The Radio Science and Engineering (RSE) track
is to educate and train the students for the knowledge of radio systems and technologies in a manner that impacts the direction of the field, industrial practice, and society so that they have the knowledge to enter the marketplace and the skills to continually enhance this knowledge, and to lead in related areas.
Major teaching and research areas in the RSE track include antenna systems, advanced microwave/millimeter-wave circuits and systems, components and systems for mobile and wireless communications, components and systems for military and space applications, radar and remote sensing technologies and their applications, and so on. Practical points of the RSE are also emphasized to fit the students for industrial fields through various theoretical and experimental courses. The RSE track is actively involved in many research programs in collaboration with associated industries and institutes.
We believe in training our students to be leaders technically and ethically, by emphasizing multidisciplinary activities in both education and research and exposing our students to practical problems timely, in addition to inculcating problem-solving skills and experimental skills that will last their whole careers. We actively try to maintain supportive and diverse education and research environments that encourage our faculty, students, and staffs to achieve their best.
The RSE technology is broadly utilized in broadcasting systems, medical applications, weapon systems and exploration systems as well as mobile phones and satellites. The RSE graduates typically go to mobile-related manufacturing companies or service companies such as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, SK Telecom and LG U+ as well as defense-related companies such as Samsung (now Hanwha) Thales and LIGnex1. Also they choose their careers in government-sponsored research institutes such as ADD and ETRI.
The Radio Science and Engineering (RSE) track
(InfoCom Engr. for short) aims to master the essential knowledge of communication technologies necessary for industrial practices in more profound depth and richness through balanced education on electronics and computer engineering.
There traditionally have been two grand areas of communications, i.e., electronic and computer communications. Electronic communication is about technologies for inter-people communications including wired/wireless telephony and broadcasting, whereas computer communication is about technologies for inter-computer communications like the Internet. However, with the emergence of communications between people and computers as well as that of Internet telephony, the boundary between the two areas has practically disappeared. Therefore, the two areas are named in a unified term 'information communications' (electronic communication + computer communication).
InfoCom is currently undergoing another round of whole-scale convergence. Besides that already seen between electronic and computer communication, convergence between wired communication over copper loops and optical fibers and wireless over infrared and radio is now in full swing. Broadcasting and communications are also being converged with its traditional boundary going away. Broadcasting, for example, is being done through the Internet which is one of the representative communications media. Establishment of the Broadcasting and Communications Commission (BCC) in recent governmental restricting reflects the social significance of this Broadcasting and Communication convergence. In this way, dramatic convergence in InfoCom technologies are taking place from multiple angles of telephony-computer, wired-wireless, and broadcasting-communications.
Absorbing the convergent InfoCom technologies of such an enormous extent and depth in a shallow side-track within electronics and computer engineering is far from feasible and adequate. Balanced and in-dept education of the two electronics and computer-engineering is also essential in order to fully digest and seek best application of this important convergent technologies. This whole is the reason why the InfoCom Engr. track has been put into force.