ||
| EE966 | M.S. Seminar | 1:0:1 | spring |
| EE967 | M.S. Thesis Seminar | 1:0:1 | |
| EE980 | PhD Thesis | ||
| EE986 | PhD Seminar | 1:0:1 | spring |
| EE990 | Technical Writing | 1:0:1 (2) | fall |
All students must submit an acceptable thesis to graduate.