Department of Electronic Engineering

The establishment of the Department of Electronic Engineering, WuFeng Institute of Technology (WFIT) dates back to 1969 when the Electronic Engineering Division of the vocational school was first created. The Electronic Engineering Division was officially promoted to the Electronic Engineering Department in the year 2001 with the addition of bachelor-degree programs of the undergraduate school. The operation of the Department now encompasses the vocational school of the junior college and the undergraduate school. The undergraduate school holds both day and night four-year and two-year programs. The vocational school holds day classes for the five-year and two-year college programs. There’s a two-year junior college program for students to enroll to study during the weekend in the Continuing Education School. The Department has thirty-two full time teachers including twelve assistant and associate professors; eleven of the twenty-one instructors are now working for their Ph.D. degrees. The strength of the teaching team shall be so strong in the near future that the Institute can advance to the level of a technological university.

Departmental researches are geared toward disseminating new knowledge and technologies. For that matter, emphasis is placed on recruiting excellent teachers from within the nation and abroad, continuously expanding facilities for both teaching and researching, and enhancing attraction to potential students. Additionally, we shall strengthen academic exchange and cooperation with other nations. We also promote interaction and cooperation with industries, and with various communities for adult education.

The Electronic Engineering Department has many far-reaching objectives. In general, we want to put new scientific knowledge into practical use, for the purpose of promoting a better and more modern life. We also want to train the professionals who are not just technically knowledgeable but also practical, and who are honest, down-to-earth, meticulous, creative, and adaptive to team-work. Specifically, we hope to help build up national human resources for various fields of electronic design automation, such as computer structure and theory, ultra-large scale integration (ULSI) circuit-design, and computer networking and communication.

Academic Goals

      In keeping with the national policy of developing key industries and modernizing production industries, our academic programs are geared toward training professionals for the microelectronic information industry. The professions of interest to us encompass computer programming, ULSI circuit design, opto-electronics/semiconductor specialties, and computer system and applications. Thus, the EE Department is a de facto admixture of industries; integrated together in the department are the computer soft/hard-ware industry, the high-precision industry of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), the industry related to IC design technology, and the industry of computer networking and communication. We combine the research and development (R&D) of all these fields together such that students, when they graduate, become specialists for high-tech production industries. Additionally, we keep the traditional objectives of vocational education: imparting professional knowledge and techniques to students and training them for the entitlement of vocational certificates.

Laboratories and Equipments

      ULSI circuit design lab、electronic component design lab、FPGA (field programmable gate array, or reconfigurable chip) circuit design lab、DSP（digital signal processing） lab、data communication lab；peripheral interface lab、digital logics lab、special topics lab、communication lab、micro-computer lab、network engineering lab、fundamental electricity lab、microprocessor lab、simple workshop、industrial application lab. Additionally, there are capital electronic equipments: personal computers and work stations (several hundreds)、function generators、oscilloscopes、spectrum analyzers, etc.

Research Directions

There is undoubtedly a bright future for applications of semiconductor components and the related production industries. WFIT is planning to establish in the foreseeable future an IC lab in the EE Department so that the associated soft/hard-wares may be used for teaching as well as for the R&D of the component technology. In planning is also the establishment of an IC R&D center that is dedicated to training, for the nearby Yun-Jia counties and in a concerted effort, specialists in the field of IC design and fabrication. Thereby, it is hoped that the professional knowledge and technical skills of people in the nearby communities will be brought up to a higher level.

Optics and electricity are distinctly different. However, we combine them together to form various new components, namely opto-electronic energy transducer, optical fiber for communication, optical information storage, liquid crystal display, and light sensor, etc.

We are entering an information-dominated era. There have been rapid developments in multimedia information, digital audio-video conferenceing, electronic information security, internet and wireless communication. ULSI circuit design and network technologies are also advancing forward. All these make the role that electronic information industry plays in the information-dominated era ever important.

Network communication, as an industry in regard to the information flow of a nation, is as fundamental as blood flow through arteries. The communication group of the EE Department thus takes as its responsibility the training of the highly qualified network-communication specialists whom our nation and society need. More importantly, we participate in an aggressive manner the R&D of the key production industries associated with information, the planning of network system, and the management of operation/maintenance. Meanwhile, we engage in the network-communication related IC chip design and R&D, and in the chip-design for the 3C video-information system and communication component. Graduates will be up-to-dated with the international progress of telecommunication, . and also be able to make contributions to the nation and society.

Curriculum Features

Development Direction and Future Perspectives

      The development of micro-electronic science and technology has been along the direction of small scale, high speed, and mass production. Presently, the field of micro-electronics is merging with the fields of electricity, material science, and mechanics, leading to the birth of a new industry called MEMS. The EE Department has thus decided to follow this main trend of science-technology development for its research direction. Of interest are R&D and design of micro-electromechanic component, opto-electronic IC, optical fiber communication/computer soft-hard wares, and 3C product. Related research projects funded each year by the National Science Council and production industries have had marked results.

Post-graduation Opportunities

Two main options are available to those who graduate from the Department.

Some graduates join high-tech companies in Tainan Science Park, Hsinchu Science Park, etc. The kinds of companies they join vary: semiconductor manufacturing, opto-electronic production, IC design, IC packaging and testing, computer information, network communication, and micro-electronic circuit design.

Those graduates who decide for higher education have two options. Graduates from the four-year and two-year undergraduate programs may continue their graduate study either in Taiwan or abroad. The Institute of Opto-mechatronics and Materials at WFIT, approved by The Ministry of Education in the academic year of 2003, is one of many choices. Those who graduate from the vocational college programs can either attend technological institute or transfer to the undergraduate programs.