The "Electronics" Department was founded on June 11, 1984 by order Number 975 of the Rector after the opening of the "Electronic Engineering and Microelectronics" specialty within the "Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation" faculty. Assoc. Prof. PhD Vasil Filipov Petrov was elected as its first head.
Heads of the "Electronics" department over the years have been:
1984–1992 - Associate Professor Vasil Petrov, PhD;
1992–1998 - Associate Professor Stoycho Psederski, PhD;
1999–2000 - Associate Professor Joana Ruseva, PhD, acting;
2001–2016 - Associate Professor Avram Levi, PhD;
2016–2020 - Professor Ivan Evstatiev, PhD;
2020 – up to now Associate Professor Anelia Manukova, PhD.
Until 2000, the Department of Electronics employed 25 teachers, of whom 2 were associate professors, 3 candidates of technical sciences, 2 candidates of physical and mathematical sciences, 4 full-time graduate students (now doctoral students), one part-time graduate student and one on a free graduate course. The number of students trained in the specialty "Electronics and Microelectronics" is about 100 for one course per year. In this year, some of the professors from the "Electronics" department formed a new department in the faculty.
During the period 2000–2020, the Department of Electronics developed dynamically in the scientific field, and all professors obtained the educational and scientific degree "Doctor", and 70% of them obtained their habilitation. As of 2015, the department employes 1 professor, 6 associate professors, 3 main assistants, and by 2015 more than 15 successfully defended doctoral students were trained, and after 2015 there were 8. 6 teachers successfully passed habilitation procedures - 4 for associate professor and 2 for professor.
In March 2020, due to structural changes in the "Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation" faculty, four professors from the disbanded "Theoretical and Measuring Electrical Engineering" department joined the "Electronics" department.
The 2020-2021 department staff includes 1 professor, 5 associate professors and 5 main assistants with the the Educational Qualification Degree "Doctor" and two doctoral students are being trained.
From 2021, the Department of Electronics employs 4 associate professors and 5 main assistants with the Educational Qualification Degree "Doctor", two part-time teachers - 1 professor and 1 associate professor, and three doctorates are being trained.
