High School
I. History and Mission
The Department of Engineering Science (ES) at NCKU, founded in 1965, was the first multi-subject educational department in Taiwan. The master program was offered in 1979, the doctoral program in 1993, and executive master program in 1999. Our programs are consistently ranked among the best at NCKU, and we are justifiably proud of our faculty, students and facilities. Each year, about 65 undergraduates, 82 master students, and 22 PhD students are enrolled. Currently we have 275 undergraduates, 218 students in the M.S. and PhD program, 51 students in the EMES program. More than 4000 ES alumni have made significant contributions to the engineering field, and have held positions of high responsibility in government and private industry. Our education mission is to nurture the next generation of engineers and scientists having a strong ability of integrating knowledge on electrical science, mechanics, information, and other novel technology.
The cultivation of leadership skills, innovative thinking, and international perspective is also emphasized. Our diverse curriculum and discipline can help foster student interest in engineering and give students sufficient knowledge and abilities needed to succeed in the global engineering community.
II. Teaching and Learning
The most salient feature of the ES department is that it is an integrated science department consisting of mechanic, electronic and computer sciences. The curriculum of the ES department is emphasized on the fundamental and essential knowledge in the three science areas, and it is designed to provide students a comprehensive and efficient training in the fundamental principles of engineering analysis and mathematical techniques for modeling, simulating, designing and solving physical problems in the engineering field. All students have to take some required courses from the three areas. Our faculty members are all outstanding researchers in those areas and thus they are able to timely incorporate their new research findings with courses they are teaching.
The training of integrating theory and practice is achieved by means of homework and project assignments, tutorials, individual and/or group works based on real or virtual projects that help students learn the current practices in industry as much as possible.
III. Research and Development
Currently, research in the ES department can be categorized into the following five areas:
A. Electrical Control and Communication
Research in control and communication focuses on the analysis and design of automation, control, networking and communication systems, including control theory analysis, wireless communication, information theory, and design of electronics circuits, in order to combine with the principles of applied mechanics for structure design and to integrate with computing techniques for system automation.
B. Computer Science and Its Applications
Computer science mainly covers the research areas of software engineering, artificial intelligence to real-time computing systems, especially the application of computer science in the other fields of engineering.
C. Quantum Computing
Quantum computer research focuses on the topics of quantum information processing, quantum control, and quantum biology, including theoretical analysis and experimental realizations.
D. Applied Mechanics
Applied mechanics research focuses on the basic training in solid mechanics and thermo-fluid mechanics and on the creation and study of mathematical and computational tools broadly applicable in computer and control engineering.
E. System Integration, Nano and Bio Technology