The department was originally the Institute of Information Engineering that began in the fall of 1987 as the first high educational institute offering graduate programs and professional training in computer science and engineering in southern Taiwan. In the fall of 1997, the institute provided undergraduate programs an expansion of the current educational programs and become the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering.

The curriculum and research areas provided for graduate study and undergraduate study include computer architecture, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, image processing, speech recognition, computer security, multimedia computing, databases, operating systems, parallel processing, and performance evaluation, covering a wide spectrum of computer field.

Presently, in this department, there are nearly eighty graduate students doing individual researches in eight laboratories respectively to pursue their MS or Ph.D. degrees.

• Prof. Kung Ling-Yang (August 1987-July 1990)
• Prof. Wang Jhing-Fa (August 1990-July 1996)
• Prof. Sun, Yung-Nien (August 1996-July 1999)
• Prof. Wu , Chung-Hsien (August 1999-July 2002)
• Prof. Chu, Chih-Ping (August 2002-Present)

The objective of developing this department is to pursue and develop the newest technologies in information engineering, to raise up the nation competition power, to cultivate students for research careers, and to train professionals for information industry. As the school has evolved toward a complete university, techniques of information engineering are in high demand in many related educational fields, such as : flight information management, medical care, library information retrieval, geographic information system, .. etc.. Consequently, the Department of Computer Science and Information engineering play very important roles in providing educational courses, research training, necessary consulting and services to support the other related institutes in the university. 

The institute will provide better opportunities for high-level education in computer science and information technology. The educational and research programs will be further improved to support the increasing needs of engineers and scientists in computer related fields to the industry and the science park in Tainan area. The future development of the institute is listed as follows:

1. More classes will be open to educate and train even better professionals in the field of information industry and to raise up the institute academic reputation.
2. In order to make better collaboration between research and education, the institute will cooperate more with other departments, institutes and develop international exchange and cooperation program.
3. The institute will expand programs in information application, such as the national geographic information system, information network design, PACS, etc..
4. The institute will initiate its undergraduate program in Fall 1997. This will further elevate the quality and quantity of information education in NCKU.