Introduction

The department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) established on August 2004. The department recruits 50 undergraduate students and 50 four-year college students of extension education every year.

The educational goals of the department are to cultivate students with professional skills, humanity accomplishments and engineering ethics, to correspond to the high-tech development of our nation. Furthermore, the department focuses on basic theoretical researches, practical experiment and ability of project implementation.

Faculty and Course

Currently, the faculty consists of nine outstanding members; five of them hold P. h. D. degree, two members are pursuing their Ph. D. degree in domestic university. The department has several well-equipped laboratories for teaching and researching purpose, including digital system lab, Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) lab, Internet lab, networks management lab and human-machine interface lab. In addition, the department has one PC lab, in which there are 50 professional desktop computers. Every student is required to complete the project implementation under the faculty’s instruction.

The professional curriculum focuses on the joining of theory and practical application; from theory establishing a well-rooted research foundation, and from information technology training solidifying the real-world application abilities. The liberal arts aspect of the curriculum uses the university’s core curricula for interdisciplinary, inter-campus education, and blends knowledge of heaven, earth, and people to widen the learning perspective, and increase academic enrichment.

There are three programs:

• Computer system program: Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) system, mobile communication system, software engineering system, and intelligent information system.
• Multimedia program: statistical language model, Chinese semantic retrieval, multimedia signal processing, and information security.
• Biological information program: provides courses required to integrate mathematical, statistical and computer methods to analyze biological data. Integrating biological information from various public databases with heterogeneous contents, and extract required knowledge with modern data mining technologies.

Development Trends and Careers

According to the reports of the Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD), Executive Yuan, the most required field for manpower requirement in the next 6 years is the information engineering. The teaching in the department focuses on the combination of practical experiment and information theorems, the strength of student’s ability to implement the professional project under the instruction by faculties. The students of the department have the great opportunity to joint the high-tech companies in Hsin-Chu, Zhu-Nan and Taichung Science Park, and to initiate individual careers. Furthermore, students are encouraged to pursue the master degree or academic research of graduate school in the future.