Organization
Departmental Organization and Faculty and Student Structures
When established in 1997, the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was originally the College of Electrical Engineering, including only the Department and Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering, the Graduate Institute of Electro-optical Engineering and the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering. In Aug. 2000, the Department and Graduate Institute of Computer Science joined the college and the name was changed into the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In the same year, the electrical engineering research group and computer science research group were established under the college in charge of teaching and research in the fields of electrical engineering and computer science respectively. In Aug. 2001, the establishment of the Graduate Institute of Electronic Engineering was approved and started recruiting (attached to the computer science research group), resulting in a much more complete structure of the college.
The current organizational structure of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is listed as the following chart encircled in solid lines. Under the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science are the electrical engineering research group and computer science research group. The electrical engineering research group consists of the Department and Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering, the Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering and the Graduate Institute of Electronic Engineering. Among them, the Department of Electrical Engineering focuses on improving the teaching quality in undergraduate courses. The Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering contains power, automatic control, computer and Biomedical Engineering Group, each of which carry out the relevant research; the Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering is dedicated in the research of the latest electro-optical technologies; the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering comprises Electromagnetic Waves Group and communication and Signal Processing Group performing communication-related research in electromagnetic waves, wireless communications and signal processing; the Graduate Institute of Electronic Engineering consists of nano-ele ctronics, Integrated Circuit an d systems and electronic design automation group carrying out research related to micro electronics. The graduate institutes in planning are shown in the following chart surrounded in dashed lines. For promoting the research in computer systems, the Graduate Institute of Computer Engineering is proposed. The Biomedical Engineering Group current under the Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering will be singled out and become the Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering.
For the computer science research group, there are the Department and Graduate Institute of computer Science and Information Engineering, which focuses on teaching and research related to information software, multimedia network, intelligence and knowledge engineering and biological information, etc, and the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, which emphasizes in research concerning network and multimedia. In the future, the Graduate Institute of Biological Information will be established for research in the area related to biological information.
There is a Communication Research Center under the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science dedicated to integrating research projects related to communications, implementing academic cooperation and promoting industrial technologies. Also, there is a functionary “ Biomedical Research Center” that promotes inter-college and –department integrated research on biologic, medical and information fields.
The Organizational Structure of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The Organization of the Electrical Engineering Research Group
The Department Institute of Electrical Engineering
The organization of the Department Institute of Electrical Engineering can be described in terms of the functions of administration and teaching. The department has invested significant efforts in academic administration. After years of revolution, there are various original provisions. Currently there 11 committees in charge of academic administration, and they are the committee of development of college and department affairs, the committee of graduate institute teaching affairs, the committee of teaching assessment, the committee of curricula, the committee of consulting, the committee of academic affairs, the committee of scholarship, the committee of safety and sanitation, the committee of library and the committee of editing, each of which is responsible for the respective field of work. Every committee member is chosen under a fair, just and open procedure. All 11 committees have to report to the Meeting of Department Affairs (consisting of all teaching staff), which is the exact paragon of university democracy.
In teaching, to uphold the goal of teaching in both depth and breadth, the department deploys the policy that the undergraduate students are divided according to teaching rather than at recruiting, and that the graduate students are divided when recruiting, which is described as follows. The department categorizes the professional courses based on the nature of each course and the professors teach these courses according to the fields specialized in, and this is called divided according to teaching. However, to maintain the breadth of students’ professional knowledge and the integrity of curriculum, the undergraduate students are divided according to teaching but not at when the students are recruited. As for the graduate students, since there a number of fields in electrical engineering and each field is unique to itself, the groups of the department have recruited their own graduate students since 1976 in order for students to specialize in the fields of interest. Initially there were 7 groups and later the number expanded to 10. In 1997, after the College of Electrical Engineering (the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as we know today) was established. Because of the newly established graduate institute, many groups switched their recruiting to those institutes. Therefore, the number of groups was reduced to when recruiting new graduate students, which was in 2001. Nevertheless, for the purpose of smooth connection between undergraduate and graduate courses and integrity of courses, the faculties are recruited jointly with each group of each institute in order to divide students according to teaching. In other words, under the structure one department and multiple graduate institutes of the Electrical Engineering Research Group of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, all required and professional undergraduate courses are supported and taught by the related groups under each of the graduate institutes (including electrical engineering, electro-optical, communication and electronics) of the Electrical Engineering Research Group of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science based on the different fields. Therefore, after the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was established, the interactions among each teaching group are still in a close and pleasant fashion, and there is no change due to that many groups recruit their students under the newly established graduate institutes.
Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering
According to the related regulations of the university and the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, this institute sets up institute conference, committee of academic, committee of curriculum, committee of teacher evaluation, and researching and teaching commissioner, scholarship commissioner, security and hygiene commissioner, and books commissioner to handle institute affairs.
Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering
To execute the administration and education plans of our institute, the teachers of the institute elect representatives among themselves to work as commissioners and form committees to help on the institute affairs. Presently, there are researching and teaching commissioner, editorial commissioner, scholarship commissioner, security and hygiene commissioner, books commissioner, and committee of academic, committee of curriculum, committee of teacher evaluation, and committee of consultation.
Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering
According to the related regulations of the university and the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, this institute sets up organizations like institute conference, committee of enrolment and academic, committee of curriculum, committee of teacher evaluation, committee of security and hygiene, and committee of student affairs. The committees are formed by the representatives elected by the teachers of our institute among themselves and . Then, the committees assist in planning and executing the education and administration affairs of our institute.
Organizations of the Information Cluster
The research domains of the Department and Graduate Institute of Information Engineering include computer architecture, computer systems, artificial intelligence, distributed computing, computer networking, multimedia systems, natural language processing, parallel computing, intelligent robotics and automation, financial computing, scientific computing, and automated reasoning. The research achievements of the department are always stay in the leading position nation wide. Many excellent systems and products are also being developed, such as Chinese chess, multimedia, and the one and only on line real time translation system presently. All these are the endeavoring achievements from the teachers and students in our department.
Structure of the Faculty and Students
The faculty structure by 2004 is shown in the following table. Since 1997, the foundation year of the College of Electrical Engineering, till 1999, the number of fulltime teachers in this college was always kept around 70. In Aug. 2000, after merged with the Information Cluster, the total number of fulltime teachers of this college increased to 94 persons. Due to the National silicon-guiding project and special project for expanding and incubating human resources, the total faculty members expand to 173 persons in recent years.
The statistics table of the teachers and teaching assistants in the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science National Taiwan University
As for the student structure up to 2004 is shown in the following table. Since 1997, the foundation year of the College of Electrical Engineering, till 1999, the undergraduate student number in this college was always kept around 660 to 680. The number of the graduate students increased rapidly at the speed of 10% more per year. It increased from 675 students in 1997 to 836 students in 1999. After merged with the Department and Graduate Institute of Information Engineering in Aug. 2000, there are 1030 undergraduate students and 1200 graduate students in our college and totaled around 2230 students. In 2004, there were 1217 undergraduate students and 1913 graduate students and added up to 1913 students. If analyzed by clusters, the student number of the Electrical Engineering Cluster is 2199 (approximately 70% of the total) and the student number of the Information Engineering Cluster is 931 (approximately 30% of the total)
The student number in the first semester of academic year 2004 in the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science National Taiwan University
Program Unit |
College |
M.S. |
Ph.D. |
total |
NTUEE |
739 |
275 |
205 |
1,219 |
CSIE |
478 |
286 |
135 |
899 |
EOE |
0 |
129 |
77 |
206 |
GICE |
0 |
235 |
88 |
323 |
GIEE |
0 |
331 |
120 |
451 |
GINM |
0 |
22 |
10 |
32 |
total |
1,217 |
1,278 |
635 |
3,130 |
Structure of the Faculty and Students of the Electrical Engineering Cluster
Structure of the Faculty and Students of the Department of Electrical Engineering Cluster
For teachers, there are presently (in year 2004) 87 full-time teachers in our department. The changing of the teacher structure of the Department of Electrical Engineering reflects the grand environment pulsation of Taiwan society on one side and, on the other side, also represents the outcomes from jointly promoting education and research level by the staffs of our department. Before 1960, the teachers in our department primarily came from Mainland with the government or had been studied in Japan. During 1960 to 1980, due to the increasing requirement and the scanty resource of teachers for higher education, we extensively employed teachers from graduates of domestic graduate institutes. Therefore, the main force of the teacher structure in this period was the graduates of domestic graduate institutes. The teacher structure of our department and its changes before 1980 were closely related with Taiwan’s education environment. After 1980, the teachers studied in USA increased in the teacher structure of our department. Especially after 1985, they increased drastically. Most of the teachers studied in USA were graduated from famous schools. One of the reasons for this phenomenon is, with no doubt, the treatment for university teachers was lifted. But the more important one was the level and environment of education and research being substantially promoted and attracted scholars with Ph.D. degree from famous schools in USA to teach in our department. As for students, there are presently (in year 2004) about 739 undergraduate students and 480 graduate students in our department.
Structure of the Faculty and Students of the Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering
In the teacher structure of the Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, there are 17 professors, 2 associate professors, and 7 assistant professors presently in the 26 full-time professors. When our institute was established, we enrolled 15 M.S. students each year. When Ph.D. program was established in 1995, 5 Ph.D. students were enrolled each year (with another 1 to 2 students that study directly from M.S. program for Ph.D. degree). We now enroll 25 M.S. students and at most 8 Ph.D. students per year. There are two ways for the enrollment of M.S. program for our institute. The entrance examination held in April every year is executed through written test. Besides this, graduating students of domestic electric-optical related departments that conform to the conditions of our university and institute can also sign up for our institute’s Entrance Examination in the regulated duration by our university. The student number for Entrance Examination should not exceed 40% of the expected enrollment. The enrollment for Ph.D. program is held in June every year.
Structure of the Faculty and Students of the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering
There were 18 full-time teachers in the Electromagnetic Group and the Communication and Signal Group originally in the Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering, including 16 professors and 2 associate professors. When the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering was founded, all these teachers become faculty of our institute. Thereafter, we went on employing related professional teachers. There are 36 persons in the present full-time faculty, including 24 professors, 6 associate professors, and 6 assistant professors. We also have 2 adjunct professors.
As for students, our institute was founded and started enrolling students in academic year 1997. Presently (in year 2004), there are a total of 323 graduate students. Among them are 235 M.S. students and 88 Ph.D. students.
Structure of the Faculty and Students of the Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering
For teachers, there are presently 36 full-time teachers, including 20 full-time professors, 5 full-time associate professors, and 11 full-time assistant professors and we will keep on employing related professional scholars as full-time and adjunct teachers.
As for students, there are a total of 451 graduate students presently (in year 2004). Among them are 331 M.S. students and 120 Ph.D. students.
Structure of the Faculty and Students of the Information Cluster
Structure of the Faculty and Students of the Department and Graduate Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering
There are 36 full-time teachers in the Department and Graduate Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, including 22 full-time professors, 9 full-time associate professors, and 5 assistant professors. We also have 11 adjunct teachers. The conscientious attitude and substantial content provided by our teachers have brought the most solid training to students. Academically, outstanding research outcomes are developed frequently. In the meantime, we also cooperate with industries to research and develop new technology to promote advancements for domestic information industries. Ever since the establishment of the Department and Graduate Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, many teachers had already obtained many superior awards to approve their academic contributions. These awards include Excellent Teacher’s Award, College of Engineering Teaching Award, and Excellent Research Award of National Science Council, etc.. Thanks to the brilliant outcomes in different research domains, our department receives more than 30 million NTD research funds each year from the National Science Council and academic and industry cooperation subsidies.
Presently, the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering enrolls more than 100 undergraduate students per year. There are 478 undergraduate students fro now, 286 M.S. students, and 135 Ph.D. students and 899 students in total.
Structure of the Faculty and Students of the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia
For teachers, there are presently 34 full-time teachers, including 20 full-time professors, 6 full-time associate professors, and 8 full-time assistant professors.
As for students, there are a total of 32 graduate students presently (in year 2004). Among them are 22 M.S. students and 10 Ph.D. students.
