Academics

College of Digital Convergence

Introduction

Modern society is turning into a ubiquitous information society in the 21st century.

Electronic engineering is a principal part in the ubiquitous information technology (IT). Thus, the major focuses on producing professional engineers who can adapt well to the rapidly changing global environment with good creativity and leadership. To meet the educational goal, the major is trying to help the students obtain a broad understanding of the key concepts for the basic and advanced fields such as semiconductor devices, sensors and the system, analog and digital circuits, integrated circuits and systems, designs for integrated circuits, microwave engineering and communication, signal processing and communication systems, image processing, optoelectronic devices and the system, control and automation, computer architecture and programming, and other IT-related subjects. The major is also equipped with sufficient research facilities and experimental equipments to improve the quality of education and research. The harmonious education system, which consists of experiments and their simulations with software and theoretical lectures, produces very competitive and creative engineers.

History

HistoryThis table demonstrates the history of this major according to years.
1967 Established Department of Electronic Engineering
January 8, 1973 Authorized to establish a graduate program (Master’s degree)
December 5, 1979 Authorized to establish a doctoral course
July 28, 1992 Established Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering through the establishment approval of Graduate School of Industry Science and Technology
October 18, 1995 Established a cooperation-graduate course (Department of Applied Electronic Engineering, Department of Sensor and System, and Department of Multimedia and Communication)
February 28, 1996 Unification of the Department of Electronic Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering into School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
August 31, 1999 BK21 program for Industrial Upbringing of Local Universities approved by the Ministry of Education
October 14, 1999 Unification of School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and School of Computer Science into School of Electronic Engineering, Computer Science and Information Communication
February 26, 2001 Selected as the best school in the Electrical, Electronic, and Communication fields by the Ministry of Education
June 16, 2004 Appointed as a core university in the NURI program authorized by the Ministry of Education
October 11, 2005 Reorganized School of Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Communication as an Independent School
February 12, 2007 Appointed a Core NEXT program (for the enhancement of education competition in the IT field)

Job Fields

After graduating, students can have an engineer position in Electronics, Computer Science, and Information Communication-related companies such as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, LG Philips Display, Hyundai Electronics, SK Telecom, and other industries. Graduates may also find employment as a research engineer in public or national research institutes such as ETRI and KAITECH. Furthermore, students may also go on to graduate schools or go study abroad. Most of all, many opportunities are given to all students in this major in order to help students find careers in whatever they desire.

Faculty

sorted by the position and Korean name

Curriculum

Department Of Electronic Engineering
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    PRACTICAL ENGLISH
    The aim of the course is to help students develop basic English verbal skills in real life situations. The course will be co-taught by Korean and Native English instructors. Korean instructors will provide students with basic English structure, vocabulary, and expressions, and students will be encouraged to practice speaking English utilizing basic English structures. Students will further practice expressing themselves in English with native English instructors.
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    PRE-CALCULUS
    This course contains basic properties of sequences, limit of functions, continuous functions, rational and irrational functions, transcendental functions, elementary calculus, 3-dimensional vectors, and matrices.
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    SEMINAR FOR ACADEMIC LIFE
    1. Summary of the course This course is to assist university freshmen in CRM designing to adapt university life well through the instruction and counselling of supervising professor. (This course is composed of self analysis, personality type test, career research, instruction for the success of university life, career plan and direction setting, CRM designing method and CRM designing. The course should be teaching in classes of the students by supervising professor.) 2. Course objectives This course is to motivate the students before the mid term exam and provide students with self analysis, personality type test (MBTI or TCI) and career research (YAT test). Also, this course shall has a plan to instruct the students to enhance the efficiency of university life through career and time management. In addition, this course is to make a chance for the students to have practical assistance to university life by providing study method, report designing strategy and the information on academic system and various kinds of internal programs of the university. After the mid term exam, the students will be instructed to set the direction of career designing through continuous counselling of supervising professor and the students will be able to establish CRM designing and execution plan.
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    SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION AND SERVICE
    This course is to cultivate community sense as members of society and the global village for students in order to develop the basic knowledge required as global citizens. Especially, this course is to foster the spirit of cooperation, sharing, service, and creativity and study the social contribution and leadership to solving the challenges the global community faces. As a liberal arts course, it is centered to nurture a leader having the global capability to contribute to community development through learning the knowledge and the case on the value & logic of social responsibility focused on environmental preservation, social contribution, and good governance(ESG). This course aims to foster a generous mind, learn knowledge and technology and build the capacity to contribute to building a society towards a safer and happier world through the study of theory and practice.
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    SOFTWARE AND AI
    Software and AI (Artificial Intelligence) course aims to educate the basic concepts of software and computational thinking to use them in various applications. It allows students of various majors to experience the core technologies of the 4th industrial revolution, such as big data, machine learning, and AI. It also introduces various applications of AI so that students can easily apply these technologies to their field of study. This course classifies the lecture types into three categories, and adjust the lecture difficulty according to the student's academic ability.
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    C-PROGRAMMING
    As the latest technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analysis, Block Chain are emerging, the importance of software is being emphasized. In this course, we will try to study the theory and practice of C programming language which is the basis of such software development. This course allows us to form a programming mind while cultivating programming problem solving and logical thinking skills.
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    CALCULUS I
    Calculus(1) covers the following: Sequences, limits and continuity of functions of single variable, derivatives, properties of derivatives, differentiation rules, higher order derivatives, applications of derivatives, definite integrals, indefinite integrals, properties of integrals, integration rules, applications of integrals, infinite series power series.
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    MATRICES AND DETERMINANTS
    Matrix and determinant are one of the basic and powerful tools of the fields of applied mathematics. This course provides elementary theories of solving a system of linear equations, elementary operations of real vectors, basic concepts of real matrix theory and real vector spaces and their applications.
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    INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING DESIGN
    This subject invokes the interests of freshman engineer to engineering prior to regular engineering subjects. Creative problem solving skills are taught in the class such as brain storming, generation, analysis, practice, evaluation, and improvement of idea through minimum theory and various design projects, etc. Various projects for visual thinking and drawing, power writing skills, model bridge design, are carried out to operate, evaluate the performance of students on group base competition and thus enhances teamwork and communication skills. By taking this course, freshmen begin to have interests in engineering design and can develop creative problem solving skill, and eventually develop strong desire to continue engineering career.
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    CAREER APTITUDE SPECIAL LECTURE
    The purpose of this lecture is to help students prepare getting a job such as interview, aptitude test, personality test and etc.
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    BASIC ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC LABORATORY I
    The primary objective of this course is to familiarize students with the basic properties and application of the electrical components such as resistor, inductor, capacitor, diode, and transistors. The major emphasis will be on the circuit properties of the components. This course covers in the field of the basic RLC circuit, rectifiers, filters, and amplifiers with the usage of DC-power supplier, oscilloscope, and digital multimeter.
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    CIRCUIT THEORY I
    This course provides fundamental methods to analyze basic electric circuits which consist of resistors, independent or dependent sources, and energy storage elements.
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    DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN
    The digital system consists of logic circuits that process a binary information. This course provides students with digital circuit design technology using two analytic methods. The first level deals with the analysis and design of combinational and sequential circuits using gates and flip-flops and the second one is to design in the register transportation level using VHDL.
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    ELECTROMAGNETISM I
    The primary purpose of this course is to acquaint the student with the electromagnetic properties of material and to understand how electromagnetic theory is applied to related areas. This course includes the basic vector analysis, electrostatic field, potential, electrostatic energy and steady current.
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    ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS I
    This course covers differential equations, complex analysis, Laplace transform, linear algebra, etc.
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    PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
    The Object-Oriented Languages, such as C++, Ada, and Java, become more important especially in large-scale software systems, and the knowledge in some depth of OO paradigms is prerequisite to learn such languages. The issues includes are; . the key concepts of the OO programming paradigm . the syntax of the language C++ . OO analysis, design, and test methods Practice and training are needed for studying every programming language.
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    CIRCUIT THEORY II
    This course covers AC -circuit analysis, frequence response, and the circuits with OPAMP and Diodes. Topics covered on AC-circuit analysis are AC steady-state analysis, AC steady-state power and three-phase circuits. For frequency analysis, several topics such as circuit analysis in the s-domain, frequency response, fourier series and transform are discussed.
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    DESIGN OF DIGITAL SYSTEM
    Digital system plays a major important role in modern electronic devices such as smartphone, digital TV and so on. This course provides methods and skills to design digital systems. In the first half of this course, a design of simple processor is scheduled. In the second half of this course, more complex design example will be given and it will be implemented using FPGA board. This course also covers hardware description language, specifically focus on Verilog due to the increasing needs in the design of system-on-chip.
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    ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY Ⅱ
    This course treats magnetostatics, magnetic induction, time-varying electromagnetic fields, Maxwell's equations, and plane electromagnetic waves.
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    INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    As human society evolves into an urban community, the pursuit and demand for nature-based recreation by human beings have increased. Human beings experience self-actualization, belonging, adventure, and relieving stress by participating in forest recreation and welfare. This course will cover the essential issues on the definition of forest welfare, leisure and recreation, recreation planning, and multifunctional forest management in the forest setting.
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    MOBILE PROGRAMMING
    This course shows you how to write programs that run under Microsoft Windows OS. These programs are written in the C programming language and use the native Windows application programming interfaces (APIs).
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    BASIC ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC LABORATORY II
    The primary objective of this course is to familiarize students with the basic properties and application of the electrical components such as resistor, inductor, capacitor, diode, and transistors. The major emphasis will be on the circuit properties of the components. This course covers in the field of the basic RLC circuit, rectifiers, filters, and amplifiers with the usage of DC-power supplier, oscilloscope, and digital multimeter.
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    PHYSICAL ELECTRONICS
    An introductory course on the physical phenomena in materials and devices for electronic engineering students without modern physics or quantum mechanics background. Lectures on the particle-wave nature of electron, structure and defects of solids, free electron and energy band theories. Application to electronic devices such as diodes, transistors and FETs.
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    SIGNAL AND SYSTEM
    An introduction to mathematical methods for analysis and design of linear time-invariant dynamic systems in electrical engineering. Time domain and frequency domain concepts are developed in parallel for continuous and discrete-time systems. Topics include: transfer function models of continuous and discrete-time systems; linear constant-coefficient differential and difference equations; zero-input/zero-state response; impulse causality and stability; Laplace and Z-transforms; poles and zeros and frequency response of continuous and discrete-time systems; convolution;
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    AUTOMATIC CONTROL
    The aim of this course is to provide opportunity to study the basic of feedback control systems. This course deals with modeling of dynamic system, signal flow graph, state equation, characteristics and performances of the feedback control system, simple stability analysis of linear system using Routh-Hurwitz method, root-locus techniques, frequency response techniques, stability of frequency domain and design of feedback control system.
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    AUTOMATIC CONTROL LABORATORY
    The aim of the this course is to provide opportunity to do experiments using various control apparatus. The items of experiment are as follows; CEMTool, SIMTool Laboratory, Organization of inverted pendulum and mathematical modeling, System response and analysis, Root locus analysis, Lead/Lag Compensator design, Frequency response analysis, PID controller design of inverted pendulum.
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    DATA STRUCTURES AND DICTIONARY OF ALGORITHMS
    Data structures and algorithms introduce the most important algorithms and data structures in use on computers today. Particular emphasis is given to algorithms for sorting, searching, and string processing. Fundamental algorithms in a number of other areas are covered as well, including geometric and graph algorithms. The course will concentrate on developing implementations, understanding their performance characteristics, and estimating their potential effectiveness in applications.
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    COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
    Mathematical analysis of the signals and signal processing used in communication systems; Topics include: spectral analysis, signal transmission; amplitude, phase, frequency and time multiplexing; analysis of signal-to-noise ratio, matched filters, systems.
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    DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
    Digital signal processing(DSP) is generally regarded as one of the most mathematical topics in the electrical engineering. This course provides an insight and practical guidance to engineers for designing and developing practical DSP systems. This course covers fundamental topics such as sampling and quantization of signals and their implications in real-time DSP, discrete time signals and systems, Fourier & z-transform, convolution and correlation, and several filter design such as FIR and IIR systems.
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    ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
    This course covers the basic properties and circuits for diode, BJT, MOSFET, and OPAMP.
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    SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING
    The fundamental semiconductor engineering for electronics circuits of telecommunication engineering is covered in the course. The detailed subjects covered are as follows : Crystal properties, energy bands and charge carriers in semiconductors, Excess carriers in semiconductors, Junctions, P-N junction diodes, Bipolar Junction Transistors, Field-Effect Transistors, Integrated circuits.
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    DIGITAL COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
    This course covers PCM, signal space, phase shift keying, error control coding, etc.
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    DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
    Digital Image Processing deals with the improvement of pictorial information for human interpretation and with processing of image data for storage, transmission, and representation for autonomous machine perception. This subject has several objectives, to define the scope of the field of image processing, to give an idea of the state of the art, to give an overview of the image processing systems, image enhancement in the spatial domain and in the frequency domain, image restoration, color systems, image compression, morphology, segmentation, and object recognition, etc.
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    ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS LABORATORY
    This course covers the experiments for the course of electronic circuit(Ⅱ) ; experiments on the differential amplifier, feedback amplifier, and signal generator circuits.
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    FIELD TRAINING(ELECTRONIC ENG.)
    The objective of this class is to provide the students of the Department of electronic engineering and technology with the opportunity of applying their knowledges to the problems in the industry. This will help the students in adjusting themselves more properly to the working environment when they are employed.
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    MICROCOMPUTER
    The aim of this course is to provide the basic architecture and operating principle of the AVR Atmega128 microprocessor and the peripheral LSIs of microprocessor, and digital logic circuit. And this course will provide students how to design of hardware including interface chips and to program software using assembly language and C language. Finally, this course deals with the real application systems using microcomputer in industrial field.
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    MOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
    This course covers MOSFET theory and fabrication processes for integrate circuits. Layout design rules and circuit characterization will also be discussed.
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    SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING LABORATORY
    Semiconductor device and processing simulations are performed by employing a two-dimensional semiconductor device and processing simulator, in order to achieve a firm understanding of device theory and fabrication processings. In this course, a term project is assigned to each student.
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    TEACHING MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION
    Selected formulations of instruction and teaching-learning process applicable to technical high school and general high school based on curriculum for the subject of technical education. Also this lecture provides opportunity for the student to make teaching plan, teaching materials and evaluation, teaching method, and skills in the field to improve attainments as a teacher of high school.
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    NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
    Lectures on basic theories of numerical analysis such as roots of algebraic equations, solution of simultaneous equations, curve fitting and cubic spline interpolation, numerical integration and differentiation, initial and boundary value problems of ordinary differential equations, etc. by using Internet.
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    COMPUTER STRUCTURE AND DESIGN
    This course deals with the organization, operating principles and design methodology of computer system. Detailed issues are as following: performance, instruction set, control and microprogramming, pipelining techniques, integer and floating point number arithmetic, memory subsystem, input/output subsystem, and advanced computer architectures.
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    COMPUTER VISION PROGRAMMING AND APPLICATIONS
    Computer vision technologies are becoming important according to the propagation of camera embedded IT devices such as smart phones, pads, smart cars, and CCTVs. This course deals with the basic theories of computer vision and related computer programming using C++ and MATLAB. The scope of the lecture covers camera model, camera calibration, stereo, 3D reconstruction, texture, 2D shape description, 3D shape description, classifier, machine learning, object tracking, and object recognition.
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    ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ENGINEERING
    Aims to provides the student with fundamental knowledge of electromagnetic wave theory, microwave system and RF circuits and broad sense of its industrial applications. This subject covers Wave theory, transmission and radiation of microwave and their associated circuitry and devices. Topics - Basic electromagnetic wave theory - Trnasmission lines & Antennas - Microwave passive network
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    ENGINEERING CLINICⅠ
    The capstone design courses (I,II) in Electronic Engineering provide the culminating experience in undergraduate education. In these courses, stduents should draw upon previous coursework to solve complex, real world design problems associated with an assigned group project. Projects include the challenges of project management, optimizing limited resources, meeting strict schedules and working productively within a team structure - all while dealing with electronic systems, designs, and components representative of those encountered in the industry.
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    ENGINEERING EDUCATION THEORY
    Selected theories of engineering education that have application to technological high school, cooperative education between industries and school, career guidance or vocational guidance and evaluation of engineering education are explored and evaluated in this course.
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    FIELD TRAINING(ELECTRONIC ENG.)
    The objective of this class is to provide the students of the Department of electronic engineering and technology with the opportunity of applying their knowledges to the problems in the industry. This will help the students in adjusting themselves more properly to the working environment when they are employed.
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    INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS
    Students are planned to study basics and technologies in robotics and understand robot systems. This course includes the concept of forward kinematics, inverse kinematics, Jacobian, robot dynamics. This course combines theory and practice.
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    IOT CONVERGENCE CIRCUIT DESIGN
    The IoT convergence, which connects various objects based on wireless communication or connects objects and people, is a core technology of the fourth industry era including all fields of electronics such as wireless communication, sensor, semiconductor, electronic circuit design, and electromagnetic wave theory. In this course, we will learn design techniques that are essential for IoT convergence technology using semiconductor circuits. We will understand basic semiconductor devices and practice the discrete circuit and integrated circuit design to develop the basic competence to prepare the future industry of IoT convergence. In particular, we will focus on module miniaturization and integration technology, low power circuit design, power supply and control circuit design, and semiconductor integrated circuit design required for IoT convergence technology.
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    MOBILE COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
    Students are planned to study basics and related technologies in mobile communications and understand mobile communications systems. This course includes the concept of cellular systems, radio propagation, multiple access schemes, channel allocation, spread spectrum communications(CDMA), OFDM.
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    VLSI SYSTEM DESIGN
    This course studies the design of Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits. The topics of this course include Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology and theory; CMOS circuit and logic design; layout rules and techniques; CMOS subsystem design.
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    EMBEDDED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    This course focuses on the design and implementation of artificial intelligence software for programmable embedded systems, and covers porting and programming on the LINUX OS environment.
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    AI SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS
    This course provides the details of unit processes for the fabrication of semiconductor devices, and also the run sheets of the representative devices will be introduced.
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    DEEP LEARNING APPLICATION
    Artificial intelligence is an entire or partial implementation of human sensing, inferencing, and acting process in artificial ways. Recent artificial intelligence is represented as a computational model on electronic computing devices and we need to optimize it by modifying and analyzing a large size of data to make it work as an artificial intelligence. This process is called machine learning. In this course, we will cover the theoretical background, various methods, applications of artificial intelligence, and machine learning from rule-based reasoning to deep neural networks.
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    DIGITAL CONTROL AND APPLICATION
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    DISPLAY SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING
    1. Basics of Display and Semiconductor Technology: - Types and Structure of Display: Learn about the features and structures of various display technologies such as LCD, OLED, QLED, etc. - Working Principle of Display: Understand the working principle and major components of displays. - Basic Concepts of Semiconductors: Learn about the basic concepts, properties of semiconductor materials, and basic principles of semiconductor devices. - Principles of Semiconductors: Understand p-n junction, working principle of transistors, and gain basic understanding of semiconductor materials and devices. 2. Display and Semiconductor Process Technology: - Display Manufacturing Process: Learn about the manufacturing process of display panels and potential issues during the process. -Semiconductor Manufacturing Process: Understand the manufacturing process of semiconductor chips, process stages, and process technology. 3. Design of Display and Semiconductors: - Principles of Display Design: Learn the basic principles and tools for display design, and undertake actual design projects. - Semiconductor Circuit Design: Understand the basic principles and tools for semiconductor circuit design, and undertake design projects.
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    ENGINEERING CLINIC Ⅱ
    The capstone design courses (I,II) in Electronic Engineering provide the culminating experience in undergraduate education. In these courses, stduents should draw upon previous coursework to solve complex, real world design problems associated with an assigned group project. Projects include the challenges of project management, optimizing limited resources, meeting strict schedules and working productively within a team structure - all while dealing with electronic systems, designs, and components representative of those encountered in the industry.
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    ICT CONVERGENCE COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
    Convergence Communications deal with introductions and recent practices in the convergence between communication technologies and conventional and emerging industry technologies. The recent trend are firstly introduced and hot topics in communication convergence will be analyzed in the viewpoint of theory and practical examples.
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    LOGICAL THINKING AND WRITING SKILLS IN ENGINEERING
    In this course, the students in educational study for engineering field will be trained about logical thinking and writing abilities.
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    RF CIRCUIT AND SYSTEM
    Aims to provides the student with fundamental knowledge of microwave and millimeter wave engineering and broad sense of its industrial applications. This subject covers generation, transmission and amplification of microwave and millimeter waves and their associated circuitry and devices; wave guide theory, resonators, microwave semiconductors, and antennas and radar system.
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    SENSOR CONVERGENCE SYSTEM
    This course deals with the organization, operating principles and design methodology of computer system. Detailed issues are as following: performance, instruction set, control and microprogramming, pipelining techniques, integer and floating point number arithmetic, memory subsystem, input/output subsystem, and advanced computer architectures.
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    SPECIAL LECTURES BY INDUSTRY LECTURERS FOR 4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
    This course is composed of scheduled seminars given by lecturers from industries. The objective of the course is to introduce the students with the specific job environments of and required abilities for the compnaies in the IT-mechanical fields. It is expected that this course will help students in preparing for their potential jobs in related fields.

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