The Department of Radioelectronic and Computer Systems (DRCS) (till June 2014 – the Department of Radioelectronic Materials Science (DREM)) was founded in 1977 on the basis of the Faculties  of Physics and Chemistry of the University and the Lviv Research and Development Institute of Materials (LRDIM) (a joint order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR and the Ministry of Radio Industry of the USSR No. 29/68 from February 8 / March 5, 1977, Order of the Rector of the Lviv State University # 449 of April 25, 1977). The rapid development of the electronic industry, the introduction of the latest scientific developments in production required a fundamentally new approach to training young specialists for the electronic and instrument-making industry, industry scientific institutions. It was necessary to combine a deep study of radiophysics, physical material science, computer simulation and mathematical prediction of the properties and processes of electronics materials, to develop a new section of electronics – functional.

At the time of its opening, the Department of REMS was one of the first in Ukraine, which combined the general and theoretical training of students in the walls of the University with research and professional training in the base enterprise. Since 1977 the training of specialists was conducted on the specialty “Radio physics and electronics” – the specialty “Radioelectronic materials science” at the Faculty of Physics, and since 2003 it was  conducted in the field of “Applied Physics” – the specialization “Radioelectronics materials science” at the Faculty of Electronics.

Up to 50 students of radiophysics, physicists and chemists studied at the department. More than 200 graduates were sent to work at the LRDIM “Karat” and scientific and production enterprises of Lviv, Drohobych, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnitskyі and others.

The educational process involved leading specialists of the Lviv Scientific Research Institute of Materials (Volzhenska L.I., Burak Y.V., Matkovskyi A.O., Prokopyshyn I.Yu., Vinnik D.M., Zubyuk G.G., Sobolev V.M. and etc.) and teachers of physical and chemical faculties. Until 1983, the chair of the part-time chair was headed by the Director of the  Research and Development Institute of Materials (RDIM) prof. Zyubryk O.I. The first teachers at the department were associate prof. Savitskyi I.V., cand. chem sciences Yarmoluk Ya. P., assistant Futey O.V. Later at the department the foolowing persons were engaged in the educational process; associate prof.  Bolesta I.M., associate prof. Koman B.P., prof. Savitskyi V.G., associate prof. Lenovenko A.M., senior teacher Kharchenko O. I., prof.  Yaremko Z.M., associate prof. Monastyrskyi  L.S.  In different years the department was headed by: prof. Savitskyi V.G. (1984-1987), director of RDIM associate prof. Gavrilyuk Yu.M. (1988-1990), deputy director general of the scientific-production enterprise “Karat” Veremeichuk MS (1992-1996). For 20 years the affairs of the department were headed by associate prof. Savitskyi I.V, and since March 1997 the department was headed by prof. Luchiv R.V., who before worked at the Department of Semiconductor Physics. Now the department is headed by the doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, prof. Monastyrskyi L.S. .

Teachers of the department read a number of original special courses, in particular: “Radio electronics material science” (Associate Professor Savitsky IV), “Processes of recording and processing of optical information”, “Acoustoelectronics”, “Functional electronics”, “Fundamentals of electronic, ion and photon technologies” (associate professor Bolest I.M.), “Special materials of electronics”, “Magnetic materials and devices” (assosiate professor Volzhenskaya L.G.), “Optimization and forecasting in materials science”, “Ultrafine substances and their control”, ” Composites and Ceramics “(prof. Yaremko Z.M.), etc. The programs of such special courses as “Solid Structure”, “Film Material Science”, “Physical Methods of Researching Materials” (assistant Futey O.V.) have been improved.

Among graduates of the department – 5 doctors of sciences, more than 26 candidates of sciences. The title of a professor of the department of REMS obtained: Zyubryk O.I., Savitskyi V.G., Yaremko Z.M., Bolesta I.M., Monastyrskyi L.S.  A doctor’s dissertation was prepared by  Yarmolyuk Ya.P., but unfortunately, he tragically died (+ 1986).

In 2014 according to the order of the rector of the LNU, the department was renamed to the department of Radioelectronic and Сomputer Systems. Now the department takes an active part in preparing students for the areas of “Computer Science” and “Information Systems and Technologies”. Teachers of the Department have prepared and conducted the following courses:

Technology information protection;
Microcomputer systems;
Logical programming;
Designing of MEMS;
Programming  by Python;
Designing of intelligent systems based on MC Paspberry Pi;
Biometric identification systems;
E-learning and document circulation;
Operating Systems;
System modeling;
Computing and automation of the experiment;
System analysis;
Fuzzy logic;
Methods and algorithms of fuzzy simulation;
Low-level programming;
Engineering computer graphics;
Stochastic modeling.

The department plans to involve leading IT specialists in the educational process, and to  increase the level of English-speaking students and employees. The concrete implementation of the programs of these ideas at the present stage is the introduction of the system of electronic teaching and electronic document circulation of the department on the basis of free software, carrying out the English-language seminars “Scientific English”.

The DRCS maintains scientific relations with Poland (Rzeszow University) and Germany (Munich and Wurtzburg University), in particular, in 2017, Professor Monastyrski was a scholarly internship at the Department of Mathematics at Rzeszow University, where he collaborated with Professor T. Kwater and Dean Professor O. Lopuszanski on problems of computer simulation of complex systems. The plans of the department are to establish scientific contacts with the Jagiellonian University and the University of Gryungen. In 2018, the student of the department Chuprinskyi Oleg was sent to study at the University of Tartu (Finland).