Information and Communications University

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Information and Communications University
한국정보통신대학교


Established:	1998
President:	Hyuck Jae Lee (Interim President)
Faculty:	113
Students:	926
Undergraduates:	363
Postgraduates:	563
Doctoral students:	227
Location:	Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Korea
Campus:	Urban
Website:	www.icu.ac.kr

Established in 1998, the Information and Communications University (ICU) is a Korean university focused primarily on research and engineering in the field of information technology. It is located in the city of Daejeon and comprises an engineering school and a management school. About 20% of the enrolled graduate students are international student while rest 80% are Koreans. Unlike other Korean universities, almost all courses are taught in English. ICU is planned to be merged with KAIST at the end of 2008.

1 History
2 Merger with KAIST
3 Schools
4 Academics
5 Campus
6 Research
7 Notes
8 External links

[edit] History

1996 - Establishment proposed by the Ministry of Information and Communication. Ministry provided 200 billion Korean won ($ 210 million) for the startup and agreed to provide 10 billion won ($ 10.5 million) annually.
1998 - Establishment of graduate school with 114 students
1999 - Opening of the Hwa-am campus
2002 - Establishment of undergraduate school with 105 students
2004 - Moved to the Munji campus
2006 - The ITTP program, the first of its kind in Korea was initiated, and ICU was selected among all the Korean universities.
2007 - Ordered to merge with KAIST.

[edit] Merger with KAIST

Time Line

August 2007: the Korean government inform ICU that it will stop funding ICU from near future.Two solutions were suggested, i.e. complete university privatization or merger with KAIST.

October 2007: Survey conducted in ICU showed that 82% of ICU students and 74% of the school's professors favor the merger with KAIST.

November 2007: ICU was ordered to merge with KAIST. ICU president at that time Unna Huh resigned and was replaced by professor Hyuck Jae Lee from ICU's School of Engineering.

May 2008, KAIST officially agrees to merge ICU into KAIST.^[1].

[edit] Schools

The university consists of an engineering school and a business school. Both are focused on information technology. The engineering school is focused on research in computer science and communications technology and has a total of 764 students. The business school is focused on the managerial and financial aspects of the IT industry and has a total of 162 students.

[edit] Academics

Undergraduate students are offered B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering or Electrical and Computer Engineering by the engineering school and B.S. degrees in IT-Business by the business school. Graduate students enroll in M.S. or Ph.D. programs in specialized tracks in Engineering or IT-Business. It is also possible to enroll in a combined M.S./Ph.D. program. The engineering school also offers a Master of Software Engineering (MSE) program, which is run jointly with Carnegie Mellon University.

Courses are taught in spring, summer, and fall terms. Almost all of the courses are taught in English. In preparation, undergraduate students receive instruction in the language even before entering the university, and must take additional courses in English up to their second year of studies. Both undergraduate and graduate students are also required to take a number of courses outside of their discipline, so that a student in the engineering school must take courses offered by the business school and vice versa.

[edit] Campus

Main campus

Lecture wing

The main campus is located in Daedeok Science Town at the city of Daejeon. Most lecture, administrative, and faculty facilities are located in adjoined buildings. Research facilities are dispersed throughout several disjoint buildings. Other facilities on the campus include a cafeteria, a dormitory, and a playing field.

A branch campus which houses the Digital Media Lab and the Software Technology Institute is located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. A Lithuanian branch campus is planned to open in September 2007, which will be the first foreign branch campus opened by a Korean university.^[2]

[edit] Research

A heavy emphasis is placed on research. In 2005, the university had the most patents submitted per faculty member among Korean universities^[3] and was selected for the seventh Auto-ID Lab.

The university operates several research centers:

The ICU-Samsung Joint Research Center in collaboration with Samsung
4 IT research centers sponsored by the Ministry of Information and Communication
2 engineering research centers sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology