Note:

1. The regulation was revised and approved in November 1, 2022. The revised version apply to all Ph.D students in the department.

2. The credits from the undergraduate level can not be included in the credits of Ph.D. If students are aquired to study undergraduate classes for qualifications, those credits will only be used for qualifications, not be included in the credits of Ph.D. Please notify.

 

 

National Tsing Hua University

Department of Electrical Engineering

Qualifying Examination Rules of Implementation

 

 

The rules were first approved in July 30, 1987.
Revised and approved in September 16, 1994.
Revised and approved in January 15, 1997.
Revised and approved in June 29, 2001.
Revised and approved in September 2, 2002.
Revised and approved in September 27, 2002.
Revised and approved in September 26, 2003.
Revised and approved in September 20, 2005.
Revised and approved in June 3, 2008.
Revised and approved in December 15, 2010.

Revised and approved in December 15, 2010.

Revised and approved in May 6, 2014.

Revised and approved in May 20, 2014.

Revised and approved in March 3, 2015.

Revised and approved in May 9, 2017.

Revised and approved in November 1, 2022.

 

 

1. The rules were made under "the Code of Ph. D. Degree Examination" of the NTHU.”

2. The qualification exam is held in the form of “Taking Courses.” Students are regarded as qualified Ph. D candidates if all 3 courses he or she chose are satisfied with the rule 3. Available courses of each group are listed in rules 3.

3. The grade of the Ph.D student has to be higher than A (including A) or rank within the top 30% in the class, with no less than four students taking the course. Students who intend to be qualified by taking courses will have not only to provide "Course Transcript", but also to follow the rules made by individual groups.

Power Engineering Group：

Ph.D. students in the Power Engineering Group are required to take and mark two of the following courses to the required standard:

 

Power Engineering Program：EE585000 Switching Mode Power Converters, EE571000 Advanced Electric Network Analysis, EE 581000 Solid-State Electric Machine Control, EE 581500 Solid-State Power Conversion, EE 582000 Advanced Electric Machinery Theory

 

For the last course, Ph.D. students in the Power Engineering Group can choose any course that are recognized by the department as an option to fulfill qualification requirement. The terms above apply to all Ph.D students in the group.

 

 

System Group：

Students can choose courses from the following 4 categories as qualification:

 

(1) Courses in System Group (at most two courses can be taken as qualification in each program and at most two courses can be taken as qualification in undergraduate courses)

 

Digital Signal Processing Program: EE551000 System Theory, EE563000 Digital Signal Processing, EE655000Machine Learning

 

Communications Engineering Program: EE565000 Random Process and COM511000 Random Processes for Communications(at most one course can be taken as qualification), EE567000 Information Theory and COM513000 Information Theory(at most one course can be taken as qualification), EE568000 Error Correcting Codes (I) and COM514000 Error-Correcting Codes(at most one course can be taken as qualification), COM512000 Communications Theory

 

Computer Engineering Program: EE345000Computer Architecture and EE645500 Advanced Computer Architecture and CS510000 Advanced Computer Architecture (at most one course can be taken as qualification), EE398000Algorithms and CS4311Design and Analysis of Algorithms (at most one course can be taken as qualification), CS3423Operating Systems

 

Integrated Circuit Design Program: EE323500Analog Integrated Circuits Analysis and Design I and EE523000 Analog Circuit Design (at most one course can be taken as qualification), EE323000Introduction to Integrated Circuit Design and EE525000 VLSI Design (at most one course can be taken as qualification)

 

(2) Courses in Mathematics (at most one course can be taken as qualification in this category)

MATH513000 Real Analysis I, MATH514000 Real Analysis II, MATH541000 Modern Algebra I, MATH542000 Modern Algebra II

 

(3) Courses in Physics (at most one course can be taken as qualification in this category)

ENE511000 Solid State Physics I, ENE513000 Quantum Mechanics, PHYS541000 Quantum Mechanics I, PHYS542000 Quantum Mechanics II

 

(4) Courses in Life Science or Chemistry (at most one course can be taken as qualification in this category)

LS642100 Advanced Molecular Biology, LS524700 Advanced Cell Biology, LS632100 Advanced Biochemistry, CHEM545000 Quantum Chemistry

 

Ph.D. students in the System Group can choose any three courses that are recognized by the department as an option to fulfill qualification requirement. The terms above apply to all Ph.D students in the group.

 

4. Any amendment to the programs above must be approved by the graduate school of the Department of Electrical Engineering before its implementation.

 

 

(These Regulations are adopted in Chinese, which shall prevail in case of any discrepancy between the English translation and the Chinese original.)