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In August 2000 the College of Electrical
Engineering of National Taiwan University was renamed the College of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science when the Department and
Graduate Institute of Computer Science & Information Engineering
joined the College. The history of the College dates back to August
1997 when the College of EE was established with three originally
existing organizations: the Department and Graduate Institute of
Electrical Engineering, the Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical
Engineering, and the Communication Research Center, and one new
organization: the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering.
In August 2001 the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering was
founded. At present, with its two Departments and five Graduate
Institutes, the College has about 149 full- and part-time faculty
members, 20 teaching assistants, 27 staff members, 1111
undergraduate students, 957 Master students, and 496 Ph.D. students.
The Department of Electrical Engineering was founded in 1945 and
the Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering was established in
1947 with a Master degree program. The latter started to offer
programs of study leading to Ph.D. degree in 1968. The Department
divides its fields of interest into nine groups: Communication and
Signal Processing, Automatic Control, Computer Science, Electrical
Power, Solid State Electronics, Electromagnetic Waves,
Electro-Optics, Biomedical Engineering, and Integrated Circuits and
Systems. These nine groups cover a broad spectrum of technological
disciplines and make the Department the most complete EE department
nationwide. The Department of Computer Science & Information
Engineering was founded in 1977 and the Graduate Institute of CSIE
was later established in 1981, starting its Master and Ph.D. degree
programs in 1981 and 1984, respectively. Its research areas include
computer architecture, computer systems, artificial intelligence,
distributed computing, computer networking, multimedia systems,
natural language processing, parallel computing, intelligent
robotics and automation, financial computing, scientific computing,
and automated reasoning.
In 1992 the Electro-Optics Group was made independent
administratively to become the Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical
Engineering, offering Master degrees. Its Ph.D. program started
three years later. Also in 1992, the Communication Research Center
was established in accordance with the national policy of
communication technology development. Since then, the industry
related to electrical engineering in Taiwan has been making a
tremendous contribution to both the technological development and
the economic growth of the country. The need for EE personnel has
thus been continuously increasing. In order to provide our society
with high-standard EE education and curriculum and hence to fulfill
the human resource need in the industry, the EE Department and the
above related institutes were grouped with the newly established
Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering (formed by the
Electromagnetic Wave Group and the Communication and Signal
Processing Group) to establish the College of Electrical
Engineering. It was then enlarged to be today's College of EECS with
the Department of CSIE becoming its new member. Now, with its
outstanding performance in both research and education, the College
of EECS has become one of the most important organizations
responsible for the country's continuous advance in EECS-related
high technology. In 2001 the Graduate Institute of Electronics
Engineering was established with the extisting faculty and
facilities of the solid State Electronics Group and the Integrated
Circuits and Systems Group within the EE Graduate Institute and
started its Master and Ph.D. degree programs at the same time. The
new institute will continue to help promote the further advances in
the country's electronics technologies and industry.
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