¡@ The phenomenal growth of Internet access, multimedia communications, and wireless communications has made broadband communication systems and networking technologies one of the most important parts for science and technology development in developed countries. Adapting to this trend, National Tsing Hua University founded the Institute of Communications Engineering in 1999, with faculty members coming from the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at the same university. The Institute puts its emphasis on teaching and research activities in areas of communication systems and communication networks.

The Institute currently has five professors, one associate professor, and ten assistant professors with expertise in communication systems, and three professors, three associate professors, and two assistant professors with expertise in communication networks. The main research areas in communication systems include broadband communications, wireless communications, digital communications, error-correcting codes, signal processing for communications, communication network theory, and communication electronics, and those in communication networks are broadband Internet, wireless networks, high-speed networks, fiber-optical networks, multimedia communications, and network management. The faculty members of the Institute have had pretty outstanding performance in both teaching and research. For example, one of them is the winner of the 1999 Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Computer Society, three are IEEE Fellows and having received the Distinguished Research Award from the National Science Council, and five have received the Distinguished Teaching Award from National Tsing Hua University. Moreover, some faculty members of the Institute are now holding editorial positions of internationally prestigious journals or serving as committee members of international conferences. The Institute is continuing seeking outstanding faculty members to further enhance its teaching and research in communication technologies.

In the academic year 2006-2007, the Institute enrolls 93 M.S. students and 73 Ph.D. students. It plans to recruit 55 new M.S. students and 23 new Ph.D. students in the coming academic year. The Institute's curriculum emphasizes training of analytical thinking, independent research, and creativity; the students are also required to participate in research projects from which they can examine what they have learned. With many advanced computer systems, communication and network facilities, and the unique beautiful campus of National Tsing Hua University, it is believed that the Institute is one of the best choices for graduate study in communication technologies.

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