Department of Electro-Optical Engineering, NFU● Undergraduate Program:
In terms of future development priorities, in addition to focusing on cultivating students' core competencies in photonics and enhancing education in both photonics theory and practical techniques, the department will also strengthen students' humanities literacy and self-directed learning ability; promote interdisciplinary programs to provide students with diverse options; and continue to promote the internationalization of teaching while encouraging students to participate in international academic exchanges.
In terms of research development and industry-academia collaboration, the department will build cross-disciplinary research teams in line with future industry needs and faculty research expertise, promote industry-academia interaction, and improve the quality and quantity of research outcomes to highlight the department's research features.
In addition, continuing the department's long-term development, the following research features will be strengthened to enhance the department's research competitiveness.
‧Photonic Devices and Materials:
Cultivating professional capabilities in semiconductor-related industries such as semiconductor photonic devices, flat panel displays, organic light-emitting devices, and LCD manufacturing processes.
‧Photonic Precision Measurement:
Focusing primarily on the concept of opto-mechatronic integration, combining optical systems, electronic and computer peripheral hardware, computer software, and optical information processing capabilities, ultimately enabling application in the semiconductor, precision machinery, and photonics industries.
‧Optical Communications and AI:
Focusing on familiarity with the various photonic technologies and signal processing used in optical information and optical communications, along with the ability to use computer-aided design for chips and digital circuits, while also possessing a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of communication system concepts.
To ensure that graduates can align with the same industries worldwide, the department engages in industry-academia collaboration with relevant businesses on one hand, and on the other hand encourages faculty to keep their professional skills in sync with industry practices, in order to enhance teaching effectiveness and advance faculty research standards.
The department's development features are:
‧Strengthening the teaching of photonic systems and photonic devices in line with industry needs.
‧Emphasizing practical and applied internship planning and instruction to achieve teaching objectives.
‧Strengthening capstone projects to achieve the integration and application of professional knowledge and technology.
● Master's Program:
In line with the nation's key development technologies and to promote industrial upgrading and meet societal needs, the educational objectives of this institute are based on the educational philosophy of creative thinking and research development, emphasizing the integrated application of photonics and materials science and technology, with the aim of cultivating R&D and design talent in photonics and materials science and technology for our country's academic, national defense, and industrial sectors.
The development priorities and research field features planned by this institute differ from those of general university engineering colleges, instead featuring research topics that combine both theory and practice, while raising the level of technical research to promptly meet the industry's needs for R&D and design talent in photonics and materials science and technology.
The development priorities of this institute are:
‧Group A: (Photonic Devices, Materials, Displays, and related fields)
Semiconductor photonic devices and materials, flat panel displays (liquid crystal and organic light-emitting devices), semiconductor IC manufacturing processes, solar cell devices and materials, nanomaterials and devices, biomedical materials, sensing materials and devices, photonic polymer materials. Semiconductor photonic devices and processes, semiconductor biomedical sensing devices, contact lens optical design, visual optics.
‧Group B: (Photonic Systems, AI, and related fields)
Broad optical/electronic system integration and applications, innovative semiconductor processes, nanotechnology and biomedical photonics, photonic integrated circuit design, advanced photonic physics/materials/simulation, optical design and photonic instrumentation, micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems, microwave/fiber optic communications/detection systems, micro-energy research and applications, photonic precision measurement and applications, photonic coherent control, 3D dynamic displays, nano/micro-optics, optical instruments, photocatalysis, AI system-on-chip, novel semiconductor material property calculation and simulation, quantum electron transport calculation, AI edge computing microcontroller applications, AI optical inspection system analysis and design, intelligent photonics applications, cross-disciplinary industry-academia collaboration.
In order to align with the nation's industrial development and cultivate suitable photonics talent, the following future development plans have been formulated:
‧Continue to hire additional faculty in line with development directions to strengthen expertise in professional fields.
‧Strengthen the enrichment of research equipment.
‧Actively enrich faculty, equipment, and integrated laboratories.
‧Strengthen departmental industry-academia collaboration projects.
‧Implement international cooperation to enhance the expertise and academic standards of the institute's faculty.
‧Strengthen exchanges with regional manufacturers.