The Department of Microelectronics belongs to The Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEE) that is one of the seven faculties forming the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU in Prague). The roots of CTU in Prague can be followed as far back as the year 1705, when Christian Josef Willenberg (1655 - 1731) wrote a letter to Emperor Leopold I. in Vienna seeking permission to begin public teaching of engineering sciences. This was granted by a decree of Emperor Josef I (successor to Leopold I.) on 18 January 1707. For these reasons, the priority of CTU to be the first technical school at university level in the world is usually claimed for. 

       The Department of Microelectronics has been established in January 1977. During the past years more than 1000 students graduated in the branch of Microelectronics. Ph.D. or D.Sc. degrees have been also awarded. Five persons from the Department staff became professors and 14 associate professors. The Department offers the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics.       

        The Department maintains international co-operation with many universities in the European Union. At present TU Brno and TU Ostrava, Czech Republic are our partners. Further on, many activities with the objective of exploring the perspectives of scientific and technological co-operation are maintained by means of EUROPRACTICE projects.

        The Department has extended the links to many electronic institutions from which Freescale, ABB Semiconductors AG, CADENCE, ASICENTRUM continuously play a dominant role in both the co-operative projects and support of postgraduate teaching.