Scope of education and Research
The goals of education and research
The education and research tasks of this college are the responsibilities of each department and institute. The Department of Electric Engineering and the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering focus on education and teaching, while the graduate institutes of electrical engineering, computer science, electro-optics, communication and networking and multimedia emphasize in research. The following texts will explain t he goals of education and research of each department and institute:
The Department of Electrical Engineering
The goal of university education is to prepare R&D professionals in highly advanced knowledge. To achieve that, universities have to create knowledge (research), teach knowledge (education) and distribute knowledge (social service). Among them the education and research are the primary goals of universities. After WWII ended in 1945, this department had made the changes on the goals of education and research as circumstances changed. In general, before 1963, education was the emphasis. In the next two decades, directions of interests had been chosen to support research works. In 1982, the development of research was in full throttle. Success started to emerge in 1991 and the aim was then placed upon expanding and growing. In 1999, we took a step forward to excellence and into the world. The following will talk about the evolution of teaching and research aims of each period as the historic files and the interviews with previous chairperson s of department after 1975 could take us:
Before 1963, as the economy of Taiwan has just started to grow and the development of technological research was relatively falling behind, the department was dedicated in teaching and education. There were only undergraduate students at that time. As curricula of 1949 to 1950 that were maintained by the Curriculum Section of the Office of the Dean of Academic Affairs shows: the fundamental courses of freshmen were calculus, General Physics and general chemistry; the required courses in sophomore year were differential equations, principles of electrical engineering, electro-magnetic experiments, DC circuits, AC circuits and electrical experiments, as well as mechanics courses such as applied mechanics, m echanisms, drafting, engineering materials and practice, thermodynamics and experiments, metallurgy, etc. The optional professional courses in junior year were welding, electrical engineering, electrical design, power plants, power plant design, cable communications, radio communications, electromagnetic wave transmission, most of which were practical courses. Further in 1950, when Prof. Chu-Hsien Lee was the Chairperson of the Department, he divided students in to power section and radio communication section, which in some way indicated the boundary between heavy electrical (Power/Power Electronic Engineering and engineering) and light electrical (Communications) in the early days of electrical engineering. It was a harder time than it is now, but there were many faculties who worked very hard in teaching and research, particularly successful in ionosphere probing.
In 1963, Prof. Chao Hsu stepped in as the Chairperson . To match the latest development in electrical engineering field, he further divided students into engineering section and science section, in which the mechanics courses were dramatically reduced. As the curriculum of 1965 shows: The required professional courses in sophomore year were differential equations, advanced calculus, circuit theory, electro-magnetics, electronics, electric machinery, electrical engineering materials, and vacuum tube circuits, etc. for both sections, and there were addition of theoretical mechanics, electro-magnetic waves, modern physics and statistic physics. Starting from 1968, differential equations and advanced calculus were changed into Engineering Mathematics (1) (2) and kept evolving. In 1991, they have become 4 required Engineering Mathematics courses, differential equations, linear algebra, probability and complex variables , which have set up the fundamental professional courses in electrical engineering: 3 E’s (Electronic Circuits, Electro-magnetics and Electronics) and 3 math. Apart from those, more optional courses were added into the curriculum, many of which were related to the then latest development in other countries. Especially since 1963, due to the booming of computer science, more computer courses were adapted and computer center was created. In 1969, a computer section was established in addition to the original engineering and science sections among the undergraduate students. In the curriculum, it clearly stated that computing, computer programming, assembly languages, numeric analysis, data processing, compile language programs and computer engineering, and so on, were required. Hereunto, the courses of EE were completely established and the focus was now placed on research. Therefore, the M.S. and Ph.D. classes in the institute established in 1963 and 1968 respectively were gradually expanded.
In 1972, Prof. Chih-Chin Ma took over the Chairperson and cancelled the science section of undergraduates, and the department remained with engineering section and computer sections. In research, the key research was now Chinese localization in computer. In addition, Yen Tjing Ling Industrial Research Institute was established and funded by Yen Tjing Ling Foundation, which does not serve as the ridge between the College of Engineering at NTU and the industrial community but also provides funding and space in conjunction with the funding from university experiment funds and National Science Council to build the semi-conductor lab and thick membrane lab. Therefore, the foundation of semi-conductor technology education and research of this department was in place.
Prof. Te- Son Kuo replaced Prof. Ma as the Chairperson in 1975. In addition for the future development to plan and build the second EE hall, Prof. Kuo helped establish anechoic lab for electromagnetic waves, which was proven to be a grand contribution to the research of the internationally renowned Electromagnetic Waves Group. Also, funding from NSC and from Mr. Chien-Chuan Hong , Chairperson of Taiwan Panasonic, have been granted to establish micro processor lab and Electronic Circuit lab to improve research capabilities. Hereat, the research level of EE was improved and the areas of research was expanded. Therefore, the institute was divided into 7 teaching gorups and recruited students with Div. A (Electronic Circuits, solid state electronics), B (electromagnetic waves, communications and signal processing), C (automatic control and power engineering) and D (computer science). And the meantime, due to the establishment of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, the undergraduate students were no longer divided into gorups from 1977. All undergraduate students were subjected to the basic training of 3 E’s and 4 math in sophomore year, and, when they were in junior and senior year, they chose the fields of the interests for future studies. At the same time, knowing the importance of computers in electrical engineering, EE still maintained the teaching and research related to computer science.
In 1981, Prof. Hwe-Chong Yu was the Chairperson, who realized the rapid development of integrated circuits, and established CAD group in the institute to recruit more graduate students.
In 1982, Prof. Chun-Hsiung Chen stepped in as the Active Chairperson, who was promoted a year later. This is when the department moved into full development. Prof. Chen first encouraged the doctorate thesis point-scoring guideline, which required that every doctoral student admitted after 1982 had to score certain points for the publication of thesis before graduation.
Upon the institution of this guideline, the promotion guidelines for instructors and associate professors has adapted the similar practice, and the research atmosphere in the department has then elevated as well as the research has moved further forward. Not before long, all electrical engineering related departments and graduate institutes in this country and other engineering as well have followed the step to develop similar solutions, and even those in the fields of natural, life and social science have adapted the same way. Not surprisingly, most of them have achieved encouraging research ambiance and levels. It is clear that the institution of doctorate thesis point-scoring guideline in this department has played an essential role in that the local academic level has grown so rapidly and gradually caught up internationally.
In addition to the doctorate thesis point-scoring guideline, Prof. Chen initiated the publication of annual research digest for the faculty members to drive each other, as well as for the people outside of the department to know the department was doing and to exchange information. As for teaching, Prof. Chen revised the curriculum of required courses, which eventually became the template of the required courses in other EE related departments in Taiwan.
In 1985, Prof. Jin -Fu Chang took over the position of Department Chairperson and continued the efforts in promoting research. While he was the Chairperson, because of the improvement of Taiwan’s economic environment, Ministry of Education carried out the priority technology policy, and the department had the chance to recruit more faculty members, so the faculty was now more complete and research hands were more abundant. Since 1986, NSC has organized the extraordinary research award, which assessed the research works of teachers and research personnel in this country annually, to honor the excellence of their works. As EE has instituted doctorate thesis point-scoring system, the result of our faculty members has excelled under the eyes of the judges in NSC. While Prof. Chen was the Chairperson, 1 out of 9 award winners throughout Taiwan were from this department.
In 1987, Prof. Jingshown Wu stepped up as the Chairperson. Knowing the extreme importance of research recourses such as space, equipment and faculty, he aggressively run for the second phase construction of second EE hall and filled the labs with needed instruments and equipments, as well as fought for more faculty members in order to improve the research capabilities of this department. Also, in order to improve the effectiveness of teaching, he encouraged all teachers and professors to perform end-of-semester questionnaire for students for reference, while working hard to reduce the teaching loads of young professors and to urge research works to set up superb foundation. During the same period, electro-optics was separated from electromagnetic waves and Electro-Optics Group as an independent gorup, and the graduate institute started recruiting students in 9 groups.
In 1989, Prof. Si-Chen Lee became the Chairperson and continued pushing all research. In 1991, the Communication Engineering Center has opened and served as the bridge of cooperation between faculty and gradually growing communication industries. Realizing the increasing importance of medical engineering, in the same year Biomedical Engineering Group was in effect and now the institute started recruiting students in 10 groups. So far, there were 10 established teaching and research groups (Electronic Circuits, solid state electronics, electromagnetic waves, communications and signal processing, automatic control, Power/Power Electronic Engineering, computer CAD, medical engineering and electro-optics) under EE, which covered most of modern electrical engineering and was the most complete faculty In EE in Taiwan. An EE department with such faculty was quite rare even internationally. In 1990, the Electro-Optics Group was separated and promoted into the Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, and the proposal was submitted to Ministry of Education for approval, and finally the institute was established in 1992.
Since 1991, because of the wide range of EE, ever growing size of this department, the abundance of teaching and research success, the expeditious development of global electrical engineering and electronics technologies, and the massive demands for advanced R&D professionals in electrical engineering and electronics industries, the priority technologies of Taiwan, it was necessary to join all relevant institutes and departments together and promote it into a college. Therefore, the meeting of department affairs has agreed and entrusted Prof. Powen Hsu, who was the Vice Chairperson of the Department, to propose a new structure consisting of 1 department (electrical engineering), 4 graduate institutes (electrical engineering, electro-optical engineering, communication engineering and electronics engineering) and 1 center (communication engineering center), and to run for the establishment. It has preceded all universities in this country, and it is from now that the department entered the era of expansion and growth.
In 1992, Prof. Powen Hsu took over the position of the Chairperson. In the same year, the Electro-Optics Group was separated and became the Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering. In addition to push the establishment of the College of Electrical Engineering, Prof. Hsu also promoted the establishment of the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering. For research, due to the enormous number of doctoral students and all massive affairs, a dedicated academic committee was in effect to review the point-scoring charts of doctoral thesis publications in periodical and the qualification of graduation for doctoral students to facilitate the improvement of academic level. Also, faculty members were encouraged to apply for national and international well recognized academic honors. This is when the number of award winning, such as excellent professionals and IEEE fellow, among the faculty started booming. For teaching, because optional curriculum for undergraduate students has become more and more gigantic, a curriculum review board was instituted in hope to review and discuss the simplification of undergraduate curriculum and reduction of the requirements on minimum graduate credits.
In 1995, Prof. Soo -Chang Pei stepped in as the Chairperson. He pushed the categorization of required courses in 5 categories, electronics, communications, electrical, computer and general, in accordance with the categorization of NSC. Students were required to take at least 1 course form each of the 5 categories, which covered both the depth and breadth of learning in electrical engineering courses. This was achieved in 1997 and the structure of required curriculum was set. In junior and senior years, the experiment courses were increased from 5 to 8 (including the latest multimedia and networking experiments) to match the modern trends. Students had to choose at least 3 optional to prepare themselves with capabilities to cover both theories and experiments. Also, Prof. Hsu, as the leader, continued to run for the establishment of the College of Electrical Engineering, and finally the proposal was approved and the college was established in 1997. And the meantime, the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering was established with the Electromagnetic Waves Group and communication and Signal Processing Group as the core. The establishment of the College of Electrical Engineering had the same shocking effect to the domestic academic community of electrical engineering. In addition, Prof. Pei helped raise the fund for renovating the first EE hall, and Vice Chairperson Prof. Jui-Pei Wu led the planning to relocate most of the undergraduate labs to that building to increase the space needed for research labs in the second EE hall.
In 1998, Prof. Way-Seen Wang took over the Chairperson of the Department and continued the efforts on reviewing the course structure to match the latest academic development of international EE, while completing the setup of fast computer network across the department and improving the research infrastructure. Also, the Electronic Circuit gorup and CAD group were merged and a new Integrated Circuit and system group was born. In Aug. 2000, with the joining of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, the College of Electrical Engineering has officially become the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. All the departments and institutes originally attached to the College of Electrical Engineering were put together as Electrical Engineering Division. During this period, the department has become well-known nationally and internationally and the academic exchanges were frequent. To answer the call of Principal Wei-Jao Chen in pursuit for excellence, the department helped provide plan to elevate the quality of faculty, teaching level and infrastructure and to establish an encouragement system in order to reach and even surpass the standards set up by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of UC Berkeley, USA, and to take a step further into the world’s bests.
The Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
As the hardware technologies grow more and more needed and emphasized, the department starts from both software teaching and hardware practice in parallel to dvelope and promote. Every semester there are 15 to 18 credits of required courses in average to form the profound foundation for information engineering and computer science.
The undergraduate curriculum is intended to assemble the basis for students in information engineering and computer science. The M.S. curriculum on the other hand is to pave the path for future research works and high-tech engineers, while the doctor curriculum is to guide students into more concentrated academic fields. In addition to the fundamental courses of information engineering, the department provides the courses covering crucial and advanced research areas such as computer structures, system software, high speed computer systems, theories of computing, algorithm design and analysis, parallel processing, artificial intelligence, intelligent agents , n atural language processing, data transmission engineering, image/signal processing, robotics, computer vision, neural networks, computer networks, CAD, VLSI, intelligent human interface, multimedia systems, scientific computing, financial computing, and so on.
As the technologies of distance education and electrical classroom grow more and more mature, computer classrooms on the air are no longer just a dream. Therefore, in addition to typical courses taught in classrooms, the department provides on-line courses as well. With the guidance of the instructors, such courses use available technologies and provide students with a learning environment that people can exchange their thoughts and information, even interactions.
To match the research development of information community and the education goals of this department, in 1999, the curriculum board considerably reviewed and revised the existing courses structure to catch up with the non-stop changes of social tides. Currently the requirements of courses are:
【 Undergraduate 】
The minimum credits for graduation = common required credits （ 18 ） + general education credits （ 12 ） + department-required credits （ 78 ） + optional credits （ 28, among which there must be at least 18 credits from this department ） = 136 credits
The new course requirements apply to students admitted in 2000, including the following with greater changes:
(1) Engineering mathematics, programming language structures, numerical analysis are changed into optional.
(2) Electric and electronic circuits, electric and electronic circuit experiments, micro computer experiments are cancelled.
(3) The newly added courses are: object-oriented program design, compile program design, computer networks, database systems, computing system experiments and computer network experiments.
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(1) Three courses, Engineering Mathematic, Programming Languages Structure, and Numerical Methods, are changed to elective courses.
(2) Three courses, Electronic Circuitry, Experiments on Electronic Circuit, and Experiments on Microcomputer, are canceled.
(3) The courses added are: Object Oriented Programming Design, Complier Design, Computer Networks, Database System, Experiments on Computing System, and Experiments on Computer Networks.
【 M.S. Program 】
Minimum required credits for graduation: at least 21 credits of our department’s courses are finished (not including M.S.'s Thesis, Special Project, and Seminar).
Required Courses:
M.S.’s Thesis |
6 credits |
Must be taken in the last academic year. |
Special Project |
1 credit |
Can be elected in the first semester before taking M.S.’s Thesis, and must be taken for the following semesters. Must not elect it when taking M.S.’s Thesis. |
Seminar |
1 credit |
Must be taken for every semester during studying period. |
Theoretical Basis of Information Engineering |
3 credits |
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【 Ph.D. Program 】
Minimum required credits for graduation: at least 18 credits of our Graduate Institute’s courses are finished. For those who go directly for doctor’s degree, at least 30 credits of our department’s courses are finished (not including M.S.'s Thesis, Special Project, and Seminar).
Required Courses:
Ph.D.'s Thesis |
12 credits |
Must be taken in the last academic year. |
Special Project |
1 credit |
Must be taken for every semester before taking Ph.D.’s Thesis. |
Seminar |
1 credit |
Must be taken for every semester during studying period. |
The information industry is one of the most important properties in the global economic system. And the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering is just the cradle for breeding future top information technical talents. This is also the educational target our department is actively driving.
In the field of education and research, our department is encouraging students to participate in all kinds of R&D works and international contests in recent years. Naturally, under the joint endeavor of the teachers and students, excellent accomplishments from domestic and oversea contests are innumerable. The achievements are both rich and plenty. Among them, the more internationally representing contests are:
‧In 1997, six students of our department joined the world ACM programming contest and were proudly awarded with the 4th place.
‧In 2000, six of our students entered the first Computer Society International Design Competition (CSIDC) held by the IEEE Computer Society and honorably won the second place. Furthermore, President Shui- Bian Chen summoned them for the award.
‧In 2000, we were proudly awarded with the second place in the HP Global Information Application Electrical Appliance Design Competition.
‧In 2001, Prof. Shun-Chin Hsu and his students won the gold medal award of the Chinese Chess Group in the sixth International Computer Chess Olympics.
‧In 2002, the gold medal award of the Chinese Chess Group in the seventh International Computer Chess Olympics was won again.
‧In 2003, Prof. Fei- Pei Lai and Teaching Assistant Yi-Lun Huang led four students, May -Chen Kuo, Hsien-Ting Cheng, Pao- Hsian Huang, and Bo -Chun Lin, into the IEEE Computer Society International Design Competition 2003 and had the honor to get the champion.
To compete with the world’s academia is always our department’s goal. Therefore, we encourage and eagerly joining world class contests to show the attempt of no boundaries for information.
Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering
For education, the main goal of our institute is to cultivate high class electro-optical talents for national industrial upgrading, technology development, and academic research. As for the course training, basic theory and latest technology development are equally emphasized. The faculty and manpower of our institute are sufficient to provide more than 40 elective courses for graduate students of M.S. and Ph.D. programs. The major domains of categories like “electro-magnetic optics”, “solid state electro-optics”, “laser”, “optical fiber communication”, and “optical information”are all included. We also operate in coordination with the office of the Dean of Academic Affairs to perform teaching evaluation to actively promote teaching quality.
To get the M.S. degree, the M.S. program students of our institute need to study at least two years (maximum four years) and finish 24 credits (Seminar, Special Project, Thesis, and Foreign Language are not included. At least 12 credits should be courses in our institute and 6 credits in other institutes’ courses.). Beside those two, they have to also submit thesis and pass oral examination. For the Ph.D. degree, the students need to finish 18 credits after entering Ph.D. program (Seminar, Special Project, Thesis, and Foreign Language are not included. At least 9 credits should be courses in our institute and 3 credits in other institutes’ courses. For those M.S. program students granted to study directly for Ph.D. degree, the credit rule is to sum up the required credits for both the M.S. and Ph.D. programs), pass the qualification examination, submit thesis, and pass the oral examination. The detail rules of studying can be reached on the department’s homepage ( http://cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~peng/eo.html).
For research, considering both the national requirement and latest elector-optical technology development, we actively open up new research domains to drive international class research activities. This not only establishes the academic position for our department, but also contributes substantially to national academic level on elector-optical technology.
Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering
The educational purposes of our department are truth pursuance, academic research, talent cultivation, technology promotion, and serving people. Both the depth and scope of the course design in teaching are considered. In one way, through the design of the core courses, students establish solid learning foundations. On the other hand, we promptly introduce new technologies and developing trends to make students obtaining erudite knowledge and broad eyesight. Meanwhile, to close up the gap between academia, industries, and market demands, and also to cooperate with the education improvement program of the communication technology from the Ministry of Education, we work out key communication technology domain and reinforce the material and practice experiment of key courses and the Communication environment. Furthermore, more experiment courses are opened. All these are to train the students with the abilities of implementation and experiment design.
According to the educational purposes, our institute, founded since Oct. 1 1997, delivers many elective and required courses. The faculty is composed by the present teachers of the Electromagnetic Group and the Communication and Signal Processing Group in our institute. The rules of studying for M.S. and Ph.D. programs are listed below:
˙Academic year 1997 (continue using the studying rules of the Department of Electrical Engineering)
Required courses: Seminar (must be elected for every semester during studying and is required in 4 semesters) and Thesis (at least required in the last semester)
Necessarily elected courses: Independent Study (must be elected for 2 semesters for M.S. program and 4 semesters for Ph.D. program) and Department Colloquium (must be elected for 2 semesters of the first academic year for M.S. program)
M.S. Program: Finishes at least 9 credits of own group's courses. A minimum of 6 credits of other groups’ courses in our college (“external group” for brief) must be finished. For the courses of other institutes outside our college (“external institute” for brief), at least 3 credits must be finished.
Ph.D. Program: Finishes at least 6 credits of own group's courses. A minimum of 6 credits of other groups’ courses in our college (“external group” for brief) must be finished. For the courses of other institutes outside our college (“external institute” for brief), at least 3 credits must be finished.
Rules of Qualification Examination for Ph.D. candidates: continue using the rules from the Department of Electrical Engineering
Rules of point-counting for Ph.D.’s Thesis: continue using the rules from the Department of Electrical Engineering
˙Academic years 1998 and 1999 (The resolution was passed in the institutional talks on Oct. 8, 1998 and confirmed in the first institutional meeting of the academic year 1999 on Jan 25, 1999.)
Required courses: Seminar (must be elected for every semester during studying) and Thesis (at least required in the last semester)
Necessarily elected courses: Independent Study (must be elected for every semester during studying) and Department Colloquium (must be elected for 2 semesters of the first academic year for M.S. program)
M.S. Program: Finishes at least 9 credits of own group's courses. A minimum of 6 credits of other groups’ courses in our college (“external group” for brief) must be finished. For the courses of other institutes outside our college (“external institute” for brief), at least 3 credits must be finished.
Ph.D. Program: Finishes at least 6 credits of own group's courses. A minimum of 6 credits of other groups’ courses in our college (“external group” for brief) must be finished. For the courses of other institutes outside our college (“external institute” for brief), at least 3 credits must be finished.
Rules of Qualification Examination for Ph.D. candidates: continue using the rules from the Department of Electrical Engineering
Rules of point counting for Ph.D.’s Thesis: continue using the rules from the Department of Electrical Engineering
˙Academic year 2000 till present (revised and passed in the first institutional meeting of the academic year 1999 on Jan 24, 1999.)
Required courses: Seminar (must be elected for every semester during studying) and Thesis (at least required in the last semester)
Necessarily elected courses: Independent Study (must be elected for every semester during studying) and Department Colloquium (must be elected for one semester of the first academic year for M.S. program)
M.S. Program: Finishes at least 12 credits of own group's courses. No rules for external group and external institute courses.
Ph.D. Program: Finishes at least 9 credits of own group's courses. No rules for external group and external institute courses.
Study directly for Ph.D. degree: Finishes at least 21 credits of own group's courses. No rules for external group and external institute courses.
Rules of Qualification Examination for Ph.D. candidates: continue using the rules from the Department of Electrical Engineering
Rules of point counting for Ph.D.’s Thesis: continue using the rules from the Department of Electrical Engineering
˙The “Rules of Qualification Examination for Ph.D. candidates of the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering of the National Taiwan University” was passed in the first institutional meeting of the academic year 2000 on Jan 10, 2001. The rules are applied to graduate students of the Ph.D. program entered since academic year 2001.
To fulfill the mission of promoting technology to serve people, our institute not only strives for corporation between industry and academic to increase the practical values of our research outcome and to contribute to the expansion of the R&D results from technology, but also started to enroll on-the-job graduate students in 1999. This program is especially set to provide on job education for related industrial employees to effectively assist industries on promoting the R&D level of their staffs. We also plan and held irregular Communication training courses focused on specific topics to meet the massive manpower requirement due to rapid industry development
Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering
The initial goal of the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering was to cultivate 150 IC electronic industry related M.S.s and Ph.D.s every year. At the same time, the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering maintains the original partnership with the Department of Electrical Engineering . All the staffs of the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering are also employed by the Department of Electrical Engineering to jointly educate the elite students of the undergraduate school. So, the training consistencies between the courses and teaching are kept. Meanwhile, we also cooperate with the Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, and the Department and Graduate Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering under every kind of integrated research projects to expand both the idea of system integration and the spirit of teamwork to students. We strongly believe the graduates from the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering would adopt the spirit from the Department of Electrical Engineering and possess both scope and profundity.
The rules of studying for M.S. and Ph.D. programs in our institute are as follows:
■M.S. Program
(1) Minimum graduate credits required: 24 credits
Seminar, Special Research Project, Department Colloquium (1), Department Colloquium (2), Thesis, and Foreign Language are not included.
(2) Required courses:
M.S. Thesis 0 credit The score of the academic degree examination makes up half of the total graduate score.
Seminar 0 credit Must be taken for every semester during studying.
Special Research Project 1 credit Must be taken for every semester during studying.
Department Colloquium (1) 1 credit Must be taken for one semester
Department Colloquium (2) 1 credit Must be taken for one semester
(3) At least 12 credits of own group’s courses must be finished.
(4) The credits from undergraduate school courses (excluding prefix with “U”) are not counted for minimum graduate credits required.
■Ph.D. Program
(1) Minimum graduate credits required: 18 credits
Seminar, Special Research Project, Department Colloquium (1), Department Colloquium (2), Thesis, and Foreign Language are not included.
(2) Minimum graduate credits required for students study directly for Ph.D.: 30 credits
Seminar, Special Research Project, Department Colloquium (1), Department Colloquium (2), Thesis, and Foreign Language are not included.
(3) Required courses:
Ph.D. Thesis 0 credit The score of the academic degree examination makes up half of the total graduate score.
Seminar 0 credit Must be taken for every semester during studying.
Special Research Project 1 credit Must be taken for every semester during studying.
Department Colloquium (1) 1 credit Must be taken for one semester
Department Colloquium (2) 1 credit Must be taken for one semester
(4) At least 9 credits of own group’s courses must be finished.
(5) At least 15 credits of own group’s courses must be finished for students study directly for Ph.D..
(6) The credits from undergraduate school courses (excluding prefix with “U”) are not counted for minimum graduate credits required.
To match-up the requirement of national electronic industry and to consider the present manpower and scale of our institute, the future developments and research focal points of our institute are set mainly to integrated circuit system-on-a-chip design and solid state electronic component design and manufacturing.
- Integrated Circuit and System
The primary missions are the related design and test technology for system-on-a-chip (SOC) and the design and integration for communication IC (including analog, digital, and hybrid integrated circuits). Besides these, to design automatic computer aided design tools and the R&D on electronic system for electric power will also be important goals. Presently, our institute has achieved many excellent results on wireless, multimedia, communication system-on-a-chip, RF/IF IC, and PDP Controller and will keep the lead in these domains.
- Solid State Electronics
Including all kinds of applications on semiconductor, microelectronics, and electro-optical component model buildings and simulations, different semiconductor manufacturing technology, and even construction of nano-component micro system, we all have professional faculty and strong R&D teams. The present R&D capacities in 12-inch silicon wafer technology and electro-optical component design are enormous. Combining with the geological superiority of the northern Hsin-Chu campus in the future, we can provide better R&D supports to industries.
In addition to all the above, our institute will devote in educational research promotion and strengthening the industrial, interscholastic, and international cooperation to cultivate creative design talents and macroscopic technical leaders.
Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia
In the aspect of education, to close up the gap between academia and industrial requirement, our institute cooperates with the information education improvement program from the Ministry of Education. We work out key courses on network and multimedia domain and reinforce their material and the environment for practical training and creation. In this way, we can actively cultivate the urgently needed high level talents for the development of National Information Infrastructure and network and multimedia industry.
As for research, our institute will match up with the focal research items and the prospective research topics planned by the National Science Council and encourage the integration in the institute and even interscholastic research team . Thus, the research standard can be elevated and hopefully our institute can become one of the world’s first class research places in network and multimedia.
In the industrial cooperation side, our institute will work actively together with other related units in our university to inform our research results to the industry. We will also initiatively exchange visits with industries to understand their research requirements and looking forward to accomplish more cooperation projects between academic and industry. This can not only promote the practical values of our institute’s research results, but also can assist in raising the technology research ability of the industries.
For the interscholastic and international cooperation, to elevate the international publicity and the academic position of our institute, we will urge our professors to participate actively in the international academic organizations and we will strive for holding large-scale academic conferences. To make our institute more internationalized, we will vigorously interflow with foreign eminent universities, exchange graduate students, invite foreign professors for short term courses, and open up the faculty applications to foreigners.
